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School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Web Design

  • Unit Code

    GDI3312

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joo JUNG

Description

This unit extends upon the knowledge and skills acquired in a prior web design unit. It provides students with theoretical understandings and practical skills associated with implementation of advanced web design. Students will learn to plan, design and develop carefully considered contemporary websites through understanding of responsive concepts and aesthetic concerns.

Prerequisite Rule

Student must complete GDI2100 before being allowed to enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded GDI3104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Rationalise and communicate planning for a responsive website.
  2. Critically discuss and propose appropriate solutions to web design issues associated with user experience.
  3. Develop and implement dynamic web content including animation and visual effects.
  4. Design responsive websites for a range of screen-based devices.
  5. Evaluate and test a website using various screen-based devices.

Unit Content

  1. Planning and articulation of design solutions for advanced web design.
  2. Planning and articulation of advanced web design.
  3. Dynamic web contents and visual effects.
  4. Responsive web design and techniques.
  5. Evaluation and user testing of responsive websites.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The first part of the unit is used to introduce user-centred design approaches to explore web design. Concepts of merging responsive design and interactive content development will be discussed to extend students’ understanding of web design. The second part of the unit involving a series of class activities focuses on small practical working projects to help students to gain solid technical skills to develop advanced websites.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProject proposal 40%
ProjectWebsite60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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