Students work as a web-development team, each performing a specific role.
Students modify HTML code and website features based on feedback from users
In this section students creating their "release-version" Google website. Students refine their individual pages, content, layouts, navigation, images and options for each page. Students should again rotate roles for this exercise and should spend most of their time working on their individually assigned web pages. Students should ensure that they are compliant with the list of elements in Google sites from section 9 that must be included in their final website (or substitute new requirements from section 9 if they were updated).
The teacher should be highly interactive with the students during this time, walking the class and questioning student design decisions. The teacher should provide technical support where required and encourage students to collaborate on achieving technical goals. The teacher should expect at the end of this section full websites that comply with all requirement and contain all required elements
Activity 1 (Budget 10 minutes)
Students select new team roles.
1. Students again rotate or select new team roles (server administrator, project manager, quality assessment, and layout designer). In addition to managing their own pages, each student will perform a function associated with their designated role.
Activity 2 (Budget 140 minutes)
Students create high fidelity version of their website.
1. Before beginning, the server administrator from each team signs into their Google account and must create another archival backup of the original site.
2. Students work on individual webpages and should collaborate freely to achieve the teams goals. Students develop additional content, add images, bullets and tables. The students may need to conduct additional research as they progress, and advanced students may always add more content or pages, as desired. The teacher will continue to question student design choices and provide just-in-time lectures on design elements.
3. The layout designer must ensure there are 3 different layouts in the website and that they are used consistently. The layout designer must make sure for each layout similar content is being presented in the same section and fill out a layout managers worksheet. All layout disputes should be resolved by the layout designer. The layout manager should also oversee any changes to the main theme or navigation bar choices.
3a. The server administrator must make sure that all images, videos, files and attachments that are used in the website are uploaded to a central file that can be accessed by all team members. The server administrator should also ensure that the sitemap is up to date, and correct. This can be found in Manage Site-->Pages. Pages can be rearranged by dragging and dropping pages.
4. The project manager must again review and sign off on the Project Managers Checklist, stating the technical requirements will be met and documenting anything that is not complete by the end of this cycle.
5. Quality assurance must review and sign off on the final version of all individual pages, once complete, again using the Quality Assurance Checklist. Note, this should get a bit easier if errors have been eliminated from the previous reviews.
Activity 3 (Budget 30 minutes)
Users provide feedback on the web site and team iterates with a new team plan.
Team should share their site with at least 3 users (one of whom is one of their extreme users) using the 4box feedback form.
Based on their 4box feedback and user reviews, students review the current state of the site and complete The Version 3 Team Review and Contract.
The team reviews the project managers review document. When reviewing the project manager's checklist for this version, it is important to check that individuals included the technical elements in their pages necessary to meet the website technical requirements as well as any elements that were not completed from the previous contract.
The team updates their contract to ensure that their version 4 website will meet all user needs and most user desires. The project manager's checklist should be submitted along with the team vision review.