CATEGORY

4 Exceptional

3

2

1 Not up to standard

Oral Presentation

Interesting, well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention and engages/excites them.

Relatively interesting, rehearsed with a fairly smooth delivery that holds audience attention.

Delivery not smooth, but able to hold audience attention some of the time.

Delivery not smooth and audience attention often lost. Group not practised prior to delivering presentation.

Use of Information Sources

Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. All documented in desired format.

Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. Most documented in desired format.

Source information collected for graphics, facts and quotes, but not documented in desired format.

Very little or no source information was collected.

Permissions

All permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested, received, printed and saved for future reference.

All permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested and received.

Most permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested and received.

Most permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested and received.

Quality of Content

Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material.

Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good. Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed.

Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors. Content is logically organized for the most part.

Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors. There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.

Surface Features

No misspellings or grammatical errors.

Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors.

Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

More than four errors in spelling or grammar.

Originality

Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.

Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.

Uses other people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of original thinking.

Uses other people's ideas, but does not give them credit.

Multimedia Elements

Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects to enhance the presentation.

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects to enhance to presentation.

Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.

Use of font, color, graphics, effects, but these often distract from the presentaion content.

Teamwork

The workload is divided and shared equally by all team members.

The workload is divided and shared fairly by all team members, though workloads may vary from person to person.

The workload was divided, but one person in the group is viewed as not doing his/her fair share of the work.

The workload was not divided OR several people in the group are viewed as not doing their fair share of the work.