Designing Digital Assignments

Are you thinking of adding a digital element to an assignment or project?

Technology can enhance or hinder learning so this site provides strategies to help save yourself and your students frustration.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Describe the characteristics of a digital assignment based on principles of learning.

  2. Identify various types of digital assignments that are linked to a specific learning outcome.

  3. Create an outline and strategy for a digital assignment that is linked to a specific outcome in one of your subjects.

Workshop Agenda

    1. Introductions / Defining Digital

    2. Why Digital?

    3. Overview of ideas for digital assignments.

    4. Assessing specific types of digital assignment (e.g. podcast, video, infographic).

    5. Break into groups and evaluate an assignment with design issues.

    6. Overview of design tips.

    7. Use the design template to design a new digital assignment or convert an existing non-digital, text-based assignment.

Breakout Groups