Turn a short course into a work sample you can stand behind

SHORT ANSWER

A focused project can demonstrate both knowledge and judgement. Choose a task, document your decisions and distinguish practice from real-world results.

Svenska Digitalakademin 6 November 2026

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Keep the task small enough

Choose one page to improve, one campaign to plan or one contact flow to build. An oversized task makes it harder to see what you actually completed. Define the problem, the audience and what you can deliver within the course scope.

A small project can still contain thoughtful decisions. A campaign brief, needs to connect its audience, offer, two creative concepts and measurement plan. Spend time on how the parts fit together rather than producing more pages.

Keep the basis for your decisions

Record the sources and observations you used. Keep an early version to show what changed after review. If AI helped, describe its contribution and how you checked the output. A working log can be brief as long as it is understandable.

Identify assumptions as assumptions. If customer data is unavailable, use a fictional audience for the exercise and explain what you would investigate in a real assignment. This shows awareness of the evidence still needed.

Test something that could fail

A finished-looking homepage is not enough for a website prototype. Follow links, review the mobile layout and enter invalid form data. For writing, ask another person to explain the offer after reading it. For an SEO plan, check whether someone else understands which change comes first.

Record what the test showed and what you changed. State the remaining limitations in the same document as the result. This lets someone assess the work without guessing which parts are still ideas.

Make your contribution clear in group work

A shared case can generate more ideas and better questions, but an individual work sample also needs to show your responsibility. Agree early on who researches, writes, builds or reviews. Keep a short description of your part and the decisions made together.

If you show an extract from the group’s material, the others should understand how it will be used. Remove information that cannot be shared and credit the right people. In an individual assessment, you should be able to explain your own choices even when the project was collaborative.

Distinguish practice from individual assessment

Your own work sample shows how you chose to apply the course content. Separately assessed work also needs a clear task, known criteria and an identified reviewer. Digitalakademin’s planned advanced workshops use this distinction between attending and receiving an assessed credential after approved work.

When presenting the work, begin with the task and show the most relevant extract. Explain your most important decision and what you would improve in the next version. This creates a better basis for discussion than a large document with no clear conclusion.