Course Title: Educational Project
Course No. : ICT. Ed. 486 Nature of course: Practical
Level: B.Ed. Credit Hour: 3 hours
Semester: Eight Teaching Hour: 6hrs per week
1. Course Description
This course requires students to complete a major information systems project. Students are to demonstrate a
capacity to work in the computing field at a professional level. Students are expected to manage their
resources to initiate, plan, estimate, and carry out educational information systems project accordance with
appropriate standards. It develops students' skill regarding analysis, design and development of meaningful
world application. This course is to introduce to plan and complete project work related with Computer
software under the supervision of an instructor or a supervisor.
2. General Objectives
On completion of this course, the students will be able to:
Develop the ability of a student to tackle, a selected problem to a reasonable depth of understanding
Develop the ability of a student to organize and produce a professional software/website
Develop the ability of a student to produce technical documentation to a high standard
Develop the ability of a student to produce an analytical report which communicates the work carried out
in the project and evaluates the final product and the student’s contribution
3. Description of the Project Work:
The work carried out must be a practical, problem-solving project. It should be a realistic project in the sense
that the product should be useful practically as far as possible.
3.1 Group formation
Students can perform project individually or in a group (maximum of 4 students).
3.2 Procedure
The students should exercise the following three phases for this course.
1. Proposal Submission
2. Mid-Term Defense
3. Final Project Submission and Defense
a. Proposal Submission:
- Students(s) prepares proposal document in the prescribed format and submits to the
Department of Education in the College
- The HOD/Program Coordinator or a panel coordinated by him/her evaluates the proposal
with or without a presentation from the student(s)
- If the proposal is accepted; a Supervisor is assigned by HOD/Coordinator depending upon
the nature of the project
b. Mid Term Defense
- The project team has to face a Mid Term Defense after first 40% to 60% of the project duration
so that the supervisor and internal evaluator are assured of the progress of the project.
c. Final Defense
Project team submits a complete project report in the prescribed format to the department
- The department then Schedules the day for final defense
- External Supervisor will be decided and will be called for the final defense
- The project team needs to give presentation, followed by viva question answer session.
3.3 Prescribed Format of the Proposal
1. Introduction
2. Problem Statement
3. Objective
4. Scope and Limitation
5. Methodology
a. Requirement Identification
- Study of existing system
- Requirement collection
b. Feasibility Study
- Technical
- Operational
- Economical
c. Tools
- Analysis and Design Tools
- Implementation tools (Front End, Back End)
6. High level design of Proposed System (by system flow chart, use cases or other appropriate
diagrams
7. Gantt Chart to show the projected time planning
8. Expected Outcome
3.4 Prescribed Format of the Project Report
The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged is as follows:
1. Cover page and Title
2. Candidate's Declaration
3. Supervisor's Certificate/ Recommendation
4. Internal, External Examiners' Approval
5. Acknowledgements
6. Abstract
7. Table of Content
8. List of Figures / Tables / Listings
9. Main Body
10. References / Bibliography
11. Appendix
3.5 Number of Copies to be submitted to the Department
Three hard copies of the report are to be submitted to the Department after corrections done as suggested by
guide/Department at any time when report submission is called by guide/Department. The total numbers of
reports to be prepared are three
• One copy to the college
• One copy for University
• One copy to candidate
Before taking the final printout, the approval of the concerned guide is mandatory and Suggested corrections, if
any, must be incorporated. The reports submitted to the department/guide(s) must be hard bounded with black
cover with golden color alphabets.
3.5 Standard to be followed
The report must be printed on one side only. Please use a high-resolution printer, preferably a laser printer with
at least 300 dpi.
A. Page Layout
Your paper must use a page size corresponding to A4 which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm
(11.69") long.
The margins must be set as follows:
• Top = 1 inch
• Bottom = 1 inch
• Left = 1.25 inch
• Right = 1 inch
B. Page Style
• All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be justified aligned with 1.5 spacing
C. Text Font of Entire Document
• The entire document should be in Times New Roman.
• The font size has to be 12 throughout
D. Section Headings
• No more than 3 levels of headings should be used.
• Font size for the headings will be 16, 14, 12
E. Figures and Tables
• Position figures and tables at the tops and bottoms pages. Tables and figures may be full-page
width or may be partial page.
• Width with wrap on either side.
• Figure captions should be centered below the figures. Table captions should be centered above.
F. References
• For reference students must follow APA format.
4. Evaluation :
Proposal Mid-Term Final Defense Total Marks
Defense
10 Points 30 Points 60 Points 100 Points
4.1
Evaluators:
Project Supervisor (Mentor of the project) -40%
Internal (HOD/Program Coordinator or decided by Coordinator) -20%
External Supervisor -40%
4.2 Duration (for 1 group)
• Presentation 20 minutes
• Viva 15 minutes
• Demonstration 15 minutes
• Report checking 10 minutes
