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Digital Assignment Toolkit

This toolkit provides instructions and resources for how to design digital assignments for your classroom..

Types of Digital Research Projects

Student-engaged digital and multimodal projects can take many forms. Here are just a few ideas.

  • Digital collections and exhibits of artifacts and primary sources 
  • Interactive websites or databases
  • Blogs and other digital journals or reflections
  • Video projects and mini documentaries
  • Academic podcasts
  • Digital narratives or reflections
  • Oral histories
  • Digital zines
  • Mapping
  • Digital annotation
  • Video games
  • Animations
  • 3D design and printing
  • Craft fabrication
  • Data visualizations
  • Computational text analysis
  • Complex data analysis and/or computational methods

These are just a few of the possibilities of what students can create; we’re happy to talk through options to support student learning by incorporating digital research into your classes. Please check out our digital research showcase for some more examples of student work.