Assessment Item-1: E-Portfolio

Objectives: This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:

1. Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.

2. Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.

3. Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.

4. Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.

5. Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.

6. Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.

Assessment Task:

This is an individual assessment. In other words, the e-portfolio is to be maintained by every student individually.

The e-portfolio assignment aims to enhance your weekly learning and teaching as per the weekly topic and maximise your engagement with the course resources (please see weekly topics under Schedule in this course profile).

As a learning tool, e-portfolio will enable you to accumulate evidence of your learning during the term. In this assignment, you are required to research at least three references (two academic and one general; and published within the last 3 years) that are relevant to the topics covered in each week from teaching Week-3 to Week-8. You will briefly describe and relate the academic sources to the topics covered in that week. You will enrich your weekly e-portfolio with relevant illustrations, video clips, and other multimedia applications as well.

In this assignment you will use Mahara as a learning tool for your e-portfolio. Criteria for E-Portfolio:

• Knowledge and understanding of the topic
• Quality of academic source
• Relevance of the academic source Description of the source
• Relating the source with the topic.
• Overall quality of the work

Assessment Item-2: Presentation

Assessment Objectives: This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:

1. Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.

2. Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.

3. Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.

4. Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.

5. Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.

6. Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.

Assessment Task:

This is a group based assignment for on campus students.

E-Business is the main driver for any business today. E-Business related tools, technologies, and applications have been rapidly changing over the last ten years. To be competitive in the market, e-business system users need to follow up the innovations and new industry developments in a timely manner. So, the aim of this assignment is to improve your industry based practical research skills as well as team based working and learning.

In this assignment, as future ICT professionals, you are required to research e-business systems related to new developments in the industry and prepare a presentation as a group of up to 3 members during the class time. You need to form your group in Week-3 and provide the group details to your local lecturer for confirmation. You also need to inform your lecturer about your proposed topic in Week-4 class for your group presentation.

For presentation topic, research industry magazines (online and offline) and web sites focused on innovations and developments in e-business systems. Your presentation should cover the content from an industry and practical point of view rather than theory.

Distance students: The time of the presentations and communication technology employed will be determined on an individual basis. Please contact the course coordinator well in advance.

Criteria for Presentation:

• Topic knowledge and preparation of presentation
• The industry relevancy of presentation content
• The clarity and consistency of presentation
• Use of visual aids
• Time management
• Communication effectiveness
• Presentation coordination among group members
• Quality response to questions during question and response time
• Target audience
• Professional appearance

Assessment Item-3: e-Business Prototype Website Solution and Report

Assessment Objectives: This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:

1. Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.

2. Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.

3. Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.

4. Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.

5. Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.

6. Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.

7. Build e-business prototype solutions using open source technologies.

Assessment Task:

This is your major assignment and can be done in a group of 3 members. The aim of this major assignment is to give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate the knowledge that you have gained in this course as well as your skills and experience by developing a prototype website solution for an SME. Hence, this assessment gives you the best opportunity for you to learn by doing and working in a team environment. Today it is a fact that e-business websites are an integral part of any business operation for competitive as well as survival reasons. We have high expectations of you and therefore as a future ICT professional you need to be able to show your intellectual capability by providing a prototype website solution for an SME of your choice in any industry type. This is critical, so you can use cutting edge and state of the art technologies available on the Internet as open sources to carry out your required work. So, there are two parts in this assessment:

Part-1: E-Business Website Prototype Solution

You as a group need to develop an e-business prototype website solution using open source (Joomla CMS) in any industry of your choice for an SME (small to mid-size business). You will be required to design, configure and populate your proposed E-business web site using the Joomla CMS via the URL in the cloudaccess.net.

To open a Joomla free student account, please go directly to: http://www.cloudaccess.net/products/school-program.html

Once opened it, scroll down on this web page, and read Step-1 and Step 2 and simply follow the instruction. Please click on free Joomla hosting link (under Step-1) and it will take you to:

http://www.cloudaccess.net/free-joomla-hosting web page. Each group need to create one account for their proposed Website solution.

In this part of the assessment, you are required to configure your Joomla site and design homepage using Cloud access URL created by your group for your proposed E-business. You are required to add extensions like catalogue, shopping cart, contact us, customer registration and any other extension appropriate for your business model such as calendar, social web, maps and weather, please see http://extensions.joomla.org/ for more information.

Show Site Map of your proposed E - business model:

• Briefly describe your group project reflections (some of the challenges encountered) in designing your e-business website (250 words).
• List and explain the resources you had researched or used for designing your e-business website as a group (250 words).

You are encouraged to use critical thinking, innovative ideas, and your imagination to produce your e-business prototype solution.

Part-2: E-Business Report

As a group you need to choose and propose e-business of your choice, approved by your local lecturer (or course coordinator for distance students). So please discuss your proposal with you teacher in advance.

This group assignment relates to your understanding of the technological infrastructure and functional requirements of a small to mid-size e-business and to allow you to demonstrate your ability to research, analyse, synthesise and evaluate, and specify the requirements of a proposed e-commerce website in a report. You are required to use at least 12 sources including 6 academic to write a high quality report.

It is expected that you will demonstrate your learning, integration and incorporation of the knowledge that you have acquired during this course to produce a high quality e-business report.

I need only assessment item 3.