This AS level unit is mandatory and is externally assessed.
This unit helps you to:

• understand how organisations are structured;
• understand how organisations use and exchange information;
• evaluate how well ICT can and does help organisations;
• consider how ICT supports many different activities in organisations;
• see how ICT offers new opportunities.

You will study how organisations (including at least one large organisation) collect, disseminate and use information, how they manage the flow of information between sections or departments and the way they use ICT to access and exchange information.

The unit will be assessed through an external assessment. The mark on that assessment will be your mark for the unit.