INFO1 -Scenario

The kinds of projects that the students should carry out for INFO 1 are more straightforward than that! Here are some examples:

1. a website to advertise a takeaway

2. a spreadsheet to work out the weekly accounts for a football club

3. a multimedia presentation to inform an audience about a new charity.

How about not getting your students to do spreadsheets at all? They can do website solutions if they find that easier. If you are worried about how they might meet the testing requirements of normal erroneous and boundary tests, then my students who choose to do websites, do a normal and erroneous test of a hyperlink (one with the correct link and one with not) and explain what a boundary test is in the examination (if they are asked) and how they would test in this way. I had a student do this who got 100%. Failing that you can also do image tests on various sizes to include boundary tests. Your students may find this easier to understand and therefore be a bit more motivated

Scenario 1

Peter and Sally Brown have just bought a bed and breakfast hotel in Whitby. The property is already suitably furnished and has a number of single, double and family bedrooms. Sally has a full time job as an architect and will not be involved in running the business. Peter will be running the business himself, but he and Sally intend to regularly discuss business matters, where necessary. At present there are no computer records or computer systems but Peter wants to invest in computer technology to help with various aspects of running the business.

Scenario 2

Miss Jones teaches science at a college in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She currently keeps a handwritten mark book of students’ grades. This system works well to simply track the grades that she has given for 6 assignments; but she needs to also use this data to monitor progress of the students. As a result she has to work many things out manually, which is time consuming. For example, converting a numerical mark into the grade (A –U) that the College needs to report progress of students to parents. Therefore, to improve efficiency of administration tasks, she wants an electronic method of recording, tracking and reporting student progress instead.

Scenario 3

Each week, a small cinema in Whitby chooses which film to show in one month’s time. One film reel is rented for a month from one of 3 film suppliers. All of these suppliers have different rental charges. John, the finance manager, needs to determine which film is the most worthwhile choice and present his recommendation to the cinema MD, Emma. For each of 3 films investigated each week, he needs to work out the total predicted income, expenditure and profit. The cinema needs to make £15,000 profit per week. John is currently using paper and a calculator, which is time consuming and error-prone at the best of times. When he is constantly experimenting with different ticket prices, it can be a bit of a nightmare! He therefore would like an ICT-based solution to this problem, that will allow him to experiment with different ticket prices, based upon the number of people that he predicts will attend each showing of a particular film. One film must be chosen or none at all.