Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Step 2- Concepts and basic
principles of design

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería

Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Diseño de Sistemas
Course Code 301309
Course Type theoretical Can be yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individua Number of
☐ Collaborative ☒ 6
activity: l weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
1
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the activity:
activity: 175 Monitoring and evaluation environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
Febrary 15, 2019 March 27, 2019
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts in the development of patterns, interfaces and
the properties that they must fulfill, in order to deliver a proposal.
The student models problems through the creation of the architecture and the
components of an information system, based on formal and functional
specifications of the system.
Topics to develop:
• Conceptualization
• Architectural design
• Design at the component level
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Understand the basic concepts of design and its components.
Develop the architectural design for an information system.
Develop the design at the component level to an information system.
Activities to develop
The company whose organization chart corresponds to the attached graph,

is a company that is dedicated to advising, sales and maintenance of

technological products additionally develops office applications and web
applications for its customers.
The company consists of the areas of Accounting, Technology and Creativity,
Human Talent, Production and Marketing and Sales. In each of the areas there
are sub areas of support for the development of each of their processes.
Currently the company works a fairly simple application where there is no backup
of the information stored on the hard drives. The board of directors, when
meeting monthly, requests information from the general manager, who in turn
requests information from the persons in charge of each of the areas.
The board of directors has decided to apply reengineering to its information
system and therefore will support in its small group as engineers to provide the
necessary support in this process. To do this, you must perform:
1. Select one of the following areas and express it in the forum.
a) Accounting.
b) Technology and creativity
c) Human talent.
d) Production.
e) Marketing and sales

2. Build the architectural design for the area as for the company for the new
information system and explain the reasons why it considers that this design
is favorable for the company.

3. Make an architectural context diagram (DCA) specifying:

a) Superior systems
b) Subordinate systems
c) Peer systems
d) Actors.

4. Make the data flow diagram of the company's study area

5. Based on point 4 (Data flow diagram) develop a design component of the area
you have selected
Environmen Knowledge environment
t for the
Collaborative Learning Environment
developmen
t Monitoring and Evaluation Environment
Individual:
Present in the forum the contributions corresponding to the
development of the activity, having previously stated the area of
Products to work to which the design will be made.
deliver by
student Collaborative:

1. Present your opinion regarding the points resolved by your

small group colleagues.
 2. Consolidate the contributions of the members of the small
group apply APA standards to the document.
(Http://normasapa.net/2017-edicion-6/)
3. The document must be in PDF format and must contain:
a) Introduction.
b) General objectives and specific objectives
c) Consolidation of contributions.
d) Conclusions
e) Bibliographic references.
.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

In the development of collaborative work by students, some
key elements are required that lead to a comprehensive,
responsible and effective academic exercise.
For this to be achieved it is necessary that they comply with
the steps indicated in the document entitled "General
guidelines of the UNAD curriculum / Aspects of collaborative
work and teaching accompaniment" (Abadía, Vela, Montero &
Vargas, 2014, p. 16-18):
1. Recognition of actors: At the beginning of each evaluation
Planning of
activity, the student will be recognized as an actor of the
activities for
group, presenting their strengths and exposing the
the
communication channels to be effective their interaction.
development
of 2. Assignment of roles: Each member of the group will assume
collaborative one of the indicated roles, which will perform functionally
work during the realization of collaborative work. It is suggested to
rotate roles in each of the activities, thus promoting an integral
formation of all the participants of the group.
3. Planning of the academic activities: The planning of the
activities becomes a key element for the achievement of the
task. The group will carry out an academic work plan for the
development of the activity, based on the analytical reflection
of the activities agenda, the evaluation guide and rubric. They
will perform the required readings acquiring thematic
appropriation.
 4. Staging the principles of collaborative work: it is important
to internalize the principles of interaction, growth and
responsible action, to ensure the excellent development of
your learning process and presentation of written products that
correspond to the quality of what is requested in the course.
5. Active participation: a proactive participation with relevant
individual contributions is required for the construction of a
product that accounts for what is requested in the activity
guide.
Each student will choose one of the five roles specified in the
box below and will assume responsibility in a responsible
manner so that the participation in the collaborative work is
relevant, active with assertive communication and achieve the
construction of the collaborative products requested and within
the established times.
Roles to
The document "General guidelines of the curriculum in UNAD /
perform by the
Aspects of collaborative work and teaching accompaniment"
student in the
(ABADIA and others: 2014), p. 11, establishes the following
collaborative
roles for the accomplishment of the collaborative works of the
group
course:
a) Compiler
b) Reviser.
c) Evaluator
d) Deliveries.
e) Alerts.
The roles that are established in the UNAD for collaborative
works are related. It is important to assume it responsibly, but
without leaving your commitment as a student to the
Roles and development of the activity.
responsibility
for the Compiler: Consolidate the document that is constituted as the
delivery of final product of the debate, taking into account that the
products by contributions of all the participants have been included and
students that only the participants who participated in the process are
included. You must inform the person in charge of the alerts to
notify those who did not participate, that they will not be
included in the product to be delivered.
 Reviewer: Ensure that the writing complies with the rules for
submission of work required by the teacher.
Evaluator: Ensure that the document contains the criteria
present in the rubric. You must inform the person in charge of
the alerts so that you inform the other members of the team
in case there is an adjustment to be made on the subject.
Deliveries: Alert about the delivery times of the products and
send the document in the stipulated times, using the resources
destined for the shipment, and indicate to the other colleagues
that the delivery has been made.
Alerts: Ensure that the members of the group are notified of
the news in the work and inform the teacher through the forum
of work and the messaging of the course, that the document
has been sent.
Use of the APA standard, version 3 in Spanish
(Translation of version 6 in English):
The APA Standards are the most used style of organization and
presentation of information in the area of social sciences.
Use of These are published under a Manual that allows you to have
references access to the ways in which a scientific article should be
presented. You can find the most relevant aspects of the sixth
edition of the APA Standards Manual, such as references,
citations, preparation and presentation of tables and figures,
headings and seriation, among others, by going to
http://normasapa.net/2017 -edition-6 /
What is plagiarism for the UNAD? Plagiarism is defined by the
dictionary of the Royal Academy as the action of "copying in
the substantial works of others, giving them as their own."
Therefore plagiarism is a serious fault: it is the equivalent in
Plagiarism the academic field, to theft. A student who plagiarizes does not
policy take his education seriously, and does not respect the
intellectual work of others.
There is no small plagiarism. If a student uses any portion of
another person's work, and does not document their source,
they are committing an act of plagiarism. Now, it is evident
that we all have the ideas of others when presenting ours, and
that our knowledge is based on the knowledge of others. But
 when we rely on the work of others, academic honesty requires
that we explicitly announce the fact that we are using an
external source, either by means of an appointment or by
means of an annotated paraphrase.
For UNAD, in agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99,
the following are considered as offenses that threaten the
academic order, among others: literal e) "Plagiarism, that is,
present as your own Authorship of all or part of a work, work,
document or invention made by another person. It also implies
the use of citations or missing references, or propose a citad
where there is no coincidence between it and the reference ";
and literal f) "Reproducing, or copying for profit, educational
materials or results of research products, which have
intellectual rights reserved for the University."
The academic sanctions that the student will face are the
following:
a) In the cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the
academic work or respective evaluation, the qualification that
will be imposed will be zero points (0.0) without prejudice of
the corresponding disciplinary sanction.
b) In the cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the
academic work whatever their nature, the qualification that will
be imposed will be zero point zero (0.0), without prejudice of
the corresponding disciplinary sanction.

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☐ ☒
Activity Activity
Moment of the Unit
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation Intermediate:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed Aspects activity Score
High score Media score Low score
It presents Does not
Presents Contributions 25
significant present
contributions to the with little points
contributions for contributions
 construction of the significant for the
collaborative work development of content construction
the activity of work
(up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 0
points) points) points)

Select one of the

following areas and
Choose an
express it in the Select the area
area other Do not
forum.1. of the company
than those choose area 5
Accounting.2. to work
specified points
Technology and
creativity.3. Human
talent.4. Production5.
Marketing and sales. (up to 5 (up to 2 (up to 0
points) points) points)

Build the
architectural design
Presents
for the area as for the Make the Does not
architectural
company for the new architectural perform
design with
information system design of the architectural 25
some
and explain the selected area design points
shortcomings
reasons why it
considers that such
design is favorable for
the company. (up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Make an
architectural
Make an
context diagram
architectural context Develops the
(DCA) where Does not
diagram (DCA) where architectural
you specify:1. develop
you specify:1. context 25
Superior architectural
Superior systems2. diagram but points
systems2. context
Subordinate lacks some
Subordinate diagram
systems3. Peer specifications
systems3. Peer
systems4. Actors.
systems4.
Actors.
 (up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Perform the data flow Make a diagram
Partially Does not
diagram of the of data flows of
develops the develop the
company's study area the area under
flow diagram flow diagram
Based on point 3 study 25
(Data flow diagram), points
draw up a design (up to 25 (up to 12 (up to 0
component of the area points) points) points)
you have selected
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Aspect activity Score
High score Media score Low score
Make Although there Does not
substantial is participate in
contributions to participation, the
Make contributions
the construction the construction 15
for the construction of
of the final contributions of the final points
the final document
product lack deeper document
(Up to 15 (Up to 7 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The APA
The APA rules APA
standards are
apply in the regulations
Applies APA partially 15
entire document do not apply
standards applied points
(Up to 15 (Up to 7 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Present a
document with Present a
good document with
Document
organization some errors in
lacking any
Structure of the final complying with your 15
organization
document what was organization or points
requested in the spelling
guide
(Up to 15 (Up to 7 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 175