01 · RUBRIC LIBRARY
Build once. Reuse and adapt.
DPCLiK uses structured .clik files that can live in a shared General Library or a teacher’s personal library. Open a rubric to view, print, export, or adapt it.
Competency-based curriculum, rubrics & assessment
Build learning around what students can actually do.
DPCLiK is a competency-based teaching workspace for building standards-aligned rubrics, organizing them into courses, connecting each proficiency level to instructional materials, and designing next-generation assessment around real evidence of learning.
DPCLiK WorkspacePrototype
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Rubric Libraries
Shared and personal .clik rubric libraries with standards and proficiency data.
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Course Builder
Use recommended course mappings or build your own and assign rubrics.
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Instructional Materials
Level-specific activities, printable handouts, and hybrid delivery plans.
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Assessment Signals
Evidence artifacts, feedback cadence, competency signals, and named badges.
Five-level proficiency spectrum
EmergingCapableBridgingProficientMetacognitive
One connected workspace
From standards to instruction to evidence.
The current DPCLiK prototype connects the pieces teachers normally manage in separate places. A rubric can carry standards, competency alignment, proficiency descriptors, performance indicators, sample evidence, instructional materials, and assessment signals — then be organized into the courses where it is taught.
02 · COURSE DESIGN
Map rubrics into real courses.
Start from a recommended mapping or create a course from scratch, add a description, and choose the rubrics that belong in it.
03 · STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Keep the target visible.
The prototype currently aligns CCSS, NGSS, and California Social Studies standards to DiplomaPlus competencies and lets educators include or exclude child standards across the rubric.
04 · PROFICIENCY PROGRESSION
Describe growth, not just points.
Learning is organized across Emerging, Capable, Bridging, Proficient, and Metacognitive levels, with Bloom’s levels, verbs, descriptors, indicators, and sample evidence.
05 · INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Connect the rubric to what students do.
Each proficiency level can include ready-to-use activities, materials, teacher notes, printable handouts, and independent/async plus classroom-day delivery plans.
06 · NEXT-GEN ASSESSMENT
Design around evidence of learning.
Assessment signals identify the modality, competency being demonstrated, evidence artifact, feedback cadence, and named badge associated with each level.
Next-generation assessment
More than one score from one day.
DPCLiK’s current assessment model is designed around continuous evidence, academic content and durable competencies together, feedback students can act on, and evidence-backed competency signals.
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Continuous evidence
Define evidence at checkpoints throughout a unit rather than relying only on a single end-of-unit event.
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Content + competency
Use the same student work to represent academic knowledge and what the student can explain, analyze, evaluate, or create.
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Actionable feedback cadence
Specify peer checks, teacher conferences, self-checks, seminars, or other feedback while students still have time to improve.
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Evidence-backed badges
Associate each proficiency level with a named badge and the evidence artifact that supports it.
Example DPCLiK competency signal
Based on the structure already used by the prototype rubrics.
LevelProficient · Analyze / Evaluate
ModalityMini document-based question (DBQ)
SignalAnalysis and evaluation of primary sources to justify an evidence-based claim
ArtifactEssay or presentation citing multiple documents
FeedbackPeer workshop or seminar plus a teacher conference before submission
BadgeEvidence-Based Advocate