Edexcel DiDA

[Tintinnabulate]

We did it in year 9, ours included making a eportfolio for a healthy eating thing called 5 a day, we had to make loads of crap stuff like database, and a gantt chart?

Gantt charts are optional.

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Gantt charts are optional.

Oh really? we got told that it was necessary,

Also, you have to do a hell of a lot of evidence, as somebody said above its bloody annoying.

[dbgtz]

My school changed my course and removed all the decent stuff

[Tintinnabulate]

Oh really? we got told that it was necessary,

Also, you have to do a hell of a lot of evidence, as somebody said above its bloody annoying.

DiDA is there to give the students a taste of how it would be like for working for a developer maybe. So if a company wanted something for their students to make lessons more interesting, you would need to do questionnaires, research etc. While GCSE AQA IT, which is worth 1 GCSE, is simple and easy and just about computers in general.
I spent most of my time doing the "fun" stuff, which was basically Unit 2 and Unit 4. For the rest, I just made up the results, feedback etc.

Gantt charts are optional. As long as you produce a time chart, its fine. My teacher disliked Gantt charts so we did it for the first few lessons, and then had the option to make our own time chart. All of us made our own. Its easier and you can add a comments column.

[Sam-VisualVPS]

Anyone around to help me with the coursework the first unit?

I got money.. LOL

[AshDonson]

I tried it for a few months and it just stressed me out big time (did the 5-a-day one). Everyone was just rebelling in lesson because it was so bad, so the teachers just let us do our European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) which is the equivilant of a B at GCSE. It was good because I'd already done 6 of the 8 modules a few years before.

My advice, stay away from DiDA, it WILL haunt you.:eusa_wall

[awelsh]

ahh god not this stupid Dida thing. I satill havent been awarded mine to me, did the whole first unit and as much of the second as we could, followed it all right but mots of our class got a a FAIL, our teacher was utter rubbish, waste of a GCSE

[OmgitsAmanda]

I did DiDA last year, did the Fruity Habits unit. I absolutely hated it :| I do OCR now, and it's tonnes better.

[alexxxxx]

DiDA isn't even a GCSE. It's just a certificate. You can't use it to get into college i don't think.

[mat64]

DiDA isn't even a GCSE. It's just a certificate. You can't use it to get into college i don't think.

It's used in replacement of your ICT GCSE, atleast it was at my school. So it must have some weight behind it otherwise schools wouldn't bother with it if college's didn't recognise it as a qualification. I did DiDA for 2 years, ended up with 3 b's.