This study aims to find out how lecturers assess students' speaking skills through
presentation video project assignments and the difficulties faced by lecturers in
assessing, as well as students' difficulties in making video projects.This study used
descriptive qualitative method. Researchers conducted documentary research and
interviews to collect data. Researchers analyzed documents in the form of scoring
rubrics belonging to lecturers and student video projects then interviewed lecturers of
public speaking courses and 16 5th semester students of the English Education
Department for the 2018 academic year at Antasari State Islamic University,
Banjarmasin.The results of this study indicate that lecturers use an assessment rubric
to assess students' abilities. The researcher also found that the only difficulty
experienced by lecturers was that they could not assess some aspects that could be
assessed directly such as direct assessment. In order to get the best results in making
video projects, students often face the following problems: preparation, materials,
internet connection, gadgets, editing, nervous. Lecturers assess students using an
assessment rubric, but lecturers also experience difficulties with the internet network
which is less stable. Students have various ways of dealing with the difficulties they
face.