Planning

** PLANNING ** This is a big project! You need to plan carefully to make sure that you finish everything and meet the deadline. Don't forget that some tasks can be carried out away from the classroom. Produce a detailed plan using your initial investigations and these [|Plan_notes.pdf] to help you. Please note: You **MUST** agree your plan with your teacher. You can use this template to help you [|Plan_Template.doc.rtf]. D ownload and **rename**. Check that it is complete and that your timings are sensible. To gain marks for this section you need to show that you have listed all the main and sub tasks, that you have given sensible timings to each task (in minutes), that you add comments to the plan showing that you have used it to track and monitor progress. So giving comments about what you did not finish, or adding in extra time to complete something, or highlighting a task and saying that you need to finish it next lesson, will all count towards the objective of using the plan to track and monitor progress. The plan SHOULD NOT be written in an evaluative way, for example: "I found this task hard because ...". Instead, it should be written in the present tense. So: "Got all the data imported into my database. However, need to add the second validation rule. COMPLETE NEXT LESSON.". Your plan will need to be converted into a file format that the moderator can access - no Word documents are allowed. Therefore, make sure that your plan is easy to view on screen and then it should display well when it is converted to .pdf format. Save your initial project plan for your eportfolio. Use your plan as you work through the project. Click the link ‘Keeping track ’ for help with this.
 * you must do this up-front, before you start working the tasks, a plan produced afterwards will not gain any marks
 * ask for help if you need it, it's very important to have a workable plan at the start
 * if you don't get it right first time, it is perfectly acceptable to change it as you go along, so long as you explain why.

Mark Alert! [|MARK ALERT - Planning.doc]