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Visual Display Rubric
(General) for Media, Poster, Audio and other presentations.
Criteria Not Yet Meeting
 Very few details to support
main idea
 Information is not accurate
Content  Information does not clearly
support the project’s
purpose
 Topic, sub topics and title
are not clearly identified
 Illustrations do not
complement purpose of
visual
Focus  No visual supports
(illustrations, pictures and/or
charts and diagrams)
 Little attempt to use color,
design and space
appropriately
 Design is dull
 Project has sloppy
Visual appearance
Appeal  Neatness: Overall poor
quality. Many distracting
visual elements (glue,
and/or torn edges, and/or
elements are not straight
 Illegible
 Very frequent grammatical
Conventions and spelling errors causing
distraction to reader
Meets (Minimally) Fully Meets Exceeds
 Adequate information,  Accurate information for  Accurate and detailed
but lacking in almost all subject matter information
supporting detail  Adequate supporting  ‘Extra’ information supports
 Purpose of project may detail purpose of project
be unclear  Information is adequate
and supportive of
project’s purpose
 Most topics, sub topics  Most topics, sub topics  All topic, sub topics and title
and/or title are not and title are identified are clear and easily
clearly identified  Most illustrations identified
 Few illustrations complement purpose of  All illustrations complement
complement purpose of project purpose of project
project  Adequate amount of  Complete visual support
 Inadequate amount of visual supports (illustrations, pictures and/or
visual supports (illustrations, pictures charts and diagrams)
(illustrations, pictures and/or charts and
and/or charts and diagrams)
diagrams)
 Little use of color  Adequate use of color  Outstanding use of color
 Poor use of space  Effective use of space  Original and creative design
 Design lacks creativity  Overall design is mostly  Overall design is pleasing
 Lack of harmonious pleasing and and harmonious
design in presentation harmonious  Outstanding neatness: No
 Neatness: Some excess  Neatness: No excess excess glue, torn edges,
glue, and/or torn edges, glue, torn edges, elements are straight
and/or elements are not elements are straight  All words are legible (font
straight  Most words are legible and size)
 Some words may be (font and size)  The WOW factor!
difficult to read or are
confusing
 Frequent grammatical  Mostly free of  Free of grammatical and
errors, may cause grammatical errors spelling errors
distraction to reader