Assignment

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 such as open sources to carry out your required work.

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 any open source platform such as Joomla CMS for an SME (small to mid-size business) in any industry of your choice. Alternatively, you can use any cloud-based Web development platform such as Wix, Shopify etc. to develop the e-business prototype Website. You will be required to design, configure and populate your proposed e-business Website using the open source CMS or cloud-based Web development platform. Each group needs to create one prototype Website solution.

In this part of the assessment, you are required to configure your Website and design homepage for your proposed e-business. You are required to configure extensions like catalogue, shopping cart, contact us, customer registration and any other extension appropriate for your business model. 

Besides developing the proposed e-business prototype Website, you need to complete the following tasks.

• 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 Website 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 your lecturer 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.