Criteria for Our Project Solution

Summary: Criteria for Our Project Solution

Last night we reviewed the results from our class survey and were able to begin to list some criteria in order to find a solution or plan for completing our project.

Heading List

• Criteria
• Using Levels as Part of Our Solution
• The Assignment

Criteria

The following criteria were identified:

• Must be finished by semester's end - May 9 is last class. Drop-dead date is May 12.
• Must be instructionally sound
• High need for consistent look and feel
• Must include directory path and naming conventions for support documents
• Should follow accessible "instructional design field" methods for citations and references
• Possible minimum/maximum lengths
  • If you advocate this as an instructionally-based requirement, please provide references to supporting research.
  • If you advocate this as a technically-based requirement, please provide rationale.
• Anything else?

Susan and John are checking through the survey to make sure all criteria have been identified. In looking at the list today, I realize I forgot to include the criteria for our target audience.

Using Levels as Part of Our Solution

Remember, you can define levels of completion. In other words, completion level 1 must be achieved in order to have a deliverable for the project. Other levels can be attempted if there is time before the final project deadline. Here is an example:

• Completion level 1 - Word doc with styles correctly marked and basic style sheet; support material self-contained
• Completion level 2 - more elaborate style sheet for Word
• Completion level 3 - HTML with basic CSS; support material self-contained
• Completion level 4 - more elaborate CSS for HTML
• Completion level 5 - support material integrated into HTML document structure

This can be one way to mitigate risk in some projects.

The Assignment

Within your groups, come up with at least one solution that addresses our criteria.

• Send the solutions to me and I will email them to everyone.
• This will give people a chance to incorporate other ideas into their own solution.
• We have until next Tuesday.
• Next Tuesday (March 28), we will meet at 6:30 PM EST to discuss the solutions.