Aims and objectives
This module will:
- explore different assignment types
- examine resources and tools to help you produce your assignments.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- use effective strategies to produce assignments in different mediums
- evaluate and select different tools to create videos, presentations, websites, online portfolios or a model or prototype.
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Module summary
Essential tips
- Maintain high standards of academic integrity in your assignments
- Links to resources for group assignments, finding information and backing up your files.
Written assignments
- Links to resources on the purpose, audience, tone of writing and structural features of some written assignment types
- To be effective, think carefully about the intended audience and purpose of your assignment.
Video
- Plan your video with a script and storyboard
- Use different techniques to make your video visually appealing.
Audio and Podcasts
- Good quality audio is essential to keep your audience listening
- Recording locations and settings can improve your audio quality.
Presentations, posters and infographics
- Engage your audience using different techniques
- Use interactivity in your online presentations
- Make your presentations and posters visually appealing and interesting through good design.
Websites, blogs and wikis
- Web content requires a different style of writing than print
- Embed different kinds of interesting media in your websites and blogs.
3D models
- Use a strategic approach when designing a 3D model
- Links to resources for learning 3D modelling software.
Coding
- Strategies to use for programming assignments
- Links to resources for learning programming languages.
Duration: 
Approximately 20 minutes
Graduate attributes
Knowledge and skills you can gain to contribute to your Graduate attributes:
Effective communication
Independence and creativity
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