Course Syllabus

Bunn High School

Adobe Digital Design Honors

 

Instructor: Mr. Peter Ashford      Phone: (919) 496-3975        Email: peterashford@fcschools.net    

Virtual Classroom Hours  11:37-1:32am (includes time for lunch) via Google Meet (Nickname: bhsashford3)

Course Description:  

A one-semester, project-based curriculum that teaches digital communication skills in the context of the professional web design and development process, using Adobe web tools. 

 

Digital Design develops four key skill areas:

  • Project management and collaboration
  • Design
  • Research and communication
  • Professional web-authoring tools

 

Students develop these key skills in a spiral—each project adds more challenging skills onto the foundation proficiencies. Digital Design addresses each of these areas, using a project-based approach. Each project has phases that follow a design and development process, from project planning to evaluation and launch. To simulate a professional work environment, students gradually migrate their design work from an individual process to a group process. 

Course Outline:

The course is divided into 4 main units:

  1. Web design basics
  2. Web design and planning
  3. Web development and deployment
  4. Portfolios

 

Course Evaluation: 

Grading for this course is based on the following:

(Summative)Quizzes/Projects/Tests       60%                

(Formative)Classwork                              40%               

      

 The final evaluation for this course is a state End of Course exam. The exam counts 20% of the student’s final course grade. Any students attaining a score of 800+ on a GMetrix practice test without assistance will be given a free voucher to take the Adobe Dreamweaver certification.  Students who pass the certification will be exempt from taking the final exam. 

BHS Late Work Policy - Spring 2021

The following school-wide policy will be applied for all assignments which are submitted late. 

  • All assignments MUST be submitted on time as assigned. 
  • Assignments that are turned in after 11:59 pm on the due date will be considered LATE and recorded in PowerSchool. 
  • Students that turn in a completed assignment after the initial due date will receive a 5 point deduction per day for the first five days. (Example: 5 points - 1 day late, 10 points - 2 days late, 25 points - 5 days late).  
  • Once the assignment has been turned in, it will be graded. The grade will be recorded in PowerSchool but LATE will still be indicated and the appropriate points will be deducted from the raw score based on the above rule. 
  • If the assignment is more than five days late, a score of ZERO will stand for the assignment.