Considerations for Assignments

Introduction

This page provides resources for consideration when encouraging creativity in assignments.  

• Universal Design for Learning Links to an external site. principles encourage student choice in the way students demonstrate their learning.
• Providing more submission type choices helps students have more ownership of and engagement with assignments.
• Be open to student's ideas of how they might like to show you what they have learned.
• Ensure the offered  assignment submission types fulfill module learning objectives.

The Format of Choice Guide is a customizable page that you can change to meet your own course needs. 

• Rather than repeat the information from this page in each assignment, you may find it easier to simply include this line and link in your instructions:  "You may find the Format of Choice Guide helpful to you in completing this assignment."  
• Linking to the Format of Choice Guide page makes updating the information much easier without having to click into each assignment.