COIT20250

Assessment 3: Individual Case Study

Due Date: Week 12 Friday 11:45 PM AEST

Weighting: 40%

Assessment Task:

This is an individual assessment.

Each of you will analyse a given case study and identify the issues arising from the case study. Based
on the issues found in the case study, you will identify three e-business use cases (for example,
Predictive Maintenance). You will then choose as many emerging technologies as appropriate to
address those use cases. You can choose any emerging technologies that fit the use cases, even the
ones not covered in the lectures.

You will write a report illustrating how the chosen emerging technologies would fit into and address
the requirements of the identified e-business use cases.

In the main body of the report, you will include the following topics.
1. A background study of the chosen emerging technologies
o You need to describe how the chosen emerging technologies evolved, their underlying
designs, working principles, functions, and capabilities.
2. A brief description of the future potentials of the chosen emerging technologies
o You need to discuss the future applications of the chosen emerging technologies in e-business
in general.
3. An illustration of how the chosen emerging technologies would fit into the identified e-
business use cases
o You need to illustrate what issues of the identified use cases would be resolved by the chosen
emerging technologies.
4. Details of how the chosen emerging technologies would address the requirements of the
identified use cases
o You need to elaborate how the chosen emerging technologies would interoperate to fulfill the
requirements of the identified use cases.

Please note: Discussions for topics 1-2 should be generic, while discussions for topics 3-4 must be in
the context of the Assessment 3 Case Study.

The length of the report should be 3000 words. Your report must have a Cover Page (Unit Id,
Assessment number/name, Student names, Student Ids, Campus, and Tutor name) and a Table of
Contents (this should be MS word generated). A standard report structure, including an executive
summary, must be adhered to. You are required to review more than 10 articles (including at least 4
academic references) relevant to the chosen use cases and emerging technologies.

Caution: ALL assessment submissions will be checked for similarity by Turnitin. If are found to be
involved in plagiarism, contract cheating or any other kind of academic misconduct, you may face
penalties from zero marks for the assignment to fail grade in the unit, or even exclusion from the
university. Please make yourself familiar with the University’s Student Academic Integrity Policy
and Procedure which is available in the policy portal https://www.cqu.edu.au/policy.

Assessment Submission:

Each of you must upload the written report to Moodle as a Microsoft Word file by the above due date.
It is the responsibility of the students to submit the correct final versions of their assessment items.

Assessment Criteria:

You will be assessed based on your ability to demonstrate understanding of the emerging digital
technologies, critically evaluate their future impacts, and use those technologies to solve current and
forthcoming e-business problems.

The marking criteria for this assessment are as follows.

The marking rubric for this assessment is given in the following page.
 Criteria Quality
High Distinction Distinction Credit Pass Fail
(85-100%) (75-84%) (65 -74%) (50-64%) (<50%)
Executive 2.55–3 2.25–2.52 1.95–2.22 1.5–1.92 <1.5
summary Covered background Covered Covered background Covered background Missed most
information and all background information most information and findings and not
findings clearly. information and findings without some findings clear.
most findings clarity. clearly.
clearly.
Table of 1.7–2 1.5–1.68 1.3–1.48 1–1.28 <1
contents Used decimal One feature Two features Three or more ToC is missing.
notation. Included all missing. missing. features missing.
headings and page
numbers. Used ToC
auto-generation.
Introduction 2.55–3 2.25–2.52 1.95–2.22 1.5–1.92 <1.5
Set the scene for the Set the scene for Covered most parts Covered some parts Most parts are
report and described the report and with clarity. with clarity. missing and not
the purpose very described the clear.
clearly. purpose clearly.
Background 5.1–6 4.5–5.04 3.9–4.44 3–3.84 <3
information Covered all parts Covered all parts Covered most parts Covered some parts Failed to cover most
about the chosen with detailed with detailed with detailed with detailed parts and not clear.
emerging explanations. explanations. But explanations. explanations.
technologies there is some room
for improvement.
Future 5.1–6 4.5–5.04 3.9-4.44 3-3.84 <3
potentials of the Covered all major Covered all major Covered most of the Covered some major Failed to cover most
chosen emerging applications with applications with major applications applications with of the major
technologies very clear clear explanations. with clear clear explanations. applications and not
explanations. But there is some explanations. clear.
room for
improvement.
How the chosen 3.4–4 3–3.36 2.6 – 2.96 2–2.56 <2
emerging Provided very good Provided good Provided Provided Failed to provide
technologies justifications for all justifications for justifications for justifications for justifications for
would fit into the chosen technologies most of the chosen most of the chosen some of the chosen most of the chosen
identified use with clarity. technologies with technologies with technologies with technologies and no
cases clarity. clarity. clarity. clarity.
How the chosen 8.5–10 7.5–8.4 6.5–7.4 5–6.4 <5
emerging Provided convincing Provided Provided Provided convincing Failed to provide
technologies explanations for all convincing explanations for most explanations for explanations for
would address chosen technologies. explanations for of the chosen some of the chosen most of the chosen
the requirements most of the chosen technologies but technologies. technologies and
of the identified technologies. some of them are not not convincing.
use cases convincing.
Conclusion 2.55–3 2.25–2.52 1.95–2.22 1.5–1.92 <1.5
Stated the summary Stated the summary Stated the summary Stated the summary Both summary of
of the report and of the report and of the report and of the report without the report and
concluding remarks concluding remarks, concluding remarks clarity and concluding remarks
with clarity but there is some but did not include concluding remarks are missing.
room for enough details. are missing.
improvement.
References 2.55–3 2.25–2.52 1.95–2.22 1.5–1.92 <1.5
All references are All references are More than 10 Not all references are No reference list or
listed and cited listed and cited references were used listed or cited but citation or too many
according to Harvard according to with at least four there are no referencing errors.
referencing style. Harvard referencing academic resources. referencing errors. Less than four
More than 10 very style. More than 10 There are minor academic resources
good references were references were referencing errors. are used.
used with at least used with at least
four very good four good quality
quality academic academic resources.
resources.