[Year 12 IT Apps] U4O1 question re User Doc

[Andrew Shortell]

Congrats to Stacey

Also you do not need to put in the obvious like how to open
Just the material on what to do with the solution to use it effectively

Now you have broken the ice, write more

Andrew

CRC Melton
VITTA CoM member
Educator

(I love my own advice; sometimes I even take it myself)

On 17/07/2012, at 10:22 AM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Stacey. Welcome to the list.
> 
> I often give my students a choice of appropriate tools. For example with web design some prefer Dreamweaver while others write raw HTML in a text editor. As long as they satisfy the requirements of the task, students can use any tool that does not disobey the study design's mandates. For convenience, however, most kids use the tools I train them in.  
> 
> With the user doc, often half the kids use a web editor and half use a multimedia editor (Powerpoint in kiosk mode.) Inappropriate tools like Word or PDF are not allowed.
> 
> With databases, they all use Filemaker. (Noone has ever asked to use a different database, but I would not let them if they did.) Trying to support more than one RDBMS would be too impractical.
> 
> 
> User documentation needs to be comprehensive, and completeness is a major assessment criterion. A complete user manual does not need to be too onerous, considering the relative simplicity of the databases produced for the outcome.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Regards
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 17 July 2012 09:45, Vassiliadis, Stacey D <vassiliadis.stacey.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> This is my first time writing on the list. This is also my first year teaching Year 12 IT Apps. So thank you to everyone for all the help and guidance I have received. 
> 
> I just wanted clarify something about the User Documentation part of U4O1. Can the students choose which multimedia program to use or does it need to be a uniform decision for the whole class? Also, do they need to complete the whole User Doc so that every step is shown on how to use the Database or do they only need to complete part of it?
> 
> Thanks again to everyone for all your help. Greatly appreciated!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Stacey Vassiliadis
> ICT and e-Learning | Footscray City College  
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> 
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