Shareable Artefact

Shareable Artefact

The Shareable Artefact is your final, summative piece — a critical or creative artefact, in any form, that synthesises your learning and can be shared with others. Aim for something a reader or viewer can take in over 6–8 minutes (about 2,500 words), with a 250–500 word rationale or exegesis explaining its purpose and how it connects to the course.

On the Skills Pathway it usually cuts across themes from several KNoTs; on the Project Pathway it usually grows out of your Project. Either way it should be of value to you, or to the organisation or community you worked with.

Course variations

LAWS4001 — explore a complex legal issue using themes from the course, or otherwise show a strong connection to a legal perspective. AATD6001 — postgraduate students ground the artefact in the scholarly and research literature, and relate it to their graduate discipline.

There are three parts: an optional plan, the required Show and Share, and the artefact itself.

Due dates are listed on the assessment overview

Shareable Artefact Plan

An optional scoping task — plan your artefact and get feedback on the idea before you commit to making it. Late submissions and extensions are not available for optional tasks, but if you would like feedback on your ideas at any stage, these are the questions you need to know the answer to.

Prepare and submit

Start from the Shareable Artefact Plan Template, then submit your plan via Qualtrics (ANU login required). You are welcome to bring it to any class consultation, and to talk it through with peers.

How it’s assessed

Complete the task in line with the guidance above. How it is then graded depends on your course code:

• AATD — optional. You submit it to get feedback before you commit, not for a grade.
• LAWS4001 — assessed on quality of ideas and/or connections.

A useful Shareable Artefact Plan shows:

• A clear scope for the artefact — what it is, who it is for, and what format it will take
• Which KNoTs, and your SoCIETIE Project if relevant, it draws on
• Enough detail that the feedback you get back can be specific

Show and Share

A session in the last week of semesters where you share your ideas with peers and invited guests — a celebration of the semester’s learning, not a competition (though healthy competition is welcome). Bring a representation of your artefact — the piece itself, or a prototype, outline, storyboard, sketch, model or poster — and a 60-second elevator pitch. Final, close-to-final or work-in-progress are all fine. You will get specific details closer to the date.

How it’s assessed

Complete the task in line with the guidance above. How it is then graded depends on your course code:

• AATD — graded in Canvas as “Complete” or “Incomplete”.
• LAWS4001 — assessed on quality of narrative and/or reflection.

To complete, your Show and Share must demonstrate:

• You brought a representation of your Shareable Artefact — the artefact itself, or a prototype, outline, storyboard, sketch, model or poster
• You can explain the work to someone outside your discipline in about sixty seconds
• It may be final, close to final, or a work in progress

Shareable Artefact

The final piece, and a hurdle: you have to submit it. Start early. Working from the SoCIETIE themes — social change, impact, engagement, transformation, inclusion, equity — or a related problem or idea you engaged with through the course:

• produce a physical or digital artefact that can be consumed in 6–8 minutes (about 2,500 words)
• show how it connects to those themes
• include a 250–500 word rationale explaining its purpose and its link to your learning
• format is open — see below

Submit

Submit your Shareable Artefact via Qualtrics (ANU login required).

Choosing a topic

As free-ranging as you like. If you want a starting point: a specific problem or contemporary issue tied to your Project or to SoCIETIE; an issue in your own discipline seen from a new angle; your Completion Evidence extended into a fuller output, reflection or critique; or connections between SoCIETIE topics and other parts of your degree.

Choosing a format

Open, provided it lets you meet the prompt. Past students have made essays, papers, reports, posters, digital presentations, apps, videos, websites, podcasts, blog series, magazine articles, travel guides, exhibitions, teaching tools, physical objects, zines and artworks. Pick what suits your topic, audience and purpose.

The rationale

The short rationale (or exegesis) clarifies the artefact’s purpose and orientates others to it — especially for creative pieces. Often it complements the form: an artwork with a critique, a board game with its rules, a podcast with a website. LAWS4001 students must use it to connect further to their legal issue.

Reference the artefact and its rationale as academic work — in the style relevant to your discipline (APA, Harvard, IEEE, and so on) and to your format.

Marking Criteria

Complete the task in line with the guidance above. How it is then graded depends on your course code:

• AATD — graded as “Not yet complete”, “Complete with Revision” or “Complete without Revision”.
• LAWS4001 — assessed on quality of ideas and/or connections and quality of narrative and/or reflection.