COIT20249 Assessment Details Assessment item 1—Participation Activities Due date: 17:00 AEST Monday of the week following when the activity was set unless advised otherwise (see page 2 for details). ASSESSMENT Weighting: 20% 1 Length: Depends on each activity Objectives This assignment is designed to encourage the development of professional skills through the completion of weekly activities relevant to the role of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professional. Please refer to the Unit Profile to see how this assessment item relates to the Unit Learning Outcomes. These objectives will be measured by the 'closeness of fit' to meeting the assessment requirements and marking criteria. General Assessment Criteria Assessments provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills to achieve the required standard. To do this, assessment responses need to be both clear and easy to understand. If not, the University cannot determine that students have demonstrated their knowledge and skills. Assessments will, therefore, be marked accordingly including the potential for 0 (zero) marks where relevant. Participation Activities items 1 (PA1) and 3 (PA3) must focus on the topics given in the specifications for each item. Any assessment items outside the required topic may be awarded 0 (zero) marks. PA1 and PA3 must be submitted as per the requirements. PA3 is focused on addressing requirements of the Report (Assessment 3). The intent of PA3 is to provide you with constructive feedback to help you successfully complete the Report. Therefore PA3 must focus on the case study scenario given in the Report Assessment Specification (Assessment 3) or you may be awarded 0 (zero) marks and receive minimal feedback. If you use Track Changes when writing PA3 you must ensure that the submitted document is the final and correct version of the document. That is, if your PA3 submission contains Track Changes or Comments or any other editing marks it may be awarded 0 (zero) marks. It is your responsibility to submit the final and correct version of all your written submissions. Participation Activities 2 (PA2) and 4 (PA4) are on-line Quizzes and you will get one (1) chance only to complete them. They must be completed before the due date and time. Owing to the nature of quizzes individual extensions are not possible. Formatting and Structure: Written submissions for PA1 and PA3 should demonstrate a logical flow of discussion, and be free from typographical, spelling and grammatical errors. They should be prepared in MS-Word (or equivalent) using 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing and margins of 2.54 cm. Check each assessment for specific requirements. Submission Deadlines The 4 participation activities (PA) are scheduled to be completed in weeks 2, 4, 6 and 10. They are due at 5 PM AEST on the following Monday or as advised below. PA1 – Moodle online submission before 5:00pm AEST on Monday of Week 3 PA2 – Online Quiz complete before 5:00pm AEST Thursday week 5 (no individual extensions). PA3 – In-class assessment for internal students and it must be written AND submitted during class time in Week 6. This assessment activity must be completed in the class in week 6. Therefore it is compulsory for ALL students to attend the whole workshop in Week 6. If you are late you may be excluded from the workshop as your tardiness may interfere with other students completing their assessment during class time. Any students who cannot attend their workshop (in-class or online as scheduled by your local lecturer) will need to provide acceptable evidence. For example, if you are sick you would need a doctor's certificate in the approved form (see Assessment Policy and Procedure – Higher Education Coursework in the policy portal https://www.cqu.edu.au/policy). Distance students will be contacted by the Unit Coordinator to organise how they are to complete the assessment and submission in Week 6. PA 4 – Online Quiz complete before 5:00pm AEST Thursday week 11 (no individual extensions). Academic Integrity All assignments will be checked for plagiarism (material copied from other students and/or material copied from other sources) using TurnItIn. If you are found to have plagiarised material or if you have used someone else's words without appropriate referencing, you will be penalised for plagiarism which could result in zero marks for the whole assignment. In some circumstances a more severe penalty may be imposed. The University's Academic Misconduct Procedure is available in the policy portal https://www.cqu.edu.au/policy. Useful information about academic integrity (avoiding plagiarism) can be found at: CQUniversity referencing guides https://www.cqu.edu.au/student-life/services-and-facilities/referencing/cquniversity-referencing-guides Guidelines with respect to self-referencing are available in Week 5 of the COIT20249 Moodle Unit website. This Unit is included in the Academic Integrity pilot project run by the Office of Learning and Teaching. Your local lecturer will explain the details of the activity. Submission requirements PA1 and PA3 are to be uploaded in to Moodle. In addition, PA1 also needs to be emailed to your local lecturer. The submission links can be accessed through the Assessment block on the Moodle Unit website. PA2 and PA4 are online quizzes that need to be completed in Moodle. The submission/quiz links can be accessed through the Assessment block on the Moodle Unit website. For PA1 and PA3, the uploaded documents must be fully submitted for grading purposes. When uploading PA1 you can fully submit it for grading purposes or it can be uploaded as a draft before the due date and time. At the due date and time Moodle will auto-submit any submissions that are in draft status. If your PA1 is uploaded after the original due date and time or you have been granted an extension by the Unit Coordinator you must manually submit PA1. PA3 must be fully submitted for marking by the end of the workshop in Week 6. Further details on completing the submission process are available via the 'Moodle Help for Students' link in the Support block of your Moodle pages. Assessments left as drafts on Moodle after the deadlines accrue late penalties. Late submissions will attract penalties at 5% per day of the total available mark for the individual assessment item. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure – Higher Education Coursework in the policy portal https://www.cqu.edu.au/policy. Files that are auto-submitted will not be reverted to draft status except in extenuating circumstances. Students will need to provide evidence to support their reason. Any assessments downloaded for marking cannot be reverted to draft as the marking process will have already commenced.   Weekly Participation Activities Week 2 - Participation Activity 1 (4 marks) Requirements Using the guidelines in 'How to email your lecturer' in the Week 2 reading on the Moodle website, write and send an email to your local lecturer from your CQU student email account. The body of the email should have two parts: a Personal Biography; and how you plan to use the knowledge and skills from this Unit in your future career. The email should be written in first person as you are writing about yourself. The message should include conventional elements such as a greeting at the beginning, a salutation at the end and an email signature containing your full name, student number, course of study and your campus/workshop details. Note that a copy of the email MUST be uploaded into Moodle for marking purposes. Part A - Personal Biography You need to include in the email a well-structured "Personal Biography" (approximately 200 words). The biography should contain an overview of your undergraduate education, work experience, and important achievements/milestones from your life that are not covered in the education or work aspects. You may have gone straight from school to undergraduate study and then onto postgraduate study at university and have no work experience (including any past/present part time or volunteer jobs). If that is your situation then you should explain why you have no work experience and briefly describe your plans for work in future. Similarly, this applies for the absence of achievements/milestones. Write about your future plans. Part B – Future Career Goals relating to COIT20249, and any questions or suggestions The email should describe how you expect to use the skills and knowledge from COIT20249 to achieve your future career goals. You should link your plans with the relevant weekly topics from the Unit Moodle website/Unit Profile to identify your expectations. Another paragraph should include any questions and/or suggestions you may have about this Unit. Part B should be about 200 words. Submission Upload a copy of the sent email to Moodle (in the form of a MS-Word document) to be marked. Add all the email header details, the content of the message and also a screenshot of your sent message to an MS-Word file and submit. Do not submit an image file only. Students will be penalised if there is no MS-Word file to mark as this enables the marker to provide feedback through Track Changes. When sending the email, include Parts A and B in the email itself as part of the message and not as a separate attachment. If you use Outlook you can open the message and click "save as" and save the message as a text file that you can upload into Moodle – however the formatting will be lost so you will need to ensure that you edit it to make it easy to read and understand. Or you could copy and paste the header details and content of the message in a MS-Word file and also add a screenshot of your email to that file and upload into Moodle. NOTES: • Recommend use of headings and paragraphs to clearly identify separate elements • Do not write minor details in part A. This is a semi-formal biography (similar to introducing a speaker) so only the key points should be provided. • No references are needed for this activity unless you are repeating this Unit in which case self-referencing is required. This is about you. Write in your own words. • A copy of the sent email has to be uploaded into Moodle to be marked. • Word count 400 words (+/- 10%). Marking Criteria Format: The email should have appropriate entries for the following fields: 1. To field – email address of the local lecturer and an appropriate greeting at the beginning of the message. 2. Subject field (Unit Code: brief summary to indicate the topic of your email). See week 2 reading 'How to email your lecturer' for more details. COIT20249 is the Unit Code. 3. An appropriate salutation including your name, and your email Signature (Full name, Student number, course of study, campus/workshop). Note that your course of study is the degree in which you are enrolled. (1.5 marks) Message: (This must be in the body of the email – do not send this as an attachment.). • Part A: 1.5 marks for education, work experience and achievements/milestones (0.5 marks each). • Part B: o How you plan to use the COIT20249 skills/knowledge in your future career (0.75 marks). o Questions/suggestions you may have about this Unit (0.25 marks). If the submission contains grammatical and/or typographical errors, or is NOT well structured, easy to understand, or outside the recommended length, there will be a penalty of – 0.5 marks. There will be an additional – 0.5 mark penalty if an image file only is submitted without an MS-Word file of the email that can be edited using Track Changes, OR if an image of the email was not included in the Word document, OR if Parts A and B are sent as an attachment to the email rather than being included in the actual message. A further -0.5 marks will be deducted if the email is not sent to your lecturer OR not sent from your CQU student email account.  Week 4 - Participation Activity 2 (4 marks) Requirements Complete the on-line Quiz – click on PA2_Week-4 in Assessment box on the COIT20249 Moodle site. Questions relate to Information Literacy, Critical Thinking and the ALC embedded sessions from weeks 2–4 (inclusive). Note you will have one (1) attempt only to complete this quiz. It will close at 5:00 PM AEST on the Thursday of Week 5. You are strongly urged to complete the quiz well before the due date and time. It is not possible to provide individual extensions for online quizzes for any reason including technical problems that are beyond your control. There will NOT be any opportunities to complete the task after the due date and time because the answers will be released to those students who completed the Quiz.   Week 6 - Participation Activity 3 (8 marks) IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This activity MUST be completed as an in-class assessment in Week 6 for internally enrolled students. The Unit Coordinator will contact Distance students to organise completion of the activity. Students are expected to arrive on time AND be present in class for the WHOLE workshop. Latecomers may be barred from entry if it is felt that they could disturb the other students who are completing the assessment. People who disturb other students may also be asked to leave. This assessment activity must be completed and submitted during the class in week 6. Any students who cannot attend their workshop (in-class or online as scheduled by your local lecturer) will receive zero (0) marks. Please note that work or family commitments will not be an acceptable reason for being late or missing the class. Requirements By now you should have started organising your ideas and arguments for the Report (Assessment item 3). To ensure that you submit the best Report possible it is important that you seek constructive feedback from your local lecturer. PA3 requires you to demonstrate your understanding of the report case study requirements and the type of information you need to gather through the research process. This will be marked and returned to you in time for you to use the feedback to improve your Report. You must not use any pre-prepared materials for this assessment as that will breach the requirements for an in-class assessment. Your local lecturer will provide further details. You will be provided a template to complete the assessment. 1. In approximately 100-150 words, explain the organisation and the problem given in the report case study. In addition to the details provided in the case study (see Report Assessment Specification) you may need to make relevant assumptions about the organisation. Those assumptions must support the report tasks and must not contradict the details given in the case study. 2. What is the main purpose for writing this report, and what are the key tasks to be explored in the report? Explain in approximately 100-150 words. 3. In week 5, the ALC session will include finding academic references to be used in the report. During that session you will be given two references. You are expected to read and understand the contents of those references before coming to the Week 6 workshop. This part of the activity will require you to review those references using the Triple R framework. During the Week 6 class you will be provided a template to complete the assessment. 4. Paraphrase a short paragraph relating to the technology covered in the Report requirements. Your lecturer will provide the reading required to be paraphrased. The paragraph should be structured according to the framework covered in ALC sessions. PA3 must relate to the case study described in the Report Assessment Specification (Assessment 3). That is, your submission needs to be specific to the case study provided in that assessment's requirements. Marking Criteria • Description of organisation and its problem identified in the case study (1 mark). • Appropriate statements about the aim/purpose of your report, and the key issues to be explored. Must relate to the case study (1 mark). • Review the two references as set out in point 3 of requirements above (4 marks). • Paraphrase a paragraph as set out in point 4 of requirements above (2 marks). Note if the submission contains grammatical and/or typographical errors or is NOT well structured and easy to understand there will be a penalty of – 0.5 marks. If the submission is a general description of a Report you will receive a maximum mark of 1. Minimal feedback and a mark of zero (0) will be given if it is not focused on the case scenario given for the Report (Assessment 3) or does not follow the template provided for this assessment. Do not submit an advanced or a complete draft of your Report.   Week 10 - Participation Activity 4 (4marks) Requirements Complete the on-line Quiz – click on PA4_Week-10 in Assessment box on the COIT20249 Moodle site. All questions relate to working as a team member, ethical aspects of working in ICT and in a globalised world. Note you will have one (1) attempt only to complete this quiz. It will close at 5:00 PM AEST on the Thursday of Week 11. You are strongly urged to complete the quiz well before the due date and time. It is not possible to provide individual extensions for online quizzes for any reason including technical problems that are beyond your control. There will NOT be any opportunities to complete the task after the due date and time because the answers will be released to those students who completed the Quiz.