[Year 12 IT Apps] Macros - Question arising from Friday's PD

[Mark Kelly]

Good question.  I was hedging my bets when I planned for U3O1.  The 
introduction to Area of Study 1 in the study design says that students 
"create macros to perform repetitive tasks" (p.25) but macros are not 
explicitly mentioned in the U3O1 key knowledge or key skills, or in the 
assessment guide.

I ended up allocating marks for indicating where macros/scripting could 
be useful, and other marks for actually producing them (so the high 
fliers could use this to set themselves above the herd).

The problem is that in Access, anything beyond recording keyboard/mouse 
activity (e.g. VBA) is way beyond most kids' (and teachers') skill level.

Filemaker, however, is far easier to script  :-)

Mark

Damien A-B wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	On Friday's PD at Melbourne Uni, Maggie's session on unit 3 said
> that students do not need to actually do a macro in the outcome but could do
> them as activities before and/or after the outcome has been completed. On
> the other had, Mark's session stated that students had to do macros as part
> of the outcome. 
> Could anyone please clarify which way we have to go here.
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Damien Atkinson-Buck
> IT Department
> Keilor Downs College
> 
> 
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