No. Every slider and tap button in LiveJudge scores on a range of 1-10 or 0-10. Those are the only two choices the Slider Range setting in a class's Scoring Protocol offers. A class cannot be set to 1-4, 1-5, 1-100 or any other range.
That is deliberate, and it does not mean giving up your rubric. A short scale like 1-4 is not precise. LiveJudge keeps your scoring theory intact by moving it onto a 10-point scale, which makes every score far more precise and more fair.
A short scale is a dull knife
On a 1-4 scale, a 1 is 25% of the possible points and a 2 is 50%. The gap between those two scores is 25 percentage points, with nothing in between. When a performance is a little better than a 1 but nowhere near a 2, the judge has to pick one and be off by a wide margin. Add that up across every criterion and every judge, and contestants who performed differently end up tied, while contestants who performed almost alike end up far apart. Like a dull knife, a short scale gets the job done, but it cannot make a clean cut.
A 1-10 slider is a sharp one. At an increment of .5, each step is 5 percentage points. At .1, each step is a single point, so the slider works like a 100-point scale. Judges already know what a 7.5 means, so nobody has to translate.
Your rubric's intent stays intact
Nothing about what you are measuring changes. Here is how a 1-4 (or any other) rubric carries over:
- Your criteria stay the same. Each line of your rubric becomes an evaluation criterion with its own slider.
- Your weighting stays the same. If one part of your rubric counts more than another, give that judged element a larger weight percentage in the Class Studio instead of a larger point range. LiveJudge converts each element to a percentage of its possible points and then applies your weights, so the math matches your paper sheet.
- Your level descriptions stay the same. Put your rubric's wording for each level (for example Beginning, Developing, Proficient, Exemplary) into the judge guidelines, so judges see your own words as they move the slider. The guidelines describe zones of the 10-point scale; they do not change the slider's range.
- Your final results can still read the way you want. The Final Scale setting in the Scoring Protocol scales the totals (for example, 100 or 1000 for the winner). It applies to final results, never to the sliders judges score on. See how scores are normalized and scaled.
The result is your rubric, judged the way you designed it, only more precise and more fair: judges can separate close performances, and contestants get scores that reflect what the judges actually saw. For a worked example with real numbers, see Converting Your Paper Rubric to LiveJudge.