This assignment provides evaluation details for the project presentations. As we have discussed on numerous occasions, the ability to present your work is an important skill in today’s business world regardless of your position. This assignment provides the opportunity for you to practice and demonstrate that skill. As with the alpha presentations you made earlier in the semester, I am sure that everyone will learn from observing other students’ presentation as well as from making a presentation yourself.
This presentation is more than just a demonstration. In your alpha presentations you imagined that you were speaking to peers or to management to convince them to continue funding for your product. Those presentations were driven by discussion and demonstration.
Your final presentation should be an “unveiling” of your product. At this point you should imagine that you are announcing your product to the world, essentially asking them to buy it. Imagine that media people are there to highlight every little flaw in your work. So while you must be honest about what your product does and does not do, you must also try to “present it in its best light.”
Your presentation should take about 15 minutes and somewhat follow the outline below.
Of course you may embellish this list as much as you like.
Another way to think of this presentation is as if you were using your project as an example of your work during
a job interview. Former students have actually done this, and some have returned to tell me that it was their GUI project that got them the job! 
There is nothing you are required to hand in for this assignment other than one member of your group providing the URL of the final version of your group’s project via the Assignment Submission form.
I have prepared the following form that students will use to evaluate your presentation and give you feedback on its strengths and weaknesses. I will print copies of this form so that each student can evaluate every other student team.
Directions to Evaluators: Mark an X in the circle next to the presenters’ group. Then mark an X in the circle next to the phrase in the second column that most closely represents your evaluation of the presentation on the criteria listed in the first column. If you cannot decide which of two adjacent circles to mark, you may mark in between the two circles.
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Project Scope
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Attention to GUI Programming Principles
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Implementation
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Presentation
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Subjective
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