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Managing Infrastructure
Assessment Structure: Wiki
Individual or Group: Group
Learning outcomes assessed: This assessment task is designed to test your achievement of learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
Word limit: 3000 words +/- 10%
Weighting: This assessment task contributes 30% to your final grade
Due Date & Submission: This assessment is due by: 11.59 p.m. (EST), 14/5/2017. This assessment task must be submitted inside the Assessment 3 submission link on the Blackboard site.
Task details: Your group is tasked to construct a Wiki on the broad topic of Managing Infrastructure. The wiki is to be built inside the nominated Wiki space on Blackboard.
Important: We will look into the basics of Wiki creation in your learning activities.
You may use a company you presently work for (or have previously worked for) as a case study or a well-known company such as Microsoft, Telstra, Amazon, eBay or others. You may even consider a non-traditional company such as the Red Cross or the Country Fire Authority and explain how they manage their infrastructure in a humanitarian crisis.
Your team should keep the word limit for this assessment in mind when deciding on which of the many possible aspects of managing infrastructure (pieces of hardware/software/services, vendor management, risk and change management, benefits realisation, and Socio-political and Geo-political considerations)
The wiki should be analytical, and must draw on theory to frame its discussion of the concepts covered. This means that just describing a piece of infrastructure is an inadequate response to this task, and will not be rewarded in the marking structure.
Although you may wish to, your team will quickly see you cannot cover all aspects and a clear and concise overview will be required.
As a guide, to imaging what your Managing Infrastructure wiki will look like, consider any Wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Your team’s constructed Wiki should resemble a ‘Wikipedia’ of content (text, images, links and references) including:
Title
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Team member details (Student ID’s, Names) An introduction to the Wiki describing its purpose and what it contains. In-depth description of IT infrastructure In-depth discussion of issues related to managing IT infrastructure. o Managing vendors, Managing benefits, Managing costs, risk, and other issues your team feel are relevant. o Your analysis should at least address the following questions related to your topic: What are some of the key pieces of infrastructure for your case organisation? How does your case organisation’s management of the infrastructure reflect the theory you have studied? Why is the process of managing the infrastructure so complex? What can be suggested to reduce the complexity of managing the infrastructure for your case organisation? o A suggested approach is to divide up the topics you wish to cover in your wiki into tasks for individual team members. Links to 5 YouTube Clips relating to the concepts covered in your Wiki. Conclusion or Summary section which wraps up the topic. Reference List (a minimum of 15 references required in Harvard Style) Be imaginative and innovative in your Wiki design!
Further guidance on this assessment will be provided in weekly learning activities.
Referencing
You must use the Harvard Referencing style throughout your assessment and include an accurate reference list at the end of the Wiki. Please refer to the Resources Folder on Blackboard for a copy of the Harvard Quick Guide.
Submission Requirements
Assessments must be submitted via the Blackboard unit site through the ‘Assessments’ facility. Do not email the assessment to either the convenor or tutor. Keep a MS Word backup of your Wiki submissions. If your assessment goes astray, whether your fault or ours, you will be required to re-produce it. It is expected that all work submitted, will have been edited for spelling, grammar and clarity. The word count does not include references or appendices.
Marking Rubric
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Grades Depth and Breadth Critical Analysis Conventions
High Distinction
80 - 100%
All of the question was addressed and appropriately researched in great depth
Great depth of analysis, evaluation and interpretation.
Evidence of deep and broad understanding
All components conform to high academic / professional standards
Distinction
70 – 79%
Most of the question was addressed and appropriately researched in great depth
Evidence of analysis, evaluation and interpretation
Most components conform to high academic / professional standards
Credit
60 – 69%
Most of the question was addressed and mostly researched appropriately
Some evidence of elementary analysis and evaluation
Most components conform to acceptable academic / professional standards
Pass
50 – 59 %
Basic components of the question were addressed and mostly researched appropriately
Descriptive and/or summary
Key concepts understood
Basic structure
Expressed in own words
Fail
< 50%
Superficial and/or inadequate addressing of question
Limited / poor understanding of key concepts
Poor structure and/or lack of clarity and /or using the words of others
Adapted from Vardi, E 2012 Effective feedback for student learning in higher education.
Milperra, NSW: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. p. 29.
Extensions and Late Submission
Please reread the section on Extensions and Late Submission that can be found in the Unit Outline. Extension requests must be directed to the unit convenor, using the Application for an Extension for a piece of Assessment form, available in the Blackboard site. Late submission of an assessment will result in a late penalty being applied as required by Swinburne University assessment guidelines.
Plagiarism
Please reread the section on plagiarism that can be found in the Unit Outline. Any evidence of plagiarism will result in a Fail. Collaborative discussion with other participants in the unit around concepts and additional examples is highly recommended, but don’t copy.
Assessment Help
If you have any queries or concerns you may discuss it with the convenor and/or tutor in the Blackboard discussion board in the appropriate discussion forum or by email.
Technical Help
Technical assistance can be obtained from the Swinburne Service Desk (03) 9214 5000.