School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Digital Content Creation
  • Unit Code

    CMM2600
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Claire FITZPATRICK

Description

Communication professionals are increasingly required to be equipped with relevant content creation skills. From audio and video production, to web based visual communications, skill in the creation of this kind of content is increasingly seen as fundamental for communication, advertising and public relations professionals. This unit will introduce and develop fundamental skills and understanding in the process of content creation for Communication industries. It will focus on audio and mobile video production with an emphasis on creating content that effectively communicates key messages and narratives to their intended audiences.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain laws, ethics, culture, and societal norms that impacts effective communication.
  2. Evaluate trends and challenges between audience preferences and effective content design and creation.
  3. Demonstrate creativity, originality, and persuasive techniques when creating strategic digital content.
  4. Create digital content that strategically targets an intended audience, uses appropriate media channels, and meets the project objectives of a communication plan.

Unit Content

  1. Identifying current practices, methods, and issues when communicating with intended audience via digital platforms.
  2. Translation of ideas into effective messages based on objectives.
  3. Relevant theories of creative strategies and tactics to enhance communication effectiveness, recall, and identification.
  4. Support creative ideas with clear understanding of audience and the external environment.
  5. Content production.
  6. Communication channels.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PortfolioPortfolio of digital content
ProjectDigital content campaign
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioPortfolio of digital content
ProjectDigital content campaign

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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