Unit Synopsis
This unit and its follow-on MMST13018 Collaborative Digital Media Project Part B provide a capstone opportunity to apply your accumulated experiences, skills and knowledge—especially those acquired to date in the Bachelor of Digital media course. You will opt in for a challenging real-life project to be undertaken for an authentic client. Working collaboratively as part of a team you will research client needs, analyse project requirements and propose solutions to the aims and objectives identified. Only initial creative concepts are presented by the team in this unit. The emphasis is to apply generic project development methods and planning processes to produce a production plan. This becomes the blue print for the production stage which ensues with the same team arrangements in the consecutive term. That is why, when you undertake this unit you must be prepared to enroll in MMST13018 Collaborative Digital Media Project Part B in the following term.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisite: Minimum 72 credit points This unit is only available to students enrolled in CU23 Bachelor of Multimedia Studies or CC24 Bachelor of Digital Media Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Group Work | 30% |
| 2. Project (applied) | 45% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 25% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 70.59% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
The guidance tailored to the needs of each team for successful project planning provides a basis for project success.
Continue to allocate ample time to meet with each team regularly to provide project-relevant advice.
The consolidation of multicampus and distance class timetables has enabled even more timely and effective regular breakout room team sessions via Zoom.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Improve organisation of learning material
Improve the systematisation or indexing of the learning resources so that teams who are working various schedules with their clients can readily find learning resources relevant to the stage their project is at.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- collaborate as a productive and reflective member of a team
- communicate professionally and effectively with all project stakeholders including participating in establishment and maintenance of development records
- define a digital media project; specify its requirements and its scope so that it that meets project objectives
- participate in proposing a team-designed solution using media-specific pre-production processes and visualisation methods and a detailed project plan including a Gantt chart.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Group Work | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Group Work | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||