Web Development Module

1. Module Overview
This module explores historical, current, and emerging issues, technologies, practices,
and infrastructure relating to the creation of large-scale, multi-function websites. Particular
emphasis is given to supporting wide-ranging functionality (e.g. a combination of eCommerce, communication, social networking, content and management).
Particular attention is given to the application of rational methods and critical thinking in
the selection of the web technologies which are most suited to a given application scenario.
A research-infused curriculum is adopted in this module and is reinforced by an
expectation that you will regularly contribute to the virtual classroom’s discussion forum.
This will provide opportunities to consider diverse cutting-edge issues – thereby supporting
you in the acquisition of a broad range of highly transferable skills.
As part of the assessment for this module, you will have the opportunity to carry out a
research-informed Case Study and develop a working web application for a given
application.
2. Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
1. Review and critically evaluate available web-based application implementation
options.
2. Interpret web-based application development issues.
3. Identify and justify the design decisions involved in implementing fully featured, multifunction websites.
NOTE: All class announcements and other emails relating to this module will be sent to the
University of Derby email address that you have been given. You are expected to regularly
check this email account (at least every 3 days). If you fail to do this, you will miss important
information. Any emails that you send relating to this module must also be sent from your
University of Derby email account. Within the title of any email that you send, you should
include your name and the course code of this module
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3. Assessment types used in this module
Formative Assessment
Formative assessments and activities are opportunities for you to apply, practice and make
sense of the learning materials and content that you have worked with. These will mainly be
located in the End of Unit Activities.
We have written these to help you to (for example) practice some academic or professional
skills, such as referencing, literature searching and analysing materials. You can choose
how much time and effort you put into these activities.
These may take the form of individual tasks, such as: reading some text, or watching a video
and documenting your reaction to it; responding to some discussion points on the discussion
forum; considering a case study; or, participating in a live online classroom session.
The main aim of formative activities is for you to receive feedback on your contribution,
performance, or progress that will help you prepare for and complete your final summative
module assessment.
All modules you take will vary in several ways, and the type of feedback you get for each
formative assessment or activities will vary too. If your tutors give you marks as part of the
feedback, these will not be counted in your final module grade.
Summative Assessment
Summative assessments are the pieces of coursework that you must complete which
contribute towards your final grade in this module. If you have a Support Plan you can discuss
with your module tutor what reasonable adjustments you need.
Summative assessment in this particular module is via two pieces of submitted work.
You will be expected to submit your summative assessments via: Turnitin assessment points
on the Assessment page in My Learning section of the module.
You should take the feedback that you receive from the completion of summative assessments
in this module and use it to help you improve your performance in future assessments.
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4. Specific Assessment Component Guidelines
Case study: Book & Board (B&B)
‘Book & Board (B&B)’ is a high street travel agency doing business since 1975. They have
four branches across UK and a headquarter in London. Most of their business processes
have been traditional; they advertise offers in papers and their shops, people walk in and
explore their options.
‘B&B’ offers three types of services; travel plans, travel and hotel packages and complete
holiday packages (hotels, flights, car rentals, insurance etc.). Currently, they seek and
negotiate offers with airlines and hotels in specific destinations. Presently, customers are
offered discounts using membership cards.
When a customer comes in to book a holiday, the staff member takes all information for
new customers and record it in an excel sheet or find the customer details using their
contact details. The staff then records customer preferences, when they want to travel,
where they want to go, how much they want to spend, do they want flights only or flights
and hotel. Staff provides the customer with options on the spot and they can also contact
the customers over phone if suitable offers becomes available later.
From the internal business management perspective, at the end of every quarter all the
four branches send their sales data (recorded in an excel sheet) to the Accounts Manager
(AM), the AM combines individual records and sends a quarterly analysis report to all
branches.
They are looking to transition to the digital world and take their business online. Initially,
they want to have a website which shows current offers or bestselling offers. The website
also shows the branch locations and contacting options to customers. Customers can
access the website on phones, tablets and bigger screens. A staff member in London
manages the content for the website.
Later on, they want a web application where customers can create accounts. Accounts
store the customer contact details and details of any previous packages booked.
Customers should also be able to search flights and hotels. Search results can be viewed
with a variety of filtering options, for example, price, travel time, flight stops and so on.
Available flights and hotels are stored in a database (or a file).
In the next phase they want to be able to sell packages and manage payments through
the website. They also want to pull information from comparison sites and directly from
airlines and hotels. Customer accounts should be extended with options to subscribe for
relevant offers.
Finally, ‘B&B’ also wants to extend their online presence to integrate with social media
platforms and run advertisement campaigns on social media platforms like, Facebook and
Twitter.
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Coursework 1
Assessment
Component(s):
Assessment
weighting:
Assessment
limits:
Assesses module
learning outcome/s:
2 30% 2000 words. 1, 3
Last submission Date/Time: Provisional feedback released:
Thursday, July 02, 2020 by 2359hrs
(UK Time)
July 27, 2020
NOTE: As a student, it is your responsibility to adhere to the assessment limits (word count)
as mentioned above. The module tutor will only mark the coursework that lies within the
permitted assessment limits.
Coursework-1 comprises of two components which are referred to as component-1
and component-2.
Component-1: 70% of the available marks.
Component 1 for coursework 1 is a written report based on the requirements and domain
analysis of the case study listed in the previous section.
Final submission for this component should be in the format of one MS Word document. Your
report should be professionally written and presented. There must be at least a title page, a
section on references and two sections (market research, requirements specification).
The deliverables and corresponding marks distribution is presented in the following table,
Deliverables Format Marks
%
1 A market research and domain analysis
report of existing apps in similar domain.
Report
(~750 words or equivalent)
50
2 Development of a written report including
requirements.
Report
(~750 words or equivalent)
50
Table 1: Deliverables and marking scheme details for component-1 of coursework-2
In addition to general guidelines listed in sections 5 and 6, please consider the following
guidelines for this component in coursework-1,
1. The report must show evidence of research and critical analysis. All opinions forms and
presented must be backed up with evidence (books, papers, whitepapers etc.).
Assessment
description:
Web Application Development
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2. Requirement specification for the application should make use of requirements analysis
tools (e.g. MoSCoW, SWOT, Use case diagrams etc.)
Table 2 presents a sample outline for the report. Please note that this template is just a
guideline for the minimal requirements. You are encouraged to extend and adapt this and
find an outline that conveys all the requirements in a different layout or outline.
Table 2: Sample outline for the report
Marking scheme
50%: Quality of market research.
50%: Completeness of requirements specification.
Component-2: 30% of the available marks.
Component 2 for coursework 1 is a questionnaire consisting of 20 questions.
The question paper will be made available in Week-4.
This component will provide you with an opportunity to revisit the key concepts regarding
topics covered in the first four weeks.
Marking scheme
100%: Correctness of the answers.
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Coursework 2
Assessment
Component(s):
Assessment
weighting:
Assessment
limits:
Assesses module
learning outcome/s:
2 70% ~2000 words+
Video presentation
(3-4 minute)
1, 2
Last submission Date/Time: Provisional feedback released:
Thursday, August 06, 2020 by 2359 hrs
(UK Time)
August 31, 2020
NOTE: As a student, it is your responsibility to adhere to the assessment limits (word count)
as mentioned above. The module tutor will only mark the coursework that lies within the
permitted assessment limits.
Coursework-2 comprises of two components referred to as component-1 and
component-2.
Component-1: 80% of the available marks.
This component is based on developing a prototype web application based on the
requirement analysis conducted in component-1 of coursework-1. You are required to
present application design in the form of a report as well. This component will provide you
with an opportunity to apply the web development skills acquired during the module and
present your work in a formal report.
Final submission for this component should be in the format of one MS Word document and
a short 3-4 minute video presentation. Your report should be professionally written and
presented. There must be at least a title page, a section on references, two sections
(application design, application development) and two appendices for code. Make sure that
the video link is provided the report and also upload it to the discussion board.
The deliverables and corresponding marks distribution is presented in the following table,
Deliverables Format Marks
%
1 Development of a written report for the
design of the project.
Report
(~1000 words or equivalent)
20
Assessment
description:
Web Application Prototype Development
September 01, 2020
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2 Develop the web application, as a basic
prototype displaying current offers,
accessible on multiple devices.
Code added as an appendix
to the report.
30
3 Extended the basic version of the web
application with user accounts and search
options.
Code added as a separate
appendix to the report.
30
4 A demonstration video, URL to the video 20
Table 3: Deliverables and marking scheme details for component-1, coursework-2
In addition to general guidelines listed in sections 5 and 6, please consider the following
guidelines for this component in coursework-2,
1. The section presenting the design of web application must make efficient use of
diagrams and illustrations (e.g. UML, Flowcharts).
2. Code written for the application should be thoroughly commented.
3. The report should analyse the developed application in context of the requirements
formed during design.
4. Key objectives in developing your video presentation should be to:
4.1. Clearly explain the work undertaken.
4.2. Employ an interesting and lively style of presentation.
4.3. Avoid simply reading from a prepared script.
4.4. Demonstrate working of your web application in context of requirements identified in
the report.
Table 2 presents a sample outline for the report. Please note that this template is just a
guideline for the minimal requirements. You are encouraged to extend and adapt this and
find an outline that conveys all the requirements in a different layout or outline.
Table 4: Sample outline for the report
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Marking scheme
20%: Quality of design and development report for the web application.
30%: Completeness of basic web application.
30%: Completeness of extended web application.
20%: Quality and completeness of the demonstration video.
Component-2: 20% of the available marks.
In this module you are expected to make regular and considered interactive contributions to
the Discussion Board in the last 5 weeks of this module. In each unit of the module, you are
provided with a number of discussion-based activities.
Your mark for this component will be calculated on the basis of the Discussion Board postings
that you make throughout the module. Consequently, during this period, you are required to
copy at least 25 discussion board posting into your final coursework 2 submission document.
For each of the postings, you should clearly state the date on which it was made.
Guidelines
1. All postings must be written in a professional way.
2. Postings should be written in your own words. Copying and reproducing material from other
sources and representing it as your own work constitutes plagiarism and is likely to result in
the instigation of a formal Suspected Academic Offence process.
3. Following on from (2), you are encouraged to share with others in the class any relevant
information that you locate when carrying out research into specific topics. This information
may take the form of articles, website content, videos, etc. However, this content should add
to your own discussion (rather than replacing it) and the source(s) of information must be
clearly indicated.
4. You should endeavour to enter into interactive discussion and proffer help when questions
are asked by others in the class.
5. The Discussion Board is intended to represent a dynamic virtual classroom in which you
share your experiences, research, thoughts, etc. It is also an environment in which you are
encouraged to ask and respond to questions.
6. Discussion Board postings such as ‘I agree’ (i.e. which do not move discussion forward) will
not contribute to your grade for component-2 of coursework-2.
7. You are expected to demonstrate that you have regularly contributed to the Discussion
Board and have meaningfully engaged in a number of activities. This means that you should
frequently access the Discussion Board.
8. You are expected to demonstrate involvement in interactive discussion with other class
members.
9. You are expected to demonstrate that you have undertaken research in developing
postings.
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Marking scheme
50%: Quality of postings.
25%: Regularity of postings.
25%: Engagement in interactive discussion