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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 10

Design and Evaluate an Information System

In this project course, learners act as consultants for the Cedar Valley Tool Library, which lends tools to residents and has outgrown its paper sign-up sheets. They analyze the system's people, processes, data, hardware and software, write testable functional and non-functional requirements, trace how data flows and where protections belong, and then compare two fictional products with weighted criteria before writing a justified recommendation.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 120 minutes
  • Information system design check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Identify the people, processes, data, hardware and software of an information system, and explain how a weakness in any one can cause failures.
  • Write and classify functional and non-functional requirements, making each one specific and testable.
  • Trace how data flows through a system and decide which data is needed and where security and privacy controls belong.
  • Evaluate options with weighted criteria and must-have requirements, test how sensitive the result is to the weights, and write a justified recommendation.

Lessons

  1. Five components of an information system 6 steps3 practiceabout 27 min
  2. Testable requirements 6 steps4 practiceabout 28 min
  3. Following the data 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  4. Weighted evaluation and recommendation 7 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Information system design check 10 questions at the end

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