Criteria Unsatisfactory Limited Proficient Exemplary

SCORE
(9 points – below) (10 – 14 points) (15 – 17 points) (18 – 20 points)
Postings show no Postings provide Postings provide Postings provide comprehensive
evidence of insight, minimal insight, moderate insight, insight, understanding, and
Content and understanding or understanding and understanding and reflective thought about the
Creativity reflective thought about reflective thought reflective thought about topic by building a focused
the topic. about the topic. the topic. argument around a specific
issue; asking a new related
question; or making an
oppositional statement
supported by personal
experience or related research.
Postings do not reflect Postings are written in Postings are written in a Postings are written in a style
an awareness of the a style that does not style that is generally that is appealing and
Voice audience and it is fully consider the appropriate for the appropriate for the intended
difficult to identify theaudience, and the intended audience and an audience and a consistent voice
author’s voice. author’s voice is attempt is made to use a is evident throughout.
difficult to identify. consistent voice.
Does not insert any Selects and inserts Selects and inserts Selects and inserts high quality
graphics, or uses only many low-quality graphics and multimedia graphics and multimedia when
low-quality graphics and graphics and that are mostly high appropriate to enhance the
multimedia, which do multimedia which do quality and enhance and content’s visual appeal and
Text Layout,
not enhance the not enhance the clarify the content. increase readability.
Use of content. content.
Graphics
and Does not acknowledge Acknowledges only a Acknowledges most image Acknowledges all image and
any image or few multimedia and and multimedia sources multimedia sources with
Multimedia
multimedia sources, image sources and with captions or captions or annotations.
either with a caption or uses incomplete annotations.
an annotation. captions or
annotations.
Timeliness Does not update blog Updates blog when Updates blog when Updates blog as often or more
and Tags within the required time reminded; posts are required; most posts are often than required; all posts
frame. often missing a date date-stamped with the are date-stamped and the most
stamp. most current posting recent posts are placed at the
listed at the top. top of the page.
 Does not categorize and The post is not Post is categorized and Post is categorized and topics
tag the topic categorized and tagged. are tagged appropriately.
appropriately. tagged appropriately.

No images, media or Some of the images, Most images, media or All images, media and text
text created by others media or text created text created by others created by others display
display appropriate by others does not display appropriate appropriate copyright
Citations
copyright permissions display appropriate copyright permissions and permissions and accurate
and do not include copyright permissions accurate, properly citations.
accurate, properly and does not include formatted citations.
formatted citations. accurate, properly
formatted citations.
Quality of Written responses Written responses Written responses are Written responses are free of
Writing and contain numerous include some largely free of grammatical, spelling or
Proofreading grammatical, spelling or grammatical, spelling grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. The style of
punctuation errors. The or punctuation errors punctuation errors. The writing facilitates
style of writing does not that distract the style of writing generally communication.
facilitate effective reader. facilitates
communication. communication.
TOTAL