Practical+Exam+Help

=**Planning for the exam**=

//“Candidates should include a written Action Plan (TPT2) for the task, which may be produced prior to the 5-hour practical sessions. This should clearly state the problem to be solved and the audience to be targeted (TPT1). Candidates should also detail their hardware/software selections with reasons for choice (TPT3). A separate written evaluation (TPT4 & TPT5) may be completed after the 5-hour practical session.// //The outcomes of the Task should also be annotated against assessment criteria and included for moderation. Where the student has demonstrated specific skills that could also count towards the Coursework Portfolio, annotation on the work should clearly indicate where the Coursework Portfolio marking criteria have also been met.”//// CEA ICT Exam Context 08 //

Action Plan, the Gantt chart that you were creating at the beginning of the project, in class is your overall time plan, you might take this further and add every detail, but I suggest that you make a detailed time-plan for each lesson, breaking down the one hour you have into all the tasks you wish to achieve, e.g. create Flash rollover button with animated images in Flash then export and duplicate in Dreamweaver 15 mins.

Examine the marking scheme below from the exam board.
|| The student has worked independently to solve the problem || 10 || This criteria expects you to be able to work on your own to solve the problem – the more you need help the less marks you will be given. This does not mean you cannot use help guides and on-line guides to help you with the software occasionally but you should be able to select and use the appropriate software on your own. || || The student has planned their time effectively to complete the task in allocated time || 10 ||  These marks are awarded for your planning so it is important that you put together an action plan for your task and stick to it as much as you can. It will also stop you from wasting too much time on different stages of the task and running out of time before you have finished. It can also keep your mind on your goals, the purpose of the task and the audience for whom it is intended. (This can be outside the 5 hours.) Do this properly and you should do well in the timed practical task. || || The student made use of the most appropriate resources available to them in solving the problem || 10 ||  It is important that you use a range of resources when solving your problem. These could include research materials from different sources both electronic and paper based to choose the most appropriate software application for the task. You should explain how and why you chose them in an evaluation report at the end of the task. || || The outcome achieved is relevant to a solution for the problem || 10 ||  Quite often when carrying out a task it can be easy to lose track of the task you are doing and to be sidetracked away from the point. It is important that the work you produce is relevant for the task i.e. does what you were asked to do. || || The outcome achieved is suitable for the intended purpose || 10 || It is also very important that what you do produce is suitable for the purpose for which it was designed. It is no good producing a guide for 5 year olds that is too wordy and they cannot read it! You need to keep your audience and what you want your work to achieve in mind at all times through the project. || //The use of web authoring or presentation software to create a presentation for others to use.// //All students can demonstrate the following// //Establish structure and navigation route through the presentation// //Produce the individual frames/layers/backgrounds/slides// //Make use of software presentation facilities, eg bullet points// //Using a presentation software application// //Set timing of events within individual frames, eg timing between bullet points// //Set document timing, eg manual, automatic// //Re-order frames for specific audiences// //Using web authoring software// //Set hyperlinks between separate pages// //Establish hyperlinks to other websites and e-mail addresses// //Upload document to the World Wide Web// //Make update adjustments to the file at regular specified times.// // CEA ICT Exam Context 08 //
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= **Exam information**=
 * Student must bring to school all the resources they are going to use in their exam at the start of the first lesson (Monday 15th Feb 2008) you will have your resources checked in this lesson. You will also bring your detailed time plans and design sheets. Without all of these you will not be able to start the exam on Thursday 18th Feb 2007.
 * **You must be on time to your exam, you will not get extra time, the lesson is 1hr15mins long, we will use 5mins at the beginning to get set up, and 10mins at the end to upload screen shots and burn to CD what you have done in the exam. The practical exam is 1 hour long.**
 * For the exam you will enter the room place your bags at the front of the room, you may use your time plans and design sheets, your thumb/flash drive and some pens and pencils.
 * Students will be seated by the teacher at different computers each lesson.
 * You will log on to the computers so that you can access the Adobe software, then the router will be switched off. You can still access the Adobe Help without the router connected but you cannot access the Web. **(If you are late you will not be able to access the software)**
 * Whilst working during the exam you are going to save your work to the D drive.
 * At the end of the timed exam you are going to save your work, your resources etc to a CD-RW. You will be given two CD’s in a paper envelope which you must label with your name and ICT teacher.
 * 1) When writing to the CD, you are going to use Roxio Creator to burn your work to your CD-RW. (On Monday we will go over this)
 * 2) First time you put the disc into the computer you must select **more** than one recording in the **//Options//** menu.
 * 3) Drag your folder of work onto the Data area, click Copy . Do not finalize.
 * Your CDs will be collected at the end of each lesson
 * Whilst you are working doing the exam have a word document open on the desk top and keep adding screen grabs (print-screen) as you go along. Don’t think about whether you need it or not, just make loads of screen grabs that you can take home and look at and write up your evaluations and consider any adjustments to your time plan.
 * At the end of the exam you will upload your screen grabs to your own thumb/flash drive. If you do not have one - **buy one.**
 * **Do not** place or leave your thumb/flash drive in the computer during the exam, it will count as an instant fail and expulsion from the exam.
 * If you burn your CD-RW and forget to just burn the session and finalize your CD, you have one back up copy, but after that you will have to pay for the CD's if there are any left!!!!

=**Resource**= > recreate it in the exam, you cannot bring it in as a finished piece of work, you would gain no marks, but if you spend 15 minutes using Photoshop, Illustrator, or Xara to re-create it, you will gain some marks for using additional software, saving in appropriate file formats, importing and exporting to Flash or Dreamweaver.
 * Any music used must be copyright free music, or created by you. You may need to use Soundforge to see a visual of the music waves which you can use in your planning. This should be done before the exam, but you may not edit the music in any other way, leave that for the exam, even just making it into a loop, because you will be demonstrating that you can use appropriate software.
 * Any photos/video **must** be copyright free and unedited.
 * If you download photos you must use copyright free photos (You should indicate on a layer on the photo where it has come from)
 * [|www.freephotos.com]
 * http://www.freerangestock.com to access you need to register for free
 * http://www.photobox.co.uk/public/index.html
 * Or take some digital photos yourselves, scan in or take photos from books, magazines, shop-fronts. If you already created a logo you **must**
 * **All** editing will be done in the exam using the appropriate software and identifiable in your planning, certainly all photos will need to be edited size wise using appropriate software before being inserted into presentation or web-software.
 * Buttons and navigation items need to be planned and made within the exam.
 * Any video that you have shot, captured needs to be edited in the exam using appropriate software.

// “Marks awarded should reflect the level of complexity of the task and the ability of the candidate…” // // CEA ICT Exam Context 08 // Not for artistic ability, that is to say your work will be marked on the quantity of different features that you use in your animation or website, even if it looks quite rough, will gain far higher marks than a simple animation which is a Photoshop/Flash work art.