ASSESSMENT BRIEF
COURSE: Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Accounting
Unit: Webpage Design and Development
Unit Code: WPDD202
Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 (Group Assignment)
Length/Duration: N.A.
Course Learning
Outcomes addressed: Information strategy, Business strategy and planning and Technical strategy and planning
a)To gather, critically analyse, manage and present in meaningful ways information and data, and
Systems development and User experience
a) To act as an ethical practitioner while demonstrating skills in data analysis, database design, system design, web design and software development and testing,
b) To implement and document user experience analysis, design and testing.
Communication skills
a)To prepare design and system documentation and written reports
Teamwork and self-management skills
a) To work collaboratively in small teams on a variety of large and small projects to produce models, software, documentation and reports
b) To take responsibility for their own time management delivering quality required material on time in dynamically changing technological and communication contexts whether as an individual or member of a small team.
Unit Learning
Outcomes addressed: Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
a. Describe and use the client-server internet model, W3C standards, mark-up languages, client-side scripting, server-side scripting to access and manipulate data, database access and internet security
b. Analyse and model requirements and constraints for the design of client-server internet applications
c. Apply HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, Multimedia and interactivity to develop highly effective websites
d. Identify problems, opportunities and challenges in creating Webpages
e. Make recommendations based on accessibility, ethics, and website promotion strategies
Submission Date:
Week 10
Assessment Task: A written assignment undertaken in groups of three or four students in the form of a webpage design, implementation, test and evaluation. Your Project will demonstrate mastery of the web development skills and concepts learned in this unit.
The project must be your own design and be completed by you — the use of free or purchased web site templates is not permitted (for example, those found in Dreamweaver, purchased or free, blog or social networking templates such as Drupal, WordPress, Blogger, Facebook as well as the textbook's Case Study Lab). If it is perceived that a web template has been used, the project grade will be no more than -below average-.
Total Mark:
30 marks
Weighting:
30% of the unit total marks
Students are advised that any submissions past the due date without an approved extension or without approved extenuating circumstances incurs a 5% penalty per calendar day, calculated from the total mark
E.g. a task marked out of 40 will incur a 2 mark penalty per calendar day.
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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
Tammy Nielsen is the CEO of Bendigo Tours & Travel. Tammy created a website for Bendigo Tours & Travel several years ago to make information about the company easily accessible to her current global customers. The website has become outdated, so Tammy would like your team’s help to enliven it with a new responsive web design. She has several pictures she wants to use on the site and has ideas for the look and feel of each page. She needs your help to apply CSS to improve the site.
Company Profile
Who are we?
Bendigo Tours & Travel is one of the leading tour operators in Australia, providing comprehensive services for groups and individuals from and to the country.
Bendigo Tours & Travel was first established in the year 2009 by qualified professionals with more than twenty years of experience in the tourism industry. Holding places, people and customs through professional guides, modern transportation, quality hotels, fine restaurants and other key vendors.
Our specialized departments offer a diversity of services. Every department works independently to provide the best service to our customers, targeting their friendship and a long lasting relationship.
Bendigo Tours & Travel was recently nominated as the Leading Australian Travel Agency by the World Travel Awards for 3 years on a row 2015, 2016, & 2017. It is worth to mention that Bendigo Tours & Travel is the only company in Australia nominated to such prestigious award.
All services and departments are located at our office in Melbourne, starting with the Management and Administrative Department, Operational Department, Reservation Department, Product Development, Sales & Marketing, Inbound, Outbound & Ticketing Departments, giving us a competitive advantage by being all under one roof.
What can we do?
Our services include EVERYTHING related with tourism, such as:
? International Airline Reservations & Ticketing
? Worldwide hotel reservation
? Worldwide car rental
? Ground handling services
? All over the year excursions and itineraries, (Adventures, Eco-Tours, Biblical Tours, Cruises, Diving, Sea Resort Holidays, Ski Holidays, Relaxation & Spa Treatment Packages, & Tailored Made Tours)
? Incentive, special interest groups
? Conferences
? Cruises world wide & locally
? Camping services
? Catering
? Meet & Assist services
? Limousine & VIP treatment specialists
? Free Ticket delivery
Website Design and Development Assignment
For this assignment you will work with a team to develop a website. Your team will need to conduct some research to find the information for the topic. The goal is to present the information (website) in such a way that customers can use your website effectively. In addition, you will submit a brief individual report about this assignment.
Teams:
You will be expected to choose your own teams for this project. Teams may consist of three or four students. Your team needs to choose a team name and contact person. Students who are not in a group must contact the lecturer.
The Website:
Good web design suggests that dividing material into bite-sized pieces relating to a portion of the overall topic.
Good practice of web design is expected – e.g. appropriate navigation, a good writing style for the web, well-thought out design to make material easily read on screen, and appropriate fonts and colors. The home page should be index.html.
One of the pages (references.html) should contain accurate and detailed information about the sources of information (contents and images) used in the web pages. It is expected that the references be accurate and complete and follow an appropriate format.
The Group Report:
A discussion of what your group did on the project and how each of the group member personally contributed to the project. This should include a short narrative of the group’s process including how you felt the group worked and your contribution and a short narrative of the researched for information.
Make sure the name of your group and a listing of the members of your group are clearly identified on the first page of this document. Word limit: equivalent to 1000 words
Plagiarism and Collusion of Material:
One of the most common reasons for programming plagiarism is leaving work until the last minute. Avoid this by making sure that you know what you have to do (not necessarily how to do it) as soon as an assessment is set. Then decide what you will need to do in order to complete the assignment. Since the web pages are submitted as a group, ensure that all members of your group follow strict guidelines to avoid plagiarism.
Requirements:
? Website should have minimum 11 pages.
? Each of those pages should use same or similar style, so that the pages look like they belong to the same website.
Validate your Webpage:
? Each HTML page and CSS should pass the W3C validation.
? Validate the webpage using the W3C validator. All errors must be eliminated before assignment is submitted.
? Include the validation icon on your valid page *inside* your closing body tag at the base of your page/web site.
Navigation:
? Each page should have a meaningful title (using the same title for all the pages is not considered meaningful).
? You should have a consistent navigation, for example if you have a menu which links to different pages, the menu should appear in the same place in all pages, so that users can easily find the menu and able to navigate to different pages.
Design:
? Website demonstrates accepted graphic design principles (repeated elements throughout, contrast, proximity, and alignment as well as uncluttered space and subdued backgrounds).
? Website uses coordination of colors which do not hamper usage; this includes text contrasting well with background
? Consistent design throughout the website
? You should use one external stylesheet, and optionally internal stylesheets in different pages. The stylesheet should contain only the rules which are common more than 2 pages or all the pages. The internal stylesheet should contain rules which are used only in one particular page.
? You should organize all the pages in a good structure.
? You should layout your web pages using one of the layout techniques. You should use div to layout your pages, using table for laying out is not allowed.
? Your pages should be easy to read, easy to navigate. The text, border, background etc. should be contrasting, and don't use too many different colors.
? You should have enough text and at least 5 images in your website. You're also encouraged to add some multi-media contents (audio, video etc.) if you want.
? You should have at least a list in your website.
? You should have one contact form by using the valid HTML5 form elements.
? If you're using an image or some text from somewhere else, you must clarify the origin of that resource in a comment in your HTML or CSS file, right before the resource you're using.
? Use at least 2 JavaScript Pop-up windows and 2 Alert boxes in your website.
General:
? The website to be designed in wide screen format.
? The website to be developed to be a responsive website.
? The target audience is all users of mobile, tablet, desktop and laptops.
Restrictions:
? Use of TABLE tags are not allowed to layout the webpage
? Each page must contain: A Header, Footer, Body section and common elements (logo, menu)
? Use of multiple versions of images and CSS3 styling rules to render web pages based on user platform and screen resolution.
ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION:
? The assignment must be submitted online in Moodle.
? You should compress all your files into a zip (.zip) file and name like -project_ Your Group Number .zip-.
? You are not allowed to use open-source front-end library (Bootstrap) and cross-platform JavaScript library (jQuery) while designing this website.
? No paper based or hardcopy submission will be accepted.
MARKING GUIDE:
Marking Criteria Max Marks Lecturer’s Expectation Marks Assigned Comments
Use of completed Assignment 3 task’s website and the individual report.
8 Meet all basic requirements of the Assignment
Home page 3 Clear design and content
Webpage2 3 Clear design and content
Webpage 3 3 Clear design and content
Webpage 4 3 Clear design and content
Webpage 5 3 Clear design and content
Webpage 6 3 Clear design and content
Webpage 7 3
Webpage 8 3
Webpage 9 3
Webpage 10 (contact form) 3
Webpage 11
(Reference page) 2
Use of JavaScript 5
Widescreen layout 15
Responsive layout 20 Web site is interactive and adjusts based on device
Use of CSS3 media
style rules 10
Use of proper HTML5 and
CSS3 design guidelines
Correctness of HTML, CSS usage 10
Total Max Marks 100 Total Marks assigned
Downgraded out 30
ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
The assignment must be submitted online in Moodle. All materials MUST be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. Other formats (e.g., pdf or MAC file) may not be readable by markers. Please be aware that any assessments submitted in other formats will be considered LATE and will lose marks until it is presented in MS Word. No paper based or hardcopy submission will be accepted.
MARKING GUIDE (RUBRIC):
GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSIGNMENTS:
Assignments should usually incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion, and will be fully referenced including a reference list.
The work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We strongly recommend you to refer to the Academic Learning Skills materials available in the Moodle. For details please click the link http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5 and download the file “Harvard Referencing Workbook”. Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and demonstrate.
We recommend a minimum of FIVE references, unless instructed differently by your lecturer. Unless specifically instructed otherwise by your lecturer, any paper with less than FIVE references may be failed. Work that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard Referencing Workbook” will be penalised.
Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count – as a general rule you may go over or under by 10% than the stated length.
GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING:
High quality work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We recommend you work with your Academic Learning Support (ALS) site (http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5) available in Moodle to ensure that you reference correctly.
References are assessed for their quality. You should draw on quality academic sources, such as books, chapters from edited books, journals etc. Your textbook can be used as a reference, but not the lecturer notes. We want to see evidence that you are capable of conducting your own research. Also, in order to help markers determine students’ understanding of the work they cite, all in-text references (not just direct quotes) must include the specific page number/s if shown in the original. Before preparing your assignment or own contribution, please review this ‘YouTube’ video by clicking on the following link: Plagiarism: How to avoid it
PLAGIARISM: HOW TO AVOID IT
You can search for peer-reviewed journal articles, which you can find in the online journal databases and which can be accessed from the library homepage. Wikipedia, online dictionaries and online encyclopaedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic, but should not be overused – these should constitute no more than 10% of your total list of references/sources. Additional information and literature can be used where these are produced by legitimate sources, such as government departments, research institutes such as the NHMRC, or international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Legitimate organisations and government departments produce peer reviewed reports and articles and are therefore very useful and mostly very current. The content of the following link explains why it is not acceptable to use nonpeer reviewed websites: Why can't I just Google? (Thanks to La Trobe University for this video).