Types & Uses of Online Communities (Edexcel IGCSE ICT): Exam Questions

Describe how one key feature of a social network is used to create communities.

Describe one way the features of an online community can improve the reach of Joe’s post.

The venue promotes events on a website.

Give two other types of online communities the venue could use to promote events.

Camille shares family photographs online with friends.

Describe how transactional data can be used with photographs stored online to improve the experience of users.

Camille’s child, Sarah, uses websites and video sharing sites for her school work.

Explain one drawback to learning of enabling the comments section of an online video content service.

Sarah’s sister plays games with friends online.

Describe one key feature of online gaming that develops social skills.

Which one of these is the main function of a social network?

Farah has cousins who live in four different countries.

Describe one way Farah can use a social network to communicate with all of the cousins.

Kiran organises volunteers who clean up beaches. The volunteers live in different towns and most of them have never met.

Explain two features of a social network that would help Kiran organise the volunteers.

Give two features of an online gaming community.

The makers of an online game want players to keep coming back to the game's online community.

Describe one feature of the online community that would encourage players to keep playing.

Rui has just started playing a multiplayer online game.

Explain two ways Rui can use the game's online community to become a better player.

A company has staff in three countries. They need to share files, hold virtual meetings and track tasks on the same projects.

Which one of these online communities should the company use?

Members of a design team live in different time zones, so they are not all working at the same time.

Describe one feature of an online work space that helps the team work together.

Give two ways a teacher can use a virtual learning environment (VLE) to assess students' work.

Wen was ill and missed two weeks of school.

Explain one way the school's virtual learning environment (VLE) could help Wen catch up.

A secondary school plans to replace one lesson a week in each subject with work set on its virtual learning environment (VLE). Students would complete this work at home.

Discuss the impact of this plan on the students at the school.

A group of volunteers wants to build a website about the history of their town. Any member of the group must be able to add new pages and change any existing page.

Which one of these should the group use?

Sami has a problem with a new printer and asks for help on an online forum.

Explain one benefit to Sami of using a forum to get help.

Students in a science class are writing a wiki about the planets. Their teacher is worried that some of the information may be wrong.

Explain two features of a wiki that can help the class keep the information accurate.

Give two features of a video sharing site that help users find videos they are interested in.

Ari writes a blog about growing vegetables. Ari wants to build a community of regular readers.

Describe one feature of a blog that could help Ari do this.

A cookery school uploads cooking lessons to a video sharing site. It wants to interact with viewers who live in other countries.

Explain two features of the video sharing site that would help the school do this.

State what is meant by the term 'social bookmarking'.

Describe how tags are used on a social bookmarking site.

A team of researchers works in four different countries. At the moment, each researcher saves useful web pages as bookmarks in the web browser on their own computer.

Explain two benefits to the team of using a social bookmarking site instead.