One major obstacle to the institutional legitimacy of multimodal research is the problem of evaluation or assessment, particularly in the gatekeeping sites of academic knowledge production (academic publishers, degree-granting programs, and research funding agencies). In this meeting, Judith Albrecht, Ignacio Farias, Andrew Gilbert and Carla J. Maier, all members of the Multimodal Appreciation project (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), will discuss their research and present their response to this obstacle: a kit for evaluating multimodal works.