[Year 12 SofDev] Fw: eCommerce course

Wed Feb 27 07:23:24 UTC 2019

Hi Victoria

What a great effort to get the eCommerce course up and running.

For many years I ran a holiday house online business (in Phillip Island) starting back in 2003 and later sold in 2013. The remnants of the then eCommerce web site can still be browsed at http://www.edulists.com.au/phillip/ .

Data collection was fine, the MySQL back end was fine, however the payment of bookings needed a middle-man and that was known as a payment gateway provider. For a fee of 1% of the amount processed, clients could enter relevant data in my web site in the payment page and then jump into the payment provider’s secure site where the credit card payment could be made and the funds would be cleared on the same day into the business account. This removed the need for me to provide the secure site for payment information and additionally, allowed for a refund process to clients ( eg. The security bond to be paid back at the end of the rental period). It worked like a clock and removed the need for manual processing of payments etc.

The payment gateway provider changed ownership several times during the life of the business from Logic Commerce, Payflow, Paypal etc .  The banks can link you up with their preferred payment gateway provider for those wanting to fully implement their payment system

The final link in the business was how to find customers online. The web site stayz.com.au always came up in the top 3 hits for any Phillip island holiday accommodation search and the astute business owners had carved up all the land around Australia into slices and the relevant site for Phillip Island was https://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/vic/phillip-island-gippsland . So this site at less than $100 a month allowed for serious traffic to look for our property and then to redirect the enquiries to our web site from where the bookings were finalised.
This holiday accommodation business generated close to a single professional wage annually for a small outlay in strategic spending to allow for the smooth operation of the business. As the business was the short term holiday rental market we also employed local cleaners to manage the turnovers smoothly.

In fact I gave a few presentations during the VITTA conferences (RIP), during the period I ran the business.

I hope your students are inspired by the story and can also take the projects to fruition online.

So, there you are, a story with common technical components taken to the full payment process.

Speak soon

Kevork Krozian

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From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Victoria Farrell
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2019 1:46 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Enrolments 2016-2017

Indeed!

We have been developing new courses at Years 7 and 8 Digital Technology to encourage more students to take Technology based classes in Years 9 and 10.

In recent years we have run a Semester long mini-version of Informatics and Software Development courses at Year 10 that provided a pathway for excellent students directly into the Unit 3/4 programs. The Informatics course has stopped running due to a lack of interest. We haven;t run 3/4 Informatics for three years now.

I started a new Year 10 course called "E - Commerce" and we got a full house this year. I have set it up to include data collection & analysis, web development and infographics in the context of developing a business plan. I incorporated programming into the web development with PHP and MySQL. Students can use the E Commerce course as a stepping stone into Data Analytics or Software Development in 2020.

It's running for the first time this semester so I'll let you know how it goes.

[https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4CjWh8BUhIbVjFjVmZSeUFIRGc&revid=0B4CjWh8BUhIbUkNaS2VNTVpNYW9SS2J3MFBSUmtkbkl6U1JJPQ]

Victoria Farrell
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St Kevin's College
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:15 PM Adrian Janson <janson.adrian.a at gmail.com<mailto:janson.adrian.a at gmail.com>> wrote:

The enrolments are definitely concerning. While there are many things that can be said about the VCE curriculum, our students generally are making up their minds before they reach VCE. The scaling doesn't help (and this is something students almost always ask). However, at the end of the day, 'we' all need to be looking at what we are doing in the middle years.

IMO of course!

Cheers,
Adrian

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:06 PM Victoria Farrell <farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au<mailto:farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

I'm not sure if "Data Analytics" is going to set the world on fire.

[https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4CjWh8BUhIbVjFjVmZSeUFIRGc&revid=0B4CjWh8BUhIbUkNaS2VNTVpNYW9SS2J3MFBSUmtkbkl6U1JJPQ]

Victoria Farrell
Head of Technology Department

St Kevin's College
P 03 9832 4980

E farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au<mailto:farrellv at stkevins.vic.edu.au>

Tennis 6th Blue<https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/3594>

Computer Club<https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/12642>

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From: Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>>
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:11 PM
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Enrolments 2016-2017
To: <yr11it at edulists.com.au<mailto:yr11it at edulists.com.au>>, <sofdev at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev at edulists.com.au>>, <informatics at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics at edulists.com.au>>

Hi all.

I was browsing VCAA's data on enrolments in Computing for 2016 and 2017 - as one does in retirement.

This is a distillation of the results:

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Maybe this is why Informatics - along with its hypothesis and MMOS - got the boot in the 2020 draft design.

Maybe...

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Mark Kelly

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