A slide deck can be assembled, understanding has to be defended.
Project proposals, capstones, and studio reviews lean on presentations that can be assembled or generated. The question a deck cannot answer is whether the presenter understands what they showed.
With the presentation recording add-on, a student records the full presentation, then defends it live with Q&A grounded in their own slides and transcript. You see the delivery and the understanding, not just the artifact.
Example assignment. A project proposal presentation followed by an oral Q&A defense of the design choices.
- Why this approach over the alternative on slide 4?
- What would you change first if your budget were halved?
- Which assumption in your plan is the riskiest, and why?
Command of content
Explains the substance behind each slide.
Design justification
Defends the choices, tradeoffs, and alternatives.
Response to questions
Answers follow-ups without retreating to the script.
Delivery
Communicates clearly under live questioning.
- 1Create a Presentation Defense assignment, enable the presentation recording add-on, and attach the Presentation rubric pack.
- 2Publish or launch from the LMS.
- 3Review the recording, transcript, and first-pass score, adjust, and release.
- 1Upload the slides and record the presentation.
- 2Answer the oral Q&A about the design and choices.
- 3Confirm the transcript and submit.