Good Sites: A rubric for evaluating student web sites

Table of Contents:

Page Content
Using Graphics
Design Consistency
Navigation/Speed
Typography
Overall Effect

About the Works Studied
About the Author
Author's Home Page

Good Sites
a rubric for evaluating student sites

This site is dedicated to helping teachers grade student web sites. It seeks to answer the question, what should a good student site look like? To answer this question, I carefully studied four web style guides:

The Yale C/Aim Web Style guide
Designing Information for Communication, a tutorial produced by the University of Illinois Art Department
Harnessing the Power of the Web: a tutorial , produced by the GSN Foundation
Webmonkey's style guide

Next I cross referenced each guide to determine what these style guides believe comprises a successful web site. From this research I developed the categories you see in the table of contents. Each page begins with about one or two screens worth of information about a particular standard. These standards can help you determine what to teach your students. At the bottom of each page is a link marked "to rubric" which provides you with a rubric you can use for evaluating students concerning that particular area. In the end, hopefully your students will be producing good sites.