Course Title: Educational Project
Course No. : ICT. Ed. 479 Nature of Course: Practical
Level: Bachelor Credit Hours:
3
Semester: Seven Teaching Hours:
80
1.
Course Description
This course requires students to
complete a major information systems project. Students are to demonstrate a
capacity to work in the computing field at a professional level. Students are
expected to manage their resources to initiate, plan, estimate, and carry out
educational information systems project accordance with appropriate standards.
It develops students' skill regarding analysis, design and development of
meaningful real world application. This course is to introduce to plan and
complete project work related with Computer software under the supervision of
an instructor or a supervisor.
2.
General Objectives
On completion of this course,
the students will be able to:
·
Develop the ability of a student
to tackle, a selected problem
to a reasonable depth of understanding
·
Develop the ability of a student
to organize and produce a professional software/website
·
Develop the ability of a student
to produce technical documentation to a high standard
·
Develop the ability of a
student to produce an analytical report which communicates the work carried out in the project and evaluates the final
product and the student’s contribution
3.
Description of the Project
Work
The work carried
out must be a practical, problem-solving project.
It should be a realistic project in the sense
that the product should be useful practically as far as possible.
3.1 Group formation
Students can perform
project individually or in a group (maximum
of 4 students).
3.2 Procedure
The students
should exercise the following three phases for this course.
·
Proposal Submission
·
Mid-Term Defense
·
Final Project Submission and Defense
a.
Proposal Submission:
·
Students(s) prepares
proposal document in the prescribed format and submits
to the Department of ICTE in
the College.
·
The HOD/Program Coordinator or a panel
coordinated by him/her
evaluates the proposal with or without a presentation
from the student(s).
·
If the proposal is accepted; a Supervisor is assigned by HOD/Coordinator depending
upon the nature of the project
b. Mid Term Defense:
·
The project team has to face a
Mid Term Defense after first 40% to 60% of the project duration so that the supervisor and internal
evaluator are assured of the progress of the project.
c. Final Defense:
Project team submits
a complete project
report in the prescribed format
to the department
·
The department then schedules the day for final defense
·
External Supervisor will be decided and will be called for the final defense
·
The project team needs to give presentation, followed
by viva question
answer session.
3.3 Prescribed Format of the Proposal
·
Introduction
·
Problem Statement
· Objective
· Scope and Limitation
· Methodology
a. Requirement Identification
·
Study of existing system
·
Requirement collection
b. Feasibility Study
·
Technical
·
Operational
·
Economical
c.
Tools
·
Analysis and Design Tools
·
Implementation tools
(Front End, Back End)
·
High level design of Proposed System
(by system flow chart, use cases or other appropriate diagrams
· Gantt Chart to show the project planning.
·
Expected Outcome
3.4 Prescribed Format of the Project
Report
The sequence
in which the project report
material should be arranged is as follows:
· Cover page and Title
·
Candidate's Declaration
· Supervisor's Certificate/ Recommendation
·
Internal, External
Examiners' Approval
· Acknowledgements
·
Executive Summary
· List of Figures
· List of Tables
· Abbreviations
· Table of Contents
·
Main Body
· References / Bibliography
·
Appendix
3.5 Number of Copies to be submitted to the Department
Three hard copies of the report are to be submitted to the Department after corrections done as suggested
by guide/Department at any time when report submission is called by
guide/Department. The total numbers of reports to be prepared are three:
•
One copy to the college
•
One copy for University
•
One copy to candidate
Before taking the final printout, the approval of the concerned guide is mandatory and Suggested corrections, if any, must be incorporated. The reports submitted to the
department/guide(s) must be hard bounded with black cover with golden color
alphabets.
3.5 Standard
to be followed
The report must be printed
on one side only. Please
use a high-resolution printer,preferably a laser printer
with at least 300 dpi.
A. Page Layout
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm
(11.69") long.
The margins must be set as follows:
•
Top = 1 inch
•
Bottom = 1 inch
•
Left = 1.25 inch
•
Right = 1 inch
B. Page Style
•
All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be justified aligned with 1.5 spacing
C. Text Font of Entire Document
•
The entire document should
be in Times New Roman.
•
The font size has to be 12pt throughout
D. Section Headings
•
No more than 3 levels of headings should be used.
•
Font size for the headings will be 16pt, 14pt, 12pt
bold
E. Figures and Tables
•
Position figures and tables
at the tops and bottoms
pages. Tables and figures may be full-page width or may be partial page.
•
Width with wrap on either side.
•
Figure captions should be centered below the figures.
Table captions should be centered
above.
•
Caption font size: Times New Roman
10pt bold
•
Table Numbering: ChapterNo.TableCount (eg. Table 1.1, Table 1.2, Table 3.1, Table 3.5)
•
Figure Numbering: ChapterNo.FigureCount (eg. Figure 2.1, Figure 2.4, Figure 5.1)
F. References
•
For reference students must follow APA (latest version)
format.
4.
Evaluation:
|
Proposal |
Mid-Term Defense |
Final Defense |
Total Marks |
|
10
Points |
30 Points |
60 Points |
100 Points |
4.1 Evaluators:
· Project Supervisor (Mentor
of the project) -40%
· Internal (HOD/Program Coordinator or decided by Coordinator) -20%
· External Supervisor -40%
4.2 Duration (for 1 group)
· Presentation 20 minutes
· Viva 15 minutes
· Demonstration 15 minutes
· Report checking 10 minutes
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