Unit 12 for teachers

Teacher PowerPoint

A 28-slide delivery deck with full speaker notes. Each lesson slide follows the department routine (starter, aim, teach, practical, task, check, flipped homework) with questioning, stretch and support ideas, and the matching workbook section, practical and quiz.

Download the teacher deck (.pptx, 1.5 MB)

Contents: unit overview · assessment map · the course site · AI rules · delivery plan · 18 lesson slides across learning aims A–D · three assignment launch slides · practicals. Diagrams are the same originals used on the Learn page.

How the course maps to the scheme of work (20 × 3-hour lessons)

Lesson	Topic	Learn lesson	Practical	Quiz
1	Why is software used? Inputs, processes, outputs	A1	1	1
2–3	Characteristics, languages, constructs, compiling, design methods, flowcharts	A2, A3, B4	3	1
4	Quality of software programs	A4	–	1
5	Assignment 1 (2A.P1, 2A.M1, 2A.D1)	A1–A4	–	–
6–7	SDLC; assessing requirements; design specifications; quiz screen design	B1, B2, B3	10	2
8–10	Pseudocode; testing and maintaining; designing software	B4, B5	3	2
11	Introduction to Visual Basic and the development environment	C1	1, 2	3
12–13	Data types, variables, constants, operators, procedures and functions	C2, C5	2	3
14	Sequence, selection and iteration	C3, C4	4, 5	3
15	Event handling: forms, properties, actions	C1	1, 10	3
16	Data structures; testing and refining	C6, C7, C8	6–9	4
17–18	Assignment 2 (2B.P2 – 2C.D3)	B1–C8	–	–
19	Reviewing software	D1	10	5
20	Assignment 3 (2D.P6, 2D.M5, 2D.D4)	D1	–	–

The scheme of work uses Visual Basic 2010; every example on this site also works in current Visual Studio Community (Windows Forms App (.NET Framework), Visual Basic). The textbook chapters (Pearson BTEC First ICT student book) and specification stay on Teams and are not reproduced here.

Assignments

The Assignment guide covers all criteria (1A.1–2D.D4) across the three assignments in the scheme of work. It uses a generic scenario so it works with your centre-devised briefs or Pearson’s authorised assignment briefs.
The lessons use a leisure-centre booking program as the running example. If your Assignment 2 brief is similar, choose a different client so the lesson examples cannot be reused as assignment work.
Practical 10 (quiz program) is a full practice project: design, develop, test, feedback and review, before the real assignment.

AI study tutor and assignment coach

Workbook tutor (page 3): explains, diagnoses, hints and sets new practice questions for each lesson.
Assignment coach (page 5): explains the task, helps plan, reviews the student’s own draft against the checklist, and checks technical accuracy. It is instructed never to write code, pseudocode, flowcharts, screen designs, test plans, justifications or reviews for the student’s brief, and never to paste back corrected code: it points to the line and asks a question instead.
AI-use log: every coach question is saved on the student’s device. Collect it with each assignment and sample it during internal verification.
Tamper-resistant and private: the page sends only a task ID; briefs, checklists and rules are held on the server. No accounts, no names, nothing stored on the server.

Status: the AI service needs the college Azure subscription to be active. When it is re-enabled, the Unit 12 tutor and coach are deployed and switched on by the course administrator.

Maintaining the course

All Unit 12 pages are generated from tools/unit12/ (python3 tools/build_unit12.py). Assignment tasks and checklists live in api/assignments-u12.json, shared by the guide, the builder and the coach. Quizzes are in docs/unit12/quiz-data.js. The teacher deck is generated by tools/unit12/teacher_deck.js.