1. Learning Intentions: To understand what is required to achieve a Pass, Merit or Distinction for Task 7.

2. Learning Outcomes: All pupils will be able to: Fulfil the Pass Criteria. Most pupils will be able to: Fulfil the Merit Criteria. Some pupils will be able to: Fulfil the Distinction Criteria.

3. Homework: Weekly Blog Self Evaluation 1.What were this weeks learning objectives/your personal targets? 2.What did you learn this week? 3.What did you achieve this week? 4.What are your targets for next week? 5.Do you feel happy with your progress? 6.Any other comments?

4. Scenario: You have been employed to assist with the expansion of a ‘downloadable tunes’ internet business and will complete a variety of ICT tasks to promote the business. The company website already includes numerous singles and albums which can be purchased online so that customers can download the tunes they require. The company was previously run by one person from their home – it started as a hobby but has taken off. The website was created and customers have been accessing the site, ordering the tunes online and then after making a payment they are able to download the tracks in a format to suit them. The business owner has been recording all details by hand but it is becoming apparent that if the business is to survive it needs to:  record business transactions in a spreadsheet  record customer details in a database  produce professional documentation that can be used to promote the business, including a newsletter. Finally you will produce an electronic slide presentation about the company. Downloadable tunes are based at: Downloadable Tunes 1 Coventry Square Coventry CV1 3HQ 024 76 470033

5. Pass Criteria: Candidates will create straight forward business documents. These will include a letter and at least two other documents such as a business card, flyer, newsletter, invoice, memo, agenda, report or minutes. These may have been produced using standard templates. At least one document will include graphics using more than one source, eg clip art, the World Wide Web, scanner, digital camera, drawing package, spreadsheet or database. The documents will have been checked using a spelling checker but some errors may remain. Some formatting features, eg font style and size and paragraph justification will have been used.

6. Merit Criteria: Candidates will create at least four types of business document, including a letter and a document of more than one page including tables, graphs and charts created in other software. They will include graphics from a range of sources. They will use spelling and grammar checks and will edit the documents to improve and correct them so that few errors remain. Text, tables and graphic images from a range of sources will be integrated into at least one document and these will be positioned and formatted appropriately. There will be some consistency to the layout of the documents, although there may be some exceptions. Although documents may be based on standard templates there will be evidence of the use of a range of software tools and facilities and these will have been used appropriately.

7. Distinction Criteria: Candidates will create at least four types of business document, including a mailmerged letter and a document of several pages including tables, graphs and charts created in other software. They will include graphics from a wide range of sources. Documents will display a consistent housestyle designed by the candidate and an extensive range of software tools and facilities will have been used. They will insert fields, including date and document information. All documents produced will have been thoroughly checked using spelling and grammar checkers, and proof read, so that they are virtually error-free, and of a near professional standard.

8. Activity A: The owner of Downloadable Tunes has asked you to produce a newsletter to be sent out to all customers, promoting the company. You may wish to include information from tasks 2, 4, 5 and 6 Create a newsletter which includes:  Text – this could be the company history, special offers, music reviews  Images/graphics: scanned digital signatures digital camera images of staff at Downloadable Tunes a logo using a graphics package images from clipart images from the world wide web graphs – this could be information on the different customer groups eg age, towns

9. Activities: Activity B: Apply suitable formatting to your document eg font style, size and paragraph justification. Activity C: Check the document using a spelling/grammar checker. Activity D: ensure that you use a housestyle consistent with the other business documents that you produced in task 6 Activity E: insert fields, including date and document information Activity F: proofread your newsletter and make any necessary changes to ensure it is error free and looks professional

10. Task 7 – Mark Alert! Document types eg: letter, business card, flyer, newsletter, invoice, memo, agenda, report, minutes. Tools and facilities: enter text, tables, images using the keyboard, mouse or other input device format documents including, text (font, style, size), paragraph (justification, indents, line spacing, tabs), bulleted and numbered lists, page breaks insert headers and footers insert fields, including date and document information edit documents using insert, delete, cut, copy and paste functions import tables, graphic images, graphs and charts created in other software carry out a mailmerge use spelling and grammar checkers proof read documents to detect errors not corrected by the spell checker

11. Plenary: Go through Mark Alert! Go through Pass, Merit and Distinction Criteria.