Assignment Brief March14 WSD V1.2

Unit Title Website Design

Unit Code

WSD

Date Issued17/03/2014

Student Name Student ID Date Received

Lecturer NameTanveer Ahmad, Marcel Vidale, Perumal Jeyaprabhavathi

Internal Verifier Name

Rules and regulations:

Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the procedures set down by the College. Please see your student handbook for further details of what is / isn’t plagiarism.

Coursework Regulations

1 Submission of coursework must be undertaken according to the relevant procedure – whether online or paper-based. Lecturers will give information as to which procedure must be followed, and details of submission procedures and penalty fees can be obtained from Academic Administration or the general student handbook.

2 All coursework must be submitted to STP Online and an e-mail receipt will be sent to you. Under no circumstances can other College staff accept them.

3 Late coursework will be accepted by Academic Admin Office and marked according to the guidelines given in your Student Handbook for this year. Please check the Academic Admin Office opening hours.

4 If you need an extension (even for one day) for a valid reason, you must request one, using a coursework extension request form available from the Academic Admin Office. Do not ask the lecturers responsible for the course - they are not authorised to award an extension. The completed form must be accompanied by evidence such as a medical certificate in the event of you being sick.

5 General guidelines for submission of coursework:a) All work must be word-processed and must be of “good” standard.b) Document margins shall not be more than 2.5cm or less than 1.5cmc) Font size in the range of 11 to 14 points distributed to including headings and

body text. Preferred typeface to be of a common standard such as Arial or Times New Roman for the main text.

d) Any computer files generated such as program code (software), graphic files that form part of the course work must be submitted on a CD to your tutor.

e) The copy of the course work submitted may not be returned to you after marking and you are advised to have your personal copy for your reference.

f) All work completed, including any software constructed may not be used for any purpose other than the purpose of intended study without prior written permission from St Patrick’s International College.

Remember to keep your coursework receipt.

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Assignment Brief

HND PROGRAMMESAssessment Guidelines

Each Unit will be graded as a Pass, Merit, Distinction, Referred or Withheld.

A Pass is awarded for the achievement of all Learning Outcomes against the specified Assessment Criteria.

A Merit or Distinction is awarded for higher level achievement.

If all Learning Outcomes have not been achieved the work is Referred.

Where there is some doubt or concern regarding the origin of some of the content, the work is Withheld. The student will then be interviewed to ascertain originality.

A Pass Grade is achieved by meeting ALL the requirements defined in the Assessment Criteria for the Unit.

In order to achieve a Merit a student must; Use a range of methods and techniques to collect, analyse and process

information/data Apply and analyse detailed knowledge and skills, using relevant theories and

techniques Coherently present and communicate work using technical language accurately

In order to achieve a Distinction a student must; Check validity when collecting, analysing and processing complex

information/data Evaluate and synthesise relevant theories and techniques to generate and justify

valid conclusions Show an individual approach in presenting and communicating work coherently,

using technical language fluently Adopt and correctly use a recognised referencing scheme e.g. Harvard

Referencing

Note:

The Assignment Brief details all Assessment Criterions against which the coursework will be assessed.

The Assignment Brief also specifically indicates which of the above grade descriptors have been incorporated within the activities to be assessed, in order that a student can achieve a Merit or Distinction.


Student’s Grading

When a Unit has been assessed Grades are reported on the Online E - Learning System. Students can obtain the grade awarded by viewing the Submission Inbox.

Grades are reported according to the following;

50% indicates

65% indicates

75% indicates

35% indicates

0% indicates

Pass

Merit

Distinction

Referred

Withheld

A percentage mark within one of the boundaries indicates further work would be required to achieve the next highest grade e.g. 60% indicates that a Pass has been achieved, with additional work (according to the grade descriptors) a Merit could have been achieved.

By viewing the Report the Originality can be obtained.

Clicking on the GradeMark tab will reveal the QuickMark comments.

Clicking on the General Comment tab will reveal the comments made by the Assessor and Internal Verifier.


Learning Outcomes (LO) and assessment requirements

Outcomes Assessment requirements

To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to:

1. Assess the design andfunctionality of existing andestablished e-business sites

a. evaluate existing e-business websites according to established rules of web design

b. apply software for evaluating design to existing sites and own site(s)2. Examine a range of webauthoring tools for creatingmultimedia websites

a. briefly describe the different mark-up and scripting languages

b. investigate the features of a range of commercial web authoring tools

c. evaluate the suitability of a selected range of commercial web authoring toolsDevelop an integrated set ofweb pages/frames

a. produce a complex set of linked interactive pages, using a range of authoring tools, including mark-up languages and drawing from existing scripting language resources

b. use a range of devices to collect graphical datac. use a range of software tools to manipulate graphical data and incorporate it into

linked pages4. Develop interactiveapplications on a web server

a. use a web server to host an e-business website interfaceb. design, write and test an interactive application in a suitable language

c. manage the integrity of files on the server

*Please see the Assignment Evaluation Sheet for Merit and Distinction criteria

Case Study/Background Info – Part 1

Reed Music (RM) is a private school that offers short music courses in south east London. Besides teaching several beginner courses on piano, guitar, drum, vocal singing, music sheet reading, etc. RM also has intermediate and advanced classes on the same above areas.

Due to increasing enquiries received over the last few months, Simon Cowell, director of Reed Music has decided to build a web site to give online information to customers rather than current paper-based brochures.

Description of problem to be solved

During a meeting, Mr Cowell has identified the following set of requirements to be incorporated in the website:

Create an easily navigable set of web pages that have a consistent look and feel.

Create pages that would give a list of all offered courses, and ideally classifying them into relevant categories with pictures and short description for each.


Deliverables

1. Evaluation of 4-5 existing websites that offer the similar kind of services to its customers. (LO 1a)

2. A storyboard for the site structure and navigation layout design. (LO 1b)3. Discuss and justify your choices of mark-up / scripting languages and web

authoring tools. (LO 2a,2b,2c)

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Areas for Improvement

Lecturer Signature: Date:


Description of problem to be solved

Apart from the above, Mr Cowell also wants:

Create a detailed description describes each course, its timeline and price to site visitors in an attractive style.

A web page that gives contact information about RM School and an online contact form so potential customer can send enquiry directly to the school’s administrator.

Course booking are currently being done through telephone, however, Mr. Cowell believes that online booking form can be developed to reduce heavy loads on school’s receptionists.

Deliverables

4. Justify the usage of the various scripting languages used whilst you developed the website. Screen shots of web pages and code should be provided where necessary. (LO 3a)


5. Review appropriate technologies to obtain the minimal functionality specified above by means of a set of linked interactive web pages. It should include embedding images, videos, designing menus and linking web pages. (LO 3b,c)

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Description of problem to be solvedDue to hosting requirements and security concerns, Mr Cowell would like a suitable web server to be identified and the web site hosted through them. Also you will need to produce a security plan of how to manage the integrity of files on the server.

Deliverables

6. Specify a suitable web server for hosting, explaining features offered by the hosting server. (LO 4a)

7. Customer information would be retrieved from the database (using PHP and MySQL) for any registered user who intends to make a booking via the website. Detailed documented evidences of form validation and testing. (LO 4b)

8. A security plan discussing on how you would manage, back-up and restore web site in future. (LO 4c)

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Documents

Assignment Brief March14 WSD V1.2