I don't usually give my students a final. Tests and exams and quizzes do not really fit my stance as a teacher. That is not to say I do not give final assessments to my classes. Projects are more my style. Some of these are academic papers, but most are multimodal in nature and are videos, a series of posters, a TED Talk-type of presentation, or any number of other forms... I let my students decide. I try to be an hands-off and open-ended as possible when describing what their assessment is, which usually frustrates them! They want to know exactly what I'm looking for. They want to know what to produce. They want to know what I want. And I tell them: I want you to produce a thing that