B202 coursework assignment 3

Academic year 2011/12

COURSEWORK DUE DATES

February 19, 2012
March 11, 2012
March 30, 2012
May 6, 2012
May 22, 2012

Coursework may be submitted up until midnight of the due date. The timestamp on the coursework submission page is final.

COURSEWORK DESCRIPTION

Each group must maintain a team journal that provides the following information:

Coordination of work
- Detailed updates and notes about the distribution of work and resources between team members.
- Each team may select their own method to collect information and write updates.
- Updates should occur every 3 to 5 days.
Task planning and tracking
- Detailed updates and notes about the status of tasks as they are performed by each team members.
- Each student is required to write updates for their assigned tasks.
- Updates should occur every 2 to 4 days.
- Updates should be added as comments to the team journal page.
Problem tracking and resolutions
- Detailed updates, notes and resolutions for problems (technical or personal) that affected the work of the team.
- Each team may select their own method to collect information and write updates.
- Updates should occur once per week, even if it is simply to record that no problems have been encountered.
- Discussion of problems should be added as comments to the team journal page.
- Resolution of problems should be added directly into the team journal page.
Allocation of individual marks
- Record of individual marks for each team member as a share of the total marks received by the group.
- Supporting notes and discussion about the process of allocating individual marks.
- Discussion and final allocation of individual marks should be added as comments to the team journal page.

Entries to the team journal must be made in chronological order, such that the most recent updates are added to the top of the journal page.

This coursework contributes 40% to the B202 unit mark.

COURSEWORK SUBMISSION

Coursework must be submitted online using the Mosaic website. Students are not permitted to write their coursework using Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat or similar programs. The coursework content (text and images) must be written directly within the Mosaic coursework submission page for each group.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

At every due date, each group will receive a total number of marks based on the assessment criteria below multiplied by the number of students in the group. Each group is responsible for the allocation of individual marks to each student as a share of the total marks received by the group. The sum of marks from all due dates is the considered to be the coursework mark for each student.

Marks	Criteria
14–20 (A)	The team journal demonstrates: effective techniques for communications between students in the group consistent efforts and a standard template for coordinating work in the group consistent efforts and a standard template for planning and tracking individual tasks consistent efforts to proactively identify and resolve problems that affect the group efforts to develop, document and use a method to fairly allocate individual marks
12–13 (B)	The team journal demonstrates: timely communications between students in the group consistent efforts and a standard template for coordinating work in the group consistent efforts to plan and track individual tasks consistent efforts to proactively identify and resolve problems that affect the group efforts to develop, document and use a method to fairly allocate individual marks
10–11 (C)	The team journal demonstrates: consistent efforts to coordinate work in the group consistent efforts to plan and track individual tasks consistent efforts to resolve problems that affect the group efforts to fairly allocate individual marks according to an agreed upon method
8–9 (D)	The team journal demonstrates: earnest, but sometimes inconsistent, efforts to coordinate work in the group earnest, but sometimes inconsistent, efforts to plan and track individual tasks earnest efforts to resolve problems that affect the group earnest efforts to fairly allocate individual marks
0–7 (FAIL)	The team journal demonstrates: minimal efforts to coordinate work in the group minimal efforts to plan and track individual tasks minimal efforts to resolve problems that affect the group minimal efforts to fairly allocate individual marks