National+Specifications

National Course Specification: Course details Intermediate 1 Computing Studies: Multimedia Applications (mandatory Unit) The candidate must demonstrate knowledge and understanding, practical skills and problem solving based on the following content statements:

__Hardware factors__
Description and uses of hardware devices for inputting/capturing text: keyboard, mouse, scanner (including OCR), voice recognition (including microphone) Description and uses of hardware devices for inputting/capturing graphics: scanner, graphics tablet, digital camera/digital video camera Description and uses of hardware devices for inputting/capturing audio: microphone Description and uses of hardware devices for output: high resolution monitor, speakers, data projector Description of hardware required and method of obtaining text/graphics/audio from the World Wide Web (Internet) Description and uses of hardware devices for backing storage: cost, speed of access, portability, capacity (bits, byte, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb) of the following backing storage media: hard disc, floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, USB Flash drive, DVD devices Identification of common file types: text (txt, rtf), graphics (jpeg, bmp, gif), video (mpeg, avi), sound (wav, mp3) Simple description of the need for compression Description of need for sound card for capturing and outputting sound Description of need for graphics card for displaying graphics on monitor

__Features of multimedia software__
Description and use of the following types of multimedia applications: presentation, desktop publishing, multimedia authoring Description and use of the following skills in each of the above applications. - creating a new document - using a template - inserting text/graphic/photograph - page formatting (landscape/portrait/margins/paper size) - saving and printing Description of text editing facilities software: font, size, style (italics, underline, bold), colour, tabs, justify text (left, right, full, centre), use bullet points, text effects (flashing, dissolving, fade in/out) Description of graphic editing facilities of software: scale (resize), crop, rotate, colour Description and use of the following features in presentation and multimedia authoring software: - page linking, including transitions and hyperlinks - inserting sound/video