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Unit Synopsis
This unit is a capstone for the application development specialisation of the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) course. You are required to apply, synthesise and demonstrate the skills that you have developed in earlier core and application development specialisation units through the conduct of a group project addressing a significant authentic learning task. The scope of the project will include requirements gathering, design and implementation.The project will have a designated customer and your group will identify and employ a software development methodology appropriate for the project. You are encouraged to include the project management, quality assurance and software engineering artefacts produced in the project as part of a project portfolio.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: COIT12200, (COIT12207 or COIT13224) and (COIT12208 or COIS13064) Co-requisite: COIT13229 and COIT13234 Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
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| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Project (applied) | 100% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Unit Evaluation Data
The response rate for the evaluation survey was below the expected level.
Educate students about the importance of unit evaluation and encourage them to complete the survey.
Students were repeatedly encouraged and reminded to participate in the unit evaluation through classroom discussions and emails.
Source: Unit Coordinator Reflection
The unit requires students to progressively develop a prototype, and avoids excessive number of written reports, allowing students more time for development.
Keep the main focus on prototype development rather than producing excessive amount of written reports.
Special attention was given to the details of prototype development activities through continuous checks on the GitHub repository
Source: Unit Coordinator
The marking criteria in some assessments do not sufficiently recognise individual contributions to the group work.
Update the assessment criteria to include more clearly defined tasks and marks for individual contributions to the group work.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse software requirements and create well designed and documented software implementations.
- Work effectively as part of a development team.
- Develop and implement a quality management plan for a small software development project.
- Identify and produce the project management artefacts required for a smalll software development project
- Manage a small software development project
- Demonstrate work readiness in terms of technical skills, communication skills and both professional and ethical behaviour.
- Programming/software development (PROG)
- Project management (PRMG)
- Quality assurance (QUAS)
- Quality standards (QUST)
- User experience analysis (UNAN)
- User experience design (HCEV)
- User experience evaluation (HSEV)
- System design (DESN)
- Database design (DBDS)
- Testing (TEST)
- Configuration management (SYSP)
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | |||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||