Course Title: Build a dynamic website
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2013
Course Code: COSC6135C
Course Title: Build a dynamic website
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5306 - Diploma of Information Technology Networking
Course Contact: Christina Norwood
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4800
Course Contact Email: christina.norwood@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 60
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Nil
This course has no pre-requisites or co-requisites.
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to analyse, design, build and test a dynamic website to meet technical requirements.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
ICAWEB501A Build a dynamic website |
Element: |
Define and analyse technical requirements |
Performance Criteria: |
Identify business requirements and appropriate standards |
Element: |
Develop the website to the specified design |
Performance Criteria: |
Create software components of the website |
Element: |
Produce software design-specifications |
Performance Criteria: |
Produce a hierarchy of the website showing navigation |
Element: |
Test web application |
Performance Criteria: |
Test the website against the requirements |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Students will learn through presentations on Web Technologies related to dynamic web sites, and demonstrations of their implementation. Students will have the opportunity to build web applications using commonly available software in a classroom situation, with monitoring and troubleshooting by the teacher. Students will also have access to online resources, both through Blackboard and on the web at large. Students will work on projects both in and outside class.
Teaching Schedule
1 | 7/12/2012 | Presentation and demonstration of Web Technologies through simple project involving HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL | |
2 | 14/12/2012 | Extend project developed in first session | Practical assessment 1 |
3 | Feb 2013 | Develop more complex project | |
4 | Feb 2013 | Incorporate client-side scripting using JavaScript for user interactivity | Practical assessment 2 |
5 | Feb - April (remote) | Extend breadth of knowledge of web technologies, plus XML/RSS | Project |
6 | May | Exam |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Class notes and videos of classroom demonstrations will be available for student review.
Overview of Assessment
The participant must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular competency to be deemed competent. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, workplace activities, in class exercises, quizzes, practical problem solving exercises and presentations. Participants are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
Assessment Tasks
Practical Assessment 1 - students will be required to develop code for a simple web application
Practical Assessment 2 - students will be required to Develop code for a more complex web application
Project - Develop a medium scale web application over a period of several weeks
Exam - written exam on basic knowledge related to web technologies.
Assessment Matrix
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