Everything you need to deliver Unit 2 with this pack: the teacher PowerPoint, the topic map, the diagram tasks and the AI tutor.
A 30-slide delivery deck with full speaker notes, covering learning aims A–F. Each lesson slide follows the department routine (starter, aim, teach, practical, task, check, flipped homework) and points to the matching Learn section, diagram task, video and revision test.
| Topic | Covers | Learn | Diagram task |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Hardware | types of computer, internal components, connectors and ports, servers, RAID/NAS/SAN, choosing hardware, mobile devices | A1 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 |
| A2 Software | operating systems, kernel, networking and security, user interfaces, choosing an OS, utilities, applications, open source, disk cache, backup | A2 | – |
| A3 Data processing | collecting, processing, sharing and backing up data | A3 | – |
| B Computer architecture | Von Neumann and Harvard, clusters, NUMA, fetch–decode–execute, pipelining, registers, interrupts | B1–B3 | 7 |
| C Data representation | binary, octal, hex, BCD, arithmetic, two’s complement, floating point, text, images | C1–C3 | 6 |
| D Data organisation | data structures, arrays and matrices | D1, D2 | – |
| E Data transmission | serial/parallel, synchronous/asynchronous, protocols, encryption (Caesar, Vigenère), VoIP, error detection and correction | E1–E3 | – |
| F Logic and data flow | logic gates, truth tables, Boolean expressions, adders, flowcharts and system diagrams | F1, F2 | 8 |
Your PowerPoints, cheat sheets, numbers and logic booklets, starters (Millionaire, matching games), examiner reports and the sample assessment material stay on Teams. Pearson and dexgraphics materials are not reproduced on this public site; the diagram tasks are original redrawings of your labelling worksheets.
The tutor is live on the college Azure service. It explains, diagnoses, gives one hint at a time and sets new practice questions; it will not give the answers to the workbook’s own activities, and it supports past-paper questions without inventing mark schemes. No names or accounts are used and nothing is stored on the server.
Run python3 tools/build_learning.py then python3 tools/build_unit2_extras.py. Videos are in tools/unit2/videos_u2.py, extra content in enrich_u2.py, diagram tasks in tasks_u2.py, and the deck in tools/unit2/teacher_deck.js.