This is a first 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 using CSS and XHTML might be considered more straightforward than using XML and XSLT;
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
The web site works very well, fully identifies three different users and produces three outputs which match extremely well to the needs of the user. The work is very well explained with good links to the literature and there are good reasons for the design decisions made. The technology used has been demanding or has used less demanding technologies in an innovative way using techniques which may not have been specifically taught in the sessions and shows an excellent understanding of the technological issues. - B Grade
The web site works well, identifies three different users and produces three outputs which match well to the needs of the user. The work is well explained and there are good reasons for the design decisions made with some sound links to literature and some reasoning about design decisions. The technology used has been relatively demanding or has used less demanding technologies in a thorough way showing a good understanding of the technological issues. - C Grade
The web site works, identifies three different users and produces three outputs which to some extent match the needs of the user. There is an explanation of how the web site works but little explanation of why particular design decisions were made. The technology used is sound but not adventurous, there is little understanding of how it works and there is little explanation of why particular techniques have been used. There are some links to the literature but they do not clearly carry forward the arguments. - D Grade
The web site works, identifies three different users and produces three outputs which go a little way towards matching the needs of the user. 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. The technology used is relatively undemanding, there is very little understanding of how it works and very little explanation of why design decisions have been made. Links to the literature are sparse or nonexistent.