What are some ways that "digitizing" assignments will improve your teaching, class, or your organization?
As the Middle School Activities Coordinator, I am responsible for announcing when after school programs are available, but in order to ensure that parents are aware of their child's participation in this activity, I am required to obtain parental permission. Furthermore, students are responsible for signing a contract, a form which explains the manner in which they are expected to conduct themselves while engaged in any given activity.
Currently, these are given as handouts, with an explanation of the activity for the parents to sign and on the reverse side, the behavior guidelines contained within the student-contract. Kids far to often lose (misplace) their sheets before it returns to me; they also give it to me at random times as I am parading around the school; they place it in places I would not expect one to place such forms. If I was able to digitize these forms, which I do not want to and should not eliminate, I would not only reduce the recycling once they become irrelevant, but also greatly simplify my distribution and collection of said forms. It would make it more accessible to the participants while relieving me of the burden of giving them another form to replace those that have been misplaced.