This reflective essay documents the adaptation of an active-learning strategy in response to the spring 2020 global pandemic. We detail how we adapted it from its original form as an intentionally nondigital, face-to-face, team-based activity into a new, fully digital format. We articulate the active-learning methods driving the original design as well as its resulting learning outcomes. Although we worried the pivot into a digital format would undercut some of the original learning objectives, we argue the new format not only delivered those outcomes but generated additional outcomes and insights as well. We describe the activity's inherent pedagogical flexibility and adaptability across modalities and document how the pivot inspired us to interrogate our previous assumptions concerning face-to-face, team-based writing instruction and active learning.