CS220AU Digital Portfolio Template

Overview

The goal of this GitHub repository is to serves as a template for the CS220AU assignment. It demonstrates minimalistic approaches to:

• project management using this README.md file, organized under the Overview, Tasks, and Log headings
• web hosting through GitHub Pages
• web design with Markdown language
• self- and peer-assessment via the assessment.md and checklist.md files

The URL for the website can be located in the sidebar, under the 'About' section. The homepage content is sourced from the index.md file.

Portfolio Items

Your submitted portfolio should include the following components, along with their respective contribution to your overall mark:

1. website (80%): explores your chosen research question across one or multiple webpages
2. self- and peer-assessment (10%): utilizes the assessment.md file
3. portfolio overview (10%): provides a succinct description of your portfolio, along with a list of tasks to do (Tasks) and those already completed (Log) in this README.md file

Once the above items are completed, fill out the checklist.md file, download it, and submit on FASER.

Instructions on using this GitHub repository as a template for your assignment will be provided in class. Seek clarification if anything is unclear.

Tasks

1. fork this repository
2. activate GitHub Pages to generate a website from the files
3. familiarize yourself with Markdown language and modify the index.md file
4. continuously update the Tasks and Log headings to reflect your progress
5. ...

Log

• 2023-10-11 repository amended for 2023
• 2022-10-17 amended the repository to work with to be aligned with the focus on how the module is run in 2022 (e.g. regarding the theme)
• 2022-10-10 based on the last year's portfolio template, I created a draft for a new template
• 2021-10-23 demonstrating VSC on computer. testing on another computer as well. testing on mac. testing GitHub Desktop.
• 2021-10-19 minor grammar and logic changes.
• 2021-10-16 testing fork from kris-dummy account. Testing notifications in forked repos.
• 2021-10-11 one peer assessment instead of two needed.
• 2021-10-07 to have an originality report from FASER, students need to submit the DI reflection as PDF. They can still add this reflection to their GitHub repositories as an additional website if they would like to. The submit.md file is changed to final-check.md. All files changed to reflect these changes.
• 2021-10-06 README.md refined with clearer overview. Change from submitting in PDF to submitting in .md (submit.md).
• 2021-10-05 submit.md refined (raw rubric sheet in Excel file and converted with https://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-markdown.htm. All text checked with free Grammarly and ProWritingAid
• 2021-10-03 di-reflection simplified. submit.md simplified. index.md simplified
• 2021-10-01 assessment.md renamed to submit.md. reflection.md renamed to di-reflection.md. Links added to CS220 repo and files were fine-tuned
• 2021-09-24 index.md, reflection.md and assessment.md added. readme.md refined
• 2021-09-21 repo created. readme.md added and next steps in the todo heading defined