MM 3440 CBT Fundamentals
Project Plan and Design Document Rubric

This document outlines the required components of the Project Plan and Design Document for the Final Project.

Project Plan

  1. Title of project
  2. Project manager (that would be you J)
  3. “Executive Summary” description of the project
  4. Unknowns (things you know you don’t know, and may never find out, that may impact the project), uncertainties (things you don’t know now, but will have to know at some point in order to proceed), and risks (events that could derail the project) and your plans to discover, avoid, or mitigate them
  5. List of tasks, arranged in a Work Breakdown Structure
  6. For each task, list:
    1. Resources needed for the task, with quantity of the resources if appropriate (e.g., “video camera, lights, microphone – 4 hours”
    2. Work hours estimated to complete the task
    3. Dependency and predecessor tasks
  7. Interim deliverable milestone dates (include due date for design document in week 5)
  8. Final delivery date
  9. Total estimated hours
  10. Summative list of all resources needed

The task listing should provide space to record actual hours spent on the task.  You are expected to record as accurately as possible the actual time you spend on each task, and you will turn in the time record with your final project.  The project plan and your tracking of progress against it counts 15 points toward your final grade. 

Design Document

  1. Title of project
  2. Chief Designer (that would be you J)
  3. “Executive Summary” description of the project
  4. Audience – include demographic information, expected educational level, assumed prerequisite knowledge and skills, and if appropriate, probable motivational factors (e.g., the PLATO® Technology Fundamentals emphasis on hands-on activities)
  5. Treatment – a description of the user experience, the look-and-feel of the program
  6. Instructional outcomes – these should be measurable terminal objectives, and your final project needs to demonstrate that it measures these things appropriately
  7. Sample assessment item for each terminal objective
  8. Detailed content outline, indicating facts, fact structures, concepts, concept structures, and principles stated in IF-THEN-ELSE terms