This is a look at the assessment criteria for the assignment.
We might consider two general aspects of the assignment when awarding a grade:
- the degree to which you explain your reasoning behind your decisions and how you justify what you are doing in terms of satisfying the needs of the user and relating to the literature and any other appropriate benchmarks;
- the level of the task you set yourself and how well you achieve it. For example a general discussion might be considered more straightforward than giving detailed examples of how you have used the chosen technologies and how they worked for you;
However these two major criteria can compensate for one another.
To give you some idea of what the grade criteria might look like:
- A Grade
- You clearly identify the needs of your chosen users and produce discussions which describe in detail how the individual technologies might match the needs of the user. The arguments are drawn together in to a coherent whole to make decisions about the best combination of technologies for the chosen purpose producing a sound blueprint which is clearly linked to the evidence.
- You also produce a web site that links to your information so that navigation is clear and easy. There is a detailed explanation of how the web site works and a full explanation of why particular design decisions were made. The web site shows a detailed understanding of web design and contains some some innovative features.
- There are many examples of your own use of the web publishing technologies in the module and a detailed discussion from your own experience of how these technologies can aid your user in their chosen purpose which contains ideas that you have clearly argued and evidenced..
- There are significant links to the literature which clearly carry forward your arguments with an explanation of how they do so and also include a reasoned challenge to ideas expressed in the literature.
- B Grade
- You clearly identify the needs of your chosen users and produce discussions which describe in detail how the individual technologies might match the needs of the user. There is a limited attempt to draw the arguments together in to a coherent whole to make decisions about the best combination of technologies for the chosen purpose.
- You also produce a web site that links to your information so that navigation is clear and easy. There is a detailed explanation of how the web site works and a full explanation of why particular design decisions were made.
- There are a number of examples of your own use of the web publishing technologies in the module and a detailed discussion from your own experience of how these technologies can aid your user in their chosen purpose.
- There are some links to the literature which clearly carry forward your arguments with an explanation of how they do so.
- C Grade
- You clearly identify the needs of your chosen users and produce discussions which fully describe how the individual technologies might match the needs of the user and a discussion of the relative merits of each.
- You also produce a web site that links to your information so that navigation is clear and easy. There is a limited explanation of how the web site works and some explanation of why particular design decisions were made.
- There are a number of examples of your own use of the web publishing technologies in the module and some discussion from your own experience of how these technologies can aid your user in their chosen purpose.
- There are some links to the literature but they do not clearly carry forward the arguments.
- D Grade
- You go some way towards identifying the needs of your chosen users and produce discussions which go a little way towards describing how the individual technologies might match the needs of the user.
- You also produce a web site that links to your information so that navigation is clear and easy. However there is little or no explanation of how the web site works and very little if any explanation of why particular design decisions were made.
- There are few examples of your own use of the web publishing technologies in the module and little discussion from your own experience of how these technologies can aid your user in their chosen purpose.
- Links to the literature are sparse or nonexistent.