The following performance standards for a digital project were generated by participants in URI’s 2013 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy:

Performance Standards for Digital Projects

The student should infuse in the composition….

• voice
• ideas and content
• interpretation
• balance of text and visuals
• continuity/ logical flow
• conventions of the genre

Carolyn modeled the following rubric for a multimodal project as a brainstorming starter:

Sample Rubric for a Multimodal Project

The project draws upon strong academic language

from beginning to end.

 3        –        4        –        5       

 

The project resembles the genre from which it is drawn.

 3        –        4        –        5       

          

The project includes six (6) or more thematically-based direct excerpts equally across the text.

 3        –        4        –        5       

You interpret each of the direct excerpts in a meaningful way.

 3        –        4        –        5       

 

 The project is creative, insightful, and thought-provoking

for the reader/ viewer.

 3        –        4        –        5