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 th