Explore Digital Technologies: Focus area 1: Programming; Focus area 2: Advanced programming. Compare the published stage content and assessment categories before choosing.
Confirm your cohort: Published SACE Board course tables and outlines retrieved in November 2026. Headings can include school-selected options; confirm your actual study years, programme and version. Syllabus availability alone does not establish TAS/ATAR eligibility or recognised credit.
What will I learn?
Focus area 1: Programming
Stage 1 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 2: Advanced programming
Stage 1 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 3: Data analytics
Stage 1 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 4: Exploring innovations
Stage 1 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 1: Computational thinking
Stage 2 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 2: Design and programming
Stage 2 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 3: Data analytics
Stage 2 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsFocus area 4: Iterative project development
Stage 2 — published content / option headings; check school selectionsHow will I be assessed?
Published course / existing guide: Stage 1: School assessment 100%. This is the overall published assessment proportion, not the weighting of every individual task.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 1: Assessment Type 1: Project Skills. Published category/weighting labels; credit-pattern variants and individual tasks must be read in context.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 1: Assessment Type 2: Digital Solution. Published category/weighting labels; credit-pattern variants and individual tasks must be read in context.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 2: School assessment 70%. This is the overall published assessment proportion, not the weighting of every individual task.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 2: External assessment 30%. This is the overall published assessment proportion, not the weighting of every individual task.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 2: Assessment Type 1: Project Skills (50%). Published category/weighting labels; credit-pattern variants and individual tasks must be read in context.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 2: Assessment Type 2: Collaborative Project (20%). Published category/weighting labels; credit-pattern variants and individual tasks must be read in context.
Published course / existing guide: Stage 2: Assessment Type 3: Individual Digital Solution (30%). Published category/weighting labels; credit-pattern variants and individual tasks must be read in context.
Progression and companion subjects
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Will I find it hard?
Difficulty depends on your experience, interests, teaching and assessment. These are our reflection prompts, not an official difficulty rating.
- Do you enjoy designing, testing and improving a solution over several attempts?
- Look at the tools and techniques in the course outline. Ask your school which equipment and projects it uses.
Does it scale up or down?
Use applicable SATAC evidence. Vocational certificate credit is not automatically an ATAR input.
Scaling is not a measure of difficulty or a guaranteed bonus. Prioritise content you can engage with and required subjects for courses you are considering.
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Sources, versions and verification dates
Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-14. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.
- SACE Board: Digital Technologies course codes, credit options and assessment proportions — SACE Board; 2026-11-14. Published course-code/credit and school/external assessment tables. SACE subject content is also used in NTCET; certificate requirements remain separate. School delivery, eligibility and applicability to your study years require confirmation.
- Digital Technologies: Stage 1 subject outline — SACE Board; 2026-11-14. Visible document cover subject/stage matched to the observed course; original DOCX-byte hash retained. Factual content/option and assessment-category headings, not copied rationale prose. Agent extraction; no independent human curriculum signoff claimed. Confirm the current cohort and school task plan.
- Digital Technologies: Stage 2 subject outline — SACE Board; 2026-11-14. Visible document cover subject/stage matched to the observed course; original DOCX-byte hash retained. Factual content/option and assessment-category headings, not copied rationale prose. Agent extraction; no independent human curriculum signoff claimed. Confirm the current cohort and school task plan.