Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hardware Devices for storing and retrieving

Hardware devices are generally devices that require a program such as a device driver.

Hardware Devices include:
3.5 inch floppy disk.
disk drives
printers
mice
scanner
monitor
modems
SSD
USB flash drive
an external hard drive
a CD drive (internal or external)
a DVD drive (internal or external)
webcam/video camera/camera.
speakers/earphones

IPO Diagrams

IPO (Input, Processing and Output)

What is it?
An IPO diagram is a visual representation of a process of activity. It lists input variables and output characteristics.


Why use it?
It is useful in defining a process and recognising input variables, responses and output.


When to use it?
Understand what inputs are needed to achieve each specific output.






Exapmles of IPO diagrams are:

Input:
Album title
Artist name
Artist ID

Process:
Query and Report

Output:
Display or of albums produced by artists

Monday, August 10, 2009

Assessment task 3- Group project

hey everyone! in assessment task 3 myself, marjorie and emily producinf a website about tennis!

I havent uploaded thoery on my blog soo here is the link to marjories which has our ghantt chart .

http://www.marjorie-ipt.blogspot.com/

and Emily's consists of the context and data flow diagram, and sneak peek at our website plus the requirements report

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As an evaluation i think we did very well creating a website in a short time period. We put in a lot of hard work with good communication skills we managed to complete the assignment. So overall i would give my group an 8/10 ..well done girls

and myself i think an 8/10...even though in some lessons i was slacking off and not doing my work.. i actually spent tht amount of time slacking at home doing my bits!.. soo sir im not always not bothered! i just have bad moody days :)

So hopefully you have a read and will post more blogs soon! when we learn more new thingss

for now tc.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Finshed project!

Well i have finally uploaded my assignment! soo happy!
well then bye for now! and have great long weekend.

aakriti

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Markbook- finishing project

Well since my markbook was actually due yesterday i have completed it. Except in IPT class i made it more appealing and easy for users to read.

I played around with the instructions page and finally finished it. I also made sure the buttons were working fine just in case some error would have occured.

Im very happy i have completed every task except the evaluationg section which was not written to do in the theory tasks but i want to.

My project did meet the requirement reports purpose. Overall this markbook system is very efficient to use because it provides a teacher a much easier access to record her/his class assessment marks on a electronic system rather than noting all on paper. Having an excel markbook enables the data to be saved in a number of places. Another advantage of this markbook is that it would be less costly or sometimes free.

Having completed this project i think that i did manage to solve the problem of creating an efficent markbook system. But one thing that i still havent found the answer to is how to create a code which will let teachers select thier own no. of students because not all teachers will have a class of 20. But then again i didnt have time to actually come up with a button or code during the duration of this project. But seeing as my markbook managed to complete many of the tasks i will rate myself quite high actually 9/10. Hopefully i didnt give myself an easy ranking but i feel i did a pretty good job of this project in the thoery aswell.

I will upload photos for you to see of my instructions, template and homepage soon. The uploading on my PC at home takes a while so i will wait and do it when my internet is faster.

cya :)

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Markbook

Today in IPT i have been working on my Markbook and trying to create a formula which enables me/teacher to see the grades of the Individual student tasks and as a whole.

The project was due today but Mr Cavill extended it to this weekend. But also because i have nearly finished my theory except the evaluating section I will edit few more changes and upload the task into Shard documents on the McAuley Website.

The code for putting grades into the markbook is :

=VLOOKUP(E3,$M$23:$N$28,2,TRUE)

This code helped me to create grades for the template. Now im just trying to figure out how to create a button from which teachers can determine their own number of students.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Context Diagram

In todays lesson i went onto creating auto filters into the markbook. I also focused on my context diagram.

One thing also that i have to complete is to make a context diagram. First the share information on what it is.

Context Diagram are used to represent an overview of the entire information systems. The system is shown as a single process along with the inputs and outputs. The external entities are connected to the single process by data flow arrows. Each element represented is labelled. A context diagram does not show data stores and internal processes.

This is what i have done for the teachers markbook. So hopefully it is correct. I asked some of my friends to see if it is good and accurate. They agreed so im am uploading it now in my free period.




Now all the dot points/Theory ha been completed. I am just going to focus on the Markbook now and blog as well.