Instructor's Guide

Quizzes, Reflective Questions, and Activities

The following assignment is embedded in the Oral Presentation tutorial:

Activity 1: Review Quiz

Relationship to Other iStudy Tutorials

If instructors are planning on using several iStudy tutorials, the Academic Integrity and Source Evaluation tutorials may be useful.

Key Points

Types of Presentations

Informative
Persuasive

Steps in Preparing a Presentation

Step 1: Analyze your audience.
Step 2: Select a topic.
Step 3: Define the objective of the presentation.
Step 4: Prepare the body of the presentation.
Step 5: Prepare the introduction and conclusion
Step 6: Practice delivering the presentation.

Being a Credible Speaker

Be accurate and exact with quotes, names, dates, and facts.
Provide support for your ideas.
Dress in a professional manner.
Use visual aids that look professional.
Know your material.
Use language that's appropriate for the audience members.

Use Humor Effectively

Never embarrass anyone.
Use humor that is acceptable to the group. Most humor is culture specific.

Controlling Nervousness

Be prepared.
Rehearse just prior to the speech.
Greet people. Make eye contact with them before your speech.
Take deep breaths and try to relax your body.

Visual Aids in Presentations

Use visual aids to emphasize important points only.
Give the visuals a consistent appearance.
Select the appropriate visual aid for the environment.
Try to observe the 7 by 7 rule.
Make sure the text is large enough for people in the back of the room to read.
Use a simple type face for visuals.
Don't show visuals that conflict with what you're saying.
Don't read the text that's on the visual but paraphrase and add to it.

Establish a Comfortable Environment

Make sure lighting, heat, and sound is good.
Make sure all equipment is available and is working properly.
Adjust the seating arrangements as needed.

Suggested Criteria for an Excellent Oral Presentation

A downloadable RTF file of this checklist is included in the left sidebar of this page.

Did the speaker make the presentation relevant to the audience?
Was the information presented by the speaker accurate and relevant?
Was the information presented by the speaker to the right level of content?
Was the presentation well organized, and did the ideas flow logically?
Did the speaker's introduction capture the audience's interest?
Did the presenter establish the purpose of the presentation during the introduction?
Did the speaker use evidence and examples to support his or her ideas?
Did the speaker reinforce main ideas during the conclusion of the presentation?
Did the presentation carefully time the presentation so that it "fit" into the time allowed?
Did the presenter establish a comfortable environment? This includes adjusting lights, cleaning of white or chalk boards, and arranging chairs.
Did the presenter show evidence of being prepared by not relying too much on notes to deliver the presentation.
Was the presenter's use of his or her voice natural and effective in maintaining the audience's attention?
Were the presenter's hand and facial gestures natural and effective in maintaining the audience's attention?
Was the presenter able to control nervousness to the point that it did not distract the audience?
Did the speaker establish eye contact with the audience?
Was humor on the part of the presenter effective and not offensive?
Was the presenter's use of visual aids appropriate for the setting?
Did the presenter use visual aids primarily to emphasize key points?
Were visual aids professional looking and were guidelines regarding text size and amount followed?
Did the presenter effectively manage the use of visual aids by paraphrasing information presented on them and displaying them for the correct period of time?

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Oral Presentation Evaluation Matrix

	Category	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Outstanding	How to Improve
Relevance	Relevance of presentation to the audience	Mixed several irrelevant points together	Points were mostly relevant to the audience	All points were relevant to the audience
Content	Information presented	Used inaccurate irrelevant, or inappropriate level of information that might hinder communication	Used accurate, relevant information	Used varied information, of which all was accurate, relevant, and at the right level of detail
Organization	Overall organization of presentation	Used unclear organization to present ideas.	Presented ideas in a somewhat organized manner.	Presented ideas in a polished, well organized manner
	Introduction	Vague introduction. Didn't introduce topic well	Introduced topic with one or two brief sentences	Introduction captured audience interests and established the purpose of the presentation
	Body	Lacked facts or used inappropriate facts and examples that didn't support main ideas. No logical sequence of information	Presented with a logical sequence but not presented in a fluent manner	Used evidence and examples to support main ideas in a fluent manner
	Conclusion	No conclusion	Vague conclusion	Conclusion reinforced the main ideas in the presentation
Time Management Strategy	Effective use of time	Didn't conclude presentation in assigned time or concluded earlier than the assigned time	Kept to time limit and delivered in the assigned time	Carefully timed so that it "fit" into the time allowed. Spent appropriate amount of time on topics, allowed time for questions, and answered questions effectively
Time Management Strategy	Environment	The presenter didn't care about establishing a comfortable environment.	The presenter had little control, but made as many adjustments as possible	The presenter established a comfortable environment
Presentation	Controlling nervousness	Presenter's nervousness distracted the audience	Presenter's nervousness was apparent only occasionally	The presenter controlled nervousness so that it did not distract the audience
Practice	Mastery of the subject	Read from notes most of the time. Searched for words frequently with long periods of silence	Spoke with occasional hesitations without overly relying on notes	The presenter showed evidence of being prepared by not overly relying on notes, and spoke in a fluent and spontaneous way
Delivery	Verbal	Could not be understood because of inappropriate rate, volume, or articulation	Could be understood, but the presenters voice did not effectively enhance the presentation	The presenter's use of his or her voice was natural and effectively enhanced the presentation
	Non verbal Expression	Did not exhibit poise or used ineffective or distractive hand or facial gestures	Used positive hand and facial gestures	The presenter was poised and hand and facial gestures were natural and effectively enhanced presentation
	Eye contact	Established no/indistinct eye contact	Established eye contact with the audience	Established direct, consistent eye contact with the audience
	Effective use of humor	No humor was used	No humor was tried or humor was used in an intrusive way	Any humor used in the presentation was effective and not offensive
Visual Aids	Use of visual aids	Included no graphics or pictures or used irrelevant and distracting visual aids	Included graphics and pictures that were relevant to the topic	Used good quality visual aids that were appropriate for the setting
	Visual aids design	Included no graphics or pictures or used distracting/ poor looking visual aids	Graphics and pictures were visible to all	Visual aids were professional looking, and followed text size/amount guidelines. Graphics and pictures were attractive, creative and precise so as to enhance the presentation
	Effective management of visual aids	Included no graphics or pictures or the use of visual aids was distracting	Used some kind of visual aids to facilitate the presentation	The presenter effectively managed the use of visual aids to enhance the effect of the presentation
Overall	Overall impression	Very boring, unpleasant to listen to, very poor presentation	Somewhat interesting. Could make some improvements	Very interesting, pleasant to listen to, very good presentation

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Assessment Criteria

Through observing both the group's and the individual's activity, the instructor may assess student performance. Assessment criteria are as follows (instructors supply the percentage weights):

Assessment Criteria
Where	Domain	Activities	%
iStudy Tutorial	Knowledge	By listing and giving examples, the student can identify: two different types of oral presentation, three main parts of report behaviors of a credible speaker, and elements of a comfortable environment.
iStudy Tutorial	Application	By giving examples and/or reasons why they are important, the student can distinguish: four methods of delivery, and six steps of preparing a presentation.
iStudy Tutorial	Application & Synthesis	The student can make a successful oral presentation under the suggested criteria provided in this tutorial.
			100%

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