This document provides a rubric to evaluate the effectiveness of YouTube as a curriculum resource. It rates YouTube on a scale from poor to excellent in 4 categories: relatability to curriculum, ease of use by instructors, effectiveness in teaching, and design/aesthetics/navigation. To receive an excellent rating, YouTube would need to have a direct relationship to curriculum content, be easy for instructors to navigate, be effective for interactive teaching, and have an appealing visual design with good balance and accessibility.

1. #1 1 pt. 2 pts. 3 pts. 4 pts.
17/20 Poor Fair Good Excellent
You Tube
Relativity to Poor Fair Good Excellent
Curriculum No relationship Limited relationship Good relationship Direct relationship
Content with curriculum with curriculum with curriculum with curriculum
content exists. content. Website has content. The website content. Clearly
Website does not limited videos. Few randomly states the states the academic
state academic videos can be used in academic level of level of target
levels and the classroom setting target audience and audience and
contains few and there are little to videos are mostly contains content and
videos for target no additional suited for audience. videos relevant to the
audience. No activities for whole Videos can be audience. Videos
clear use of the class, individual or integrated in can be used in
videos in regular group. classroom activities classroom and the
classroom and there are website includes
activities. suggested uses for additional activities
whole class, for whole class,
individual and group individual and group
lessons. lessons.
Ease of Use Poor Fair Good Excellent
by Instructors Graphics/links are Graphics/links are Graphics/links are Graphics/links are
not labeled or seldom labeled or mostly labeled or labeled or have
don't offer seldom offer rollover have rollover rollover labeling;
rollover labeling, labeling; fonts are labeling; fonts are fonts are consistently
fonts are difficult sometimes used for mostly easy to read. easy to read. Links
to read. Some ease of reading. Links for navigation for navigation are
links do not take Links for navigation are clearly labeled, clearly labeled,
the reader to the take the reader where allow the reader to consistently placed,
videos described. s/he expects to go, easily move from a allow the reader to
A user typically but some needed video to related easily move from a
feels lost. links seem to be videos (forward and video to related
missing. A user back), and internal videos (forward and
sometimes gets lost. links take the reader back), and take the
where s/he expects reader where s/he
to go. A user rarely expects to go. A user
becomes lost does not become
lost.
Effectiveness Poor Fair Good Excellent
in teaching Videos are Videos are partially Videos are mostly Videos are effective
ineffective in effective in teaching effective in teaching in teaching the
teaching desired desired content, with desired content, with desired content in an
content. limited interactivity some interactivity interactive way that
Interactivity is and appeal to that appeal to students will enjoy
unrelated to students. students. while learning.
learning, not
directed at student
enjoyment.
Design, Poor Fair Good Excellent
Aesthetic The site is not The site is mildly The site is appealing The site is visually
appeal, and visually appealing appealing. There is a to audience. There is appealing to target
Navigation to target audience. lack of balance a slight balance audience and
Accessibility between text and between graphics contains a good
No balance graphics. The home and text. balance between
between graphics page contains some Home page contains graphics and text.
and text. Home links to other parts of direct links to other Home page contains
page does not the website and only parts of the web site direct links to other
contain links to a few are active and but links are not all parts of the web site,
other parts of the current. The web site current or active. links are current and
website. Difficult can be accessed with The web site can be active. The web site
to access the effort, (time accessed with some is easily accessible
videos and logins consuming) and effort and logins are and no login is
are required to logins are required to not required to view required to view and
view and view some content content, but to download/share