Background: Rehabilitation Counseling programs often require that the curriculum include education about basic community resource and entitlement programs for people with disabilities. The fact-based nature of this content can make it challenging for students to engage with in a meaningful way, especially in the online learning environment. Storytelling holds promise as a means to bring this content to life in online courses; however, little is known about how students interact with digital storytelling assignments. Objective: Podcasts may be a more convenient way to deliver the audio to the students, as use of the technology as well as overall smartphone usage has exploded in recent years. Methods: This article examines the results a survey of 44 students who reported their listening preferences for a weekly storytelling assignment. Findings: Results confirm previous findings in the literature about how students interact with academic podcasts. Conclusions: Despite their proliferation, students appear to approach podcast assignments similarly to how they would any other online learning task.