These pages serve as an entry point for information about ITEC808, ITEC809, ITEC810, and ITEC811. The page you are now reading will always exist, so you can safely bookmark it, but its contents may migrate to other places, in which case they will be linked to from here. A link to the official Unit Outline page can be found in the Resources section below.
Note that we will be using Moodle as the central web-based communication point for this unit, so if you haven't already, you should head on over there (just click that Moodle link) and make sure you are up to date with the postings in the News Forums. You should be able to login to Moodle using your MQ student ID and password; if you experience any problems, contact the Faculty of Science IT Help Desk.
There are four related ITEC Information Technology Project Units: ITEC808, ITEC809, ITEC810 and ITEC811. All share a number of resources. Differences between the requirements for the units will be noted where relevant; just make sure you remember which of the units you are enrolled in. Most students are enrolled in ITEC810, the standard Information Technology Project Unit; find out how the four units are related at the link below.
From this page you can find out more about the following topics:
The core of this unit is a project. Most of the assignments in the course are designed to help you manage your project from start to completion. Every student has to do a project, and much of the responsibility for identifying your project lies with you. Faculty members in the Department of Computing offer a range of projects you might consider, but it's also possible for you to suggest a project, either by talking to the Unit Convenor to determine who might make a good supervisor for a project that addresses the problem you want to solve, or by approaching a likely supervisor directly. Note that, if you do want to suggest a project of your own, it must not be something you have already done: your project is a new piece of work.
Currently available projects are listed here.
Note that you need to have made substantial progress on identifying your project by the end of Week 1, and are expected to report on this at the class on Friday 27th February.
Classes will be held in building C5A room 232, with the exception of the end-of-semester workshop in Week 13: see here for more information on this.
Classes are scheduled to be held fortnightly on Friday evenings from 6pm to 9pm, starting in Week 1 of semester (i.e. Friday 27th February). Since one of the scheduled class slots (Week 7) falls on a public holiday, an additional class is scheduled in Week 10 (on Friday 15th May) to make up for this.
This unit focusses in large part on communication skills, but we don't have the time or space to go into a great deal of detail on many fine details, not to cater for the widely differing needs of a diverse group of students. If you would like to improve your facility for writing in particular, may want to consider enrolling in one or more of the following units on offer in the Department of Linguistics, either concurrently with this unit or before taking it:
The first of these is particularly useful if your first language is not English; the second is useful both for those whose first language is English and those for whom it is not.
See this page for an explanation of how the assessment for the unit works. Up-to-date marks for the unit so far are available here.
See this page for information about the end of semester workshop.
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