School of Science, Computing, Engineering and Technologies

Unit Outline

COS20031
Computing Technology Design Project
Semester Sep, 2023

Please read this Unit Outline carefully. It includes:

PART A Unit summary
PART B Your Unit in more detail
PART C Further information

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PART A: Unit Summary
Unit Code(s) COS20031

Unit Title Computing Technology Design Project

Duration One Semester or equivalent

Total Contact Hours 48 hours

Requisites:
COS10009 Introduction to Programming
OR
Pre-requisites COS10005 Web Development
OR
COS10026 Computing Technology Inquiry Project

Co-requisites Nil

Concurrent pre- Nil

requisites
Anti-requisites Nil

Assumed knowledge Nil

Credit Points 12.5

Campus/Location Ho Chi Minh City

Mode of Delivery Blended

Assessment Summary Portfolio 100%

Aims
This unit of study takes a project-based approach to a technical challenge provided by an
external partner. Students apply design thinking to a data-focussed project. Students
develop skills in their major discipline while working in a practical context with ethical,
interpersonal and professional considerations typical for workplace environments.

Unit Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit can:
1. Apply a design thinking approach to understand and solve a stakeholder problem.
2. Design and implement a project plan using industry standard project management
and collaboration tools.
3. Apply ethical, professonal and technical considerations in the development of the
project (data management) solution.
4. Effectively discuss project-related considerations and deliverables with stakeholders,
using industry-standard tools.
5. Identify project-related skills requirements, locate suitable resources and acquire the
appropriate skills mostly independently.
6. Contribute to the project development as a respectful and responsible team member.

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Graduate Attributes
This unit may contribute to the development of the following Swinburne Graduate Attributes:
§ Communication 1 - Verbal communication
§ Communication 2 - Communicating using different media
§ Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation
§ Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes
§ Digital literacies 1 – Information literacy
§ Digital Literacies 2 – Technical literacy

Content
• Design thinking
• Decision making
• Team management and collaboration tools
• Database design
• Data storage and management
• Professional and research ethics
• Professional communication, including constructive feedback
• Developing an inclusive and safe team culture
• Major specific content as determined by Project

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PART B: Your Unit in more detail
Unit Improvements
Feedback provided by previous students through the Student Survey has resulted in
improvements that have been made to this unit. Recent improvements include: this unit is
offered for the first time.
Unit Teaching Staff
Name Role Email Consultation Time
Dr Thomas HANG Lecturer [email protected] By email appointment
Learning and Teaching Structure

Activity Total Hours Hours per Week Teaching Period Weeks

Lecture 12 hours 01 hour Weeks 1 to 12

Tutor 12 hours 01 hour Weeks 1 to 12

Workshop 24 hours 02 hours Weeks 1 to 12

Week by Week Schedule
Week
Week Teaching and Learning Activity Student Task or Assessment
Beginning
1 04 Sep Team building Confluence Preparing team agreement

Project proposal
2 11 Sep Project planning and scoping Preparing project proposal
Task management Jira
Relational modelling principles
3 18 Sep Drawing in diagrams.net
diagrams.net
Developing personas and
Design Thinking
empathy maps Applying entities,
Personas
4 25 Sep relationships to project
Entities, identifiers, relationships
Project proposal due on Sunday,
Personas, mission statement
01 Oct 2023 at 23:59 (VN Time).
Applying normalisation to project
Project/team management
5 02 Oct Normalisation Individual assessment 1 due on
Sunday, 08 Oct 2023 at 23:59
(VN Time).
Translating project design into
physical design
Getting started with DBMS Project/team management
6 09 Oct
Implementing design in DBMS Individual assessment 2 due on
Sunday, 15 Oct 2023 at 23:59
(VN Time)

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 Populating database
Data preparation and loading Project/team management
7 16 Oct
/data generation tools Progress Report due on Sunday,
22 Oct 2023 at 23:59 (VN Time)
Implementing use cases
8 23 Oct Queries and Transactions
Project/team management
Adding indexes to project
database
Performance: Project/team management
9 30 Oct
Indexes and their appraisal Individual assessment 3 due on
Sunday, 05 Nov 2023 at 23:59
(VN Time)
Specialised enhancements of
database solutions
Project/team management
10 06 Nov Major-specific work
Individual assessment 4 due on
Sunday, 12 Nov 2023 at 23:59
(VN Time).
Major-specific work/
Finalising work on project, Major specific additions in project
11 13 Nov
documentation and presentation repository
video
+ Project deliverable and
documentation due on Sunday,
Finalising work on project, 26 Nov at 23:59 (VN Time)
12 20 Nov documentation and presentation + Individual assessment 5 due on
video Sunday, 26 Nov at 23:59
(VN Time)
Assessment
a) Assessment Overview
Unit Learning
Individual Outcomes that Assessment Due
Tasks and Details Weighting
or Group this assessment Date
task relates to
1. Portfolio Group 60% 1,2,3,4,5,6 Weeks 1 - 12
2. Portfolio Individual 40% 1,3,5 Weeks 4 - 10
b) Minimum requirements to pass this Unit
To pass this unit, you must:
(i) achieve an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more, and
(ii) work in a team to complete the project to an acceptable standard.
Rubrics will be used to determine if students have met the acceptable standard. The rubrics
are available on Canvas. Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii)
in full, will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

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c) Examinations
If the unit you are enrolled in has an official examination, you will be expected to be
available for the entire examination period including any Special Exam period.
d) Submission Requirements
Assignments and other assessments are generally submitted online through the Canvas
assessment submission system which integrates with the Turnitin plagiarism checking
service.
Please ensure you keep a copy of all assessments that are submitted.
In cases where a hard copy submission is required an Assessment Cover Sheet must be
submitted with your assignment. The standard Assessment Cover Sheet is available from
the Submitting work webpage or www.swinburne.edu.au/studentforms/
e) Extensions and Late Submission
Late Submissions - Unless an extension has been approved from the Unit Convenor, late
submissions will result in a penalty. You will be penalised 10% of your achieved mark for
each working day the task is late, up to a maximum of 5 working days. After 5 working days,
a zero result will be recorded. For example, if a student achieves 90/100 on an assessment
task but the task was submitted two days late. A late penalty of 20% (of that 90/100 mark)
will be applied and the student’s final mark will be recorded as 72/100 (being 90 less
09marks/1st day and another 09 mark/2nd day)
f) Referencing
To avoid plagiarism, you are required to provide a reference whenever you include
information from other sources in your work. Further details regarding plagiarism are
available in Section C of this document under ‘Academic Integrity’.
Referencing conventions required for this unit are: APA-style referencing.
Helpful information on referencing can be found at
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/library/referencing/
g) Groupwork Guidelines
A group assignment is the collective responsibility of the entire group, and if one member is
temporarily unable to contribute, the group should be able to reallocate responsibilities to
keep to schedule. In the event of longer-term illness or other serious problems involving a
member of group, it is the responsibility of the other members to notify immediately the Unit
Convenor or relevant tutor.
Group submissions must be submitted with an Assignment Cover Sheet, signed by all
members of the group.
All group members must be satisfied that the work has been correctly submitted. Any
penalties for late submission will generally apply to all group members, not just the person
who submitted.

Required Textbook(s)
No textbooks

Recommended Reading Materials

The Library has a large collection of resource materials, both texts and current journals. Listed
below are some references that will provide valuable supplementary information to this unit.
It is also recommended that you explore other sources to broaden your understanding.
Connolly & Begg, Database Systems, https://archive.org/details/DatabaseSystemsChegg

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PART C: FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information on any of these topics, refer to Swinburne’s Student

webpage http://www.swinburne.edu.au/student/

Student behaviour and wellbeing

All students are expected to: act with integrity, honesty and fairness; be inclusive, ethical
and respectful of others; and appropriately use University resources, information, equipment
and facilities. All students are expected to contribute to creating a work and study
environment that is safe and free from bullying, violence, discrimination, sexual harassment,
vilification and other forms of unacceptable behaviour.
The Student Charter describes what students can reasonably expect from Swinburne in
order to enjoy a quality learning experience. The Charter also sets out what is expected of
students with regards to your studies and the way you conduct yourself towards other
people and property.
You are expected to familiarise yourself with University regulations and policies and are
obliged to abide by these, including the Student Academic Misconduct Regulations, Student
General Misconduct Regulations and the People, Culture and Integrity Policy. Any student
found to be in breach of these may be subject to disciplinary processes.
Examples of expected behaviours are:
• conducting yourself in teaching areas in a manner that is professional and not
disruptive to others
• following specific safety procedures in Swinburne laboratories, such as wearing
appropriate footwear and safety equipment, not acting in a manner which is
dangerous or disruptive (e.g. playing computer games), and not bringing in food or
drink
• following emergency and evacuation procedures and following instructions given by
staff/wardens in an emergency response

Canvas
You should regularly access the Swinburne learning management system, Canvas, which is
available via the Current Students webpage or https://swinburne.instructure.com/ Canvas is
updated regularly with important unit information and communications.

Communication
All communication will be via your Swinburne email address. If you access your email
through a provider other than Swinburne, then it is your responsibility to ensure that your
Swinburne email is redirected to your private email address.

Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is about taking responsibility for your learning and submitting work that is
honestly your own. It means acknowledging the ideas, contributions and work of others;
referencing your sources; contributing fairly to group work; and completing tasks, tests and
exams without cheating. Swinburne University uses the Turnitin system, which helps to
identify inadequate citations, poor paraphrasing and unoriginal work in assignments that are
submitted via Canvas. Your Unit Convenor will provide further details.

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Plagiarising, cheating and seeking an unfair advantage with regards to an exam or
assessment are all breaches of academic integrity and treated as academic misconduct.
Plagiarism is submitting or presenting someone else’s work as though it is your own without
full and appropriate acknowledgement of their ideas and work. Examples include:
• using the whole or part of computer program written by another person as your own
• using the whole or part of somebody else’s written work in an essay or other
assessable work, including material from a book, journal, newspaper article, a
website or database, a set of lecture notes, current or past student’s work, or any
other person’s work
• poorly paraphrasing somebody else’s work
• using a musical composition or audio, visual, graphic and photographic work created
by another
• using realia created by another person, such as objects, artefacts, costumes, models
• submitting assessments that have been developed by another person or service
(paid or unpaid), often referred to as contract cheating
• presenting or submitting assignments or other work in conjunction with another
person or group of people when that work should be your own independent work.
This is regardless of whether or not it is with the knowledge or consent of the other
person(s). Swinburne encourages students to talk to staff, fellow students and other
people who may be able to contribute to a student’s academic work but where an
independent assignment is required, the work must be the student’s own
• enabling others to plagiarise or cheat, including letting another student copy your
work or by giving access to a draft or completed assignment
The penalties for academic misconduct can be severe, ranging from a zero grade for an
assessment task through to expulsion from the unit and, in the extreme, exclusion from
Swinburne.

Student support
Swinburne offers a range of services and resources to help you complete your studies
successfully. Your Unit Convenor or studentHQ can provide information about the study
support and other services available for Swinburne students.

Special consideration
If your studies have been adversely affected due to serious and unavoidable circumstances
outside of your control (e.g. severe illness or unavoidable obligation), you may be able to
apply for special consideration (SPC).
Applications for Special Consideration will be submitted via the SPC online tool normally no
later than 5.00pm on the third working day after the submission/sitting date for the relevant
assessment component.

Accessibility needs
Sometimes students with a disability, a mental health or medical condition or significant
carer responsibilities require reasonable adjustments to enable full access to and
participation in education. Your needs can be addressed by Swinburne's AccessAbility
Services by negotiating and distributing an 'Education Access Plan'. The plan makes
recommendations to University teaching and examination staff. You must notify
AccessAbility Services of your disability or condition within one week after the
commencement of your unit to allow the University to make reasonable adjustments.

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Review of marks
An independent marker reviews all fail grades for major assessment tasks. In addition, a
review of assessment is undertaken if your final result is between 45 and 49 or within 2
marks of any grade threshold.
You can ask the Unit Convenor to check the result for an assessment item or your final
result. Your request must be made in writing within 10 working days of receiving the result.
The Unit Convenor can discuss the marking criteria with you and check the aggregate
marks of assessment components to identify if an error has been made. This is known as
local resolution.
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the local resolution, you can lodge a formal
complaint.

Feedback, complaints and suggestions

In the first instance, discuss any issues with your Unit Convenor. If your concerns are not
resolved or you would prefer not to deal with your Unit Convenor, then you can complete a
feedback form. See https://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/feedback/
Advocacy
Should you require assistance with any academic issues, University statutes, regulations,
policies and procedures, you are advised to seek advice from Academic Department and
Student HQ.

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