BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

  Humanities Technology and Research Support Center

CHum 310
Semester Project

Assigned January 14, 2008

Final Version Due April 15, 2008

The major project for the semester will be a group project in which your group will create an instructional application (i.e., a program that teaches some set of facts or knowledge) using Revolution. It is expected that the topic will be from the Humanities—language, arts, culture, philosophy, etc. However, if your group has another idea and can make a compelling case, we will consider other topics. Details follow:

1. Each class member is assigned to one team.

2. The team should meet during the next week to come up with a preliminary proposal for your project.  Due January 28.

3. Each group will then have 2 weeks to create a detailed plan for the project, including:

• Objectives for the program.
• Specific performance goals for the users of your program.
• A storyboard detailing the structure and giving information about the contents of each card or page in your program (within reason, realizing that some minor changes will probably occur during the programming process.)
• Specific design and style guidelines (i.e., specifications of font sizes and styles, screen layout, button placement and style, etc.)

Due February 11.

4. A "first draft" or alpha version of your software.

Follow these guidelines in creating your software:

• The actual programming should be roughly equally divided among all team members.
• Since a large portion of this course will be devoted to learning how to do multimedia programming, your project should include significant multimedia elements: color graphics, animation, sound, digital video, virtual reality (VR) movies.
• Your program should include user interactions of various kinds, such as exercises, quizzes, or interactive puzzles. It should not just be a presentational program.
  
  Due March 19.

5. A formal user evaluation of your alpha version. You will receive detailed instruction on how to do this before this date. Due March 31.

6. A "final draft" or beta version of your software, which incorporates the changes suggested by your user evaluation, to be demonstrated to the class and submitted to the instructor on April 15.