Effective ICT and Computer Science Teaching Made Easy

Opus is increasingly used in schools offering both general ICT and specialist computer qualifications for one simple reason - students are productive more quickly and so stay engaged.

Teachers can concentrate on the requirements of the curriculum itself and not spend time teaching the features of a particular piece of software. Pupils can learn from a creative as well as technical direction and take the paths they prefer.

But students won't be left with skills in a non-commercial product: Opus is also widely-used by businesses from independent developers to major corporates as well as government agencies including Ofsted, OCR and RoSPA.

Opus Creator is increasingly used in schools offering multimedia and animation courses, DiDA and OCR Nationals in ICT. Opus Pro is well suited to the Cambridge Technicals and Computer Science qualifications.

Key Advantages

• Easy to learn and use so students get productive more quickly and engage with the course more readily
• Much easier than Flash/Visual Basic etc so you spend your time teaching the course not how to use a particular piece of software.
• Not so simple it feels more like a toy than a real program.
• Covers more units in one piece of software with the capacity for presentation, flash, animation, games programming and digital showcase requirements.
• Even fundamental programming principles such as variables, loops and conditional branching can be taught in Opus Creator in an engaging way. And Opus Pro will allow scripting and functions to be taught with the minimum of grunt work.
• Includes built-in tools for drawing, house-style and master pages, text effects, animation effects, tween animation, stop-frame animation, simple programming and export to Flash.
• Can also be used to create eportfolios.
• Opus Pro is fully moodle and SCORM compatible.
• Lower cost - one program for many units.
• Android Flash player available free of charge.
• Free resources and samples can get you and your students productive even quicker.

Opus Pro - Questions and Scoring Made Easy

Opus Pro includes a sophisticated new automatic scoring system with ready-made Question templates covering key question types including multiple choice, cloze procedures, drag and drop, sliders and text input. Progress on specific topics is tracked automatically so revision can be suggested wherever necessary.

OCR ICT Nationals

Opus Creator is particularly suitable for the following units or their equivalents in other qualifications:

• Level 1
• Unit 1 - Produce a presentation of at least three slides
• Unit 4 - Design and produce multimedia
• Unit 11 - Creating Animation using ICT (export to Flash)
• and the equivalent units in Level 2
• Level 3
• Unit 1 - Design and create a presentation style
• Unit 4 - Design a digital showcase
• Unit 14 - Cartooning and Animation (including Flash)
• Unit 15 - Art and Animation for computer games
• Unit 16 - Programming for computer games

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