This rubric evaluates PowerPoint presentations on four criteria: text, graphics, animation, and background/layout. According to the rubric, a skilled presentation will have easy to read text in appropriate font sizes and lengths, all graphics will be related to and help explain the content, animation will help the audience understand the flow, and the background and layout will make good use of spacing. An expert presentation will achieve all of these and additionally have pleasing visuals and themes that connect the content.

1. PPT Rubric 1
PowerPoint Rubric
Novice Emergent Skilled Expert
10 Points 11 Points 13 Points 14 Points
Text is difficult to Overall Fonts are Easy to read.
read. readability is generally easy Font size varies
Too much text. difficult. to read. appropriately.
Text
Inappropriate Too much text. Font size varies Text is
fonts. Too many appropriately. appropriate
Small font size. different fonts. Too much text. length.
Most of the Some of the All graphics are All graphics are
graphics are graphics are related to related to
unrelated to unrelated to content. content.
content. content. All graphics are All graphics are
Too many Too many appropriate size appropriate size
graphics on one graphics on one and good and good
Graphics
page. page. quality. quality.
Most of the Some of the Graphics help Graphics create
graphics distract graphics distract audience an overall theme
from the text. from the text. understand the and make
Images are poor Images are poor flow of content. connections that
quality. Too quality. Too helps the
large or too large or too audience
small. small. understand the
concepts.
Much of the Some of the Animation helps Animation
animation is animation is audience creates an
unrelated to unrelated to understand the overall theme
content. content. flow of content. and make
Too much Too much connections that
animation on animation on helps the
one page. one page. audience
Much of the Some of the understand the
Animation
animation animation concepts.
distract from the distract from the
text. text.
M. Poarch – 2000
http://science-class.net

2. PPT Rubric 2
Novice Emergent Skilled Expert
10 Points 11 Points 13 Points 14 Points
Background Text is readable, Text is readable, Background
makes text but background but background makes text easy
difficult to read. is very is slightly to read.
Background
distracting distracting.
Layout is Layout shows Uses horizontal Pleasing to the
cluttered, some structure. and vertical eye.
confusing. Poor Cluttered, space Appropriate use
Layout
use of spacing, distracts from appropriately. of headings and
headings and readability. sub-headings.
sub headings. Large gaps of Appropriate use
Hard to read. space. of white space.
Errors in Many errors in 1 or 2 errors in No errors in
Mechanics
grammar, grammar, grammar, grammar,
Writing
capitalization, capitalization, capitalization, capitalization,
punctuation or punctuation or punctuation or punctuation or
spelling distract spelling. spelling. spelling.
from readability.
Investigation Covers most Completely Completely
incompletely parts of the covers most covers all
Content
covered. investigation/ required parts of required parts of
the investigation.
investigation.
Total Points
98
Final Grade:
98 It is necessary to consider that our presentation
doesn't have any animation.
M. Poarch – 2000
http://science-class.net