[Year 12 SofDev] RE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT User Documentation Question.

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Hi Anthony and colleagues

 

The key skill for this aspect of the outcome states that students should
be able to 'write appropriate user documentation'. By selecting an
aspect of the solution for which user documentation is being written is
fine providing there is sufficient scope for the student to show
attributes that you would typically expect to see in appropriate
documentation such as an awareness of users' needs and completeness of
the instructions. 

 

 

Regards

Paula

 

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ciappara, Anthony A
Sent: Friday, 17 October 2008 5:02 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT User Documentation Question.

 

Hi Paula

 

I have just spent some time going through the study design and
assessment guides to check that I have covered everything with my
Software Development class.

 

I have a question with regards to Unit 4, Outcome 1, Task 2. For part of
this task, I asked my students to create user documentation for part of
the software application that they created for Task 1. It was a VB front
end that worked with an Access database. 

 

The user doc that they wrote probably took the average student 1.5-2 hrs
and involved instructing the user how to do a member search using a
variety of methods, how to scroll through the search results and what
output to expect. They were able to demonstrate logical sequence,
accuracy, comprehensibility and presentation as the assessment guide
required. 

 

I did not ask them to create user doc for the whole application as I
felt this was quite onerous and would not have allowed them to
demonstrate anything that they could not demonstrate in the task that I
set.  Is this OK or should I get them to complete user doc for the
entire application?

 

Regards

 

Anthony Ciappara

 

 

 

 

 

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Christophersen, Paula
P
Sent: Wed 1/10/2008 11:43 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Exam covers on VCAA website

Dear colleagues

 

The following link will take you to the exam covers for IT applications
and Software development.

 

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/exams/examcovers/Oct_Nov_2008/2008OctNove
xamcovers.html

 

Regards

Paula

 

Paula Christophersen

Acting Manager, VCE Curriculum Unit

VCAA

41 St Andrews Place

EAST MELBOURNE 3002

+61 3 9651 4443

 

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