Roobrick blog
Retiring Jira and Confluence apps
March 29, 2024
Our Jira and Confluence apps will be retired on June 30, 2024.
Sharing rubrics and assessments
January 10, 2022
A key benefit that Roobrick offers over paper form rubrics is its collaboration capabilities. This article explains the various ways to share rubrics and assessments against rubrics with others. In particular, the article explains how to ensure the right people have access to your rubrics and assessments.
How Rubrics Save Time and Effort
February 17, 2021
To the uninitated, it may seem that rubrics require an extra committment in time and effort. This article, however, explains how rubrics can actually save time and effort.
Unified Rubric
January 5, 2021
This article explains the structure of the unified rubric and how it clearly articulates assessment criteria as well as scoring guidance.
Defining OKRs - Best Practices
December 30, 2020
Goal setting is an important skill to master and OKRs are a well established practice for defining objectives and measuring progress. This article provides guidance for defining unambiguous and measureable OKRs that clearly articulate goals.
Notes app for monday.com
November 4, 2020
This article introduces the Notes app for monday.com. If you use monday.com for customer relationship management (CRM) or project management, then you will find the Notes app very useful.
Help for the Roobrick app for monday.com
September 23, 2020
This article provides instructions for using the Roobrick app for monday.com.
A Better Way of Working
September 5, 2020
You're probably familiar with word processing, note keeping and spreadsheet applications, but Roobrick belongs in a different category of productivity applications which encourages a better way of working.
Roobrick app for monday.com
July 27, 2020
Monday.com has an app framework allowing for deep integrations with other solutions. The Roobrick app provides the ability to conduct thorough assessments of the items in your boards without leaving monday.com.
Markdown in Rubrics and Assessments
February 9, 2020
Did you know Roobrick supports markdown in rubrics and assessments? This post explains how to take advantage.
Better Decision Making
February 8, 2020
Effective decision making is an import skill for an organisation to master. Roobrick now uses the Atlassian DACI model to encourage best practice decision making.
Single Point Rubrics Over Analytic Rubrics
January 1, 2020
Analytic rubrics are often favoured over single point rubrics because they specify requirements that will achieve varying grades up to full marks and consequently articulates the difference between the levels. However, the multi-column layout of analytic rubrics often make them unwieldly to navigate and print. This article explains how a single point rubric can be used without losing any of the benefits of analytic rubrics.
Craft Pack
July 5, 2019
Rubrics have many more uses that just school assignments. Craft Pack is a set of rubrics that facilitate self improvement in a discipline, i.e. craft.
Rubrics in Business
April 18, 2019
Rubrics are broadly accepted in academic circles, so why don't we see more of them in business environments? This article provides examples of how rubrics may help your business.
Making Robust Decisions
February 15, 2019
Making good decisions consistently is a skill that can separate successful individuals and organizations from their unsuccessful counterparts. In addition to making good decisions, they need to be made in a timely manner, otherwise dependent tasks will grind to a halt.
Understanding Roobrick
January 30, 2019
Roobrick is the first web application dedicated to enabling users to make robust assessments against all kinds of qualitative problems such as should we hire candidate XYZ, is this OKR defined according to best practices and how satisfactory is the customer experience of a product? This post explains the concepts behind Roobrick.