I consider myself an evangelist when it comes to Excel. I love it when teaching students the application and they get excited about the charts they create. I was making bedazzling charts long before infographics. That being said, after all this time, I have finally started creating drop-down lists in Excel. I love the functionality of having only allowable choices in a spreadsheet.
So here is where it gets even better: I created a drop down list for a rubric so that I could assess student work as I checked through the project. I also added a formula to add those totals up. I am finally paper-free since I am not printing out rubric sheets and marking the boxes as I grade.
Grading made easy.
Here are well written instructions for creating
your drop-down list:
The source is the image above are the cells where the values are added,…in this case Column A1-A3.
Below is the spreadsheet with running totals.
If you wanted to take this rubric further, you could share a spreadsheet without totals and let students assess their own work.
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