BIBV3310 Web Development Course description

This course deals with a variety of tasks related to the process of web development. It both expands on earlier courses that have covered user analysis, web technologies and the organization of data and digital documents, and introduces new topics. Among these are information architecture, microdata, practical skills in publishing tools, user-centred design and project management including the development of requirement specifications and prototypes.

Web Development and Website Production are overlapping courses.

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Knowledge

After completion of the course, the student has

• an understanding of the key characteristics of different types of web based services and solutions
• knowledge of the core issues in the development of different types of web based services and solutions
• knowledge about current trends, practices and tools

Skills attainment

After completion of the course, the student is able to

• plan a web development project
• use tools and standards to develop web based services and solutions
• procure web based services and solutions

The course consists of a combination of lectures, group work, labs and homework.

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Assessment of Web Development will be by two submissions - an individual essay (approx. 10 pages) and a group-based project (a practical work related to a particular web development task). The group must submit a report (between 5-10 pages) describing their work and documenting the outcome (for example a requirement specification, results from user testing, a prototype or a technical implementation). The topic of each project must be approved by the tutors.

The essay accounts for 60% of the grade, while the remaining 40% comes from the group-based project. The student must pass both parts to pass the course.

Students who have legitimate absence from the exam or have failed the regular examination are entitled to sit a new examination in the part(s) they have failed. If the project work fail, the whole group need to sit the new examination.

Students are awarded grades on a descending scale from A to E for pass and F for fail.

The written examination is assessed by an internal and an external examiner. The external examiner grades a random sample consisting of approx. 25 per cent of the written exams. The grades given for this sample provide a basis for internal examiners who will be grading the other exams.