Understand the target.
Read the task and its criteria. Identify the knowledge and thinking you need to demonstrate.
Operation Get a 7
Digital systems.
Human consequences.
Understand how technology works. Test what the evidence supports. Explain what should happen next.
Find your next step ↓
One task at a time
Start with the task your teacher assigns.
This page shows the resources currently released for the class. More sections will appear as the course progresses.
Keep the evidence.
Save source details, working notes and your decisions. Explain how you reached your answer.
Improve, then transfer.
Act on feedback. Show the improvement on a different question or changed situation.
Current sprint
Sprint 4 · When the service goes offline
Learn how computers and networks work, diagnose failures from evidence, and decide what a public service should restore first.
Published student workbook
Continue your current sprint
Open the workbook for all eleven lessons, lab assets, success criteria and released submission links.
Open Sprint 4 workbook — When the service goes offlineChoose your assigned practice
Older practice resources. Open the task your teacher assigns; these are separate from the current Sprint 4 workbook above.
Economics business growth lab
Connect your Netflix or Amazon inquiry to four business growth strategies, test a fictional shop, and begin Supply Chain Detective.
Open practice — Economics business growth labFour lenses → Criterion B
Watch one TED talk, build a study infographic, then rank your own IA sources and select a provisional top three.
Open practice — Four lenses → Criterion BIdentity under the lens
Reconnect Identity with Power, Systems and Values & Ethics through guided analysis, source work and independent transfer.
Open practice — Identity under the lensConcepts & command terms
Turn a case into precise explanations, connected analysis and a reasoned evaluation. Includes guided practice and classroom criteria.
Open practice — Concepts & command termsWho owns your face?
Investigate facial recognition, power and privacy. Build an evidence-supported response to a real-world issue.
Open practice — Who owns your face?Social media under 16
Compare perspectives on an age restriction and defend a judgment about its consequences.
Open practice — Social media under 16Know what strong work does
Both paper styles begin in Sprint 1. Learn the criteria, practise with support, then show what you can do independently on a new task.
Make the reasoning visible.
- Use precise knowledge and explain the digital mechanism.
- Apply it to the actual scenario and people affected.
- Develop a judgment that weighs evidence, alternatives and conditions when the question asks for evaluation.
Short questions use task-specific marking. Extended responses use the applicable markband. Naming every concept is not a substitute for answering the question.
Make the sources work together.
- Interpret what a source supports and where it is limited.
- Explain agreements or tensions across sources.
- Combine source evidence and relevant knowledge into an argument organized by ideas.
We start with a small source comparison and build toward sustained synthesis. A guided paragraph is practice, not a full-paper score.
Your feedback loop: see the criteria → attempt the task → identify one important improvement → try a fresh question. Your teacher records achievement separately from the support you used. Follow each task’s AI and access conditions; independent assessments require your own reasoning.
The course pathway
A one-year SL pathway. Your teacher releases the detailed assignments as they are ready.
01–07
Build knowledge through cases
Mechanisms, data, networks, AI, media and the physical impacts of digital systems. Paper 1 and Paper 2 practice throughout.
08–10
Practise inquiry and test transfer
A practice inquiry followed by Paper 1 and Paper 2 diagnostics, feedback and repair.
11–13
Develop your own inquiry project
Protected research, analysis, production and permitted feedback time.
14–16
Demonstrate readiness
Fresh full papers, targeted repair and a focused final revision route.
Sprint 02 · Age assurance and policy judgment
Sprint 02
How can a platform protect young users while limiting new data and access costs?
What you will learn
Verification, estimation and inference; policy objectives; impact versus implication; conditional judgment.
What you will work toward
An age-assurance recommendation supported by mechanism comparison, source synthesis and changed-context transfer.
Open workbook ↗Sprint 03 · Data, algorithms and recommendation
Sprint 03
Who benefits when a feed optimizes attention?
What you will learn
Data lifecycle, databases, algorithm components, ranking, feedback loops, scale and algorithmic dilemmas.
What you will work toward
Paper recommender, theme synthesis and an independently redesigned ranking rule.
Open workbook ↗