Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

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:
September 6th, 2019 October 17th, 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 of the software for the information system of
the area you have selected. Perform an architectural design for the
company's network. The members of the small group should comment and
choose which is the best network design.

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
Monitoring and Evaluation Environment
t
Individual:
Present in the forum the contributions corresponding to the
development of the activity, having previously stated the area of
work to which the design will be made.
Collaborative:
1. Present your opinion regarding the points resolved by your
small group colleagues.
Products to 2. Consolidate the contributions of the members of the small
deliver by group apply APA standards to the document.
student (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
activity, the student will be recognized as an actor of the
group, presenting their strengths and exposing the
communication channels to be effective their interaction.
2. Assignment of roles: Each member of the group will
assume one of the indicated roles, which will perform
Planning of functionally during the realization of collaborative work. It is
activities for suggested to rotate roles in each of the activities, thus
the promoting an integral formation of all the participants of the
development group.
of 3. Planning of the academic activities: The planning of the
collaborative activities becomes a key element for the achievement of the
work 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.
Roles to Each student will choose one of the five roles specified in the
perform by the box below and will assume responsibility in a responsible
student in the manner so that the participation in the collaborative work is
collaborative relevant, active with assertive communication and achieve
group the construction of the collaborative products requested and
 within the established times.
The document "General guidelines of the curriculum in
UNAD / Aspects of collaborative work and teaching
accompaniment" (ABADIA and others: 2014), p. 11,
establishes the following roles for the accomplishment of the
collaborative works of the 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
development of the activity.
Compiler: Consolidate the document that is constituted as
the final product of the debate, taking into account that the
contributions of all the participants have been included and
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
Roles and included in the product to be delivered.
responsibility Reviewer: Ensure that the writing complies with the rules for
for the submission of work required by the teacher.
delivery of Evaluator: Ensure that the document contains the criteria
products by present in the rubric. You must inform the person in charge
students 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 Use of the APA standard, version 3 in Spanish
references (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.
These are published under a Manual that allows you to have
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 /
Plagiarism What is plagiarism for the UNAD? Plagiarism is defined by the
policy 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
the academic field, to theft. A student who plagiarizes does
not 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
Unit
Moment of the Fina
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ ☐
evaluation l
:
Performance levels of the individual
activity
Assessed Aspects Score
Media
High score Low score
score
It presents
significant
Contribution Does not present
contribution
s with little contributions for
Presents contributions s for the
significant the construction of 20
to the construction of developmen
content work points
collaborative work t of the
activity
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Select one of the Select the Choose an
following areas and area of the area other
Do not choose area
express it in the company to than those
forum.1. Accounting.2. work specified 20
Technology and points
creativity.3. Human (up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
talent.4. Production5. points) points)
Marketing and sales.
Build the architectural Make the Presents Does not perform 20
design of the software architectural architectural architectural design points
for the information design of design with
system of the area you the selected some
have selected. Perform area shortcoming
an architectural design s
 for the company's
network. The members
of the small group (up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
should comment and points) points)
choose which is the
best network design.
Make an
architectural
context
diagram
Develops the
(DCA)
architectural
Make an architectural where you
context Does not develop
context diagram (DCA) specify:1.
diagram but architectural
where you specify:1. Superior 20
lacks some context diagram
Superior systems2. systems2. points
specification
Subordinate systems3. Subordinate
s
Peer systems4. Actors. systems3.
Peer
systems4.
Actors.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Make a
diagram of Partially
Does not develop
Perform the data flow data flows of develops the
the flow diagram 20
diagram of the the area flow diagram
points
company's study area under study
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Parcially
draw up a
draw up a
design
Based on point 3 (Data design Does not develop
component
flow diagram), draw up component the design
of the area 20
a design component of of the area component
you have points
the area you have you have
selected
selected selected
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Assessed Aspect Performance levels of the collaborative Score
activity
 Media
High score Low score
score
Make
Although
substantial
there is Does not
contribution
participation, participate in the
s to the
Make contributions for the construction of the
construction 20
the construction of the contributions final document
of the final points
final document lack deeper
product
(Up to
(Up to 20
10   (Up to 0 points)
points)
points)
The APA The APA
rules apply standards APA regulations do
in the entire are partially not apply 20
Applies APA standards
document applied points
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(Up to 0 points)
points) points)
Present a
document Present a
with good document
organization with some
Document lacking
complying errors in
Structure of the final any organization 15
with what your
document points
was organization
requested in or spelling
the guide
(Up to 15 (Up to 7
(Up to 0 points)
points) points)
Final score 175