Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication skills to clarify requirements
research skills to gather information and review software suitability
literacy skills to read and understand client requirements
technical skills to:
open, edit, save, organise and back up files appropriately
operate a computer
troubleshoot basic hardware and software issues
upload files to web server
use basic hypertext markup language (HTML) coding.
Required knowledge
Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics
OHS requirements relevant to the IT industry
overview knowledge of website publishing and markup language
sustainability concepts, including energy and resource conservation.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Web authoring tool may include: | Adobe Creative Suite Amaya for Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix BBEdit for Mac CoffeeCup Dreamweaver for Mac, Windows EditPad EditPlus FrontPage GoLive Homesite Kompozer for Windows, Mac and Linux Pagemill SeaMonkey for Windows, Mac and Linux. |
Client may include: | external organisations individuals internal departments. |
File transfer protocol client may include: | CuteFTP for Windows Filezilla for Windows, Mac OS, Linux Transmit for Mac OS WS-FTP for Windows. |
Server may include: | application or web servers email servers file and print servers file transfer protocol (FTP) servers firewall servers proxy or cache servers. |
Requirements may include: | business or organisational individuals network people in the organisation system. |
Images may include: | animations backgrounds banners clip art content-related images decorative elements logos photos. |
Markup language may include: | cascading style sheet (CSS) hypertext markup language (HTML) eXtensible hypertext markup language (XHTML) eXtensible markup language (XML). |
Browsers may include: | Firefox Google Chrome Internet Explorer Lynx Opera Safari. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist