CBSE Curriculum for Secondary School Certificate Examination (IX-X) FIT Curriculum (2018-19) for X only 2018-19
| FOUNDATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (FIT) (CBSE) | ||||
| (CODE No. 165) | ||||
| (For Session 2018-19 only) | ||||
| Learning Outcomes: | ||||
| • Understanding organization of a computer system and networking. | ||||
| • Basic understanding of database design. | ||||
| • Ability to work on office tools such as word processor, spreadsheet and presentation. | ||||
| • Ability to apply knowledge and practice on office tools to develop IT applications. | ||||
| • Ability to use Indian languages in developing an IT application. | ||||
| • Ability to design HTML webpage. | ||||
| • Appreciation/awareness of societal impacts of information technology in business. Public services, education, health etc. | ||||
| • Awareness of basic information security issues. | ||||
| Job Opportunities: | ||||
| • Upon completion of this optional course on FIT at secondary level, one will be able to assist in IT-enabled office work. | ||||
| CBSE CLASS X | ||||
| Theory: 40 Marks Practical: 60 Marks | ||||
| Unit | Description | Marks | ||
| Theory | Practical | |||
| Unit I | Basics of Information Technology | 10 | – | |
| Unit II | Information Processing Tools | 25 | 30 | |
| Unit III | Societal Impacts of IT | 05 | – | |
| Unit IV | IT Applications | – | 30 | |
| Total | 40 | 60 | ||
| CBSE CLASS X : (THEORY) | ||||
| Time: 2½hours Marks : 40 | ||||
| Unit I: Basics of Information Technology | ||||
| Internet: World Wide Web, Web servers, Web Clients, Web sites, Web Pages, Web Browsers, Blogs, News groups, HTML, Web address, E-mail address, URL, HTTP, FTP, downloading and uploading files from remote site; | ||||
| Services available on Internet: Information Retrieval, Locating sites using search engines and finding people on the net; | ||||
| Web Services: Chat, email, Video Conferencing, e-Learning, e-Banking, e-Shopping, e-Reservation, e-Governance, e-Groups, Social Networking. | ||||
| Unit II: Information Processing Tools | ||||
| Office Tools | ||||
| Database Management Tool: Basic Concepts and need for a database, Creating a database, DataTypes-Text, Number, Date, Time, Setting the Primary Key, Entering data into a | ||||
| database, Inserting and deleting Fields, Inserting and deleting Records, Field Size, Default | ||||
| Value, Creating Query using Design view. | ||||
| Information Representation Methods Hyper Text Markup Language | ||||
| Introduction to Web Page Designing using HTML, Creating and saving an HTML document, accessing a web page using a web browser (Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari, Net scape Navigator); | ||||
| Elements in HTML: Container and Empty elements, Designing web pages using the following elements: | ||||
| HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY (Attributes: BACKGROUND, BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, ALINK, VLINK, LEFTMARGIN, TOPMARGIN), FONT(Attributes: COLOR, SIZE, FACE), BASEFONT(Attributes: COLOR, SIZE, FACE), CENTER, BR (Break), | ||||
| HR(Horizontal Rule, Attributes: SIZE, WIDTH, ALIGN, NOSHADE, COLOR) inserting comments, H1..H6 (Heading), P (Paragraph), B (Bold), I (Italics), U (Underline), UL & OL (Unordered List & Ordered List Attributes: TYPE, START), LI (List Item) | ||||
| Insertion of images using the element IMG (Attributes: SRC, WIDTH, HEIGHT, ALT, | ||||
| ALIGN), Super Script SUP, Subscript SUB, Creating Table using the element TABLE (BACKGROUND, BGCOLOR, WIDTH, CELLSPACING, CELLPADDING, | ||||
| BORDER), TR, TH, TD, ROWSPAN, COLSPAN, Internal and External Linking between Web Pages: | ||||
| Significance of linking, A – Anchor Element (Attributes: NAME, HREF, TITLE, MAILTO) | ||||
| XML (Extensible Markup Language) | ||||
| Introduction to XML, Difference between XML and HTML with respect to the following: Data separation, data sharing, document structure, tags, nesting of elements, attributes, values. XML Elements – Defining own tags in XML, root elements, child elements and their attributes; Comments in XML, White space and new line in XML, well formed XML documents, validating XML documents, XML Parser, Viewing XML documents in a web browser. | ||||
| Unit III: Societal Impacts of IT | ||||
| Information Security: Virus, Worms, Trojans and Anti-Virus Software, Spyware, Malware, Spams, Data Backup and recovery tools and methods, Online Backups, Hacker and Cracker with regard to Computer Data and Applications, Social Networking Information security provisions in e-commerce, Benefits of ICT in Education, Healthcare, Governance, Virtual, School, emergence of Knowledge economy, Impact of ICT on Society: Knowledge based society, Infomania, Digital Unity and Digital Divide. | ||||
| Unit IV: IT Applications | ||||
| Students are suggested to work on the following suggestive areas using Database Management Tool and HTML on topics implementing the tools/elements covered in the course. | ||||
| Domains: Database Design: | ||||
| • Personal Data Record File | ||||
| • School/Class Result Record | ||||
| • Employee Payroll | ||||
| • Stock Inventory | ||||
| • Vehicle Parking Record File | ||||
| Webpage Design: | ||||
| • My Home Page | ||||
| • My School | ||||
| • My Family | ||||
| • Personal Blog with Name, Photo, Areas of Interest, School, State, Country | ||||
| • School Website – Infrastructure, Facilities, Uniform, Motto, School Pictures, Extra-Curricular Activities, Subject and Language Options | ||||
| • Travel and Tourism | ||||
| • Statistics on India – State wise Area, Population, Literacy (Enrolment in Primary, Middle, Secondary, Senior Secondary), Gender Ratio | ||||
| • Environment (Save Energy) and Pollution (Global Warming) | ||||
| CLASS X : (Practical) | ||||
| Time : 4 hours Marks : 60 | ||||
| (A) HANDS ON EXPERIENCE 30 Marks | ||||
| 1. Database Design:* | ||||
| • Creating and entering data into a database | ||||
| • Setting the primary key | ||||
| • Inserting meaningful data and organising | ||||
| • Creating Query with the same design view of the table. | ||||
| 2. Webpage Designing * | ||||
| • Adding a title to webpage | ||||
| • Formatting Text | ||||
| • Adding Ordered/Unordered Lists | ||||
| • Writing Text in Paragraphs | ||||
| • Inserting Image | ||||
| • Adding content in Tabular Form | ||||
| • Adding Internal / External links. | ||||
| The students are supposed to know the tools and style for designing domain specific web pages from real life applications and the topics mentioned in the syllabus. | ||||
| 3. XML Assignment* | ||||
| Students to be asked to create an XML document on the lines of XML concepts covered in theory syllabus. | ||||
| *Printouts of the document(s) should be attached with the answer sheet. | ||||
| (B) IT APPLICATIONS REPORT FILE 15 Marks | ||||
| Students are supposed to make an IT Application Report File containing real life assignments using a Database Management Tool and HTML | ||||
| • 5 Database Solutions | ||||
| • 8 HTML source code along with browser view | ||||
| • 2 XML Documents Source Code and View | ||||
| (C) IT Application project using database and website design in a domain such as School | ||||
| Management, Public Services Computing, Business Computing. 10 Marks | ||||
| (D) VIVA VOCE 05 Marks | ||||
| Viva based on IT applications report file. | ||||
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