Back to Find Units Page

Unit of Study ISY10209 - Web Development I (2015)

Show me unit information for year

Unit Snapshot

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit provides students with an introduction to the essential elements of website development from design to implementation. Students will be introduced to the use and reuse of media resources and program code, applying common structures and integrating multimedia elements (text, graphics, audio, animation). Web standards and current developments will be applied to web page development. Accessibility, copyright, privacy, ethical and cultural issues related to web-site development will be reviewed and implemented.

Unit content

  1. Introducing web development / HTML basics
  2. CSS
  3. Adding graphics
  4. CSS Page layout
  5. More CSS and Hyperlinks
  6. Tables
  7. Website organisation
  8. HTML forms
  9. A brief look at Javascript
  10. Web development issues
  11. Website development
  12. Web promotion

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 1 Session 1
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1
Melbourne N/A Session 1
Online Session 1,  3 Session 1
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A Session 1
Sydney N/A Session 1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 describe the essential processes of web development
2 interpret and apply a web mark-up language
3 apply written communication skills to a website
4 recognise and implement ethical, legal and societal issues related to web development
5 demonstrate the ability to build efficient and usable websites.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. describe the essential processes of web development
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  2. interpret and apply a web mark-up language
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  3. apply written communication skills to a website
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  4. recognise and implement ethical, legal and societal issues related to web development
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  5. demonstrate the ability to build efficient and usable websites.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks)
Workshop on-site 2 hour (12 weeks)
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Teaching method
Workshop on-site 2 hour (12 weeks)
Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks)
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Teaching method
Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks)
Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks)
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Teaching method
Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks)
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Teaching method
Structured online learning
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Teaching method
Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks)
Tutorial on-site 2 hour (12 weeks)
Assessment
Web page 15%
Web page 15%
Web page 30%
Exam: closed book 40%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.