St Aloysius’ College uses computers, networks and the Internet for many different tasks.

1. All student grades are entered into a single, networked database.

(a) What is an advantage to teachers of storing grades in an electronic gradebook? (1)

(b) What is an advantage to pupils and parents of storing grades in an electronic gradebook? (1)

(c) What is one disadvantage of storing all grades in a single database file? (1)

2. All teachers have their own email address.

(a) Why is email a useful way of sending information to staff as opposed to putting notices in the staff common room? (1)

(b) How could pupils benefit from this facility? (1)

3. All teachers have a telephone in their class with an answering service.

(a) What is an advantage of having a telephone in every classroom? (1)

(b) What is a disadvantage of having a telephone in every classroom? (1)

(c) What is an advantage of having an answering service? (1)

4. Prefect lines, detentions etc. are entered and stored in an electronic database that all staff may access.

(a) Who would benefit from being able to view all pupil punishments? (1)

(b) Why might pupils dislike this application of ICT? (1)

Total (10)

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