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Unit 15 - Assignment 1

The document provides an assignment cover sheet and feedback for a student on a BTEC course. It outlines an assignment for the student to produce a presentation explaining the benefits and implications of installing and maintaining software for two technology systems used by a company. The systems are an administrator's workstation and tablets used by employees. The student must also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the current software used by the organization. The assignment aims to address three assessment criteria covering explaining benefits, reviewing productivity improvements, and discussing strengths and weaknesses of software.

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Unit 15 - Assignment 1

The document provides an assignment cover sheet and feedback for a student on a BTEC course. It outlines an assignment for the student to produce a presentation explaining the benefits and implications of installing and maintaining software for two technology systems used by a company. The systems are an administrator's workstation and tablets used by employees. The student must also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the current software used by the organization. The assignment aims to address three assessment criteria covering explaining benefits, reviewing productivity improvements, and discussing strengths and weaknesses of software.

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Assessment Cover Sheet

Information Technology
Submission date stamp

St John Rigby
Sixth Form
College

Programme/ Course

BTEC Level 2 Certificate- Information and Creative Technology

Student Name

Liam Harris

Unit

Unit 15: Installing and Maintaining Computer Software

Assignment Title

Assignment 1: Benefits and implications of installation & maintenance of


software

Date set
Submission deadline

04/12/2015

Assessor

Stuart Hazelden

Internal Verifier

John Sanders

This assignment will allow the achievement of all the assessment criteria towards the overall grade
for this unit.
2A.P1 2A.M1 2A.D1
Criteria
Achieved

Centre Authentication
Copying someone elses work from any source, including the Internet, is plagiarism and constitutes gross
misconduct
Student Declaration.
I confirm that this assignment is all my own work and I have recorded all the sources I have used including the Internet in
the Bibliography.
Date:

Student signature
Staff Declaration and
signature

I confirm that to the best of my knowledge that this is


the students own work.

Signature:
Date:

Assessor Signature

IV Grade
Awarded:

Date:

Signature:
Date:

Minimum target grade

Scenario
You have recently secured a place within a small business
called Service Express. The company is looking at installing
new software and upgrade some of their existing software
packages. The manager Mrs Arrowsmith is still undecided
about the upgrades and would like a presentation outlining
some of the key issues.
The following tasks will provide evidence towards Learning Outcome A
Task
You have been asked by Mrs Arrowsmith to produce and deliver a presentation
which will outline the benefits and implications of installing and maintaining
software on two of the technology systems used in the company.
An administrators work station which is mainly used for spread sheet development
and word processing.
There are a number of employees who use tablets running the android operating
system, these have not been updated since purchase.
Explain the benefits and implications of:
Installing new software
Maintaining existing software (configuring to meets user requirements,
update)
Provide an example of how installing and maintaining software in the administrators
PC could improve productivity for the person using that technology or the
organisation as a whole.
Currently the company use Open Office for most of their administrative activities.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of this piece of software for the
organisation.
The above task covers 2A.P1, 2A.M1 & 2A.D1

FEEDBACK
Programme/ Course

BTEC Level 2 Certificate- Information and Creative Technology

Student Name
Unit

Unit 15: Installing and Maintaining Computer Software

Assignment Title

Benefits and implications of installation & maintenance of software

Date set
Submission deadline
Assessor

Stuart Hazelden

Internal Verifier

John Sanders

Assessment criteria

Grading criteria

2A.P1

Explain the benefits of


installing and maintaining
software for two different
technology systems

2A.M1

Review how installing and


maintaining software in one
technology system could
improve productivity for an
individual or organisation

2A.D1

Discuss the strengths and


weaknesses of software for
a given technology system

Feedback

(If the learner fails the meet the minimum level 2 requirements the assignment will be assessed for level 1)

Students signature:.

Date:

Tutors signature:.

Date:

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