Digital Products will provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding of practices, procedures and concepts relevant to working in an Information Technology workplace. They use desktop applications, manipulate digital media and manage data. Students learn to analyse, problem solve, make decisions and develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills suitable for employment and or further training.

The Digital Products course is written under the Industry and Services Framework: Industry and Services Framework

Achievement Standards for Industry and Services courses can be found within the Framework.

In broad terms, students learn about industry practices, processes, procedures and concepts such as technical information, materials, sustainability, equipment and work health & safety (WHS). Students learn to analyse, problem solve, make decisions and develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills suitable for employment and further training.

Desktop Applications

This unit of study provides opportunities for students to investigate the components of Information Technology and the applications that can be installed on computers to assist in publishing digital products and that can be used for communication. Students will identify parts of a computer, how they are installed and used. Students will learn how to create documents in both desktop and cloud based applications as well as use applications for communication and presentation.

Digital Media Foundations

This unit of study provides opportunities for students to create digital video and audio products. Students will investigate the difference between analogue and digital products, their capture, storage and editing of files to create a digital product. Students will design and create workflows, investigate market trends and capture and edit digital audio and video to create products.

Managing Data & Clients

This unit of study provides opportunities for students to learn how data is collected and managed using relational databases. They will investigate the ethics and security of data storage as well as the tools used to export and visualise data for real world purposes.

ICT Workplace Practices

This unit of study provides opportunities for students to investigate current workplace practises that influence behaviour in an IT environment. They will have the opportunity to demonstrate sustainable work practices. Student will be able to interact with ICT clients in a real or simulated environment and demonstrate communication skills required in an IT workplace.

Independent Study

An Independent Study unit has an important place in senior secondary courses. It is a valuable pedagogical approach that empowers students to make decisions about their own learning. An Independent Study unit can be proposed by an individual student for their own independent study and negotiated with their teacher. The program of learning for an Independent Study unit must meet the unit goals and content descriptions as they appear in the course.

Independent Study units are only available to individual students in Year 12. A student can only study a maximum of one Independent Study unit in each course. Students must have studied at least three standard 1.0 units from this course. An Independent Study unit requires the principal’s written approval. Principal approval can also be sought by a student in Year 12 to enrol concurrently in an Independent Study unit and their third 1.0 unit in this course of study.

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