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BISM7255 Business Information Systems Analysis and Design
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT - WEIGHTING: 25%
Computer-based Assessment
Software App and Mendix Reflection
Assignment task
Starting in the Teaching Week after the break, the learning and teaching in BISM7255 will be in
Blended Learning Mode with a particular focus on the no-code/ low-code application Mendix. This is
the core part of the Work-Integrated Learning (WIL).
To have a final assessment of the student’s learning, a low-code business application (app) developed
and then reflected on in a journal. Particularly, students must first develop the app to be able to write a
reflective journal about their low-code development work. It is the final assessment piece for the course.
The app is the software artifact created in the Medix lectures. It must be
1) Fully working, deployed, and with meaningful data.
2) complete regarding the customer requirements as elicited during the course,
3) include indigenous perspectives and values,
4) following the design principles regarding style and layout by the client, and
5) developed using the low-code platform capabilities as per the teaching.
See the details in the rubric.
The reflective journal:
Students are expected to write in their reflective journals about their significant Mendix learning
experiences. This means they should reflect on the content, meaning, and value of the experience in
learning coding and app development. It is important in the reflection to personally assess how the
learning improves their future careers and career prospects (e.g., as a Business Analyst, Product Owner).
In the form of a table, the reflection needs to address which Mendix features were used, what challenges
and development issues were encountered, and which metacognitive skills students developed.
Finally, the journal should end with a reflective account of what and how students embedded the
Indigenous perspectives and Indigenous cultural values.
To better appreciate this assignment, it needs to be clear what a reflective journal is and how it is used
for teaching and learning purposes. Based on the article by Plack et al. (2005) (p. 200), a reflection is
defined “as the process of examining an experience” undertaken as “an internal process that helps the
individual refine his or her understanding of an experience”. An expected and desired outcome of the
reflection is that “it may lead to changes in the individual’s perspective”. Ultimately, reflections “result
in new insights and deeper understandings of [a person’s] experiences” … and … “through this
analytical process that the reflective [person] … develops a change in perspective”.
The Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority explains that reflective journaling helps students
achieve core skills of learning. In general, a learning journal can document a variety of information,
ideas, thoughts, learning strategies, and working processes, and should contain decisions made and
reasons or justifications for these decisions. Because the learning journal is reflective, it informs further
learning or future experiences. It enables students to identify their growth throughout a subject or
experience and sets goals to develop metacognitive skills.
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It is recommended to structure, with the relevant headings, the journal into the following four sections:
1. Introduction
In your own words, describe the client, the development task, and the version of the app you used.
Word limit for this section: 30-75 words
2. Learning Experiences Table
In your own words, complete the table.
You must have exactly 5 rows. Turn the orientation to landscape, and the table must fit into one A$
page with 11 font, 1.0 line spacing, no full sentences but bullet point style, use bullet points symbol.
Feature in
your app
(1) Development
activity and
challenge or mastery
(2) Use of which low-code
platform capabilities
unique to your app
(3) the meta-cognitive skills
developed or used
(ability to learn to learn)
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3. Indigenous Perspectives and Indigenous cultural values
In your own words, reflect on what and how the indigenous cultural values and perspectives of Sharoma
Aboriginal Corporation are embedded in the Mendix app. Explain your answer in light of the app you
developed.
Word limit for this section: 250 words +-10% words
It is expected that the reflective journal will be around 750 words (tables and narrative) to present the
learning and impact reflections. However, the word limit is not considered as a specific criterion in the
marking. This means that an assignment with only 500 words but written concisely and focused tightly
on the reflections and insights made might be of better quality than a longer journal.
Hence, students should dedicate time to revise and improving their writing to clearly achieve a
reflection, not a simple reporting of past experiences.
Hints: We found that longer texts are not better assignments. A longer journal means that the student
includes a lot of descriptions. Yet, the assignment asks you to reflect. Reflections are shorter because
they articulate your own awareness of how you think.
Markers want to read your personal reflections – anything that applies to anyone is not a personal
account. Similarly, anything that is general knowledge on Mendix or low-code is not a personal account.
Analysing and understanding yourself better through the reflections will make you a better learner for
the ‘next’ innovation.
Layout
The assignment must have a cover pages with the title of the assignment, student name and ID.
Use the following format & presentation for the text outside the table:
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− Times New Roman
− Size 11 font
− 1.15 line spacing
− Left aligned
− Normal margins (2.54 cm)
− Number all pages
Requirements for the app
Requirements completeness:
1) Welcome page to the app that serves as the starting point for the user
2) A section that presents the business (aka the About Us page).
3) Requirements shared with students and teachers in the Week 3 design sprint, for example, the sign-up for
netball clinics and the pathway program, member profile, learning and homework section with video
upload, donation and payment option.
User interface design:
Layout: organizing areas of the app interface for users to build familiarity with the app
1. Systematic layout with sections clearly marked
2. Consistent gestalt of the app’s pages
Navigation: consistent moving around in the app for users
3. Navigation menus
4. Consistent use of the navigation elements across the app’s pages
Content awareness: ability of the app interface to make the user aware of the information it contains
5. Page titles and headings
6. Meaningful field headings and texts
Aesthetics: designing elements that are pleasing to the eye
7. Font styles and sizes as appropriate for a mobile app
8. Color choices in alignment with the cooperate identify guidelines of the not-for profit
Minimal user effort: it refers to a user’s minimum amount of effort to get a task done
9. User can complete a task within three clicks.
10. Only relevant elements and design choices included (no design overload)
Selction of Mendix features to be included in the app:
Simple - versus- Advance
1) Static images vs. Dynamic images
2) Registration information is displayed on the screen
vs. Excel download of registration information
3) One-layer microflow design vs. Multi-layer microflow design
4) Minimal data input vs. Rich data input
5) Inclass, instructor layout vs. Students layout
Submission Format and Process
This assessment task evaluates student’s abilities, skills, and knowledge without the aid of Artificial
Intelligence (AI). Students are advised that the use of AI technologies to develop responses is strictly
prohibited and may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct.
In cases of reasonable doubt and suspicion of students having used any aid of AI technologies in the
creation of the assessment, the written self-reflection is replaced by a 10 min oral exam via zoom
during the second week of the examination period.
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Reflective Essay:
The assignment must be submitted electronically via turn-it-in through the Online Submission Folder
on the course Blackboard site. Files submitted as email attachments will not be accepted.
Format: Word File ----- NO PDFs
You must include screenshots as an appendix of:
Put a max of two screenshots on one A4 page; each screen must have a caption explaining what the
screenshot shows
1. each page of the app
2. the domain model
3. each microflow
4. published app to demonstrate that data is entered and have data included
5. a choice of other screenshots to showcase the app (max. 5 screenshots)
App:
Students must submit their Mendix App created as part of the WIL project.
Students are asked to add the tutor as a team member to the App by 30 May 2023. It will be done in
class. Students can continue working on the app until the due date.
Name of the app:
Student ID (8 digits) and first and last name. No spaces → use underscore. For example,
“44191384_Michael_Smith”.
Facilitators will help you with naming the app in the seminar. We do this in Week 7 and Week 8.
To submit your app, you need to add the marker as SCRUM MASTER (second Scrum Master):
1) Go to the Mendix platform.
2) Go to Developer Portal and select on the left side COLLABORATE there select Team
3) Now you can invite team members. Click on the blue button that says “Invite member"
4) A new screen opens with the title: “Invite Users to [name of the app] App”
5) Enter the email address bism7255_tutors@business.uq.edu.au into the entry field where promoted
6) Click “Add to List”
7) Select the role for the marker as “SCRUM MASTER”
8) Follow all the steps until the invitation is sent, and a confirmation is displayed that the invitation
has been sent.
Submission date: 5 June 2023 at 10am
The assignment will remain open for late submission, but late submission penalties will apply in
accordance with the electronic course profile.
This also applies to the student app -- if a student has not submitted the Mendix App (added the tutor as
a Scrum Master) then the submission is considered “incomplete,” and late submission penalties apply.
References
Margaret Plack, Maryanne Driscoll, Sylvene Blissett, Raymond Mckenna, Thomas P Plack (2005) A
method for assessing reflective journal writing: Journal of Allied Health 34(4):199-208.
Materials provided by the Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority; http://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/
Matook, Sabine, Wang, Yazhu Maggie, Koeppel, Nuria and Guerin, Simon (2021). Experiential
learning in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) projects for metacognition: Integrating theory with
practice. Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Virtual, 6-10 December 2021.
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MARKING RUBRIC – Total 25 marks
Criteria Fail Meets Expectations Very Good
Use of AI for essay writing
Essays that include text generated from Artificial Intelligence (AI) large-scale language models (LLM)
such as ChatGPT are prohibited. When the marker has the justified belief that a student submits such an
AI-generated essay, the mark given for assignment 3 is zero marks.
Marking Rubric with a focus on the Mendix App → 15 Marks
The marking of the essay is app is based on the app students created as part of the WIL. The app
implementation follows the client's requirements of the app. Throughout the semester, these requirements
are elicited and clarified.
If a student has no app developed, then the student cannot write a reflective essay about the experiences in
doing so. Hence, it is expected that the following requirements are met.
These are the requirements for the app. If these requirements are not met the essay is not marked and the
mark for assignment 3 is zero.
• For assignment 3, each student must develop an app.
• The app must be based on the blank app with the software Mendix.
• The app needs to comply with the client’s requirements (color schema, context, and domain, features,
Mendix functionalities, as done in the seminar)
The app is a creative product, and variations between the app of one student to other students are
expected.
If there are questions – in Weeks 12 and 13, students are given the opportunity to showcase their
app, and teaching staff can confirm if an app meets the assignment requirements.
• The app needs to include data (for example, about the pathway program, sample clinics, staff, and
students, trainers – sufficient enough data to demonstrate the working of the app).
• The app must be error-free as per the app via the green tick.
• The app must be published, and not only used in the pre-viewed mode.
Mendix App Student started with a
template and not a blank
app.
Poor use of Mendix features
Poor requirements
completeness
Poor implementation of
Mendix features
Zero-Five marks
Average requirements
completeness
Average user interface
implementations
Average implementation
of Mendix features
Six-Ten marks
Advanced requirements and
their completeness
Advanced user interface
implementations
Advanced implementation of
Mendix features
11-15 marks
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Marking Rubric with a focus on the Essay – 10 Marks
Learning experience
table
No or poor
reflection on
Mendix learning
experiences.
Zero-One mark
Simplistic (no or limited
critical and reflective
engagement) description
of the respective low-
code ISD activities and
the link between Mendix
development activities
and meta-cognitive
skills.

Two-Four marks
Critical and reflective
engagement of the
respective low-code
ISD activities and the
link between Mendix
development activities
and meta-cognitive
skills.


Five-Six marks
Indigenous
perspectives
and Indigenous
cultural values

What and how did you
embed indigenous
perspective and
indigenous cultural
values in the Sharoma
App?
Poor embeddedness
of indigenous
perspectives and
indigenous cultural
values



Zero mark
Simplistic (not critical
or not reflective)
embeddedness of
indigenous perspectives
and Indigenous cultural
values


one to 1.5 marks
Critical and reflective
embeddedness of
indigenous
perspectives and
indigenous cultural
values
Two-Three marks
Layout, structure,
grammar
Does my reflective
journal clearly and
error-free communicate
my reflections on the
Mendix learning
experience?
Many errors that
make the writing
confusing and hard
to read.
Document is not
structured with
headings.
Zero mark
Writing has several
errors in punctuation,
spelling, or grammar.
Some structure is
recognizable, but some
headings are missing.
Half a mark
With some exceptions,
punctuation, spelling,
and grammar are
correct.
Document is well
structured.
One marks