Criteria Unacceptable (0 pts.) Acceptable (1 pt.) Target (2 pts.

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Academic Content Does not contain Focused on the Focused on the
content required or is topic/question. topic/question.
completely unfocused Contains most of the Contains all of the
on the topic. content required but content required, and
may be limited or demonstrates mastery
missing some of the of the content.
content
Quality of Contains many Contains few Contains no
Writing/Grammar grammatical/spelling grammatical/spelling grammatical/spelling
errors errors. errors.

Student Responses No response to other Responds and Acknowledges the

On Others’ Blogs students’ blogs, or acknowledges the student’s post, and
inappropriate student’s post provides a higher-level
responses are given. response or question in
return.
Frequency Rarely posts to blog or Frequently posts to Frequently posts to
comments on others’ blog, but occasionally blog and Frequently
blogs. responds to others’ responds to others’
blogs and comments. blogs and comments.