Assessor Handbook

The Bronze INGOTs are entry level certificates that each require between 10 and 20 hours of study and practice for a complete beginner. Achieving a bronze certificate is not age dependent but capability dependent. When an accredited Bronze INGOT assessor is satisfied that the student can competently match the criteria, a Bronze INGOT certificate can be awarded.

Archived Moodle course for download

The link is to an archived Moodle course you are free to download and include in your own Moodle. It will be updated from time to time with improvements. Please feel free to improve and submit back. Bronze Moodle

How to teach the INGOT criteria

As the teacher, you decide how to teach to cover the INGOT criteria. But here are some ideas that you might find useful.

Suggestion for Bronze We have prepared a set of sample lessons to support the Bronze 2 and Bronze 3 certificates. The zip file includes the lessons in PDF and ODF format, as well as a set of supporting files.

Here there is a quiz to help with naming the parts of a computer for the Bronze 1 certificate. Thanks to Mr Ray Tolley.

Suggestion for Bronze Get a copy of the OpenOffice.org Getting Started Guide (buy/ download) and cover chapters 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. If time allows, cover chapter 13. Suggestion for Bronze Itrainonline has 3-hour lessons for OpenOffice.org Writer and OpenOffice.org Impress. Use the OpenOffice.org Getting Started Guide chapter 8 for the drawing component.

Sector skills council

Matching the national occupational standards criteria

Misc School contributions

Bronze recording from Simon Elliott Bolitho school

Internet Safety

The story of little red training shoe

How to explain open source

For the Bronze level, the pupil should gain a basic (non-technical) understanding of what open source is. See the Japanese Fruit Grower fairy tale.

Open Systems Mobile Phone

The Google G1 is a smart phone that is open architecture hardware and open source software. Here is a web simulation so you can try it out on-line