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Web Site Evaluation Web Site Evaluation Rubric Code: Q28768 By sherrysimmons Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Humanities Type: Assignment Grade Levels: (none)

Web Site Evaluation
	Valuable 3 pts	Helpful 2 pts	Useless 1 pts
CONTENT
Accuracy	Valuable The website has a clearly identifiable author with appropriate qualification and the purpose of the site is clearly identifiable. The author provides contact information and is not the same as the Webmaster.	Helpful Upon careful review, the website has an identifiable author with appropriate qualification and the purpose of the site is identifiable. Contact information is provided to either the author or the Webmaster.	Useless Upon careful review, the website has an identifiable author with no appropriate qualifications and/or has no author. The purpose of the site is identifiable, but was initially latent. Contact information is not provided.
Authority	Valuable The website is published through a reputable domain for its purpose and the qualifications of the author are listed and are appropriate/relevent to the subject covered.	Helpful The website is published through a domain that does not suit its claimed purpose and the qualifications of the author are listed but are not appropriate/relevent to the subject covered.	Useless The website is published through a private domain and the qualifications of the author are not listed.
Currency	Valuable The website was updated within the past year and has working links to appropriate related content.	Helpful The website was updated within the past three years and has mostly working links to appropriate related content.	Useless The website was updated over three years ago and/or shows no updating and has many broken links or links to unrelated content.
Gender and Ethic bias	Valuable The website is not particularly biased.	Helpful The website is biased but can still be useful for research.	Useless The website's bias distorts its accuracy.
DESIGN
	Well Developed 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Navigation	Well Developed Logical, functional, easy to understand, consistent and working properly throughout the site.	Fair Limited number of pages, not obvious how to decifer movement between pages	Poor Two or less pages, no clear navigation structures.
Lay-Out	Well Developed Main elements are well organized. Attractive and funcitonal. Very user friendly.	Fair Most elements are well organized. Some alignments may be off. Prior knowledge of web site usage necessary.	Poor No organization, appears to be nothing but a list of random topics.
Links	Well Developed No broken links. Obvious that they are links.	Fair Some broken links. Unclear as to whether they are links.	Poor Links lead to unaccessible pages.