This assessment item involves an online quiz. The quiz will be available on Monday in Week 7 and will be open for approximately two weeks.

The quiz covers the content from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (lectures and readings) as well as content covered in workshops from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

• You can attempt the quiz at any location provided you have access to Moodle and a good internet connection.
  
• There are 30 questions (a combination of multiple choice and true/false questions). You will be given three attempts to complete the quiz. Each attempt will generate a different quiz. To generate a quiz, the system selects questions randomly from a bank of questions for each chapter.
  
• There will be a time limit of 40 minutes to complete each quiz attempt.
• Make sure you use a reliable internet connection for each attempt. It is your responsibility to leave sufficient time for a second or third attempt in alternative locations in case you encounter technical difficulties.
• If you attempt the quiz more than once, you will be awarded your highest mark.
• Note that although this quiz is aligned to learning outcome 1, it only relates to the first part of the learning outcome as agile project management is not covered until later in the term.
  
  

Your result will be available after you complete an attempt.

The quiz has 30 questions. Each question is of equal weighting.

Practical Assessment (workshop exercises and MS-Project practicals)

This assessment item is to be developed and submitted as part of your weekly workshop sessions. It consists of a series of 8 sub-deliverables to be completed in weeks 4 – 11 (inclusive). For on campus students this work is due in the weekly workshop, not the due date shown in Moodle. The date given in Moodle is to cater for all scheduled workshop classes. No marks will be awarded for work submitted outside the workshop or for late submissions.

Each weekly sub-deliverable is a pre-requisite for the next weekly sub-deliverable (i.e. this work is being developed incrementally each week). It is therefore important to complete the work scheduled each week.

On-campus students

1. To be awarded marks this work must be developed and submitted in your weekly workshop as and when directed by your tutor.
2. Attendance at workshops is compulsory.
3. Marks may be deducted if you arrive late to the workshop.
4. Your tutor will monitor your progress in class. Be prepared to answer questions and explain your work to your tutor in class. Marks may be deducted if your tutor is not satisfied with your progress or understanding of the work.

Off-campus (distance education) students

1. For distance education students the due date for the weekly workshop submissions is the date shown on the unit website. Late submissions will be awarded 0 marks.
2. The unit coordinator is your tutor and may make arrangements to discuss your work with you.

Notes to all students:

1. Do not exchange or share files with any other students or this will result in a plagiarism incident being raised and 0 marks for the sub-deliverable involved.
2. You may be required to demonstrate your knowledge of the software and/or explain your answers before marks are awarded for this assessment item.
3. Templates will be provided for recording your answers to the Microsoft Project practical exercises.
4. A link to the booklet with the Microsoft Project practicals can be found on the unit website.

Due date: Although there is a final due date specified here, there is a total of 8 weekly submissions which must be developed and submitted as scheduled in the weekly workshop sessions. Summative Workshop tasks commence in week-4.

This is a group assignment for on-campus students (off-campus/distance education students may work on the presentation assignment individually).

On-campus students will be organised into groups of three (3) people. Groups will be organised in the weekly workshops in weeks 1 to 2. You must provide your tutor with the details of the members of your group and your top two preferred topics by the end of week 2. This allows time for you to negotiate an alternative topic if necessary. The earlier you give the tutor details about your group and your preferred topic, the more likely you are to get your preferred topic. Groups and your submission of preferred topics must be finalised by the end of week 2.

Students must not change their tutorial/workshop class after week 2.

Your tutor will notify you about your approved topic and when your group is scheduled to present in class. The topics and presentation schedule must be decided by the end of Week 3.

Students should contact their tutor about issues such as the membership of their group, selection of presentation topic, and schedule for their presentation.

Each group/individual is to give a presentation about an aspect of project management. The intention is that no topic should be covered more than once during the term. Therefore, the tutor will approve topics on a first come basis. For distance education students, the Unit Coordinator is your tutor and will approve your topic.

For on-campus students the class presentations will commence in week 6. Your tutor will schedule when your topic is to be presented in your workshop. However, all the research and preparation for the presentations must be completed and submitted on Moodle on or before the start of week 6 (when class presentations commence). Marks will be deducted for late submission of the presentation materials. Note that your presentation marks cannot be awarded until after your class presentation is assessed and moderated.

For off-campus students you are required to submit a recording of your presentation as well as your resources for the presentation (slides, handouts etc.). The unit coordinator takes the role of the tutor. Off-campus students are not required to present in class, but are required to submit a recording of their presentation. All recordings must be submitted by the due date for the presentation materials.

For all students:

Your presentation can be about:

1. Any area of project management that is related to the weekly topics and adds a significant body of new material, a different perspective or depth to the information already covered in the course lecture material. It is important that you extend your knowledge and that of the class beyond what will be covered in this unit during the term. There is scope to research and present more information about many of the weekly topics. For example, in the Quality Management topic some students may wish to investigate Six Sigma or ICT students may wish to cover more detail about quality management in the Software Engineering discipline.
2. Any other topic that is related to project management that is approved by your tutor.

Some suggested topics can be found in the detailed specification for this assessment item on the unit website. Click on the assessment 3 link in the assessment block for more information and access to the detailed specification. The specification also includes more details about the marking criteria.

In this assignment, you can also draw from your experiences and incorporate them into the assignment. If you don’t have any work/project experience, that’s fine too. You can also take the opportunity to be controversial and find academic and trade literature that challenges aspects of the material you are presenting.

Both on-campus and off-campus students are required to produce the script for the presentation. The script must include some potential questions and responses indicating where you would pose questions to engage your audience. In addition, the end of the script is to include three potential questions (with their answers) that you would anticipate being asked by your audience at the end of the presentation.

CQUniversity Library has many databases that contain refereed full-text journal articles. This is also a useful source of material for your assignment.

The following library links may be useful to help you get started:

http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/library-search-help
http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/evaluating-resources

Remember that you must obtain approval for your topic choice. Please contact your tutor if you need to discuss your choice of topic.

This is a group presentation task for on-campus students and individual for off-campus (DST students). Please see Moodle for more details about the task.