ASSESSMENT 2 (Group Assignment)

	COURSE:      Bachelor of IT
Unit:	The IT Professional
Unit Code:	TITP 105
Type of Assessment:	Group Report
Length/Duration:	2000 words
Course Learning Outcomes addressed:	•  To gather, critically analyse, manage and present in meaningful ways information and data. •  To work collaboratively in small teams on a variety of large and small projects to produce models, software, documentation and reports. •  To take responsibility for their own time management delivering quality required material on time in dynamically changing technological and communication contexts whether as an individual or member of a small team.
Unit Learning Outcomes addressed:	•    Describe a variety of roles for IT professionals and the personal, social, ethical and legal impacts arising from their work •    Assess the relationship between IT professionals and the issues of ethics, corporate citizenship and governance •    Describe the professional associations that are available to IT professionals and the role that they play •    Critically review IT professional Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct, and develop a personal ethical framework •    Work effectively as part of a team in the production of a group report; understand and communicate organizational and management information effectively in a business context.
Submission Date:	Week 10
Assessment Task:	Group Report on a particular topic.  The report will be expected to address all the issues raised by the selected topic and make recommendations to address the problems.
Total Mark:	30 Marks
Weighting:	30%

Students are advised that any submissions past the due date without an approved extension or without approved extenuating circumstances incurs a 5% penalty per calendar day,  calculated from the total mark

E.g. a task marked out of 40 will incur a 2 mark penalty per calendar day.

 

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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:

 

In this group project, you will work in teams of 3-4 students to provide IT consulting for ensuring privacy and security of data to an organization (business or non-profit) of your choice. The groups will be formed at the beginning of the trimester and should sustain for all the group activities across the study period.

 

Your group will need to find and outline real case studies related to one of the following issues (allocated by the Lecturer):

 

• Software Piracy
• Cyber Security
• Ethical use of IT resources
• Digital Privacy
• Threats of Social Media
• Open source vs proprietary software
• Net neutrality
• Impact of IT on Health Care
• Green Computing
• Freedom of expression in Internet  Whistleblowing

 

You are required research, review and summarise case studies and make recommendations to resolve the issue in a 2000 word report.

 

The report structure is as follows:

 

1. Title Page
2. Executive Summary (200 words)
3. Table of Contents
4. Introduction (150 words)
5. Background (150 words)
6. 3 case study summaries chosen from real IT businesses which relate to the relevant issue your group has chosen. (900 words)
7. Recommendations to address the issue based on what you’ve learnt in The IT Professional. (500 words)
8. Conclusion

 

ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:

 

A written assignment undertaken in groups of three or four students in the form of a report .addressing a selected topic related to IT professional practice.  This assessment is a group project/activity and students are required to work with their respective groups. No individual submission will be accepted. You will not receive any marks for this assignment if your group members collectively report against you for non-participation or non-cooperation. You have to nominate someone as your group leader to coordinate the assignment submission. Only one submission is accepted for each group.

 

The assignment must be submitted online in Moodle. All materials MUST be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. Other formats (e.g., pdf or MAC file) may not be readable by markers. Please be aware that any assessments submitted in other formats will be considered LATE and will lose marks until it is presented in MS Word. No paper based or hardcopy submission will be accepted.

Our Academic Learning Support (ALS) team would be happy to help you with understanding the task and all other assessment-related matters. For assistance and to book one-on-one meeting please email one of our ALS coordinators (Sydney ALS_SYD@kent.edu.au; Melbourne ALS_MELB@kent.edu.au ). For online help and support please click the following link and navigate Academic Learning Support in Moodle.

http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5 MARKING GUIDE (RUBRIC):

Marking Criteria	Lecturer Expectation	Marks	Comments
Organization & Reference	Good organization; points are logically ordered; sharp sense of beginning and end.	6
Quality of Information	Supporting       details specific             to subject	6
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, Spelling	No errors	6
Interest level	Vocabulary is varied; supporting details vivid	6
References	Relevant and maximum references are used.	6

 

GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments should usually incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion, and will be fully referenced including a reference list.

 

The work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We strongly recommend you to refer to the Academic Learning Skills materials available in the Moodle. For details please click the link http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5 and download the file “Harvard Referencing Workbook”. Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and demonstrate.

 

We recommend a minimum of FIVE references, unless instructed differently by your lecturer. Unless specifically instructed otherwise by your lecturer, any paper with less than FIVE references may be failed. Work that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard Referencing Workbook” will be penalised.

 

Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count – as a general rule you may go over or under by 10% than the stated length.

 

GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING

High quality work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We recommend you work with your Academic Learning Support (ALS) site (http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5) available in Moodle to ensure that you reference correctly.

 

References are assessed for their quality. You should draw on quality academic sources, such as books, chapters from edited books, journals etc. Your textbook can be used as a reference, but not the lecturer notes. We want to see evidence that you are capable of conducting your own research. Also, in order to help markers determine students’ understanding of the work they cite, all in-text references (not just direct quotes) must include the specific page number/s if shown in the original. Before preparing your assignment or own contribution, please review this ‘YouTube’ video by clicking on the following link: Plagiarism: How to avoid it

PLAGIARISM: HOW TO AVOID IT

 

You can search for peer-reviewed journal articles, which you can find in the online journal databases and which can be accessed from the library homepage. Wikipedia, online dictionaries and online encyclopaedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic, but should not be overused – these should constitute no more than 10% of your total list of references/sources. Additional information and literature can be used where these are produced by legitimate sources, such as government departments, research institutes such as the NHMRC, or international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Legitimate organisations and government departments produce peer reviewed reports and articles and are therefore very useful and mostly very current. The content of the following link explains why it is not acceptable to use non-peer reviewed websites: Why can’t I just Google?