Years 7-8
By the end of Year 8 students develop and modify creative digital solutions, decompose real-world problems, and evaluate alternative solutions against user stories and design criteria. Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary. They design and trace algorithms and implement them in a general-purpose programming language. Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats. They select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to create, locate and share content; and to plan, collaborate on and manage projects. Students manage their digital footprint.
- AC9TDI8K01 Does not meet
 Explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads
- AC9TDI8K02 Partially meets
 Investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
- AC9TDI8K03 Meets
 Investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio data using integers
- AC9TDI8K04 Partially meets
 Explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary
- AC9TDI8P01 Does not meet
 Acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
- AC9TDI8P02 Does not meet
 Analyse and visualise data using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends
- AC9TDI8P03 Partially meets
 Model and query the attributes of objects and events using structured data
- AC9TDI8P04 Meets
 Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
- AC9TDI8P05 Meets
 Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
- AC9TDI8P06 Meets
 Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
- AC9TDI8P07 Meets
 Design the user experience of a digital system
- AC9TDI8P08 Meets
 Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
- AC9TDI8P09 Meets
 Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
- AC9TDI8P010 Meets
 Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact
- AC9TDI8P011 Meets
 Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions
- AC9TDI8P012 Partially meets
 Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects