In this final project, you will demonstrate the skills you’ve built throughout the course by exploring how you engage in digital communities, respond to feedback, adapt during transitions, and make responsible decisions.

Jamez

08 Dec 2025 • 8 min read

IDS 104 Project Guidelines and Rubric

Competencies

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

Explain the various traits that are reflected in a supportive digital community
Describe how adaptability can support change and perseverance
Discuss how various perspectives and personal values guide responsible decision making

Overview

In today’s fast-moving digital world, the ability to build strong communities, adapt to change, and make thoughtful decisions is essential for success—both in school and beyond. In this final project, you will demonstrate the skills you’ve built throughout the course by exploring how you engage in digital communities, respond to feedback, adapt during transitions, and make responsible decisions. These skills are not only critical for academic success but also highly valued in professional environments, where collaboration, flexibility, and ethical decision making set individuals apart. For this project, you will develop a Lifelong Learner Toolkit that is meant to support you on your continuing journey as a student and digital community participant. By completing this work, you are investing in your future ability to thrive in personal, academic, and career opportunities.

Directions

This project has three parts. You will complete drafts of Part One in Module Three and Part Two in Module Five. You will then complete Part Three of the Lifelong Learner Toolkit and put all three parts together in Module Seven. Writing Part Three will help you to reflect on the skills and strategies that have helped you grow as a learner and member of digital communities. Use your chosen template from the What to Submit section to complete this project.

Note: Be sure to submit all three parts of the final project together to ensure your project is complete. Incorporate the feedback you received from your instructor on your 3-1 Project Draft and 5-2 Project Draft assignments to improve your final submission.

Part One: Digital Community

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Discuss how digital literacy skills help support meaningful connections in digital communities. Include the following:
1. What digital literacy skills help support meaningful connections in a digital space?
2. Why are digital literacy skills important to have when making connections in a digital community?
Describe communication strategies that encourage digital connections. Include the following:
1. How does each strategy encourage digital connections?
2. Does each strategy work all the time? Why or why not?
Compare the skills used to engage in both a digital and in-person community.
Explain why being inclusive of different cultures and backgrounds contributes to a respectful digital community.
Reflect on the skills you bring to a digital community. Include the following:
1. What skills would you consider are your strengths?
2. What skills would you like to develop further?
3. What makes you feel supported in a digital community?

Part Two: Growth Mindset

Explain how growth mindset shapes how you respond to challenges or barriers. Include the following:
1. Explain what growth mindset means.
2. Discuss why having a growth mindset might be important when responding to a challenge or barrier.
Discuss how receiving and providing feedback can help support your growth. Include the following:
1. What is the value of constructive feedback?
2. How do you use feedback to reach your goals?
3. What are strategies that can be used to frame feedback in a growth mindset?
Describe a reflective strategy to help manage a large change. Include the following:
1. Is this strategy meant to support personal, academic, professional, or community transitions?
2. How does this strategy support a large change?
Describe how goal setting can help promote flexibility when situations change.
Describe a time when you needed to adapt to a new situation and how you adjusted. Include the following:
1. What skills or strategies have you learned that you might apply if you were put in that situation again?

Part Three: Decision Making

Discuss why checking the accuracy or bias of information helps you make better decisions.
Explain how different perspectives or value systems can shape how people make decisions.;
Describe a strategy for making well-informed decisions. Include the following:
1. How does this strategy support making a well-informed decision?
2. How does this strategy help you avoid bias and misinformation when deciding?
Explain why considering different outcomes helps guide thoughtful decisions.
Consider how your personal values influence how you make decisions. Include the following:
1. What do you personally value and consider when deciding?
2. How do you ensure the information you have is accurate and free from bias before deciding?
3. In the future, what are some adjustments you might make to your decision-making process?

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Lifelong Learner Toolkit
Incorporate the feedback you received from your instructor on your draft assignments and submit the completed Project Template of your choice for grading. You must complete either a PowerPoint Project Template or a Word Project Template. No sources are required.

Project Rubric

Criteria	Exceeds Expectations (100%)	Meets Expectations (85%)	Partially Meets Expectations (55%)	Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)	Value
Part One: Digital Literacy Skills	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Discusses how digital literacy skills help support meaningful connections in digital communities, including which digital literacy skills help support meaningful connections in a digital space and why digital literacy skills are important to have when making connections in a digital community	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing examples for how digital literacy skills help support connections in digital communities, identifying digital literacy skills that support digital connections, or describing how digital literacy skills are important when making connections in a digital community	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part One: Communication Strategies	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes communication strategies that encourage digital connections, including how each strategy encourages digital connections and whether each strategy works all the time	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing communication strategies that encourage digital connections, explaining how each strategy encourages digital connections, or explaining why a strategy works or does not work all the time	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part One: Digital and In-Person Community	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Compares the skills used to engage in both a digital and in-person community	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing the similarities or differences in skills used to engage in a digital community versus an in-person community	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part One: Cultures and Backgrounds	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains why being inclusive of different cultures and backgrounds contributes to a respectful digital community	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining inclusivity in a digital community or explaining how different cultures and backgrounds contribute to a diverse digital community	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part One: Skills You Bring to a Digital Community	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Reflects on the skills they bring to a digital community, including identifying the skills they consider are their strengths, identifying the skills they would like to develop further, and discussing what makes them feel supported in a digital community	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include reflecting on the skills they bring to a digital community, identifying skills they consider are their strengths, identifying skills they would like to further develop, or discussing what elements make them feel supported in a digital community	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Two: Challenges and Barriers	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how growth mindset shapes how they respond to challenges or barriers, including explaining what growth mindset means and discussing why growth mindset might be important when responding to a challenge or barrier	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing how growth mindset can be related to overcoming challenges or barriers, including a definition for growth mindset, or discussing why growth mindset is important when responding to a challenge or barrier	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Two: Feedback	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Discusses how receiving and providing feedback can help support their own growth, including discussing the value of constructive feedback, how they use feedback to reach their goals, and strategies that can be used to frame feedback in a growth mindset	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing how receiving and providing feedback can help support their own growth, discussing the value of constructive feedback, discussing how they use feedback to reach their goals, or identifying strategies that can be used frame feedback in a growth mindset	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Two: Reflective Strategy	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes a reflective strategy to help manage a large change, including identifying whether the strategy is meant to support personal, academic, professional, or community transitions, and describing how this strategy supports a transition	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing a reflective strategy to help manage a large change, identifying whether the strategy is meant to support personal, academic, professional, or community transitions, or describing how this strategy supports a large change	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Two: Goal Setting	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes how goal setting can help promote flexibility when situations change	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing how goal setting can help promote flexibility when situations change	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Two: Adapt to a New Situation	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes a time when they needed to adapt to a new situation and how they adjusted, including skills or strategies they learned that they might apply if they were put in that situation again	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing how they adapted to a new situation or describing skills or strategies learned in the course that could be applied if they were put in a similar situation again	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Three: Accuracy or Bias of Information	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Discusses why checking the accuracy or bias of information helps make better decisions	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing how accuracy or bias of information impact decision making	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Three: Different Perspectives or Value Systems	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how different perspectives or value systems can shape how people make decisions	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining how different perspectives or value systems might impact decision making	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Three: Well-Informed Decisions	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes a strategy for making well-informed decisions, including how the strategy supports making a well-informed decision and how the strategy helps avoid bias and misinformation when deciding	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing a strategy that would help make a well-informed decision, explaining how the strategy supports making a well-informed decision, or discussing how to avoid bias and misinformation as part of the strategy	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Three: Thoughtful Decisions	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains why considering different outcomes helps guide thoughtful decisions	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining why considering different outcomes is important in the decision-making process	Does not attempt criterion	6
Part Three: Personal Values	Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Considers how their personal values influence how they make decisions, including what they personally value and consider when deciding, how to ensure the information they have is accurate and free from bias before deciding, and adjustments they might make in the future to their decision-making process	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying their personal values, discussing how to ensure accurate and bias-free information before deciding, or identifying adjustments they might make in the future to their decision-making process	Does not attempt criterion	6
Clear Communication	Exceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understanding	Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience	Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understanding	Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication	10
Total:					100%