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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Feb 2015, at 12:28 pm, Mark &lt;<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">From memory the amount of assistance allowed via notes, cheat sheets etc is up to the teacher.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I let kids use their texts and notes freely during outcomes. After all, in the real world what sensible IT worker refuses to look up information to solve a problem? Enforcing that would not make any realistic sense.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tests, however, were very different. No notes, no texts, no computers, no nothing: strict exam conditions.&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2015 at 11:07, David B. Thomas <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:david.b.thomas@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank" class="">david.b.thomas@rmit.edu.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">...</div><div class="">For SAC3,1 building a prototype website are students allowed to do the following:</div><div class="">Bring their IT Applications text book into the lab?</div><div class="">Bring self written notes into the lab? If so how many pages?</div><div class="">Are they able to look at documentation they have written based on a trial SAC3,1 that they have undertaken?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px" class="">Pedantic?<i class=""> Whom, I??</i></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class="">mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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