General guidance on using this assignment 1 General 1.1 OCR assignments are available to download free of charge from our website: www.ocr.org.uk. 1.2 OCR assignments are intended to be used for formal summative assessment of learners and assessment must be conducted under supervision. The OCR specification gives more information on the arrangements for assessing internally assessed units. 1.3 This assignment has been designed to meet the full assessment requirements of the unit. Learners will need to take part in a planned learning programme that covers the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills of the unit. 2 Before carrying out the assignment 2.1 Learners should be provided with a copy of the Information for Learners section of this assignment. 2.2 Learners will not need to carry out any preparations prior to undertaking the assessment tasks, such as collating resources to use in the assessment. 2.3 Learners must be provided with or have access to an appropriate range of software that fully meets the requirements of this unit, this includes access to an internet search engine and email facilities or equivalent. This is required as learners will be required to make their own decisions as to the choice of software and the techniques to be used when carrying out activities to generate assessment evidence. For example, learners should have access to both word processing and desk top publishing software and must be free to choose for themselves the most appropriate software to use in order to create documents which meet a specified purpose. Candidates must also make their own decisions when formatting/creating content. For example candidates must start with blank documents and then choose an appropriate layout as well as the techniques they will use to import, create and edit content. Using wizards will not be appropriate. Similarly this will apply to their use of spreadsheets and databases. 2.4 Learners will need access to email facilities or equivalent to complete task 1. Before learners begin Task 1 the teacher must compose and send the email message shown below, with the attachment jbfiles.zip: Subject: Files you will need to complete your work Attachment: jbfiles.zip Good morning/afternoon Please find attached the files you will need to complete the tasks. You will need to download these files and store these appropriately. Please reply to this email to confirm that you have received them. If you are unable to download or open these files you should inform me immediately so that arrangements can be made to supply these files in a different format.
General guidance on using this assignment 1 General 1.1 OCR assignments are available to download free of charge from our website: www.ocr.org.uk. 1.2 OCR assignments are intended to be used for formal summative assessment of learners and assessment must be conducted under supervision. The OCR specification gives more information on the arrangements for assessing internally assessed units. 1.3 This assignment has been designed to meet the full assessment requirements of the unit. Learners will need to take part in a planned learning programme that covers the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills of the unit. 2 Before carrying out the assignment 2.1 Learners should be provided with a copy of the Information for Learners section of this assignment. 2.2 Learners will not need to carry out any preparations prior to undertaking the assessment tasks, such as collating resources to use in the assessment. 2.3 Learners must be provided with or have access to an appropriate range of software that fully meets the requirements of this unit, this includes access to an internet search engine and email facilities or equivalent. This is required as learners will be required to make their own decisions as to the choice of software and the techniques to be used when carrying out activities to generate assessment evidence. For example, learners should have access to both word processing and desk top publishing software and must be free to choose for themselves the most appropriate software to use in order to create documents which meet a specified purpose. Candidates must also make their own decisions when formatting/creating content. For example candidates must start with blank documents and then choose an appropriate layout as well as the techniques they will use to import, create and edit content. Using wizards will not be appropriate. Similarly this will apply to their use of spreadsheets and databases. 2.4 Learners will need access to email facilities or equivalent to complete task 1. Before learners begin Task 1 the teacher must compose and send the email message shown below, with the attachment jbfiles.zip: Subject: Files you will need to complete your work Attachment: jbfiles.zip Good morning/afternoon Please find attached the files you will need to complete the tasks. You will need to download these files and store these appropriately. Please reply to this email to confirm that you have received them. If you are unable to download or open these files you should inform me immediately so that arrangements can be made to supply these files in a different format.
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