CIS8100 Assignment 4PROJECT
(FINAL) & REPORT
Description
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Marks out of
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Wtg(%)
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Word limit
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Due date
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Assignment 4
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100
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55
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5000
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6 June 2014
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Assignment 4 specifications
This Assignment 4 builds on
the research and analysis conducted for your proposed e-commerce strategy and preliminary
prototype e-commercebuilt in Assignment 2. Assignment 4consists of THREE tasks.
TASK 1 –
Assignment 4 Journal
In this task you are
required to maintain a journal of the activities and research associated with Assignment
4 and to submit the completed journal with this assignment.
(10 marks)
TASK 2 –
Prototype E-commerce website
Develop and populate the prototypee-commerce websitefor which
you prepared a strategic analysis and preliminary prototype e-commerce website
using Joomla in Assignment 2.
Your e-commerce website
should contain, at a minimum, the
following functionality:
1. An aesthetically pleasing, easy- to-use interface
2. A product catalogue
3. A shopping cart
4. An order form and payment interface
5. Customer registration
6. Discussion forum
7. Business policy statements on
security, privacy, confidentiality and refunds and returns
In building your prototype
e-Commerce website using Joomla!2.5 make use of one or more of following online
resources:(1) Cloudaccess.net Knowledge
base for Joomla!2.5 ,
(2) Joomla! explained : your step-by-step guide / Stephen Burge (can be purchased as a Kindle Edition, ebook or in hard copy) (3),Official Joomla! Book 2nd Edn Jennifer Marriot &Ein Waring as a Kindle Edition as ebook or in hard copy and (4)Joomla! Beginner’sGuide 2.5 free e-bookand any other related Joomla! resources which you identify as relevant for completing this assignment.
(2) Joomla! explained : your step-by-step guide / Stephen Burge (can be purchased as a Kindle Edition, ebook or in hard copy) (3),Official Joomla! Book 2nd Edn Jennifer Marriot &Ein Waring as a Kindle Edition as ebook or in hard copy and (4)Joomla! Beginner’sGuide 2.5 free e-bookand any other related Joomla! resources which you identify as relevant for completing this assignment.
Task 2 will be assessed for
completeness and working functionality based on an inspection of your
e-commerce website (you are required to provide the URL of the Joomla!2.5 website
that was assigned to you for Assignment 2 in Assignment 4).
(50 marks)
TASK 3 –
Business Case Report for your e-commerce strategy
You are required to provide
a business case forthe e-commerce
strategy you have adopted for your organization and reflect on your experiences
and insight arising from the development of the accompanying e-commerce websitein
terms of the following:
1. Describe the e-commerce website features and
functionality that have been implemented in Task 2. (500 words approx.)
2. List any additional features incorporated in your
website over and above the specified requirements (200 words approx.)
3. Provide a site map of your e-commerce website in the
form of a tree diagram that shows hierarchical structure of your e-commerce
website.
4. List any essential features not implemented in your
e-commerce website and describe any major deviations from your original plans
outlined in Assignment 2 (400 words approx.)
5. Describe the features that are likely to be
implemented in your e-commerce website in the next phase of the development
process to further enhance the usability and functionality of your e-commerce
site, and how you would use the Joomla CMS to facilitate this (400 words
approx.)
6. Briefly describe and reflect on the challenges
encountered in using Joomla!as the development environment for your e-commerce
website (400 words approx.)
7. Describe how you will address security and privacy
issues in your e-commerce website (500 words approx.)
8. Describe how you will address backend integration and
legacy system issues associated with your e-commerce website (500 words approx.)
9. List and briefly describe the hardware and software
required to establish your e-commerce website as a live and fully functional
entity, and provide a table of the estimated costs (hardware, software, human
resources, ongoing maintenance, etc.) (400 words approx.)
10. Provide and justify a plan for a live implementation
of your proposed e-commerce web site including a prioritised timeline in a
table (400 words approx.)
11. Identify and describe the expected benefits that will
arise from implementing your e-commerce website (400 words approx.)
12. List and briefly describe how you used any links and
resources to research and build your e-commerce site for this assignment (400
words approx.)
(40 marks)
TOTAL MARKS: 100
Submission
Requirements
Your solution
Your solution
should conform to the guidelines laid out in Summers, J & Smith, B 2010, Communication
skills handbook, 3rd edn, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Queensland.
Cautions
Originality of
submission
· This assignment must be the expression of your own work. It
is acceptable to discuss course content with others to improve your
understanding and clarify requirements, but solutions to assignment questions
must be done on your own. This also means that it is not sufficient to merely
paraphrase the entire assignment content from a textbook or other source. Your
assignment answers need be a reflection and synthesis of your research of the
associated topics. This should be evident from the use
of the references listed in your report in the body of your report to support
argument and discussion presented for Task 3 Business Case report.CIS 3009 SEMESTER 3, 2013
· You need to demonstrate your understanding of associated
topics for each assignment. You must not copy from anyone, including tutors and
fellow students, nor provide copies of your work to others. Assignments that do
not adhere to this requirement will be deemed as being the result of collusion
or plagiarism. This may lead to severe academic penalties as outlined in
Academic Regulation 5.10 of the USQ Handbook. It is your own responsibility
to ensure the integrity of your work. Refer to the Faculty of Business policy
for further details.
· An indiscriminate overuse of incorrectly referenced or
cited web pages in your assignment will result in poor marks.
Late submission of
assignment work
Late assignments will
be penalised unless permission has been granted by the course leader BEFORE the
assignment due date. Late assignments may be penalised by reducing the
allocated mark by 5% per day late.
Other submission
requirements
1)
Formatting
a. Page size should be A4. Allow for TOP MARGIN –
2.5 cm; BOTTOM MARGIN –2.5 cm; SIDE MARGINS – 2.5 cm
b. Major headings should be in upper case, 14 point
Times New Roman Bold
c. Minor headings should be in lower case, 12 point
Times New Roman Bold
d. Body text should be formatted to 12 point, Times
New Roman
e. Use single or one and half line spacing
f.
Assignments
should be in one of the following formats:
i.
Microsoft
Word (2010)
ii.
Microsoft
Word (2007)
iii.
Rich Text
Format (RTF)
iv.
Portable
Document Format (PDF)
2)
BEFORE
submitting your FINAL version of the assignment to the online submissionsystem
(EASE) you must upload your draft copies to the online TURNITIN system
(see the course StudyDesk for details on accessing and using the TURNITIN
system).
a.
TURNITIN producesan Originality
Report that shows your overall similarity index. If the index is less than 25
percent, your assignment is considered to be plagiarism-free. If not, you will
have to rework your assignment, using the feedback in the Originality Report as
a guide, and then resubmit it to TURNITIN for another round of checks until you
are satisfied that it meets the requirements.
3)
The file
naming guidelines are as follows:
a. It is important that you use this convention to
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b. Replace ‘familyname’ with YOUR family or
surname
c. Replace ‘studentnumber’ with YOUR student
number (which starts with ‘00’)
d. Replace ‘XXXXXXXXXX’ with
i.
Task 1
ii.
Task 2
iii.
Task 3
iv.
TURNITIN
4)
Once you have obtained a
plagiarism-free assignment you should submit the Originality Report (in pdf
format) along with your FINAL assignment (in WORD or pdf format) electronically
through the online assignment submission system (EASE). No hardcopy submissions will be accepted. See the course
StudyDesk for instructions on uploading your assignment.
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