Australian Curriculum is a curriculum framework developed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) for use in all states and territories of Australia. It covers Foundation to Year 12. It was first endorsed in December 2010.

• At that time, Victorian Government and Catholic schools (and independent Victorian schools if they chose to) were using the Victorian Essential learning Standards (VELS) Curriculum framework. 
• The VELS curriculum was then adapted to conform to and extend the Australian Curriculum and the resultant Curriculum Framework, called AusVELS, was adopted in 2013.
• In 2016/2017 a new curriculum framework is being adopted to replace AusVELS called the Victorian Curriculum. It is less prescriptive in reporting requirements and addresses a number of weaknesses in the AusVELS framework especially in regard to high or low achieving students. 
• Some parts of the Victorian Curriculum were able to be implemented in 2016 by Government schools but the Catholic sector is adopting the Victorian Curriculum in 2017.
• Some aspects of the Victorian Curriculum may not be ready to be adopted in 2017 (E.g. EAL) and therefore schools will be given some flexibility in some subjects as to whether they use AusVels or Victorian Curriculum in 2017.

Synergetic Implementation

Loading the pre-defined Victorian Curriculum framework

Loading the Victorian Curriculum framework is the first step. This is task is performed by clicking in the new Curriculum Framework area of the Subject Assessment Other Definition Maintenance window.

Transitioning subject assessment areas from AusVELS to Victorian Curriculum

Once the Victorian Curriculum framework has been loaded you need to transition the subject assessment areas from AusVELS to the Victorian Curriculum framework. This task is performed on the Area sub-tab of the Area tab in Subject Assessment Maintenance by selecting Victorian Curriculum values in the following fields for each subject assessment area.

Creating expected result assessment areas

Schools are required to indicate the expected mark for each student taking a Victorian Curriculum class. This task is managed by creating expected result assessment areas for each existing subject assessment area. For example, the Mathematics subject assessment area Statistics and Probability needs a Statistics and Probability (Expected) subject assessment area. Once the expected result subject assessment areas are created they are linked to the existing subject assessment areas using the new Expected Result for Area field.

Student Results Maintenance

Once the previous two steps are completed you can enter Victorian Curriculum results using Student Results Maintenance. Victorian Curriculum results are use a numerical scale (0.5-15.5) that converts to a five-point scale (A-E) when output for reports. Additionally, there is a value for students that did not participate (DNP). When this field is selected you are prompted to select a reason why the student did not participate using the Result Classification window.