[Year 12 IT Apps] Coding VCE Computing on a 2016 school timetable

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Very sensible Claudia. Probably gets messy when tradition guides decisions by a school timetabler and it is trimmed to just a few letters. Curious what others will do 2016.

Regards Roland

> On 5 Nov 2015, at 9:59 AM, Claudia Graham <claudia.graham at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Roland,
> 
> We only ever use the VCAA codes for our subjects, on timetables and
> subject selection etc - makes everything so much easier.
> So they will stay the same, we will just change the names.
> 
> However, it will cause some issue with students - i.e. IT01 is in fact VCE
> Computing Unit 1 - so they will just call it IT for a while!
> 
> Regards
> Claudia
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> On 5/11/2015 9:44 am, "itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland
> Gesthuizen" <itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of
> rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> New subject names are always a pain to code on timetables. Decades ago, I
>> was asked to pick something different from IT as it was also the code for
>> Italian So in 2016:
>> 
>> 11IT or Year 11 Information Technology becomes a subject called Computing
>> 12ITA or Year 12 Information Technology Applications becomes a subject
>> called Informatics
>> 
>> Pain for us here is that INF looks like investigate (although I think it
>> is a cute coding reference)
>> and COM is the same as commerce (although I could get them to board the
>> Business Studies BUS)
>> 
>> I noticed that a colleague was using something akin to
>> 
>> 11ITC for year 11 Computing
>> 12ITI for year 12 Informatics.
>> 
>> Would it be better to enter recommend this or avoid the IT reference from
>> here on?
>> 
>> Interested to know what other schools are considering.
>> 
>> Regards Roland
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