[Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SACs and assessment guide - UPDATE!

[Mark Kelly]

O..k... tweaked version NOW attached!  D'oh.

Mark Kelly wrote:
> Lovely task, Adrian.
> 
> Being an inveterate fiddler, I tweaked it a little to add a specific 
> security risk (AJ's competitive brother), and a little more detail to 
> the network diagram.  Tweaked version attached. Hope you don't mind.
> 
> A few houskeeping queries...
> 
> - How long would you give kids for this?  It looks like a 90 minute 
> double-period job to me.
>  - Are you mandating that software be used to produce the network diagram?
> - For that matter, will you have computers turned on at all?
> - Would you be letting kids refer to notes?
> 
> 
> Cheers and thanks again
> 
> Mark
> 
> Adrian Janson wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have updated my files that I previously posted on the VITTA web 
>> site… here are the links:
>>
>>  
>>
>> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3160
>>
>> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3161
>>
>>  
>>
>> Please download the files from the VITTA web site and disregard the 
>> ones I previously posted.
>>  
>>
>> As has been correctly pointed out to me, U3O1 needs to be styled as a 
>> report – not as a set of tasks or questions.  Although this was always 
>> my understanding - I do ask my students to deliver a report (and not 
>> just answers to questions), the wording in my U3O1 document could have 
>> been interpreted as being a set a questions rather than a report.  One 
>> of the reasons I break up the report in this way is so that I can ask 
>> students to address particular things during particular classes.  I 
>> need to clarify this with you, so that you all know what is expected 
>> in this outcome.
>>
>>  
>>
>> The second thing that I have changed is in relation to the weighting 
>> of the tasks.  The VASS system will ask you to enter a mark out of 40 
>> (for the report) + a mark out of 10 (for the network diagram).  If you 
>> have a different weighting in the criteria sheet (as I did – opps!), 
>> things will become a little confusing when it comes time to enter your 
>> marks into the VASS system.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Hope this clarifies things!
>>  
>>
>> So to ensure that I haven’t let you all astray, please delete the 
>> files that I posted previously and access the new ones via the links 
>> above!
>>
>>  
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>  
>>
>> Adrian Janson
>>
>> VITTA President
>>
>> Director of ICT, Melbourne High School
>>
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