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.
1. Essential tips
Before you start your assignment, read the instructions and the assignment marking criteria in detail. Check with your course lecturer or tutor if you are unsure about where to find this information.
Academic integrity
Maintain the highest standards of academic integrity in your work:
- Use correct referencing techniques to avoid plagiarism. Get information on different referencing styles and learn more about referencing in the Write, cite and submit module.
- Don’t breach copyright when using images, audio or any materials that have been created by other people. Our Finding and using media module explains copyright and how to find Creative Commons resources for reuse.
Find out about UQ's Academic Integrity Modules (AIM). The modules:
- Are compulsory for all new to UQ students and new to a program students
- Will help you learn what academic integrity is, why it is so important, and how you can act with integrity in your studies
- Are in two parts and it will take about an hour to complete each of them.
Group assignments
Student Services has information to assist you when working in a group, including how to overcome problems associated with group work.
Get strategies and tools for working with a group online (from the Communicate and collaborate online module), including:
- What messaging tool to use
- Collaborating online on a document
- Holding online meetings.
Find information and data
Learn about strategies and resources for finding scholarly information (from the Information essentials module).
Get information about finding or gathering data and strategies and tools to visualise data (in the Working with data module).
Backing up your assignments
It's very important to back up your work as you do your assignments. The Working with files module has tips on how to manage your files and back up your work.
Submitting your assignments
As a UQ student you will be required to submit your assignments through your Learn.UQ (Blackboard) course site. Get tips on using Learn.UQ to submit different assignment types (in the Writing, citing and submitting module).
Duration: 
Approximately 20 minutes
Graduate attributes
Knowledge and skills you can gain to contribute to your Graduate attributes:
Effective communication
Independence and creativity
Check your knowledge
Check what you know about this topic:
Support at UQ
Access UQ services to assist you with personal or study-related issues.
