Assessment Task: Research and/or Portfolio

Instructions

You will complete a portfolio of documents as evidence of your learning by submitting them to your teacher each week, so you can gain progressive feedback on your work. These exercises are designed to help you develop your existing business document management skills - consolidation tasks in the first half of your textbook can be referred to for design complex text document review.

These tasks include:
- Using your current employment company, establish procedures for automating the information entry, storage, output, and quality of document design and production
- Evaluate the company's present and future information technology capability in terms of its impact on document design and production
- Identify types of documents used and required by organisation (e.g. PDF, PPT, XLS etc)
- Establish documentation standards and design tasks for organisational documents in accordance with information, budget and technology requirements
- Ensure standard formats and templates suit the purpose, audience and information requirements of each document
- Ensure document templates enhance readability and appearance, and meet organisational requirements for style and layout
- Test templates, obtain organisational and user feedback, and make amendments as necessary to ensure maximum efficiency and quality of presentation
- Evaluate complex technical functions of software for their usefulness in automating aspects of standard document production
- Match requirements of each document with software functions to allow efficient production of documents
- Test macros to ensure they meet the requirements of each document in accordance with documentation standards