Welcome to the Internal Assessment (worth up to 30% (SL) and 20% (HL) of your overall grade).
Because this is Computer Science, many IB students make the mistake of believing that if they design the next TikTok as a solution to the IA, they will ace this component of the course.
However, the product that you will create for a client is only one aspect of the solution. In fact, there are 5 criteria which you need to meet if you are serious about a good IA grade:
This means that your actual product may be quite basic and not very good but if you follow the process correctly, you can do well in the IA!!!
A full description of each of these criterion can be found in the Course Guide (pp 81-83).
Check out this link for a great overview of what the IA as all about!
Here is another useful link.
Criteria A+B Sample
Please see the course guide, p83, for a detailed description of the assessment criteria for each of the 5 aspects of the couse.