Office of Undergraduate Research
E-mail: our@cwu.edu
Once you've submitted your abstract, follow these guidelines:
Contact us if you have any questions about these guidelines.
We recommend using PowerPoint to create your poster or slides and a voice-over because it's available to all CWU students. This format has simple tools to help you design, complete, and then record the presentation within the same program. If you would prefer to use other software or tools to create your presentation, feel free to do so as long as it still accomplishes the goal of communicating your research in a professional format.
The Multimodel Education Center created guides for recording an oral presentation and create a poster using PowerPoint. Use the latest version of PowerPoint, available to all CWU students via Microsoft 365:
We recommend you do your recordings through desktop software; recordings don't appear to be available via the browser
For additional help, click here, then learn about exporting your finished presentations as a video here. You can also record your screen on a Mac or on a PC. There are also plenty of options for free video editing software that you can use if you want to combine your screen recording with a video of you discussing your research.
As you're preparing your video, remember to check that your video will be compatible with SOC's file types. Supported file types include:
If it's not, you will need to use editing software to convert it to one of the types listed above.
In order to make the online event accessible to all students, please follow accessibility principles when creating your PowerPoint presentation and caption your presentation videos. Find PowerPoint guidelines here. The Multimodal Education Center created a guide for captioning videos using Microsoft Streams.
Judges are faculty, staff, and community members that are asked to rank presentations on a scale of 1-5 in the following categories while also providing constructive and clear feedback.
Rubric: Poster/Virtual Presentation | Rubric: Creative Expression | ||
Relevance: The poster/presentation offered insight into the significance and worth of the topic. | Creative Statement: The statement clearly articulates and contextualizes the artists' purpose, inspiration, and outcomes. | ||
Knowledge: The poster/presentation clearly demonstrated the student's knowledge of the topic. | Content: The creative endeavor/performance is: Original in approach, scope and/or context; Expresses the artists' vision well; Is informed by choice, perspective and/or values. | ||
Organization & Visual Elements: The poster layout/ presentation flow was well organized and intelligible. | Delivery: The creative endeavor/performance demonstrates: Understanding & knowledge of the artistic instrument(s) (body/voice/imagination/musical instrument); Skill in techniques utilized; Effective application. | ||
Reasoning: The student offered meaningful insights about the material. | Audience Engagement: The creative endeavor/performance: Captured and held audience attention; Offered nuance/surprise/dynamic variation. | ||
Delivery: Vocal projection, eye contact, confidence, and responses to questions, etc. | Aesthetics: Is the creative endeavor/performance cohesive? Does the style inform and/or compliment the content? | ||
Overall: Poster/ presentation was coherent to a general audience. |
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