ICAS Digital Technologies

Skill Areas

Students are assessed across the skills and knowledge areas of:

• Databases
• Graphics and multimedia
• Internet use and email programs
• Networks and other communications systems
• Operating systems and computer hardware
• Programming
• Spreadsheets
• Word processing.

Content

The tests cover content on:

• Digital systems including hardware and software, operating systems, cloud computing and data representation
• Basic and advanced operations and formatting in word processing, use of tables, style sheets, animations and referencing
• Presentations, integrated multimedia and data visualisation
• Use of search engines, emails, web design, social media, online collaborative projects and the application of social and ethical protocols and practices in the use of digital technologies
• Use of operations to maintain and manage data and databases
• Programming principles and concepts including block-based coding, flowcharts, sequence, loops, pseudocode, algorithms and desk checking.