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COIT20250 - E-Business Systems Assignment - Central Queensland University, Australia

Assessment 1: E-Portfolio

Length: Each e-portfolio should be around 300 words.

Assessment Objectives: This assessment relates to the following unit learning outcomes:

- Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.

- Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.

Assessment Task: This is an individual assessment. In other words, the e-portfolio is to be maintained by every student individually. The e-portfolio assessment aims to enhance your weekly learning and teaching as per the weekly topic and maximise your engagement with the unit resources (please see weekly topics under Schedule in this unit profile). As a learning tool, e-portfolio will enable you to accumulate evidence of your learning during the term. For this assessment, you will produce 6 e-portfolio documents, one for each week from teaching Week 3-8. For each weekly e-portfolio, you are required to research at least three references (two academic and one general; and published within the last 5 years) that are relevant to the topics covered in that week. You will briefly describe and relate the references to the topics covered in that week. You will enrich your weekly e-portfolio with relevant illustrations, images, video clips, and other multimedia applications. The length of each weekly e-portfolio should be approximately 300 words.

Each e-portfolio should be developed weekly but needs to be submitted as a single MS Word document in Week-8. For more detailed information on this assessment, please refer to the Moodle unit website.

Assessment 2: Presentation

Length: As appropriate but not more than 30 PPT slides.

Assessment Objectives: This assessment relates to the following unit learning outcomes:

Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.

Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.

Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.

Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.

Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.

Assessment Task: This is a group-based assessment for on-campus students.

E-Business is the main driver for any business today. E-Business related tools, technologies, and applications have been rapidly changing over the last decade. To be competitive in the market, e-business system users need to follow up on the innovations and new industry developments in a timely manner.

The aim of this assessment is to improve your industry based practical research skills as well as team-based work and learning. In this assessment, as future ICT professionals, you are required to research e-business systems related innovations and new developments in the industry. You need to research industry magazines (online and offline) and websites focused on innovations and developments in e-business systems. You will prepare a presentation as a group of 4 members to present in the class. Your presentation should cover the contents from an industry and practical point of view rather than theory. Your presentation document should be prepared using Microsoft PowerPoint (maximum 30 slides including references).

Distance students: The time of the presentation and communication technology employed will be determined on an individual basis. Please contact the unit coordinator well in advance.

Assessment 3: E-Business Prototype Website Solution and Report

Length: 3500 words.

Assessment Objectives: This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:

Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.

Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.

Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.

Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.

Assessment Task: This is your major assessment and can be done in a group of 4 members. The aim of this major assessment is to give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate the knowledge that you have gained in this unit as well as enhance your skills and experience by developing an authentic prototype website solution for a small business. Hence, this assessment gives you an excellent opportunity to learn by doing and working in a team environment. These days e-business websites are an integral part of any business operation for competitiveness as well as survival reasons. We have high expectations of you and therefore, as future ICT professionals, you need to be able to show your intellectual capability by creating a prototype website solution for a small business of your choice in any industry type. This is very critical, so you should use cutting edge and state of the art technologies available to carry out your required work.

There are two parts in this assessment:

Part-1: E-Business Website Prototype Solution (500 words)

You as a group need to develop an e-business prototype website solution using any open source platform such as Joomla CMS any cloud-based web development platform such as Wix, Shopify etc. for a small e-business in any industry of your choice. You are encouraged to use critical thinking, innovative ideas, and your imagination to produce your e-business prototype website solution.

As a part of your e-business prototype website solution, you are required to configure your website and design a homepage. You need to configure extensions like contact us, catalogue, shopping cart, customer registration, user login, checkout and any other extensions appropriate for your business model. In this part of the assessment, you are also required to describe your group project reflections which include the following.

Briefly describe the challenges you had encountered in designing your e-business website (250 words).

List and briefly describe the resources you had researched or used for designing your e- business website (250 words).

Part-2: E-Business Report (3000 words)

You need to write an e-business report on the proposed business of your choice. This report should include (but is not limited to) the following elements such as

e-business proposal/planning (including mission statement, target audience, intended market space, strategic analysis, e-commerce presence map),

e-business model(s),

e-business marketing,

e-business infrastructure (such as hardware, software, resource requirements),

e-business payment system(s),

e-business legal, security, privacy and other issues, and

e-business benefits that will be derived from the solution.

This group assessment will assess your understanding of the technological infrastructure and functional requirements of a small e-business website and it will allow you to demonstrate your ability to research, analyse, synthesise and evaluate the business, social, legal and technical issues associated with a small e-business. It is expected that you will demonstrate your learning, integration and incorporation of the knowledge that you have acquired in this unit to produce a high quality e-business report.

You are required to use at least 10 references including 5 academic references for the e-business report.