RATIONALE. The main objective of this course is to create a competent workforce in Web Design. The duration of this course is 40 hours.

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1 RATIONALE During the past 10 years, government with the assistant of donor agencies have contributed the school system in promoting Information and Communication Technology (ICT). As these centres are utilized during school hours, a majority of them remain idle after school hours, as well as on weekends. The sustainability of computer centres is vital in ensuring the continuous provision of education on ICT to the school sector. Therefore, it is mandatory that sufficient funds are available to ensure the maintenance and upgrading of ICT resources in these centres. Funds can be raised by utilizing these centres to conduct ICT related courses, after school hours and during weekends. The Ministry of Education and National Institute of Education have therefore, decided to introduce some industry-oriented ICT courses to the Srilankan community. These ICT courses have been developed with the objective of providing the necessary competencies in ICT to meet the challenges of vocational level requirements in industry. The curriculum comes with centre-based assessment criteria to enable course managers/providers to assess participants on a standard platform. The fees structure and course fees will be decided by the management committee of the School/Zonal ICT centre according to the circulars issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Education. In addition to the achievement of sustainability of computer centres, the introduction of these industry-oriented ICT courses is an attempt to extend the productivity of ICT resources in centres to cater to the vocational educational needs of the community, especially in the neighbourhood of computer centres. The main objective of this course is to create a competent workforce in Web Design. The duration of this course is 40 hours. Department of Information Technology National Institute of Education Maharagama Information and Communication Technology Unit Ministry of Education

2 Competency, Competency level, Subject contents and Duration: Competency 1: Explores the Internet Level to be Achieved Subject Contents Duration (hrs.) 1.1 Investigates Internet Introduction to Internet. and it s services Facilities and services offered by the Internet. 02 (WWW, FTP, , Chat, E-commerce, Tele Conference, 1.2 Analyses World Wide Web Gopher, Telnet etc.) Technology of WWW Describe: URL, domain. IP address Competency 2: Creates a Web page using HTML code Identifies the basic structure of a Web page Basic structure of a Web page. Planning the Web Page. Organizing the web page Uses HTML code to create a Web page.. Introduction to HTML. Creating a simple Web page using basic HTML tags Enhancing Web Pages using different tags and formats Organizing information into Web page 08 Competency 3: Develops Web Pages with a commercial value 3.1 Plans a web page according to client's requirement 3.2 Links databases and multimedia clips. 3.3 Reviews overall system. Identify client requirements. (Information gathering methods) Careful plan and layout designing. (images, forms, text boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, dropdown menus) Linking Web pages Enhancing features: database, multimedia clips Test procedures Modify according to client feedback Fine adjustments

3 Quality Inputs: Required: Multimedia computer/network Scanner. MS FrontPage Macromedia Dreamweaver Optional: Digital camera Assessment Criteria: As this course is highly practical oriented, a two fold assessment procedure is recommended as follows: Continuous assessment during the course. Final assessment at the end of course. Each participant has to be assessed individually. Continuous Assessment: The number of continuous assessments for this course is three. Assessment points can be identified according to the competencies/competency levels given for this course. Suggested assessment points for this course are as follows: Ability to plan and organize a Web page. Ability to create a simple web page using HTML code. Ability to enhance a Web page using different tags and formats A weightage may be given to the assessment points by considering their importance. However, it should be noted that the percentage of total marks given to the continuous assessment is 60. Final Assessment: Ability to develop Web pages with commercial values Moreover, it is important that assessment tools that are relevant to the assessment points have to be prepared in advance. Participants are free to repeat the continuous assessments until they reach the satisfactory level of competency. Final assessment carries 40% marks and can be performed once only. 3

4 Certification: The level of competency of this course is checked at two levels. To confirm the required level a participant must obtain more than 80% marks of the overall assessment. Marks obtain in the range is identified as "Near Competency" level and marks below 60 is considered as the level of "No competency". Following table indicates the marks to be obtained to achieve the competency Total Marks (%) Level of Competency No competency Near competency Competency A certificate for this course will be issued by the ICT centre concerned to a participant who obtains the level of "Competent" (i.e. above 81%). This certificate has to be signed by the Zonal Director of Education of the ICT centre concerned, the principal of the School/Zonal ICT centre and the teacher in charge of same ICT centre. A specimen certificate is attached in the appendix. 4

5 Industry Oriented ICT courses: Certificate in Web Design Govt. logo This document certifies that Sunimal Perera has achieved the following competencies relevant to the Certificate in Web Design Course Specific to Ability to plan and organize a Web page Ability to create a simple web page using HTML code Ability to enhance a Web page using different tags and formats Ability to develop Web pages with commercial values A.B.C.Perera Saliya Bandara Cyril Fonseka Principal Zonal Director of Education Teacher-in-charge President's College Sri Jayawardenapura ICT Education Centre Maharagama President's College Maharagama 12 April

6 Resource Team for Industry Oriented ICT courses: Certificate in Web Design Guidance: Co-ordination: Direction: Academic & Curriculum Dev. Consultancy: Compiling: Mr. W.Dharmadasa, Additional Secretary (Edu. Dev.), Ministry of Education Dr. (Mrs.) I.L. Ginige, Assistant. Director General, Faculty of Science & Technology, NIE Mr. H.Jayasinghe. Director, Dept. of IT, National Institute of Education Mr. Piyadasa Marambage, Actg. Director of Education, ICT Unit, Ministry of Education Mr. S.N. Maduwage, Chief Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. D.K. Withanage, Head of Dept. of IT, University of Moratuwa Mr. M.G.R. Kumarasiri, Curriculum & Business Dev. Manager, Distance Learning Centre Mr. S.N. Maduwage, Chief Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. K.G.S.K. Perera, Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Ms. A..M. Kanthi, Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. Mr. N.Nobel Ravi, Zonal ICTC Manager, Gamini MMV, NuwaraEliya Mr. W.A.M.S Wijesekara, Zonal ICTC Manager, Hali-Ela MMV, Hali-Ela Mr. W.A. Chandra Kumara, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Anura MMV, Yakkala Ms. L.P. Champa, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Sri Wijerama V, Nugegoda Mr. H.P.U.S.I.K Perera, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Haguranketha MMV, Hanguranketha Mr. KBK Wijerathna, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Veyangoda MMV, Veyangoda Mr. U.W.A Jayantha, IT Instructor, Prov. IT Center, Unawatuna, Galle Mr.CS Senadeera, Zonal ICTC Manager, Debarawewa MMV, Debarawewa Mr.D.S.B. Ramanayaka, IT Instructor, Provincial Education Office, Wariyapola Typesetting: Ms.N.M. Muthumala Ms.U.N. Ganegoda Ms.S.K.U.D. Samaraweera 6