Digital Documents

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Documents this year.

In class

10 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the board with the same lesson open on each student's device. 3 interactive activities across the course.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with every lesson.
Progress and resultsWhat each student has completed, and how they did.
CertificatesFor portfolios, open days and reports home.
Try the first lesson: Plan Your Work Experience Pack

On paper

Teacher Resource BookThe whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson, ready to print.

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 17 of the 42 outcomes for this class.

NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025)

Personal Growth 3 of 11 outcomes

Being a Learner 5 of 12 outcomes

Civic and Community Engagement 2 of 11 outcomes

Career Exploration 7 of 8 outcomes

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Personal Growth

P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 P.7 P.8 P.9 P.10 P.11

Being a Learner

B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4 B.5 B.6 B.7 B.8 B.9 B.10 B.11 B.12

Civic and Community Engagement

C.1 C.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 C.10 C.11

Career Exploration

CE.1 CE.2 CE.3 CE.4 CE.5 CE.6 CE.7 CE.8

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

10 lessons in 3 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Your CV and Cover Letter 4 lessons · about 4 hours

Plan and Structure Your Pack
1 Plan Your Work Experience Pack Sample lesson Quiz
Write and Finish Your CV
2 What Goes on an Irish CV Quiz
3 One Page, Perfectly Consistent Quiz
Write a Matched Cover Letter
4 The Cover Letter Quiz

2 Check and Improve 2 lessons · about 2 hours

Review with a Partner
5 A Second Pair of Eyes Quiz
Make Documents Readable for Everyone
6 Documents Everyone Can Read Quiz

3 On Placement and After 4 lessons · about 4 hours

Templates for Placement Days
7 Your Placement Diary Quiz
Research and Long Documents
8 Research the Sector Quiz
9 The Placement Report Template Quiz
Apply with the Finished Pack
10 Application Day Quiz

What students learn

Students build a complete Work Experience Pack across ten 60-minute lessons, one portfolio document a lesson: a pack plan, a one-page CV laid out on an invisible table grid, a cover letter tailored to a real employer, a partner review with tracked changes, an accessible placement information sheet, a placement diary, a sector profile with footnotes, and a report template with an automatic table of contents. In Lesson 10 students apply to a placement advert against the clock. Every step-by-step covers Word for the web and Google Docs, on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, and students keep every file in their own Digital Portfolio folder.

By the end of the course, students can

Structure a document with styles, multi-level lists and the headings panel.
Write and design a one-page CV and a tailored cover letter that follow Irish conventions.
Review and improve a document with tracked changes and version history.
Make documents every reader can use, and check them.
Build long documents and templates with footnotes, page numbers and an automatic table of contents.

Build a full TY year around Digital Documents

This module is one of 10 Transition Year modules you can combine into a complete Year-Long TY Digital Skills Programme, shaped around your timetable and the students in front of you.

Run the same pathway for every student, or set different pathways for different groups. Students also get access to the modules they're not doing in class, which is ideal for the keen ones who finish early or want to explore further on their own time.

Prefer a deeper tech focus? Swap in Advanced Coding or Robotics and Automation. Each module is 10 to 16 lessons of 40-60 minutes, leaving room for school events, mid-terms and everything else TY throws at you.

Why TY coordinators choose it

One decision, a year's content

No more stitching resources together every term.

Flexible per class, per student

Run different pathways side by side.

Certificates after each module

Great for TY portfolios, open days and reports home.

Sets students up for Senior Cycle

Broad exposure so they choose subjects with confidence.

Sample Year Plan

ICT + Coding focus

Computer Skills
Gets everyone on a level footing
Introduction to Coding
Real, working projects from week one
Exploring Digital Media
Video, design and storytelling
Exploring Artificial Intelligence
The topic your students keep asking about
Enterprise and Business Basics
A pitch-and-launch project to close out the year