2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

II42 Adobe Visual Design II

Course Type: Adapted

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Apply knowledge of the visual design industry.	10%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.01	Identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing images.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.02	Communicate with colleagues and clients about design plans.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.03	Identify the type of copyright, permissions, and licensing required to use specific content.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.04	Build knowledge of key terminology related to publications.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.05	Utilize knowledge of basic design principles and best practices employed in the design industry.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.00	Apply project setup and interface.	10%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.01	Carry out developing a document with the appropriate settings for web, print, and mobile.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.02	Navigate, organize, and customize the application workspace.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.03	Use non-printing design tools in the interface to aid in design or workflow.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.04	Import assets into a project.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.05	Manage colors, swatches, and gradients.	1%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.06	Manage paragraph, character, and object styles.	1%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.00	Apply document organization.	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.01	Use layers to manage design elements.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.02	Manage and modify pages.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.00	Construct and modify visual elements.	25%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.01	Utilize core tools and features to lay out visual elements.	4%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.02	Select and manipulate text using appropriate typographic settings.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.03	Build, manage, and edit selections.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.04	Experiment with digital graphics and media within a publication.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.05	Utilize basic reconstructing and editing techniques to manipulate document content.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.06	Construct the appearance of design elements by using effects and styles.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.07	Develop interactive or dynamic content or media within a project.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.08	Construct and edit tables.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
5.00	Apply publishing principles for digital media.	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
5.01	Prepare documents for publishing to web, print, and other digital devices.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
5.02	Export or save documents to various file formats using Adobe InDesign.	2%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.00	Understand the role of InDesign in print design and advertising.	15%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.01	Understand basic differences between designing with InDesign for print or web.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.02	Understand how other Adobe products integrate into the InDesign workflow.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.03	Understand advertising strategies, proposals, headlines, slogans and text copy for various types of design used in advertising.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.04	Demonstrate writing copy for print, electronic, and broadcast advertising using Adobe InDesign.	3%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
7.00	Create multi-faceted designs in InDesign, while integrating supporting raster and vector software.	30%	C6 Procedural Knowledge - Create	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
7.01	Create complex print publications utilizing a combination of vector graphics created in Adobe Illustrator, raster graphics created in Adobe Photoshop, and layout in Adobe InDesign.	24%	C6 Procedural Knowledge - Create	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
7.02	Build procedures to publish, export, and archive layouts using InDesign, Illustrator, and Photohsop.	6%	C6 Procedural Knowledge - Create	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork