Required texts

Recommended readings and other materials will be available on Canvas.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Use of AI in This Unit

1. Transparency: All use of AI tools must be clearly documented in your submissions. This includes specifying which parts of your work were created with AI assistance and which tools were used.
2. Critical Evaluation: Students are required to critically evaluate the AI-generated content. This means reviewing, testing, and potentially modifying the AI suggestions to ensure they meet the project requirements and follow best practices.
3. Reflection: For each assessment, include a brief reflection (200-300 words) on how you used AI tools. Discuss the benefits and limitations you encountered, any challenges in implementing AI suggestions, and how the use of AI impacted your learning process.
4. Original Contribution: While AI can be used for idea generation, code snippets, or problem-solving assistance, the overall design, implementation, and integration of your project must demonstrate your own understanding and decision-making.
5. Learning Outcomes: Remember that the unit's learning outcomes focus on your ability to analyse, implement, and evaluate web technologies. Your work should clearly demonstrate these skills, regardless of AI usage.

Special assessment requirements

Time management, extensions and late assignments

We recognise that you have other units and many others factors impacting your time.  Meeting deadlines is an important skill, but being able to negotiate new deadlines and manage workload in a healthy way is a much more important skill.

In this unit, we encourage you to be proactive about your work, to recognise early if you are not going to be able to meet a deadline and to negotiate an extension if necessary. At the discretion of the lecturer, extensions will be granted to anyone who applies at least three days before the due date.  You do not need to supply medical or other documentation (simply write "managing workload" as the reason for extension), but you must nominate an alternate reasonable due date. Generally, an extension of up to one week is considered reasonable.

This is a more authentic, industry-standard approach to dealing with deadlines and is intended to give you some flexibility and control of your workload.  You should not feel overwhelmed or stressed about the assessment in this unit.  If you do, talk to your tutor or lecturer: they are there to help.

Late penalties

Late assigments are assignments that are submitted after a due date, noting that the due date may be amended as a result of extension as above.  Assignments submitted late will attract significant penalties in line with the university's assessment policy.

Resubmission

This unit has substantial opportunities for feedback and self-assessment, so students who have fully participated in the unit activities are unlikely to fail. In some cases, resubmission of a failed assignment will be possible if the assessment item can feasibly be brought up to a pass level. A typical example might be an assignment that fails due to a missing component that can readily be supplied in a resubmission. The maximum grade for a resubmitted assessment item is 50%. Resubmissions are given at the discretion of the unit convenor and must be applied for in writing (via email) within one week of the assessment grade being released.

Please take careful note of academic integrity requirements.  Copying of code and presenting others code as your own (including code generated by a machine learning agent) is every bit as serious as copying an essay or asking someone else to do an assignment for you.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and 69萝莉 (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

While this is a self-paced unit, regular engagement with unit resources and learning activities is required to succeed in this unit.

Participation requirements

Active engagement in all online modules enhances your learning and is strongly advised, and students must submit assessment items. There is no mandatory attendance requirement.

Required IT skills

Students are expected to possess a sound computer literacy. 

Whilst there is no assumed knowledge, this is a practical unit and students will be required to write their own code.  Some familiarity with HTML/CSS is required, but may be achieved through additional online study through the course of this unit.

In-unit costs

None.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.

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