CS 280 in Winter 2024

Schedule

Links

• Syllabus (pdf)
• UR Courses
• Meetings Calendar file (meetings.ics)
• Blown to Bits (2nd edition)
• ACM Code of Ethics
• ACM Ethics
• CS2023 -- ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula
• CS2023 Report (Version Gamma)
• Center for Humane Technology

Assignments

Professional Skills Assessment - Part 1 ()

• Marks: 5
• Due Date: 26-Feb-2024 @ 23:59
• Discuss
• Submit

Professional Skills Assessment

Part 1

For this part of the assignment, do the following 3 things:

1. Join CIPS as a student member (free of charge) - you will get a membership card from the CIPS office
2. Once you are a CIPS student member, access the skills assessment tool. Use the link “Get Started: Assess your IT Skills and Plan your IT Career” (may not work in Firefox) - you will get your preliminary profile report emailed to you upon completion
3. Take the online course about SFIA for personal career development - you will get a certificate of completion when you have finished the course

Submission

Upload your required files as 3 separate attachments to the assignment:

• CIPS student membership card (2)
• Certificate of completion from SkillsTX course (2)
• Your Self-Rated Skills Profile Report (pdf file emailed to you from SkillsTX.com) (1)

Grading

This assignment is worth 5 marks, according to the following rubric:

Rubric

DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

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Rubric Criteria

CIPS membership card (2) criteria_SFIA_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): (+) Membership card attached Exemplary: (+) Membership card attached Exemplary (-): (+) Membership card attached Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement: No membership card attached

SkillsTX course completion certificate (2) criteria_SFIA_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): (+) Completion certificate attached Exemplary: (+) Completion certificate attached Exemplary (-): (+) Completion certificate attached Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement: No completion certificate attached

Preliminary Self-Rated Skills Profile Report (1) criteria_SFIA_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): (+) Preliminary report attached Exemplary: (+) Preliminary report attached Exemplary (-): (+) Preliminary report attached Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement: No preliminary report attached

Penalties

None (on-time and followed instructions)

Instructions not followed

Assignment submitted late, but within 48 hours

Assignment submitted more than 48 hours late and before cut-off date

Assignment not submitted before cut-off date

Output

Evaluate Copy Output to Clipboard Clear Form

Infographic - Part 1 ()

• Marks: 11
• Due Date: 11-Mar-2024 @ 23:59
• Discuss
• Submit

Infographic - Part 1

An infographic is a graphic visual representation of “information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly”.

Individually, or in groups of up to 4, prepare and submit an infographic that deals with a topic that is course-related (related to course themes, course resources, and/or course discussions) timely (1 or more of your sources should be published within the last 6 months), and to which you have a personal connection.

The infographic will be submitted in the final part of the assignment. In this first part of the assignment, you will decide if you will work alone or in a group, choose a topic, indicate your sources, and provide a tentative plan for realizing your infographic. You must work with the group and the topic with which you submit this first part of the assignment for the final part of the assignment.

See this link for a sample infographic. The target medium for display of this infographic is the web, so design your infographic for vertical scrolling as required. For your reference, the dimensions (width x height) for the sample are 2190 × 12292. Other samples can be found here and here. Particular dimensions are not required but you are to create a single infographic, not a collection (of slides, for example).

You may use any of a variety of tools that you are able to access legitimately. These include, but are not limited to, canva and piktochart.

You are to create your infographic without the use of AI.

Your infographic should contain research from 3-5 excellent sources (as evaluated using the SIFT method). Individuals may use 3 sources, groups must use 5 sources.

When planning your infographic, you might consider (but not be limited by):

• starting with a resource that you’ve encountered in class
• addressing issues around Society, Ethics, and Professionalism that relate to and could be presented in one of your other CS classes
• finding a news story that illustrates issues or themes that are related to this class
• creating a guide that people can use to become aware of important course-related issues that impact their daily lives (and take some action)

Submission

Create (and submit) a single pdf document that:

• explains your topic, its relevance to the course, and your personal connection to it
• your list of sources and the results of the 4 moves (SIFT) for each source
• your plan for creating your infographic (including a division of labour for groups)

Grading

This assignment is worth 11 marks, according to the following rubric:

Rubric

DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

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Rubric Criteria

Topic that Engages Course-related issue(s) Intellectually and Personally (4) criteria_INFOG_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): Demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection to the topic Exemplary: Demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection to the topic Exemplary (-): Demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection to the topic Sufficient (+): Makes some reference to important course-related issues and provides some evidence of a personal connection to the topic Sufficient: Makes some reference to important course-related issues and provides some evidence of a personal connection to the topic Sufficient (-): Makes some reference to important course-related issues and provides some evidence of a personal connection to the topic Developing (+): Makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection to the topic Developing: Makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection to the topic Developing (-): Makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection to the topic Needs Improvement: Makes no reference to important course-related issues and provides no evidence of a personal connection to the topic

Sources (5) criteria_INFOG_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): Thorough application of the SIFT moves for all sources Exemplary: Thorough application of the SIFT moves for all sources Exemplary (-): Thorough application of the SIFT moves for all sources Sufficient (+): Thorough application of the SIFT moves for most of the sources Sufficient: Thorough application of the SIFT moves for most of the sources Sufficient (-): Thorough application of the SIFT moves for most of the sources Developing (+): Application of the SIFT moves for some of the sources Developing: Application of the SIFT moves for some of the sources Developing (-): Application of the SIFT moves for some of the sources Needs Improvement: No evidence that sources were evaluated using the SIFT moves

Tentative Plan (including division of labour amongst group members as applicable) (2) criteria_INFOG_1 Choose... Exemplary (+): Ambitious, feasible, and thorough Exemplary: Ambitious, feasible, and thorough Exemplary (-): Ambitious, feasible, and thorough Sufficient (+): Reasonably thorough and feasible Sufficient: Reasonably thorough and feasible Sufficient (-): Reasonably thorough and feasible Developing (+): Somewhat thorough Developing: Somewhat thorough Developing (-): Somewhat thorough Needs Improvement: Not thorough

Penalties

None (on-time and followed instructions)

Instructions not followed

Assignment submitted late, but within 48 hours

Assignment submitted more than 48 hours late and before cut-off date

Assignment not submitted before cut-off date

Output

Evaluate Copy Output to Clipboard Clear Form

Professional Skills Assessment - Part 2 ()

• Marks: 10
• Due Date: 26-Mar-2024 @ 23:59
• Discuss
• Submit

Professional Skills Assessment Part 2

This part of the assignment is meant to have you think about your career possibilities in Information Technology.

The Skills You have: Review and Refine (edit)

After you completed the initial self-assessment of your skills, you have the opportunity to edit your profile to add skills or adjust levels so that your profile reflects your current situation as accurately as possible. Don’t forget to include skills that you have gained in the classes that you have taken so far. When you are satisfied with your profile, choose to print a version from the planner view (appears to be working in Firefox now): this will create a pdf file that will form part of your submission.

The Skills You Need: Assign Current and Future Skill requirements

Select 2 job descriptions (use ‘current’ and ‘future’ for these) that you would like to pursue and generate a skill gap report for each by selecting your chosen job descriptions (using the ‘Choose Requirement Type’ dropdown) in turn. There does not seem to be a satisfactory way to get the skills gap report into pdf form without some sacrifices. Please use either of these 2 options: 1) zoom out in your browser window so that you can see the whole skills gap report and take a screenshot of that and convert it to a pdf 2) take a few screenshots of the report as you scroll through without zooming and assemble them in a Word (or similar) document which you can then convert to a pdf.

Career Development: Build your Action Plan

Create actions (using custom actions) to address your skill gaps. Here you can list the classes that you will be taking to complete your program, certifications that you want to complete, and so on. The action plan/list that will be generated won’t distinguish between your 2 job description requirements.

Reflect

Reflect on the assessment process and the importance of ethics in your chosen job descriptions – target length of 1 page (pdf)

Submission

Upload your required files as attachments to the assignment:

1. profile from planner (pdf)
2. skills gap report for ‘current’ job description (screen capture converted to pdf)
3. skills gap report for ‘future’ job description (screen capture converted to pdf)
4. action plan/list from planner (pdf)
5. reflections (pdf)

Grading

This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

Rubric

DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

Calculator

Rubric Criteria

Edited version of Self-Rated Skills Profile Report (1) criteria_SFIA_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): (+) profile from planner attached Exemplary: (+) profile from planner attached Exemplary (-): (+) profile from planner attached Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement: profile from planner not attached

Generated skill gap reports for 2 job descriptions ('current' and 'future') (2) criteria_SFIA_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): (+) both skill gap reports attached Exemplary: (+) both skill gap reports attached Exemplary (-): (+) both skill gap reports attached Sufficient (+): (-) one skill gap report attached Sufficient: (-) one skill gap report attached Sufficient (-): (-) one skill gap report attached Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement: no skill gap report attached

Create action plan to address the skill gaps (5) criteria_SFIA_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): Done thoroughly for both selected job descriptions Exemplary: Done thoroughly for both selected job descriptions Exemplary (-): Done thoroughly for both selected job descriptions Sufficient (+): Done for both selected job descriptions Sufficient: Done for both selected job descriptions Sufficient (-): Done for both selected job descriptions Developing (+): Done for one selected job description Developing: Done for one selected job description Developing (-): Done for one selected job description Needs Improvement: Substantially not complete or not included

Reflect on the assessment process and the importance of ethics in your chosen job descriptions (2) criteria_SFIA_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): Thoughtful reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Exemplary: Thoughtful reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Exemplary (-): Thoughtful reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Sufficient (+): Reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Sufficient: Reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Sufficient (-): Reflection about the assessment process and the role of ethics Developing (+): Some reflection about either the assessment process or the role of ethics Developing: Some reflection about either the assessment process or the role of ethics Developing (-): Some reflection about either the assessment process or the role of ethics Needs Improvement: Substantially not complete

Penalties

None (on-time and followed instructions)

Instructions not followed

Assignment submitted late, but within 48 hours

Assignment submitted more than 48 hours late and before cut-off date

Assignment not submitted before cut-off date

Output

Evaluate Copy Output to Clipboard Clear Form

Infographic - Part 2 ()

• Marks: 14
• Due Date: 9-Apr-2024 @ 23:59
• Discuss
• Submit

Infographic - Part 2

An infographic is a graphic visual representation of “information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly”.

Individually, or in groups of up to 4, prepare and submit an infographic that deals with a topic that is course-related (related to course themes, course resources, and/or course discussions) timely (1 or more of your sources should be published within the last 6 months), and to which you have a personal connection.

The infographic will be submitted in this final part of the assignment. You must work with the group and the topic with which you submitted the first part of this assignment.

See this link for a sample infographic. The target medium for display of this infographic is the web, so design your infographic for vertical scrolling as required. For your reference, the dimensions (width x height) for the sample are 2190 × 12292. Other samples can be found here and here. Particular dimensions are not required but you are to create a single infographic, not a collection (of slides, for example).

You may use any of a variety of tools that you are able to access legitimately. These include, but are not limited to, canva and piktochart.

You are to create your infographic without the use of AI.

Your infographic should contain research from 3-5 excellent sources (as evaluated using the SIFT method). Individuals may use 3 sources, groups must use 5 sources. These sources are to appear on the final infographic.

Submission

Submit your infographic as a single high-resolution image.

Grading

This assignment is worth 14 marks, according to the following rubric:

Rubric

DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

Calculator

Rubric Criteria

Main Message (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): The infographic effectively informs and convinces the reader of its intended purpose, which demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection Exemplary: The infographic effectively informs and convinces the reader of its intended purpose, which demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection Exemplary (-): The infographic effectively informs and convinces the reader of its intended purpose, which demonstrates intellectual engagement with important course-related issues and provides strong evidence of a personal connection Sufficient (+): The infographic informs the reader of its intended purpose, makes some reference to important course-related issues, and provides some evidence of a personal connection Sufficient: The infographic informs the reader of its intended purpose, makes some reference to important course-related issues, and provides some evidence of a personal connection Sufficient (-): The infographic informs the reader of its intended purpose, makes some reference to important course-related issues, and provides some evidence of a personal connection Developing (+): The infographic does not clearly inform the reader of its intended purpose, makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection Developing: The infographic does not clearly inform the reader of its intended purpose, makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection Developing (-): The infographic does not clearly inform the reader of its intended purpose, makes little reference to important course-related issues and provides little evidence of a personal connection Needs Improvement: The infographic does not inform the reader of its intended purpose, akes no reference to important course-related issues, and provides no evidence of a personal connection

Information (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): accurate and detailed information is provided and supports the purpose of the infographic Exemplary: accurate and detailed information is provided and supports the purpose of the infographic Exemplary (-): accurate and detailed information is provided and supports the purpose of the infographic Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement:

Focus (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): All content concisely complements the purpose of the infographic Exemplary: All content concisely complements the purpose of the infographic Exemplary (-): All content concisely complements the purpose of the infographic Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement:

Visual Appeal (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): fonts, colours, layouts, and visual elements meaningfully contribute to the infographic’s ability to convey the main message Exemplary: fonts, colours, layouts, and visual elements meaningfully contribute to the infographic’s ability to convey the main message Exemplary (-): fonts, colours, layouts, and visual elements meaningfully contribute to the infographic’s ability to convey the main message Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement:

Organization (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): Information is systematically organized and supports readers’ comprehension of the main message Exemplary: Information is systematically organized and supports readers’ comprehension of the main message Exemplary (-): Information is systematically organized and supports readers’ comprehension of the main message Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement:

Citation (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): Full bibliographic citations are included for all sources referenced, including sources for images along with an indication that you have permission to use those images Exemplary: Full bibliographic citations are included for all sources referenced, including sources for images along with an indication that you have permission to use those images Exemplary (-): Full bibliographic citations are included for all sources referenced, including sources for images along with an indication that you have permission to use those images Sufficient (+): Sufficient: Sufficient (-): Developing (+): Developing: Developing (-): Needs Improvement:

Mechanics (2) criteria_INFOG_2 Choose... Exemplary (+): Shows a good command of Standard English. No problems for your audience. Exemplary: Shows a good command of Standard English. No problems for your audience. Exemplary (-): Shows a good command of Standard English. No problems for your audience. Sufficient (+): Demonstrates evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have little trouble reading your infographic. Sufficient: Demonstrates evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have little trouble reading your infographic. Sufficient (-): Demonstrates evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have little trouble reading your infographic. Developing (+): Shows some evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have some trouble reading your infographic. Developing: Shows some evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have some trouble reading your infographic. Developing (-): Shows some evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have some trouble reading your infographic. Needs Improvement: Incorrect grammar and spelling are apparent throughout, making it difficult for others to follow.

Penalties

None (on-time and followed instructions)

Instructions not followed

Assignment submitted late, but within 48 hours

Assignment submitted more than 48 hours late and before cut-off date

Assignment not submitted before cut-off date

Output

Evaluate Copy Output to Clipboard Clear Form

Exams

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