Business Essentials - ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC
Delivery
Content/
Organization
Enthusiasm/
Audience
Awareness
Group
Collaboration
20 - Exceeds Standards
 Holds attention of entire
audience with the use of direct
eye contact, facial expressions,
posture, and gestures
 Speaks with fluctuation in
volume and inflection to
maintain audience interest and
emphasize key points
 Always speaks clearly and
loudly
 Presentation has clear focus
 Presentation is clearly
organized, logical, and not
repetitive
 Presentation shows a full
grasp and understanding of
the topic; stays on topic
 Presentation highlights key
ideas and concludes with a
strong statement
 Presenter(s) fields questions
easily
 Demonstrates strong
enthusiasm about topic during
presentation
 Significantly increases
audience understanding and
knowledge of topic;
convinces an audience to
recognize the validity and
importance of the subject
 All group members
participate equally
 Group members help each
other as needed
16 - Meets Standards
• Consistent use of direct eye
contact with audience, facial
expressions, posture, and
gestures
• Speaks with satisfactory
variation of volume and
inflection;
 Consistently clear & loud
12 - Emerging
• Displays minimal eye
contact with audience, facial
expressions, posture, and
gestures while reading mostly
from the notes
• Speaks in uneven volume
with little or no inflection
9 - Attempt was Made
• Holds no eye contact with
audience, as entire report is
read from notes
• Speaks in low volume
and/or monotonous tone,
which causes audience to
disengage
 Students mumble and can’t
be understood
 Most elements of focus,
organization, logic,
understanding of topic, key
ideas, and a decent
conclusion are apparent
 Fields questions
comfortably
 Some elements of focus,
organization, logic,
understanding of topic, key
ideas, and a decent
conclusion are apparent
 Fields questions
 Very few elements of
focus, organization, logic,
understanding of topic, key
ideas, and a decent
conclusion are apparent
 Did not fields questions
 Shows some enthusiastic
feelings about topic
 Raises audience
understanding and
awareness of most points
 Shows little or mixed
feelings about the topic
being presented
 Raises audience
understanding and
knowledge of some points
 Shows no interest in topic
presented
 Fails to increase audience
understanding of
knowledge of topic
 All group members
participate
 Group members help each
other as needed
 Some group members
 Only 1 or 2 group
participate
members participate
 Some group members help  Only 1 member takes
charge
 Some group members speak
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Business Essentials - ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC
Visual Aids /
Worksheets
Presentation
Choice
PPT/Keynote or
Prezi
Movie
Skit
Lecture
Project-based
Web page
Movie/Video
Glogster
Nearpod
Other
Assessment /
Reflection
Citations
 All group members speak
clearly and are easy to
understand
 Creatively uses a variety of
effective visual aids and/or
other methods of delivery
 Visually organized and
complete
 Visuals reinforce and enhance
learning

A great deal of thought was
placed on:
 Choice of Presentation
 Storyboarding/Scripting
 Layout of presentation
 Design Principals
 Originality of presentation
 Quality of graphics
 Flow of the Lesson
 Considering the audience
clearly and are easy to
 Most group members speak
understand
clearly and are easy to
understand
 Uses visual aids or other
 Ineffective use of visual
learning tools effectively
aids or other learning tools
 Moderately visually
 Somewhat visually
organized and complete
organized and complete
 Visuals reinforce learning  Used visuals but they do not
add or may distract from
learning
 Most group members are
hard to understand
A lot of thought was placed
on:
 Choice of Presentation
 Storyboarding/Scripting
 Layout of presentation
 Design Principals
 Originality of presentation
 Quality of graphics
 Flow of the Lesson
 Considering the audience
Some thought was placed on:
 Choice of Presentation
 Storyboarding/Scripting
 Layout of presentation
 Design Principals
 Originality of presentation
 Quality of graphics
 Flow of the Lesson
 Considering the audience
Very little thought was placed
on:
 Choice of Presentation
 Storyboarding/Scripting
 Layout of presentation
 Design Principals
 Originality of presentation
 Quality of graphics
 Flow of the Lesson
 Considering the audience
 Provided excellent assessment  Provided adequate
to determine if students learn
assessment to determine if
subject matter
students learn subject
matter
 Copyright and Citation
 Copyright and Citation
Documentation completed
Documentation completed
appropriately on all materials
appropriately on some
used
materials used
 Provided modest
assessment to determine if
students learn subject
matter
 Copyright and Citation
Documentation was hit or
miss
 Provided no assessment to
determine if students learn
subject matter
 Does not use visual aids or
other learning tools as a
method of delivery
 Disorganized or
incomplete
 No visual aids used
 Copyright and Citation
Documentation was not
completed at all
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