VCE IT Lecture Notes by Mark Kelly

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VCE IT Lecture Notes by Mark Kelly
McKinnon Secondary College
Victoria, Australia

Lecture Notes is a long and occasionally-accurate treatise on VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education)
IT Applications (ITA)
Software Development (SD)
IT Units 1 & 2

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17 May	Finally filled in the SD 'structure and formatting of input and output' page
15 May	Added the examiner's comments to the 2011 SD post mortem, and found an error by VCAA in the process.
24 April	Created a page with excerpts from Microsoft's User Experience guide for programmers (for SD)
19 April	Added examiners' feedback on the ITA exam to the 2011 post mortem


	The official VCE IT Glossary of terms
	A summary of all VCE IT Outcomes
	Study design outlines for ITA and SD and Units 1+2
	IT Problem Solving Methodology definition
	A Software Development Grotto
	Exam Tips and hints
	Oddly, the most popular pages on the site are about Gantt charts and PERT charts - it seems they are still on the curriculum in India!
	Organisation types - another strangely-popular page!
	Excel practice tasks - for ITA U4O1
Nested IF How to do stuff	Are you man/woman/undecided enough to accept the popular Excel Nested IF Challenge? Do you want to find out how to do stuff - like using dropdown lists in Excel?
	Resources - useful links, free goodies, knowledge sources
For McKinnon kids	McKinnon ITA class site \| McKinnon SD class site
VCAA Links - Teachers need to know this stuff	VCAA IT site - VCAA ITA - VCAA SD VCE IT Frequently Asked Questions - VCAA Bulletin #85, November 2010 VCE IT Study Design 2011-2014 Study Design Erratum (SD U4O2 "error logs") Study Design Erratum (ITA U3O2 data types) Check last year's VTAC scaling report VCAA's sample SD exam questions (2011) and answers by Mark Kelly and Kevork Krozian VCAA's sample ITA exam questions (2011) IT Implementation Workshop handout (PDF) Examiners' reports - ITA and SD Assessment Handbook (updated around July) A report on the SD SAC Outcomes Audit Approved SD programming languages 2011 Grade distributions for SD 2011 Grade distributions for ITA Thanks to VCAA for permission to use information from the VCE IT study design and VCE IT exams. VCAA pronouncements - Approved types of websites for ITA U3O1 are blogs chat rooms forums social networking wikis. - Mandated software tools and functions (2012) for IT (e.g. what features of spreadsheets, databases, web editors do students need to be familiar with for outcomes and exams) - Approved programming languages for Software Development and year 11 (2012) Topics for U1O3 issues websites are computer gaming social networking robotics e-commerce cloud computing

IT Exams - how to approach them without screaming

How ITA and SD were scaled ("marked down") in the past

EXAM DATES 2012

IT Applications - Tuesday 13 November, 11:45 - 2:00

Software Development - Friday 16 November, 3:00 - 5:15

Exam information	2007-2010 study design				2011-2014
My ITA post mortems	07	08	09	10	2011
My SD post mortems	07	08	09	10	2011
VCAA ITA exams online	07	08	09	10	2011
VCAA SD Exams online	07	08	09	10	2011
ITA Examiners' reports online	07	08	09	10	2011
SD Examiners' reports online	07	08	09	10	2011
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Site created: 7 November 2001
Moved to vceit.com 8 June 2010
Last changed - Thursday 17 May, 2012 3:00 PM

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