Goal
The goal of this project is to asses the student’s performance and potential in the graphic design field.
Objective
The objective of this assignment is to provide an assessment of the student’s portfolio and efforts as part of the University’s Key Performance Assessment process (formerly the Whole Person Assessment Program) using the corresponding rubric.
Background Reading
- Advice: https://skillcrush.com/2014/08/11/portfolio-advice‑2/
- Advice: https://www.lifewire.com/what-to-include-in-your-web-design-portfolio-3468894
- Advice: https://designmodo.com/dev-portfolio-tips/
- Examples: https://www.mockplus.com/blog/post/web-design-portfolio
- Examples: http://www.creative-portfolios.com
- Examples: https://foliofocus.com
- Examples: https://github.com/dargaCode/PortfolioExamples
- Sample Projects: https://medium.com/@GarrettLevine/5‑projects-to-complete-when-starting-to-learn-front-end-web-development-48e8a1ce3178
- Directions: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-upload-a-html-page-to-wordpress-without-404-errors/
- Sample: http://point918.com/testing_442/exer12_06_v03/index-col02.php
Assignment
Using comments and suggestions for previous evaluations and classroom critiques, revise and turn in course assignments. This process should be done well before the final deadline for the review. Often, the best time to revise a project is immediately after the review. Consider the craft necessary to maintain a professional level of production. Document your progress through brainstorming, sketches and revisions, both physical and digital.
Part One
Project Specifics will be updated to reflect adapting course assignments.
Please submit the following projects to your hosted website and to the appropriate D2L project dropbox for review:
- Assignment 05.06: Frameworks and Layout (Choose best three framework images, screenshot of browser, and HTML pages to post)
- Assignment 06.06: Creative Page Layout
- Assignment 08.11: Portfolio Site (hosted site)
- Semester Two: Assignment 01.01.02: Site Layout and Frameworks
- Semester Two: Assignment 02.04.02: Digital Magazine and Java Script Integration Part One
- Semester Two: Assignment 03.09.02: User Experience Design
- Process documentation of a minimum of one project referenced above (Provide examples, especially sketches to proofs, to finished project.)
- Web projects completed outside of course requirements
Make a post for each project on your portfolio site. Document each project with a short description of details regarding the project parameters: date, size, media, project objective etc. Screenshot, create and crop project images to ensure that multiple details and subtle aspects are preserved. Some use of staging templates is acceptable, but they should not take the priority of the analysis of your work.
Using the instructions in class, upload the HTML files to your website. Create a link in the text/image to the index pages of each assignment. Ultimately, reviewers of your portfolio will want to inspect your code. Providing static, but functional, HTML will accommodate for that inquiry. (If unable to upload the static pages, ensure that you have adequate information to support your assessment.)
Part Two
Navigate to your site’s category or tag for the relevant projects and take a screen shot. Upload it to the appropriate D2L dropbox and create a clickable, direct link to the page in the comments section.
To take a screen-shot:
- Command-Shift-4-Spacebar: Takes a screenshot of the window, and saves it as a file on the desktop. The file will have a .png extension.
- Command-Shift‑3: Takes a screenshot of the entire screen, and saves it as a file on the desktop. The file will have a .png extension.
- Instead of using the keyboard shortcuts above, screenshots can be taken by using the Screenshot application included with Mac OS X. It is located at
/Applications/Utilities/Screenshot
or by searching via Spotlight in the upper right of the Mac screen. - For more information, please visit: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361
Assessment
- The following rubric posted on D2L will determine Key Program Assessment scores: Web Design Portfolio (KPA)
The following rubric posted on D2L will determine Whole Person Assessment (WPA) scores: WPA-AGRD-Web Design Portfolio (deprecated 11.25.2023)
Techniques
Cumulative from each assignment or project
Supplies
As defined by each assignment or project.
Deadlines
As defined by corresponding calendar item, dropbox, discussion or content topic description.