Controlled Assessment: Week 1 - Checking and Testing update

Exam Preparation. Week 2 -
First Sample Paper A - Save this as your username + letter A. Then use the Typewriter tool in Acrobat to type in your answers. Try the questions without help first then research via the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only).

Week 3: 1. You should read...
01 Data Collection and 02 Data Entry. These articles should further add to your understanding of the importance of GIGO within Input.
Now read ...11 Apps Software and 12 Shopping. Write a short essay (under a page of Word) on how new technologies are changing the way we shop. < This should be handed in before pd5 next Tuesday.

2. Load the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only). You are to take a quiz for all questions on the following topics...All topics from Hardware to Spreadsheets in the first column, plus Validate & Verify and Data Collection from the third column. There are 288 questions in total. You will not have time to answer all. To see how to set up the quiz watch the Quiz Demo lesson.

3. In test conditions, carefully read through the booklet handed out in class. Name each of the two tasks, then identify the outcomes and performance critera for each (part of Analysis). The Design normally involves a test plan, again using the booklet identify the tests you have specifically been asked to do. Present your answers in the format of the AQA 2011 Analysis (Anna's Driving School). As well as extending your knowledge of the Life Cycle it opens the chance to resit Unit 2. When finished email TGM your Word document - ensure that it has a header with page numbers and name on every page. Then move on to the work below.

2. Now individually research Networks on the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only) and read 07 Networks
Create a Word Document then Copy and Paste (special – unformatted) notes from the GCSE Webpages on the
following Communication methods: Phone, Fax, Email, Post. Add 2 diagrams to show the difference between a LAN & WAN (1 diagram should include at least 1 Modem). Add and answer these questions
How do Server based networks and Peer to Peer networks differ?
How does Teletext differ from the Internet?
Describe the difference between Analogue & Digital signals.

Homework Logo: An Online version and via Maths (Resources) <@KES Only
This is a programming language that controls a floor robot.
Simple instructions include Forward n, Back n, Left n, Right n,Pen Up, Pen down. Use CS (Clear screen) to reset.
Try to draw a Square, Hexagon, Triangle, Octogon, Nonogon, Pentagon and a decagon. Then the shape in Sample Paper A.
What do you think this will create? Repeat 8 [Repeat 6 [FD 80 left 60] right 45] Workout then try! Experiment with others!

Week 6: Exam Preperation Review.
1. The Exam will have questions on most of the topics covered this term and questions on Applications software used during the course so far. There are a few additional topics which will be covered this week. The list therefore includes... All 40+ Hardware Devices (from Input > Process (CPU) <> Storage > Output). Sub Classification of devices Manual / DDE / Hard - Soft Copy / IAS / Backing Store. This includes Control Devices and Control terms like Period of Logging, Actuators & Calibration (etc.). Software Applications (WP, Db, SS, Web Design, Logo), their use plus features and function. Features of the Operating System Software. Adv / Dis Adv of online shopping and e-resources. The link between information and Data. Data Capture & Error Prevention. Networks. System Life Cycle. Flowcharts.

2. Use the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only) and option 2 Select these topics for the Quiz... that is Information, Information Systems, Hardware, Input Devices, Output Devices, Storage Devices, Processing, Software, Word Processing, Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Databases, Spreadsheets, Charting, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Data Logging, Control, Control Programs, Validate & Verify, Data Collection, Algorithms & Charts, Data Transfer, Systems Lifecycle, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Evaluation, Documentation. In two's, discuss and attempt a test.... Your teacher will explain a scoring system!

3. Read Data Capture & Error Prevention. Then use the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only) and research topics you are less sure from the previous sessions - further resources... GCSE1 GCSE2 GCSE3 GCSE4 GCSE5 GCSE6 Make notes accordingly!

Week 7: Post Exam - Unit 3 Controlled Assessment - The School Trip....
1. Use the Electronic copy of the Exam paper (<@KES Only). Add your answers to those already there. Correct your wrong answers by using the GCSE Webpages (<@KES only) and other resources (week 6 part 3 above). Homework: Listen to the Tudor House. If it does not work right click then save target as (from Internet Explorer then treat mp3 file like any othe music file to play). In a Word document, list what tasks could be attempted using a Word Processor, Spreadsheet & Database. Read the AQA booklet that was emailed to you.

2. Second Controlled Assessment - The School Trip. Read the AQA booklet (<@KES only). Everyone should select a different trip. The trip is for one day only but can be from any part of the North road site school. It could be a departmental trip you went on in the past or one that is planned for year 11 or the sixth form. Everyone must have a unique trip. Consider the "sequence" of the planning activities. What comes first - Lists of names from the school database or will they be typed in, letters home (with a reply / data capture form to update the database) or a model of the accounts or a promotional entry on the school's website / poster around the school? Try to speak to a teacher who runs the trip and ask them for details of what they do? It might be worth taking a mp3 recorder to record it - does your mobile phone do this - ask the teacher first though!

3. Planning and Skills - What skills do you need that you do not presently have? Mailmerge to send the letters home? What else? Are there "lessons" on this site to help you? Is there a demo that you need? As for Planning where will you get all the costs from, the pupil details the promotional information etc. Try to create "Prototypes" of your solution - This will help to complete the formal design at the start of next term.Homework: To help you can download an "extract" of details from the main "school" database - Why is this data false? What data is missing that might be helpful to you?

Until the End of Term: The Project (Unit 3)
With reference to the AQA booklet (<@KES only & via email) and Milestones and Risks. Write your own plans for Milestones and Risks, some of the earlier documents can be cut and pasted into this more formal write up document. You are urged to use the table method as in the example. Continue experimenting (Prototyping) with potential "Methods" and Solutions for all of your tasks. Mailmerging: a new Office 2010 method will be shown at the start of the Autumn term. In the meantime watch this in the 2003 version...Part 1 & Part 2.