Coursework

coursework for COMP 341/441

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Course assessment will continue throughout the semester.

If you have any questions on the following assessments, please contact me.

Overview

• assessment will include a combination of semester’s quizzes or exercises (1), preparatory work for final assessment (2), DEV week (3), and final demo and report (4)
  • preparatory work
    • assigned at the end of each section
    • may include demos, designs, testing, prototypes…
  • final demo
    • presentation and demo
  • final report
    • explain implemented differences throughout semester
      • where and why did you update the project?
      • benefits of updates
    • clearly detail design and development process
      • outline testing, prototypes &c.
      • explain pros and cons of existing interface
      • contrast old and new interface
      • …
  • work may be conducted individually or in groups (max. 4 persons per group)
    • group report must clearly define each student’s work and contributions, where applicable
      • no attribution, no mark
• Final Report Outline - PDF Document

Assessed coursework will include the following primary categories

1. weekly exercises & discussions (20%)

• exercises
  • help develop course project
  • test course knowledge at each stage
  • get feedback on project work
• discussions
  • sample websites and applications
  • design topics, UI and UX concepts
• extras
  • design and application reviews
  • various other assessments
  • peer review of demos

2. preparatory work for final assessment (15%)

• preparatory work for your final assessment will be assigned at the end of each course section
• may include demos, designs, testing, prototypes…
• each assessment will reflect the content and theme of each section

3. DEV week assessment (25%)

• design a new or re-imagined UI and UX for a chosen application or device
• outline concept, research conducted to date
• consider applicable design patterns
• prototyping
  • demo current prototypes
  • any working tests or models etc
• anything else to help explain your updated project and app…

NB: DEV week assessment will include the following:

• brief presentation or demonstration of current project work
  • ~ 10 minutes per group
  • analysis of work conducted so far
    • e.g. during semester & DEV week
  • presentation and demonstration…
    • outline app
    • show prototypes and designs
    • explain what does & does not work
    • …

4. final assessment (40%)

This assessment requires the design and development of a new interface for an existing computing product, service, application, tool or publication.

Assessment includes

• combination of semester’s preparatory work and final demo and report
• final demo
  • presentation and demo
• final report
  • clearly detail design and development process
  • outline testing, prototypes &c.
  • explain pros and cons of existing interface
  • contrast old and new interface
• work may be conducted individually or in groups (max. 5 persons per group)
  • group report must clearly define each student’s work and contributions, where applicable
    • no attribution, no mark

Important assessment dates

• project outline and mockup
  • due Wednesday 12th February 2020 @ 7pm
• DEV week demo
  • due Wednesday 18th March 2020 @ 7pm
• final team demo
  • due Wednesday 22nd April 2020 @ 7pm
• final team report
  • due Wednesday 29th April 2020 @ 9.30pm

Grading

Grades will be issued for appropriate weekly or section tasks, where applicable, and for each of the core assessments listed above. A composite grade will then be available at the end of the semester for the overall class.

Grades will use the following scale,

• 100% to 91% = A
• 90% to 81% = A-
• 80% to 71% = B+
• 70% to 61% = B
• 60% to 51% = B-
• 50% to 41% = C
• 40% to 31% = C-
• 30% to 0% = F