Key Stage Five Information Technology

Unit 1

Using ICT to communicate

Mandatory

You will use your presentation knowledge and skills to create a portfolio of different communications, including a presentation on different methods of communicating information and the technologies that support them. You will also compare a collection of standard documents used by organisations. The communications you create and compare need to have sufficient content to enable you to fully demonstrate your presentation knowledge and skills.

Unit 2

How organisations use ICT

Mandatory

You will study how organisations (including at least one large organisation) collect, disseminate and use information, how they manage the flow of information between sections or departments and the way they use ICT to access and exchange

information. The unit will be assessed through an external assessment. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit.

Unit 3

ICT solutions for individuals and society

Mandatory

The World Wide Web allows individuals to access information on almost any topic imaginable. This access to information has had a fundamental effect on society and the way individuals live their lives.

This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit. You will produce a presentation of the results of an investigation, including the use of a spreadsheet to analyse numeric data, along with a report on the sources and methods used to find information.

Unit 9

Working to a brief

Mandatory

This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit. You will produce a specification for an ICT system to meet the needs of a given user, together with a working system on which you have installed and configured software to meet a user needs, and recommendations for ensuring safety and security, and an explanation of the basics of software development.

Unit 12

Publishing

Baysgarth Choice

This unit helps you to: appreciate the uses of desktop publishing (DTP), and word processing packages and their capabilities, and apply them to a variety of tasks; recognise the variety of documents produced using DTP facilities and the range of hardware and software available for this purpose; sample the kind of work undertaken by designers, illustrators, newspaper artists and draughts persons.

In this unit you need to: work alongside a client whose needs you must meet; research a brief, plan a response and produce a quality solution; produce information that communicates effectively and accurately, taking into account the needs of the audience; the document will be fit for purpose; extend previous DTP work; combine information of different types to create complex documents; produce draft documents for approval; use customising and automating tools and techniques to produce professional- looking, complex documents, e.g. newsletters, journals, complex reports.

Unit 13

Artwork and Imaging

Baysgarth Choice

This unit helps you to: develop skills needed when producing artwork for inclusion in publications; improve your skills in creating and modifying artwork and images for display; understand the kind of work undertaken by designers, illustrators, newspaper artists and draughts persons; understand the laws and guidelines that relate to the use of ICT.

In this unit you will: extend previous ICT graphics work; cover the skills and techniques used in the creation of more complex artwork and images, such as editing photos; work alongside a client whose needs you must meet; research a brief, plan a response, and produce a quality solution.

Unit 4

System Specification

Baysgarth Choice

This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit. You will produce a specification for an ICT system to meet the needs of a given user, together with a working system on which you have installed and configured software to meet a user's needs, and recommendations for ensuring safety and security, and an explanation of the basics of software development,

Unit 5

Problem solving using ICT

Baysgarth Choice

The data and information which are used by an organisation can come from a variety of sources. Some of these will be external to the organisation and others will be internal. In today.s world, much of the information used by an organisation may come from the Internet. In order to solve the problems of an organisation through the use of ICT, you need to identify where the information used by the organisation comes from and how it is used within the organisation.

Unit 7

Communicating using computers

Baysgarth Choice

The use of the Internet and intranets has expanded rapidly over the last few years. Recently, there has been an increase in the need for people with the skills for setting up and managing websites. This unit will help you to develop these valuable skills.

Unit 16

Networking

Baysgarth Choice

This unit may be helpful if you plan to pursue a career in network management or customer support services.

This unit is assessed through an external assessment. A case study and tasks will be released before the external assessment. You need to examine the case study and complete the tasks and take them into the test with you. In the test you will be asked questions on what you have produced and on other aspects that you have studied. The mark for that assessment will be your mark for the unit.

Unit 18

Database Design

Baysgarth Choice

You need to produce a relational database and design notes, technical documentation and user instructions.

This unit applies the knowledge and skills gained from Unit 3: ICT solutions for individuals and society , Unit 5: Problem solving using ICT.

This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit. You will produce a relational database to meet a given specification requiring at least three related tables, supported by design and analysis notes, technical and user documentation and an evaluation of the database produced.

Unit 20

ICT solutions for individuals

Baysgarth Choice

You will study individuals. use of ICT to enable them to achieve equality and independence, and how they use technology to convert communication into a useable form (to sense and control) in order that disabilities, impairments and difficulties can be overcome.