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=Course Outline =

Area of Study 1: IT techniques

 * Outcome 1:** Transform an existing printed information product into an on-screen information product to meet a specific audience need, evaluate the success of this information product, and explain its likely impact on the audience’s skills or work practices.

**Area of Study 2: Data management**

 * Outcome 2:** Solve an information problem by collecting data and using database management software to manipulate that data.

Area of Study 3: ICT issues

 * Outcome 3:** Contribute collaboratively to the creation of an on-screen information product that presents an analysis of a contemporary ICT issue and substantiates a point of view.

Unit 1 – Assessment Tasks
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to an identified need. • visual presentations such as multimedia presentations • oral presentations supported by a visual presentation • a written report using ICT • a test

Area of Study 1: Programming and pathways

 * Outcome 1:** Demonstrate progression in the ability to use a programming or scripting language, record the learning progress electronically, and explain possible career pathways that require the use of the software skills.

**Area of Study 2: Networks**

 * Outcome 2:** Represent a networked information system within an organisation, and describe the way a specified set of data flows through the system, where it is stored and where it is processed.

Area of Study 3: Tools, techniques and procedures

 * Outcome 3:** On completion of this unit the student should be able to work collaboratively to design a solution and an information product for a client, taking into account client feedback, solve the information problem, and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the solution and product.

Unit 2 – Assessment Task
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to a client brief • visual presentations supported by a visual presentation • a folio • an electronic learning journal, such as a blog, to record learning progress • a written report using ICT • a test