Site Overview

• The home page clearly states the purpose of the site.
• The primary and secondary audiences for the site are clearly indicated.
• The content is sufficient to serve the purpose of the site.
• The content is suitable for the intended audience.
• The site has an obvious organizational structure, for example, a site map, table of contents, or main menu.

Quality of Content

• Guidelines for audience use are clearly stated.
• Content has a clear functional relationship to the purpose of the site.
• Content is clearly organized for a hypertext environment; that is, content is chunked and non-linear and users can navigate freely and clearly through it.
• Content is engaging.
• Content is current.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool

• Pedagogy is sound.
• The site is portable; that is, the site provides sufficient context so that other faculty and/or students can use it.
• Site explicitly or implicitly identifies learning objectives.
• Site contains real world and/or concrete examples and/or applications, if relevant.
• Site language level is appropriate for the intended audience and either avoids jargon or defines it.
• Site includes clear instructions for any activity.
• Site contains or lends itself to concrete assessment as appropriate.
• Site incorporates more than one learning style.

Audience Awareness Issues

• Site contains information about what technical capabilities and materials the audience needs to use the site.
• Tone is not offensive, condescending, sexist, ageist, racist, etc.
• Contents are printable.  Tables are not wider than 600 pixels.
• Site is reasonably ADA compliant (avoid frames, use clear fonts, organize tables horizontally, use succinct and descriptive alt tags on images).