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Assessment Specification for ITECH1001

Assignment 2: Individual Report

Task Due Weighting Annotated Bibliography Week 5 10.0% Individual Report Week 9 30.0% Group Presentation and Individual Reflection Week 11 20.0% Examination 40.0% Table 1. Due Dates & Assessment Weighting Summary

Course Objectives

The assessment tasks specified in this document address a number of the objectives of this course; these being:

• use a range of effective communication strategies;
• deliver effective oral presentations to an audience;
• write professional letters, memos and reports using correct grammar and spelling;
• work independently and in teams; and
• adapt a communication strategy to suit the audience.

Topics

Choose one topic from the following list:

1. Compare and contrast the usefulness for group collaboration of the software products Trello and Microsoft Teams.
2. Discuss the privacy and security similarities and differences between a company using a networked mainframe solution or a cloud-based infrastructure.
3. Research the different kinds of educational online games, aimed at children, and suggest which are the most useful.

Individual Report

Context

In many situations of your future work life, you could be required to do some fact-finding or an investigation into a specific topic given to you by your line-manager. This assignment is to mimic such a task, to develop skills in researching a chosen subject, gathering information, summarising it, and presenting your educated points of view concerning the investigation. Depending on your chosen task you may have to make an informed recommendation of which product or solution is preferred.

Tasks

This is an individual piece of work. You are required to complete a report on your chosen subject. The

report should be between 1000 and 1500 words long and should include the main ideas and concepts in the

field, including appropriate referencing. Marks will be awarded for completeness and presentation of the submission, for currency and relevance of discussion, correct use of paraphrasing and referencing and English expression, grammar and spelling.

The final submission should include the following:

• A title page giving the student name and chosen topic
• A table of contents
• A table of figures/graphs/illustrations etc. (if required)
• The introduction to the overall report
• A mind map on the topic that you have chosen. The mind map will be basis for your report.
• Main body of the report detailing concepts and ideas. This will contain material summarised from the references that you have read, correctly citing those references.
• A time estimation (at start) for this assessment and reflection (at end) on the accuracy and

effectiveness of this estimation. The time estimation is based on the exercise in Tutorial 1, on the estimated time to complete the tasks and how long the tasks actually took. Include a discussion of the effectiveness of using a time estimation sheet, how it impacted on the way you undertook the tasks, what you would change if you had to do it again, etc

• A conclusion to the overall report
• A full reference list in APA format.
• Appendices: Time estimation, and any other information that takes too much space in the body (such as a picture or chart) but is referred to in the text of your report, or is part of the assignment requirements but does not belong in the text of the report.

Submission Requirements:

You are required to submit a single document that includes the above tasks. All submissions for this course are via the submission boxes in the Assessment section of the Moodle shell for the course.  In addition, the report should be submitted via the Turnitin submission box in the Assessment section of the Moodle shell.

Template for time estimation task

Note that the number of sub tasks (rows in the table) are for example only and have no relationship to the actual number of tasks you consider appropriate.

Time estimation for individual reflection

Task	Best time (OD)	Worst Time (PD)	Estimated time (ED)

Note this exercise was part of the Week 1 tutorial. Please review the activity from Week 1 to help you complete this part of the assignment.

Formula for time taken (Duration = D):

(From https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/25/how-to-estimate-amount-of-work-man-hours-for-an-unfamiliar-task)

D = ((1 * OD) + (4 * ED) + (1 * PD))/6

Marking Guide – Individual Report /50

	not done	poor	satisfactory	good	excellent
English writing style	0 Writing style very poor with incorrect grammar, spelling and expression mistakes throughout. Unintelligible in some places.	1 English expression, grammar and spelling often incorrect. Poorly formed sentences and phrases	2 Satisfactory English writing skills but some poorly constructed sentences and phrases. Some spelling and grammatical mistakes	3 Good English expression, spelling and grammar. Well-formed sentences and phrase for the most part.	4 Excellent English skills. Well written with good sentence structure, grammar and spelling throughout.
Introduction	0 Not supplied	1 Introduction attempted but does not give overview or plan of work	2 Introduction gives some overview but no real plan of work.	3 Good introduction with some overview and plan of work	4 Excellent introduction that give interesting lead in with good overview and plan of work.
Mind map	0 Not supplied	1.5 Simplistic mind map	3 Several ideas presented in mind map	4.5 Mindmap shows main ideas and knowledge.	6 Excellent mindmap showing all ideas and knowledge connected correctly.
Development of discussion in report	0 No logical development of discussion. No introduction or conclusion to section	1.5 No introduction and/or conclusion for section, literature review consists of unrelated sentences or points.	3 Some attempt at an introduction and /or conclusion. Some structure to literature review but no in depth linking of ideas	4.5 Introduction and conclusion for section attempted. Some logical discussion of literature and links drawn between ideas.	6 Excellent introduction and conclusion, with in depth discussion of literature. Good thread throughout with logical conclusions drawn.
Paraphrasing	0 Excessive use of quotes, little or no discussion outside of quotes	1.5 Overuse of quotes. Some paraphrasing attempted but limited to switching out words or reordering phrases from original work	3 Some fair attempts at paraphrasing. Some quotes would have been better paraphrased.	4.5 Good use of paraphrasing. Limited number of quote and usually where technical terms or similar have been used. Some evidence of synthesising information	6 Excellent use of paraphrasing. Evidence of synthesise information from a number of sources and presenting a concise summary.
Organisation	0 Report is very difficult to follow with no table of contents or page numbers.	1 Report poorly organised. Table of contents not complete and/or page numbers missing	2 Report well organised with good table of contents and page numbers.	3 Report has excellent organisation with informative table of contents and page numbers clearly visible throughout report.
Time Estimation Exercise	0 Not supplied	1.5 Breakdown of tasks into sub-tasks	4 Breakdown of tasks into sub-tasks. Accuracy of time allowed for sub-tasks.	4.5 Breakdown of tasks into sub-tasks. Accuracy of time allowed for sub-tasks. Application of formula and final time estimation	6 Breakdown of tasks into sub-tasks Accuracy of time allowed for sub-tasks Application of formula and final time estimation
Reflection on Time Estimation Exercise	0 Not supplied	1 Some reflection on time estimation exercise but no critical thought shown	2 Reflection on time estimation exercise shows some critical thought and some discussion of effect on work.	3 Good reflection on time management exercise with evidence of critical though and discussion of effect.	4 Excellent reflection on time estimation exercise with in depth critical thought shown in discussion of effect of exercise and changes to work flow.
Conclusion	0 Not supplied	1 Conclusion gives some summary of work	2 Very good conclusion that gives summary of work but no final comment	3 Excellent conclusion that gives interesting summary of work and leaves reader with a thought provoking final comment.
Referemces (APA)	0 No references supplied	1 References not in APA format, and/or not in one place at end of literature review	2 Most references in APA format but some missing and /or references not combined at the end of the report.	3 References in APA style but not in alphabetical order and/or not combined at end of literature review.	4 References all in APA format and correctly listed at the end of the literature review.
Referemces (completemess)	0 No references given in work	1 Limited references, mostly too old and/or from inappropriate sources such as web pages or blogs.	2 A few good references, but some too old or from inappropriate sources such as un referenced web pages or blogs.	3 Good references, some a little out of date. References a bit limited.	4 Excellent references that show evidence of wide reading of current research.

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