Rubric for Assessment of Online Presentations

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Content is All content aligns to the Most content aligns Some content aligns Content does not
aligned to the objective. to the objective, to the objective, align to the
objective some extraneous additional information objective.
information related to is included that may
the topic may exist. or may not relate to
the topic.

Content is well Content is chunked to Content is chunked Content is dense on Content is

organized avoid information but one or two slides several slides. overwhelming and
overload. Content may be dense. Some Several chunks of there appears to be
chunks are arranged in content may be content are placed no logical order.
a logical series. placed inappropriately.
inappropriately.

Typography is Headline and body Some inconsistency Fonts are used Font use and
used fonts are used in use of headline inconsistently cueing make
appropriately consistently. Use of and body fonts. throughout the readability very
cueing devices (bold, Cueing is presentation. Cueing difficult.
font changes) inconsistent. is often
highlights important inappropriately used.
content.

Color is used Color scheme has Color scheme has Color scheme uses No color scheme
appropriately appropriate mix of some clashing several clashing has been used.
complementary and colors. Color is used colors. Color is used Colors have been
contrasting colors. somewhat to to enhance content chosen randomly
Color is used enhance the content. inconsistently. and do not enhance
consistently to the content.
enhance the content.

Graphics are All graphics are of A few graphics are of Many graphics are of Most graphics are
used good quality (no clip poor quality or are poor quality or are not of poor quality AND
appropriately art) and are not related to the related to the content most are unrelated
consistently related to content of the of the presentation. to the content of the
the content of the presentation. presentation.
presentation.

Content is free Content has no Content has one or Content has one or Content has more
of spelling or misspellings, two misspellings or two grammatical than two
grammar typographical or typographical errors, errors but no grammatical,
errors grammatical errors. but no grammatical misspellings or typographical or
errors. typographical errors. spelling errors.

This rubric was developed by Megan Blevins and Jeff Pankin in March 2014 as part of a project for the
course R626 Instructional Strategies and Tactics at Indiana University Bloomington.