CIS8100 Assignment 4
PROJECT (FINAL) & REPORT

Assignment 4
Description Marks out of Wtg(%) Word limit Due date
Assignment 4 100 55 5000 24 January 2014

Learning objectives and graduate skills tested
This assignment relates to all of the course objectives but more specifically to your practical understanding and evaluation of the key issues in relation to the development of the infrastructure and functionality for a digital e-commerce enterprise.
Assignment 4 specifications

This Assignment 4 builds on the analysis and investigation conducted in Assignment 2.

Assignment 4 consists of THREE tasks.

TASK 1

In this task you are required to maintain a journal of the activities and research associated with Assignment 4 and to submit the completed journal with this assignment.
(10 marks)

TASK 2

Develop and populate the prototype e-commerce website for which you prepared a strategic analysis and preliminary prototype e-commerce website using Joomla in Assignment 2.

Your e-commerce website should contain, at a minimum, the following functionality:
1. An aesthetically pleasing, easy- to-use interface
2. A product catalogue
3. A shopping cart
4. An order form and payment interface
5. Customer registration
6. Discussion forum
7. Business policy statements on security, privacy, confidentiality and refunds and returns
Study the online guide, Joomla! Beginner’s Guide available from the CIS8100 StudyDesk and any other related Joomla! resources which are made available on the course StudyDesk or ones you identify as relevant for completing this assignment.

Task 2 will be assessed for completeness and working functionality based on an inspection of your e-commerce website (you are required to provide the URL of the site that was assigned to you for Assignment 2).
(50 marks)
TASK 3

You are required to provide a business case for the e-commerce strategy you have adopted for your organization and reflect on your experiences and insight arising from the development of the accompanying e-commerce website in terms of the following:

1. Describe the e-commerce website features and functionality implemented in Task 2. (500 words approx.)
2. Describe how you have addressed security and privacy issues in your website (400 words approx.)
3. Describe how you would address backend integration and legacy system issues associated with your e-commerce website (400 words approx.)
4. List and briefly describe the hardware and software required to establish your e-commerce website as a live and fully functional entity, and provide a table of the estimated costs (hardware, software, human resources, ongoing maintenance, etc.) (400 words approx.)
5. Provide a site map of your e-commerce website in the form of a diagram.
6. List any additional features incorporated in your website over and above the specified requirements (400 words approx.)
7. List any essential features not implemented and any major deviations from your original plans as described in Assignment 2 (400 words approx.)
8. Briefly describe the challenges encountered in using Joomla! and the development environment (400 words approx.)
9. Describe the features that are likely to be implemented in your e-commerce website in the next phase of the development process to further enhance the usability and functionality of the site, and why and how you would use the Joomla CMS to facilitate this (400 words approx.)
10. Provide and justify a plan for a live implementation of your proposed e-commerce web site including a prioritised timeline in a table (400 words approx.)
11. Identify and describe the expected benefits that will arise from implementing your website (400 words approx.)
12. List and briefly describe any links and resources that you have used to research and build the site for this assignment (400 words approx.)
(40 marks)

TOTAL MARKS: 100
Submission Requirements

Your solution
Your solution should conform to the guidelines laid out in Summers, J & Smith, B 2010, Communication skills handbook, 3rd edn, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Queensland.
Cautions

Originality of submission

•?This assignment must be the expression of your own work. It is acceptable to discuss course content with others to improve your understanding and clarify requirements, but solutions to assignment questions must be done on your own. This also means that it is not sufficient to merely paraphrase the entire assignment content from a textbook or other source. Your assignment answers need be a reflection and synthesis of your research of the associated topics. This should be evident in your annotated bibliography.

•?You need to demonstrate your understanding of associated topics for each assignment. You must not copy from anyone, including tutors and fellow students, nor provide copies of your work to others. Assignments that do not adhere to this requirement will be deemed as being the result of collusion or plagiarism. This may lead to severe academic penalties as outlined in Academic Regulation 5.10 of the USQ Handbook. It is your own responsibility to ensure the integrity of your work. Refer to the Faculty of Business policy for further details.

•?An indiscriminate overuse of incorrectly referenced or cited web pages in your assignment will result in poor marks.


Late submission of assignment work

Late assignments will be penalised unless permission has been granted by the course leader BEFORE the assignment due date. Late assignments may be penalised by reducing the allocated mark by 5% per day late.


Other submission requirements

1) Formatting
a. Page size should be A4. Allow for TOP MARGIN – 2.5 cm; BOTTOM MARGIN – 2.5 cm; SIDE MARGINS – 2.5 cm
b. Major headings should be in upper case, 14 point Times New Roman Bold
c. Minor headings should be in lower case, 12 point Times New Roman Bold
d. Body text should be formatted to 12 point, Times New Roman
e. Use single or one and half line spacing
f. Assignments should be in one of the following formats:
i. Microsoft Word (2003)
ii. Microsoft Word (2007)
iii. Rich Text Format (RTF)
iv. Portable Document Format (PDF)


2) BEFORE submitting your FINAL version of the assignment to the online submission system (EASE) you must upload your draft copies to the online TURNITIN system (see the course StudyDesk for details on accessing and using the TURNITIN system).
a. TURNITIN produces an Originality Report that shows your overall similarity index. If the index is less than 25 percent, your assignment is considered to be plagiarism-free. If not, you will have to rework your assignment, using the feedback in the Originality Report as a guide, and then resubmit it to TURNITIN for another round of checks until you are satisfied that it meets the requirements.

3) The file naming guidelines are as follows:
a. It is important that you use this convention to ensure that assignments can be tracked: Familyname_studentnumber_CIS8100_A2_XXXXXXXXX
b. Replace ‘familyname’ with YOUR family or surname
c. Replace ‘studentnumber’ with YOUR student number (which starts with ‘00’)
d. Replace ‘XXXXXXXXXX’ with
i. Task 1
ii. Task 2
iii. Task 3
iv. TURNITIN

4) Once you have obtained a plagiarism-free assignment you should submit the Originality Report (in pdf format) along with your FINAL assignment (in WORD or pdf format) electronically through the online assignment submission system (EASE). No hardcopy submissions will be accepted. See the course StudyDesk for instructions on uploading your assignment.