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Unit 1: Presenting Information
(6411)
About This Unit
This unit helps you to:
- Write original documents in styles that suit your readers
- Improve the accuracy and readability of the documents you create
- Improve the quality of presentation in documents you create
- Choose and apply standard document layouts
- Understand and develop good practice in your use of ICT.
You will create and compose a variety of documents using layouts
and styles that suit their different purposes. You will compare
the style and layout of the documents you originate with similar
documents produced by organisations.
This unit links closely with Unit 2: Handling Information. Together,
they form the basis for all other units.
This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The grade on
that assessment will be your grade for the unit.
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Unit 2: Handling Information (6412)
About this Unit
This unit helps you to:
- Understand what information handling means and how it is used
- Create a database to store and process records
- Create a spreadsheet to store and process numerical information
- Search, sort, explore and predict information
- Discover trends and patterns from numerical information
- Understand and develop good practice and standard ways of working
with ICT.
You will produce a relational database and a spreadsheet to meet
the needs of users together with notes describing the requirements.
This unit links closely with Unit 1: Presenting Information. You
can import information taken from the databases and spreadsheets
described in this unit into documents created in Unit 1.
This unit is assessed through your portfolio work. The grade on
that assessment will be your grade for the unit.
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Unit 3: Hardware and Software (6413)
About This Unit
This unit helps you to:
- Understand ICT specifications for hardware and software
- Select an ICT system and configure it to meet the needs of users
- Write a program to improve the efficient use of application software
(macros)
- Write a program to display hypertext information (HTML)
- Understand and develop good practice in your use of ICT.
Much of what you have learned using ICT systems and various software
in Unit 1: Presenting Information and Unit 2: Handling Information
will help you in this unit. The techniques for presenting information,
learned in Unit 1, will also help you to create good quality
hypertext presentations. This unit is assessed only through an external assessment. You
will have to undertake some tasks before the test and take this
work into the external assessment with you. The grade on that assessment
will be your grade for the unit.
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Unit 5: Communicating With Multimedia
(6415)
About This Unit
This unit gives you the opportunity to review commercially produced
multimedia presentations, and to develop your own multimedia
presentation to communicate a message.
In this unit, you will learn:
- About the component parts of a multimedia presentation
- What makes a good multimedia presentation
- How to plan, create and present a multimedia presentation to
meet a given specification.
This unit builds on material covered in Intermediate Unit 1: Presenting
Information which introduces designing documents to meet the needs
of readers.
This unit may be useful if you are interested in following a career
that will include the creation of multimedia presentations.
This unit is assessed through your portfolio work only. The grade
on that will be the grade for the unit.
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Unit 6: Graphics and Desktop Publishing
(6416)
About This Unit
This unit will give you the opportunity to use ICT to create and
edit graphical images, and to produce documents including these
images.
In this unit, you will learn about:
- The uses and features of graphics software and desktop publishing
(DTP) software
- How to use graphics software to create and edit graphic images
- How to use DTP to construct and edit documents
- How to research, plan, produce, edit and present a document to
meet a design brief.
This unit has links with Foundation and Intermediate Units 1:
Presenting Information. While Unit 1:Presenting Information looks
at writing original documents and using ICT to improve their presentation,
this unit concentrates on using DTP for the production of documents.
This unit extends the skills and knowledge covered in Foundation
Unit 6: Graphics and also provides a base for advanced study in
this area.
This unit may be useful for any career that requires you to present
information in an effective way, for example working in a publishing
or in the media industry.
This unit is assessed only through an external assessment. You
will have to undertake some tasks before the test and take this
work into the external assessment with you. The grade on that assessment
will be your grade for the unit.
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Unit 8: Databases (6418)
About this Unit
This unit helps you to develop your understanding of the use of
databases and database management systems.
In this unit, you will learn how to:
- Research the information needs of a user
- Design and create a relational database system to meet those
needs
- Produce a user guide for the database.
This unit builds on the use of databases introduced in Intermediate
Unit 2: Handling Information, and on Unit 1: Presenting Information.
This unit may help you prepare for jobs that involve organising
data into tables that can then be accessed and manipulated for
different purposes.
This unit is assessed through you portfolio work only. The grade
on that unit will be the grade fort that unit.
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