Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Projects for Employers

The ITApps and Foundation Degree projects are work-based and provide students with practical, work-related experience of a wide variety of IT projects. Working for a real customer to create a real product/application that could be implemented motivates both students and employers to work together to generate good value from the project. Copyright and IPR resides with the student and can be allocated to the customer, if the customer decides to implement the final product. Many students do a project for their current employer but some students, especially those studying with a view to changing their career, prefer to do projects for other customers.

Please contact us if you are an employer (business or charity) with potential projects creating products/applications that are 'nice to have'. Typically projects include systems built with desktop IT applications, training and e-learning resources, evaluations, prototype construction, user testing, web-site construction, e-commerce extensions to web-sites, etc.

Projects available include:

• Building an open source content management system based on JOOMLA for a Devon village community website. (Group project)
• Evaluating accessibility of an existing charity website and building a prototype website to demonstrate an accessible alternative that complies with web standards.
• Building a simple budgeting system for rural disabled with learning difficulties to use during their introduction to on-line shopping.
• Creating implementation and training resources to help a credit union introduce a new financial management system.
• Building business and marketing plans for a new business line under consideration by a charity. Presenting the business and marketing plans to the charity steering group (Group project).