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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Unit 2 Solving Problems with ICT
CONTROLLED ASSIGNMENT
For submission in May 2013 or May 2014
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Read the given scenario.
You will have 22½ hours to complete these tasks. Research tasks can be carried out outside timed conditions. It is important that you work independently from other candidates and make sure that what you hand in is your own unaided work.
Read the tasks carefully to make sure that you understand what is needed. Refer to the marking guidance for each task to help you.
Carry out all tasks and make sure that you check your work carefully to ensure that the work you produce is accurate and correct.
Save your work regularly.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
Teachers and students will be required to sign a declaration that all work presented is the work of the candidate alone. Failure to authenticate the work may result in grades being delayed or refused.
The quality of written communication will be assessed in your evaluation.
Organising a charity fundraising day
A charity wants to raise awareness of its work and to raise funds. The charity is organising a fund raising day and wishes to advertise the event and get sponsorship from local organisations. The organisation which gives the most money will be given free tickets. The organisers want to develop an ICT based system to help them manage all aspects of the charity fundraising day.
In order to prepare for this you have been asked to:
(i) produce a screen-based presentation to advertise the fundraising day which could be uploaded to a website or be displayed in a public place.
(ii) import a datafile with contact details of local organisations and add suitable extra fields in order for this data to be used in a mailmerged newsletter.
(iii) produce a mailmerged newsletter to send to local organisations asking for sponsorship.
(iv) produce a model showing how computer software could be used to help