Your final grade will be based on the sum of your marks in the individual assessment tasks.  To pass the unit you must:

• gain experience and properly document your work in at least 4 areas of web development as described in the Reflective Report above
• take part at least two thirds of required meetings with clients throughout the semester

All work submitted should be readable and presented in a business-like and professional format.

Late work will not be accepted. As you are working in a team and also are expected to perform risk management, sickness or other misadventure needs to be planned for and managed. Disruption requests will apply to individual only, not to teams. 

Grading Standards

This unit is the capstone for the Web Design and Development Major, it is designed to bring together all of the things you've learned in the major and allow you to be part of a real-world web development environment.   The unit is project based and is designed around the idea of a small web development company working for a number of clients.  We will have a number of client projects to work on during the semester and you will be given the opportunity to work on more than one project in teams with other students.   The goal is that you will experience all of the stages of web application development in these different projects.   Since this is the first offering of this unit, the projects we take on will be new to us, but at least one of them involves working with an existing deployed website.  In future offerings of this unit, students will carry on your work and maintain and extend the websites you have developed.  

We will use an Agile methodology to run these projects and to manage your work during the semester.  Your work will be split into two-week sprints where you will work towards a set of defined outcomes and deliver and demonstrate what you have done to the client.  You may be assigned to different projects in different sprints if there is work that you are well suited for or if you need to gain experience with some part of the development process. You will be involved in all aspects of the development process including managing the teams that are assigned to the work.

The class will meet every Friday for three hours in the E6A119 lab.  It is very important that you attend this session every week as it will be where you carry out planning and do your reporting of progress each week.  This time will also be used to discuss technical issues and if necessary there will be some 'tutorial' presentations on relevant topics. You will also need to schedule time each week to work with your team on project development and to meet with your clients to work out requirements and make presentations of your progress. If you are not able to make these meetings then you should not enrol in this unit. If you do not contribute to your team you will find it hard to pass the unit as the assessment is based on your gaining the relevant experiences throughout the project.  Since we are working for external clients you are also in a responsible position representing the University and the Department of Computing.

The assessment in the unit is based partly on the quality of the work you do on the projects (a group based mark) but also on a number of things that you will do individually to reflect on the work you are doing and your contribution to some resources that will benefit the whole class.   The majority of the marks are individual, so you should not be 'pulled down' by a poor team member and you will not be 'carried' by the rest of your team if you don't contribute.