Exemplary

18-20 points

Proficient

16-17 points

Developing

14-15 points

Beginning

12-13 points

Inadequate

0-11 points

Narration Quality and Consistency

Voice quality is clear and consistently audible throughout the entire presentation. It is clear the narration was rehearsed.

Voice quality is clear and consistently audible throughout most of the presentation.  

Voice quality is clear and consistent with some audio issues.

Voice audio is challenging to understand and/or is unrehearsed.

Voice audio is of limited quality throughout the presentation and was clearly not rehearsed.

Application of Course Knowledge and Content

Addressed the topic with thorough technical application of course knowledge and content in a complete and concise manner with supporting evidence.

Addressed a majority of the topic with technical application of course knowledge and content that is mostly accurate, concise and complete.

Addressed the critical aspects of the topic with application of course knowledge and content that is partially accurate, concise and complete.

Addressed minimal parts of topic with limited course knowledge and content that is minimally accurate, concise and complete.

Limited focus on the topic with little to no application of course knowledge and content that may be inaccurate and incomplete.

Organization of Ideas

Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which the audience can follow.

Student presents information in logical sequence which the audience can follow.

Student presents most of the information in a logical format with some issues.

Student is difficult to follow during presentation because the student jumps around.

The presentation is challenging to understand because there is limited to no logical organization.

Writing Skills

Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors.

Presentation has no more than two misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Presentation has three misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Presentation has four or more spelling errors and/or grammatical errors.

Presentation has a large number of errors that distract from the content.

Visual Attractiveness

Presentation includes visuals that reinforce the textual and narrated information. Font, color, and layout choices enhance the presentation.

Presentation includes visuals that are related to the textual and narrated information. Font, color, and layout choices are not distracting.

Presentation includes some visuals that may not be related to the content or fonts, color, and layout that are somewhat distracting.

Presentation includes visuals that are distracting or not related to the content and/or the fonts, color, and layout are overly distracting.

Presentation includes few or no visuals and/or fonts, color, and layout choices that make the presentation unappealing.