VCE Software Development - U3O2 - Analysis and Design
VCE Software Development Unit 3 Outcome 2, Analysis and design: project reasons and the software development brief, Gantt charts, needs, requirements, constraints and scope, context diagrams, data flow diagrams, use case diagrams and the SRS, privacy law, file management, ideation, design tools, user experience and user interface design principles.
Modules (119)
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Identifying a Need or Opportunity
2
Stakeholders
3
Project reason: increasing productivity and efficiency
4
Project reason: reducing costs
5
Project reason: addressing gaps in the market
6
Project reason: meeting organisational objectives or needs
7
Purpose of a software development brief
8
Brief feature: problem, need or opportunity outline
9
Brief feature: proposed users
10
Brief feature: programming languages to be used
11
Brief feature: feasibility
12
Brief feature: originality
13
Breaking a project into tasks
14
Gantt Charts and Project Management
15
Gantt chart: sequencing tasks
16
Gantt chart: time allocation
17
Gantt chart: task dependencies
18
Milestones and deadlines
19
Gantt chart: critical path
20
Tracking progress with a project log
21
Constructing a Gantt chart for a project
22
Data Collection Methods for User Needs
23
Interviews to gather perspectives on a topical issue
24
Observing users
25
Collecting data with a survey
26
Reports as a source of requirements
27
Analysing interview and survey responses to find needs
28
Functional requirements
29
Solution Non-functional Requirements
30
Writing measurable non-functional requirements
31
Constraints on a solution
32
Economic constraints
33
Legal constraints
34
Social constraints
35
Technical constraints
36
Scope of a solution
37
Version and solution boundaries
38
Listing requirements and constraints for a problem
39
Purpose of analytical tools for users, data and systems
40
Context diagram (Level 0): system and entities
41
Context diagram (Level 0): data flows
42
Drawing a context diagram from a scenario
43
Data flow diagram (Level 1): processes
44
Data flow diagram (Level 1): data stores and entities
45
Data flow diagram (Level 1): data flows
46
Drawing a Level 1 data flow diagram from a scenario
47
Use case diagram: system boundary and actors
48
Use case diagram: use cases and associations
49
Use case relationships: includes and extends
50
Drawing a use case diagram from a scenario
51
Depicting an existing process or system
52
Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS)
53
SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope
54
SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment
55
SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems
56
Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth)
57
Ethical issue: ownership and control of data
58
Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth)
59
Australian Privacy Principle 1
60
APP 3: collecting only what is reasonably necessary
61
Australian Privacy Principle 6
62
APP 8: sending personal data overseas
63
APP 9: adoption, use or disclosure of government related identifiers
64
Australian Privacy Principle 11
65
Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic)
66
IPP 1: collection of personal information
67
Information Privacy Principle 2
68
Information Privacy Principle 4
69
Information Privacy Principle 5
70
IPP 7: unique identifiers
71
IPP 9: transborder data flows
72
IPP 10: sensitive information
73
Critiquing a system against the Australian Privacy Principles
74
File naming, shared folders and version history
75
Version control for software projects
76
Backup strategies
77
Full backup
78
Incremental backup
79
Differential backup
80
Comparing full, incremental and differential backups
81
User permissions: read, write and execute
82
Secure disposal of files and storage media
83
Ideation Techniques
84
Brainstorming
85
Mind maps
86
Mood boards
87
Sketching a screen layout
88
Annotating an interface design
89
Design criteria for an interface
90
Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix
91
Evaluation Criteria and Techniques
92
Efficiency of a solution
93
Effectiveness of a solution
94
Data dictionary
95
Writing a data dictionary entry
96
Design Tool - Mock-ups
97
Object descriptions
98
Writing an object description from a requirement
99
Input-process-output (IPO) chart
100
What is Pseudocode
101
Pseudocode Writing Conventions
102
Writing pseudocode from an IPO chart
103
User experience (UX)
104
UX characteristic: affordance
105
UX characteristic: interoperability
106
Authentication vs authorisation
107
Multi-factor authentication
108
Security measures to protect personal information
109
UX characteristic: usability
110
Accessibility features
111
How UX characteristics affect software design
112
UI design principle: alignment
113
UI design principle: balance
114
UI design principle: contrast
115
UI design principle: space
116
UI design principle: text formatting
117
Feedback and error messages in an interface
118
Navigation and user flow
119
Applying UI design principles to an interface mock-up
Smaller journeys, one per content description
The same modules, split up so a class can take just the content description it's working on.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Project reasons and the brief
Students learn why individuals and organisations undertake software projects and how a brief records the problem, users, languages, feasibility and originality.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Project management with Gantt charts
Students learn to break a project into tasks and plan, build and monitor it using Gantt charts, dependencies, milestones, the critical path and a project log.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Needs, requirements, constraints and scope
Students learn to collect and analyse data on user needs and to write functional and non-functional requirements, constraints and solution scope.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification
Students learn to draw context diagrams, level 1 data flow diagrams and use case diagrams to depict existing systems, and to record their analysis in a software requirements specification.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy
Students learn the key requirements of the Copyright Act 1968, the Privacy Act 1988 and the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 and apply them to software scenarios.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: File management techniques
Students learn to manage project files using naming conventions, version control, full, incremental and differential backups, security and disposal.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Ideation and evaluating design ideas
Students learn to generate design ideas with brainstorming, mind maps, mood boards, sketches and annotations, and to judge ideas and solutions by criteria, efficiency and effectiveness.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: Design tools for solution designs
Students learn to turn design ideas into solution designs using data dictionaries, mock-ups, object descriptions, IPO charts and pseudocode.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: User experience and software design
Students learn the user experience characteristics of affordance, interoperability, security and usability and how they affect software design.
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VCE Software Development U3O2: User interface design principles
Students learn how alignment, balance, contrast, space, text formatting, usability and navigation shape the appearance and function of a user interface.
Printables for this journey
Every module above has its own free printable worksheet with an answer key. These crosswords and word searches cover the same terms:
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VCE Innovative Solutions Crossword: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (Part 1 of 2)
10 clues · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more
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VCE Innovative Solutions Crossword: Gantt Charts and Project Management and more (Part 2 of 2)
10 clues · Gantt Charts and Project Management, Design Tool - Mock-ups, Design Tool - Storyboards, Design Tool - Sitemap and more
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VCE Innovative Solutions Word Search: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (All modules)
20 words to find · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more
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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: Worms to Operating system updates (Modules 31–40)
10 clues · Worms, Ransomware, Denial of service attacks, Improper credential management and more
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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic and more (Modules 61–74)
10 clues · ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic, ISM guideline: wireless network footprint, Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth), Australian Privacy Principle 1 and more
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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Local Area Networks (LANs) to Operating system updates (Modules 21–40)
20 words to find · Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Global exposure to cyber security threats and more
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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Software malware updates to Information Privacy Principle 5 (Modules 41–74)
22 words to find · Software malware updates, Staff procedures, Encryption and decryption, Caesar cipher and more
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VCE Pseudocode Crossword: What is Pseudocode to if-then block (Modules 1–10)
6 clues · What is Pseudocode, Pseudocode Writing Conventions, Variable Assignment: x <- value, input keyword and more
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VCE Pseudocode Word Search: What is Pseudocode to Reading and tracing complex pseudocode (Modules 1–28)
20 words to find · What is Pseudocode, Pseudocode Writing Conventions, Variable Assignment: x <- value, input keyword and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Crossword: Data and networks and Accounts, passphrases and security (Modules 41–52)
10 clues · Strong passwords, Passphrase, Risks of password re-use, Unique passphrase for each account and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Word Search: Data and networks and Accounts, passphrases and security (Modules 21–52)
20 words to find · Data transmission, Wired transmission, Wireless transmission, Bluetooth for short-range transfer and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 11–20)
10 clues · Representing images with pixels, Primary and secondary data sources, Collecting data with a survey, Spreadsheet rows, columns and cells and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 1–20)
20 words to find · Data and information, Types of data: numbers and text, Types of data: images, sound and video, Same data, different representations and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–10)
10 clues · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Designing user interfaces (Modules 31–40)
10 clues · Interface element: buttons, Interface elements: text boxes and labels, Interface elements: menus, sliders and checkboxes, Layout and grouping on a screen and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–20)
20 words to find · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Designing algorithms with branching and iteration and Designing user interfaces (Modules 21–40)
20 words to find · Branching inside a loop, Algorithms that use sequence, branching and iteration together, Drawing a sequence in a flowchart, Drawing a decision in a flowchart and more
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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Controlling and securing access to data (Modules 13–24)
10 clues · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more
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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Word Search: Controlling and securing access to data and Threats and software vulnerabilities (Modules 13–40)
20 words to find · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Types and purposes of data (Modules 3–14)
10 clues · Quantitative data, Qualitative data, Purposes of qualitative and quantitative data, Interviews to gather perspectives on a topical issue and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles and Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 38–54)
10 clues · APP 2: anonymity and pseudonymity, Holding information only for its primary purpose, Security measures to protect personal information, Critiquing a system against the Australian Privacy Principles and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Ethics and APA referencing and Requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 56–67)
10 clues · Acknowledging sources and copyright, Purpose of APA referencing, APA in-text citations, APA reference list entry structure and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Requirements, constraints and scope and Design tools for databases, spreadsheets and visualisations (Modules 68–80)
10 clues · Scope of a solution, Listing requirements and constraints for a problem, Interpreting teacher-provided requirements for a data solution, Input-process-output (IPO) chart and more
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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Types and purposes of data and Data types and data characteristics (Modules 3–24)
20 words to find · Quantitative data, Qualitative data, Purposes of qualitative and quantitative data, Interviews to gather perspectives on a topical issue and more
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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Data types and data characteristics to Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 25–54)
20 words to find · Characteristic of data: accessibility, Characteristic of information: clarity, Characteristic of information: context, Data quality: accuracy and more
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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Ethics and APA referencing to Design tools for databases, spreadsheets and visualisations (Modules 56–80)
22 words to find · Acknowledging sources and copyright, Purpose of APA referencing, APA in-text citations, APA reference list entry structure and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Requirements and design tools to Naming conventions and internal documentation (Modules 10–47)
10 clues · Data dictionary, Writing a data dictionary entry, Designing classes with a class diagram, Object descriptions and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Requirements and design tools to Pseudocode (Modules 10–71)
21 words to find · Data dictionary, Writing a data dictionary entry, Designing classes with a class diagram, Object descriptions and more
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Crossword: Project reasons and the brief (Modules 2–11)
10 clues · Stakeholders, Project reason: increasing productivity and efficiency, Project reason: reducing costs, Project reason: addressing gaps in the market and more
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Crossword: Project reasons and the brief to Needs, requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 12–24)
10 clues · Brief feature: originality, Breaking a project into tasks, Gantt chart: sequencing tasks, Gantt chart: time allocation and more
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Crossword: Needs, requirements, constraints and scope and Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 26–41)
10 clues · Reports as a source of requirements, Analysing interview and survey responses to find needs, Economic constraints, Legal constraints and more
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Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 42–51)
10 clues · Drawing a context diagram from a scenario, Data flow diagram (Level 1): processes, Data flow diagram (Level 1): data stores and entities, Data flow diagram (Level 1): data flows and more
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Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification and Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy (Modules 52–71)
10 clues · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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Crossword: Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy to Ideation and evaluating design ideas (Modules 72–85)
10 clues · IPP 10: sensitive information, File naming, shared folders and version history, Version control for software projects, Full backup and more
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Crossword: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User experience and software design (Modules 86–109)
10 clues · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more
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Crossword: User experience and software design and User interface design principles (Modules 110–119)
10 clues · Accessibility features, How UX characteristics affect software design, UI design principle: alignment, UI design principle: balance and more
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Word Search: Project reasons and the brief to Needs, requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 2–24)
21 words to find · Stakeholders, Project reason: increasing productivity and efficiency, Project reason: reducing costs, Project reason: addressing gaps in the market and more
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Word Search: Needs, requirements, constraints and scope and Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 26–51)
20 words to find · Reports as a source of requirements, Analysing interview and survey responses to find needs, Economic constraints, Legal constraints and more
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Word Search: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification to Ideation and evaluating design ideas (Modules 52–85)
20 words to find · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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Word Search: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User interface design principles (Modules 86–119)
20 words to find · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more
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