Knowledge of digital information management focuses on how information is managed at both an individual user level and with shared information within an organisation.

Initially students learn about basic concepts of information management in relation to producing digital information outcomes. This includes understanding the key features of operating systems and common application software, file management procedures, and ethical issues related to the management of information. Students progress to learning about complex concepts of information systems within organisations. This includes explaining the interaction between the main components of an information system used in an organisation, discussing the nature and value of information to an organisation, discussing the characteristics of good information, and end-user considerations, and discussing the implications of security management for information systems.

[Level 8 Learning Objectives, Teacher Guidance and Indicators of Progression wiil be published when Level 3 achievement standards are finalised for registration]

To support students to develop understandings about basic digital information management tools and systems at level 6, teachers could:

• Provide students with opportunities to explain how application software and operating system software interact to manage information.
• Provide students with a way of selecting and justifying the selection of application software to perform a task to manage information.
• Provide students with opportunities to explain the purpose and conventions of file management procedures and the use of storage devices.
• Provide students with opportunities to compare and contrast the use of different file types for different purposes
• Provide students with opportunities to describe ethical issues related to management of information.
• Guide students on how to prepare reports including ways to structure a report and literacy strategies to support report writing in a way that will allow students to identify, describe, explain, justify, and compare and contrast.
• Provide opportunities for students to practice report writing.

To support students to develop understandings about advanced digital information management tools and systems at level 7, teachers could:

• Guide students on how to research the information management issues related to shared information within an organisation.
• Provide students with opportunities to explain file management considerations related to shared information and the related procedures and conventions for privacy and permission.
• Provide students with opportunities to discuss ethical and legal issues related to shared information within an organisation.
• Provide students with opportunities to evaluate backup procedures and conventions for information systems within an organisation.
• Provide students with opportunities to evaluate the effectiveness of information systems for managing shared information within an organisation.
• Ensure students understand the requirement at this level to look at information management issues related to shared information and information systems within an organisation
• Ensure students have access to a suitable organisation to use for the case study.
• Support students to prepare reports including ways to structure a report and literacy strategies to support report writing in a way that will allow students to describe, explain, discuss, and evaluate.
• Ensure students have opportunities to practice report writing.

Students can:

• identify and describe key features of operating systems and common application software as they relate to the management of information
• identify and describe file management procedures, and explain the purpose and conventions of file management procedures and use of storage devices
• describe ethical issues related to management of information (eg, copyright, privacy, file security, appropriateness of the material in its context)
• explain the purpose of operating systems and the purposes of common application software to manage information and how application software and operating system software interact to manage information
• justify the selection of application software to perform a task to manage information
• compare and contrast the use of different file types for different purposes (eg, pdf versus doc, jpeg versus bmp).

Students can:

• explain the file management considerations related to shared information
• explain the role of an information system for managing shared information within an organisation, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an information system for managing shared information within an organisation
• identify the input, storage, retrieval and manipulation of data within an information system
• discuss ethical and legal issues related to shared information within an organisation and the implications for procedures and conventions for privacy and permission
• explain the implications of back up procedures and conventions for information systems within an organisation, and evaluate the backup procedures and conventions for information systems used within an organisation
• evaluate procedures and conventions for privacy and permissions used within an organisation
• evaluate the effectiveness of an information system for managing shared information within an organisation.