School Assessed Coursework (SAC)

UNIT 3 OUTCOME 2

VCE IT Applications

Student Name: ______________________

Introduction
Outcome 2
Design, and develop using a relational database management system, a solution to an
information problem, and discuss why and how data is acquired via websites.
Task 1:

Software solution

Task 2:

Test

The two tasks will be marked out of 100. Task 1: 80 marks and Task 2: 20 marks
The tasks have been designed to allow achievement up to and including the highest level in
the Performance Descriptors.
You have 5 hours 30 minutes for Task-1, over a number of class sessions, and 30 minutes for
Task-2.
You cannot access resources such as texts, notes, cheat sheets etc. during the outcome.
Specific conditions apply to different sections of the tasks.

Task 1: Software solution

Read the following information and complete the series of activities that follow.
A CLASS ACT
Sam Sophocles, a retired teacher, is keen to earn some extra money by setting up an online
school for secondary students who need extra help with their learning. Classwork will be
created electronically. Classes will be supplemented by one-on-one and small group tutor
audiovisual sessions using Skype.

He will set up a website where:

students can enrol, check their status, see their grades, collect and hand in work, and
send/receive message with teachers;
students can evaluate courses and teachers at the end of each course;
teachers can check their class lists, leave work for students, return corrected work, and
enter task grades;
parents can see their childs progress and send/receive messages with teachers;
Sam can monitor class enrolments and student performance;
Sam can follow evaluations of courses and teachers to decide whether courses or teachers
need to change;
Sam can post promotional material to attract new enrolments.

He has signed up five other retired teachers to run the online classes and he has advertised
online and attracted quite a lot of interest from students.
He needs to keep track of enrolments and has asked you to create a database to help him
achieve this. He has provided you with the following data:
a list of the teachers names;
a list of subjects to be offered by the school. There are only a few subjects on offer so
far, based on subjects requested by prospective students and their parents. If the
school prospers, more teachers and subjects will be added over time.

Subject name
English 7
Science 8

Geography 7
French 8

Description
Number of lessons
Year 7 English focuses on sentence 15
structure.
Environmental
20
science, biology and
chemistry
Volcanoes and floods
5
Tenses and
10
vocabulary

Course Cost
$75
$100

$25
$50

For each subject there could be multiple classes run by different teachers.
Student enrolments will be managed by an online database.
First, students must register at the school. They need to enter their name, address, date of
birth, sex, phone number, username and email address. Usernames must be unique.

First
Name

Last
Name

John

Gibbs

Dylan

Fisk

Andrew

Smith

Alisha

Allan

Mathew

Singer

Address
2 Tower
Rd, Corio,
VIC 3214
7 Key St,
Kew, VIC
3321
10 College
Rd,
Footscray,
VIC 3212
25 King
Street,
Coburg,
VIC 3452
19 Russel
St,
Brunswick,
VIC 3021

Date of
birth

Sex

Phone
number

User
name

25/02/1999

92738476

2876

j.gibbs@gmail.com

10/05/2000

92517263

2768

d.fisk@gmail.com

23/10/1999

92678233

2765

A.smith@gmail.com

07/06/1999

92875109

2567

a.allan@gmail.com

15/12/2000

92012293

2565

m.singer@gmail.com

Email address

Once registered, students are shown a list of available classes into which they can enrol. The
list might look like this:
Class

Subject

Teacher

EA7

English 7

Mr Max
Syndow

E7B

English 7

Mrs A
Habib

S8A

Science 8

S8B

Science 8

S8C

Science 8

G7A

Geography 7

F8B

French 8

15 Year 7
English
focuses on
sentence
structure.
Year 7 English
focuses on
sentence
structure

Max
Num
Enrolments class Action
lessons
size
15
8
20
ENROL

15

20

20

Full

Mr A
Einstoon

20

13

22

ENROL

Mr A
Einstoon
Mr A
Einstoon
Mrs B
Bourke
Mr A
Mifsud

20

22

ENROL

20

19

22

ENROL

13

15

ENROL

10

15

15

Full

Volcanoes and
floods
Tenses and
vocabulary

Student can submit subject enrolment request and teacher can accept and assign the class.
Students can enrol in more than one class.
After enrolling, students are emailed a confirmation which spells out the courses in which
they enrolled and an invoice for the cost of the classes.
Teachers can also log in to the database. They have privileges to enter the teacher area of the
database, which students do not. In this area they can see lists of the students in their classes.
Sam Sophocles also wants to be able to produce:
a list of registered students in ascending order;
a list of teachers and their classes;
a summary of income from enrolments per class

All lists must be appropriately sorted.

Task 1 Software Solution

1. Design (30 marks): 100 minutes (approx.)
Use appropriate design tools to thoroughly represent:
a. The structure of the database (e.g. tables, relationships, records, fields, validation rules).
b. The logic behind calculated fields.
c. Queries, forms
d. Testing
2. Development (40 marks): 200 minutes (approx)
a. Use a relational DBMS to develop a database to satisfy the needs of Mr Sophocles.
b. Carry out the queries and produce the output requested by Mr Sophocles.
What to hand in after development time expires

Printed entity relationship diagram of tables and relationships

Printed table definitions showing fields in each table
Printouts showing the formulas behind calculated fields
Printouts of the data in each table, appropriately sorted
Screen shots of form layout showing buttons, controls etc.
The lists and totals requested by Sam Sophocles.

All printouts should be labelled so its clear what they represent.

3. Testing (10 marks): 50 minutes
a. Provide evidence that all functional parts of the database, including validation, are working
effectively. Evidence may include:

manual calculations confirming the databases results;

screenshots showing the databases behaviour;
a testing table listing the items that were tested, how they were tested, the expected
result, the actual result (if different to the expected result) and how unexpected results
were fixed.

Task 2: Test

Total: 20 marks

You have 30 minutes. You may refer to the outcome case study, but cannot access other
resources such as texts, notes, cheat sheets etc.
Answer in the space provided.
Question 1
In the case study of Class Act, describe three needs that different groups of people (Sam,
teachers, students or parents) have that would be satisfied by acquiring data from Sams
website.
(6 marks)
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Question 2
Describe three needs that Sam has that would be satisfied by supplying data from his
website.
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Question 3
Briefly describe four appropriate techniques to acquire data from websites (not just Sams
site).
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Question 4
Describe two techniques that Sam would want to user to protect the rights of people
providing data to his website.
(4 marks)

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