As you can see from the main interface units 01, 02, 07, 20, 21 & 23 have been built now. More units are being completed all the time, but this is sufficient to achieve National First Award (1 GCSE equivalent) and the National Award (2 GCSE equivalent) in lots of different combinations of units.

See page 31 of the specification for allowed combinations. By doing all of these units it is possible to have your students achieve the National First Certificate (3 GCSE equivalent).

The data in these examples is real, a year 10 classes in a standard comprehsive school, but the names have been scrambled to maintain confidentiality.

         
right click above, select play

 

 
Images of the other unit interfaces. Click on any for a closer examination.
 
 

We have just started the 'Aquastranza' project from OCR, and it is proving to be very nicely pitched - engaging enough and demanding enough.

It has that wonderful combination, that ICT can provide, of working on both creative and logical skills; developing determination to succeed and providing a great deal of student satisfaction in producing attractive work.

         
  As you can probably guess, I quite like doing databases, and this is the first time I have had to teach relational databases at year 10, which seems like progress to me. I think the students enjoyed it. I've overheard quite a few saying that this unit is easier than unit_01, which I'm taking as a good sign, but could be taken either way!
         
 

Animation is just so engaging and exciting for the students - I have put this (and unit_21) into the system so that students who have finished a particular task can work on these units and submit their work for marking, with the aim of achieving a further Level 2 qualification.

Genuine personalised learning, which, I have to say, would be difficult to manage without being able to record progress and mark their work in this way.

         
  Our students love graphics too, and many have opted for this in preference to animation, which suprised me to be honest.
         
 

We are doing unit_23 along with unit_01 for our whole cohort of year 10s (about 180 students). Click here to see the form which works out how they have done in both units. We've only just started this unit, so I have falsified a few students' marks to show the algorithms working.

Click here to see a video of that form.