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This IT activity has been prepared by F. Beeby while on a four year B.A. in Business Education with Information Technology (QTS) at Brighton School of Education. Follow the links below to access the various different parts of the case study.

NOTE: You will require Microsoft Excel Version 7 or later to use the spreadsheets in this case study.

Disco Fever

It is made up of:

1. Three activities about 'Disco Fever' - a mobile disco business with various spreadsheets to analyse and complete, along with help and guidance about using spreadsheets.
   
   
2. A worksheet - analysing disco costs. This worksheet gets you to set up your own spreadsheet for a disco to be held at school.
   
   
3. A teacher guide to the case study.

There are 3 separate spreadsheets needed for the Disco fever activities and you can either download all 3 spreadsheets at once or individually as you work through the activities.

Using this material on a local network

You can if you want to download the whole case study package for use on a local network. To do this, use the "Save Link As" function on your web browser to save each of the following files to the same directory on your local computer. Alternatively, visit each page in turn and use the "Save As" function.

Instructions | Spreadsheet Guidance | Student Worksheet | Spreadsheet Specification | Tutor Version | DscoFull.XLS

Remember to also save this index page to the same directory (using the "Save As" function").

NOTE: Some of the material by this author was drawn from ideas in 'Spreadsheets for Mathematics and I.T.', by Andrew Rothery, John Murray Publishers, London, (1991)