This week’s topics
Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
- Drafting against the criteria
- Tutor and peer feedback
- Improving the final submission
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Assess how relational database models and normalisation provide reliable and efficient databases.
- 1.2 Critically compare a range of Database Modelling languages.
- 1.3 Critically evaluate different database management systems available in relation to open source and vendor-specific platforms.
- 2.1 Apply data modelling techniques to refine logical data requirements and normalize.
- 2.2 Use a standard unified modelling language (UML) notation to document logical data requirements.
- 3.1 Design and build a database structure.
- 3.2 Extract data from tables.
- 3.3 Apply table and field-level security to the database.
- 3.4 Test the system for functionality and performance
- 3.5 Evaluate security risks to the database.
Activity
Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.
Study materials
Further resources
- Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
- Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
