Learning Complex Skills

If this is your first year doing a Digital Technologies project, you may wish to go and work through the Level 1 and Level 2 skills for your chosen area first.

At Level 3, you’ll build on those foundations by strengthening the complex skills needed to deliver a substantial, polished outcome with greater independence. This includes planning and managing a longer workflow, working professionally with files and versions, creating and integrating original assets, developing more sophisticated functionality and interaction, and making deliberate design decisions that clearly meet user needs and success criteria. You’ll also be expected to test and trial your outcome more rigorously, troubleshoot efficiently, and use evidence from feedback to iterate and improve quality across the full build.

Below are resources to help you get started with some of these complex skills across a range of outcome types. Remember, like any craft, improvement comes from deliberate practice — the more you build, test, iterate, refine, and solve problems, the more confident and capable you’ll become.

YOUR CHOICE

You are going to spend half of Term 1 working through a variety of tasks and tutorials to hopefully develop your skill level further, and help you make decisions later on about what sort of project you want to spend the rest of the year on.

Keep a record of your learning using this Skills Log. Update it as you go.