• Leave yourself enough time between speeches to complete the evaluate forms. Plan this time into your speaking schedule.
• Decide on a method for signaling speakers when there is one minute left and when they are out of time. Tell the class about this method before presentations begin. Don't catch a student by surprise.
• Establish class rules for audience behavior including
  • whether or not to enter the room after a presentation has started,
  • talking during a presentation, and
  • guidelines for Question & Answer periods
• Plan and distribute a schedule for presentations. Try to avoid re-scheduling the day of the presentation. Time is a premium on presentation days.
• Choose a method for scheduling presentations and follow it.
  • sign-ups,
  • drawing dates,
  • assigning dates,
  • volunteers. If you use volunteers, be ready with a backup, in case no one volunteers.
• Decide on your policy for students who are not prepared to present and communicate this policy to students. Allowing students to make-up a presentation in class only works if additional presentation days are added. Don't take presentation time away from students who come prepared.
• Assign different students each class meeting to be responsible for either giving feedback to speakers or asking a question of the speaker.

• Use a stopwatch to time presentations.
• Seat yourself to the back and to one side of the audience. Presenters tend to focus on the evaluator and not establish eye contact with other audience members.

• Find something positive to say about each presentation. Remember, in some lists of phobias more people are afraid of giving a speech than they are of dying.
• Making brief notes on the evaluation sheet can help identify a thesis, main points, and key supporting materials.
• Make your basic evaluation during class, unless you have a video-recording of the presentation. The more presentations you hear, the easier it is to confuse them.

• After class, compare the preparation or speaker's outline with your notes made during the speech. This helps refine your evaluation. Small differences are expected.

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