ICT LEVELS - General Computing

Skills required to achieve Level 3
c Can gain access to the browser. Can use a web address/URL to access a specific location of a website
b Can use hyperlinks to move from one page to another, use back, forward, favourites, and other useful buttons available in the browser
a Can identify parts and types of computer and use different search engines to get information and print web pages
Skills required to achieve Level 4
c Can copy web addresses and extract information and images from web pages and able to save web pages to view later and retrieve a saved web page
b Can design and create a web page and use suitable search criteria to find information and able to find useful information about a topic and present it in a document
a Identify the following output devices: monitors (CRT, TFT), projectors, printers (laser, ink jet and dot matrix), plotters, speakers, control devices – motors, buzzers, lights, heaters
Skills required to achieve Level 5
c Can understand that e-mail is a component of the Internet Is able to apply checking procedures to an e-mail, example: spell checker, insert hyperlinks to link web pages and objects like images and tables to a web page and can use tables to arrange text and images around a web page
b Is able to find useful information about a topic and present it in a document and manage e-mail folders and able to refine searches to find more accurate information
a Identify the following input devices: keyboards, numeric keypads, pointing devices (including mouse, touch pad and tracker ball) and some output devices: monitors (CRT, TFT), projectors, printers (laser, ink jet and dot matrix)
Skills required to achieve Level 6
c Can identify basic HTML tags and can present information in different forms and styles and design a simple network and can use complex search methods. Example: AND, OR etc.
b Can use various objects to improve the interactivity of the web page, example: hover buttons, marquees
a Identify different types of computer including Personal Computer or desktop, mainframe, laptop, palmtop and Personal Digital Assistant
Skills required to achieve Level 7
c Can produce a basic working solution to a given problem and a sequence of events to activate multiple devices concurrently and name the components of a network and describe the purpose of each component used in the network
b identify the main components of a general-purpose computer: central processing unit, main/internalmemory (including ROM and RAM), input devices, output devices and secondary/backing storage
a identify the following more input devices remote controls, joysticks, touch screens, magnetic stripe readers, chip readers, PIN pads, scanners, digital cameras, microphones, sensors, graphics tablet, MICR, OMR, OCR, barcode readers, video cameras, web cams, light pens
Skills required to achieve Level 8
c Is able to evaluate a control system and identify its limitations
b Is able to test a control system and identifying mistakes, correct and improve procedures of a control system
a Identify suitable uses of the output devices stating the advantages and disadvantages of each describe common backing storage media (including magnetic tapes, hard discs, all forms of CD and DVD, memory sticks, flash memory) and their associated devices and identify typical uses of the storage media, including types of access (e.g. serial/sequential, direct/random) and access speeds