School Level Textbooks

This document describes how information and communication technology (ICT) competence applies to the Australian curriculum.

AusVELS provides a single curriculum for levels F-10 that incorporates the Australian Curriculum as it is progressively developed within a framework that reflects particular Victorian priorities and approaches to teaching and learning.

VELS is no longer the current curriculum in use. For comparative purposes this site provides access to the former Curriculum Standards document which outlines Standards for Levels 1 - 6. Standards document outlining Standards for Levels 1 - 6, including the ICT for visualising thinking, ICT for creating, and ICT for communicating Dimensions.

This site contains links to ICT-related learning and teaching support materials such as websites, publications, assessment examples, professional learning support and links to current research in the area of ICT education.

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards. In Levels 7 and 8, students analyse the properties of networked systems and their suitability and use for the transmission of data types. They acquire, analyse, validate and evaluate various types of data, and appreciate the complexities of storing and transmitting that data in digital systems.