[Year 12 IT Apps] DB SAC

[Mark Scott]

I am doing Spreadsheets for Unit 4 Outcome 1 this year.

Next year I am thinking about doing Databases instead.
It would seem logical to just extend the students skill set in one software type.

Any thoughts, anybody?

Mark Scott
Luther College
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be"

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2011 3:34 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] DB SAC

You wouldn't lose marks for adding formatting, forms, controls etc, but you wouldn't be getting marks for them.  And spending too much time on these things may distract students from spending time on things that do get marks.

Some primitive form of input/output is necessary to get the data into the tables and get printouts of answers produced (I get kids to print output rather than assessing onscreen).  It's just that I/O is not much important in U3O2.  Anyway, it's not as if it takes hours of work or masses of skill to produce basic output !

I wouldn't panic about adding features, just about leaving out necessary features.

Regards
Mark
On 26 May 2011 11:08, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au<mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Hi, OtherMark

Formatting is not important to this outcome, but it is assessable if RDBMS is used for U4O1...

If students use a relational database management system in Unit 4, the following additional functions apply:
*         import/export of data
*         format data for display
*         create and edit a range of forms, including different data types and controls
*         create and edit a range of formatted reports.

On 26 May 2011 10:47, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au<mailto:msc at luther.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

HELP!!!!!!!!

>From VCAA
Relational database management system
The following functions apply to Unit 3:

*        create tables

*        create relationships between tables

*        use a range of data types

*        electronic validation

*        create, edit and use queries

*        use of calculated fields

*        sort records or index on different fields.

Can someone confirm that:


*        formatting (apart from sorting) is not a part of this SAC?

*        drop down lists are not appropriate for tables (only forms)

Mark Scott
Luther College

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Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
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