Course Title: Perform workshop skills and place orders
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2009
Course Code: HWSS5418C
Course Title: Perform workshop skills and place orders
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4212 - Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing
Course Contact: Timothy Haigh
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4846
Course Contact Email: timothy.haigh@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 150
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
This unit should be assessed in conjunction with the following related competency units:
• HLTOPD401A Work effectively in the ophthalmic industry
• HLTOPD402A Dispense optical products and services
Course Description
This unit of competency describes the knowledge of edging and fitting of spectacle lenses and specialised techniques, treatments and processes to finish and/or repair spectacle frames and lenses.
It includes skills in dispensing the best form lenses and ordering from laboratories.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTOPD407A Perform workshop skills and place orders |
Element: |
1. Prepare for dispensing of optical appliances |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Access required information and prescriptions |
Element: |
2. Operate focimeter and conduct final checking procedures |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Determine any axis or centring error and apply Australian Standards tolerances. |
Element: |
3. Place orders for optical appliances |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Place orders for the edging of spectacle lenses |
Element: |
4. Perform frame adjustments and repairs |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Repair and modify spectacle frames |
Element: |
5. Utilise computer technology |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Select appropriate technology and software applications to achieve the requirements of the task |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
1: Read each topic in the Learner Guide. Upon completion of each topic, complete the self-assessment checklist from the Learner Guide. Once you have done this, progress to the next topic.
2: Complete the self-assessment quiz. Please note, this is not an assessment task. The self-assessment will check your level of understanding of the unit and provide you with feedback.
3: Refer to the Learning and Assessment Guide (LAG) items 3, 6, and 7. Familiarise yourself with the content.
Teaching Schedule
Topic 1: Prepare for dispensing of optical appliances
Topic 2: Operate focimeter and conduct final checking procedures
Topic 3: Place orders for optical appliances
Topic 4: Perform frame adjustments and repairs
Topic 5: Utilise computer technology
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
1. Learner guide HLTOPD407A
2. Learning and Assessment Guide – Year 1
3. Essential knowledge: Visual physiology, Light, Prism, Spherical Lenses
4. Additional learning materials available through the Learning Hub
5. Reflect by accessing HLTOHS300A on the Learning Hub
6. Tinting of spectacle lenses can be found with further reading Australian standards 2228.1 Spectacle lenses (will be available at RMIT library)
7. Operation manuals of equipment you use in your workplace
8. www.monkeysoftware.com.au
9. www.sunixvision.com.au
10. www.nidek.com
11. www.briot-weco.com.au
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may consist of examinations, quizzes, practical demonstration, work based assessment or simulation, submission of your learning and assessment guide and assignments.
Assessment Tasks
Before attempting any of the below assessment tasks ensure that you agree with all self-assessment checklists in the Learner Guide and that you have completed the online self-assessment quiz.
1. Complete the online test titled HLTOPD407A. This test consists of completing a series of 10 online questions. These questions may consist of true or false, multiple choice, short answer questions etc. In order to pass you need to answer seven or more correct (7 out of 10). You must pass this prior to completing assessment task 2.
2. Refer to your learning and assessment guide (LAG) and carefully read items 3, 6, and 7. An RMIT University assessor will assess you on items 3, 6, and 7 during a work-based assessment and during your compulsory attendance at blocks in year one. In addition your assessor will include a range of verbal questions to ask during these assessments. In addition an RMIT University assessor may talk to your employer.
3. At the end of the semester you will be required to complete a 60-minute online examination on the Learning Hub, which will be posted online for one week (you will be notified shortly). Please note that this examination will cover HLTHIR301A, HLTOHS300A, HLTOPD401A, BSBCMN302A, BSBFLM403B and HLTOPD407A and you will only be allowed to attempt it once. This examination will include short answers, true or false, multiple-choice, equations and other types of questions. You will know at the end of this test if you have passed. The pass mark is 70%.
Please note that you will need to demonstrate competency in all 3 of these assessment tasks in order to achieve competency for this unit.
Assessment Matrix
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