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Pearson EDI · RQF Level 1

EDI Level 1 Certificate in ICT Applications

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  • LevelRQF Level 1
  • Units in this qualification15

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

This qualification allows learners to develop ICT skills. It covers the use of common software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software. It is suitable for individuals seeking to improve their digital literacy and employability.

These are the units Pearson EDI registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Database 1Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll be introduced to database fundamentals and terminology, including tables, fields, and records. They will develop the ability to create simple databases, enter data accurately, and retrieve information using basic queries.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand database fundamentals, including data structures and relationships
  • Know database terminology, including terms such as tables, fields, and records
  • Create simple databases using database software
  • Enter data into database tables accurately
  • Retrieve data from databases using simple queries
Database 2Real unit · Pearson EDI
This unit covers fundamental database concepts including tables, fields, records, and relationships. You'll develop practical skills to create and modify database tables, enter and edit data, query information, and understand essential database security principles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand fundamental database concepts, including tables, fields, records, and relationships
  • Create and modify database tables, defining appropriate data types and constraints
  • Enter and edit data in a database, ensuring data integrity and accuracy
  • Query and report on database information, using appropriate search criteria and reporting tools
  • Understand database security principles and practices, including user access control and data encryption
Database 3Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll explore relational database concepts including keys, relationships, and normalisation. They will acquire skills to design, create, query, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity and suitability for various industry applications.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand fundamental database concepts and their applications
  • Design databases to meet specific requirements
  • Create database tables with appropriate data types and constraints
  • Query databases to retrieve specific information
  • Maintain databases, including backing up and restoring data
Email, Internet and IT Security 1Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll gain knowledge of email usage, internet principles, and IT security basics. They will be able to compose, send, and read emails, browse the internet effectively, and apply secure practices to protect data and recognise common IT security threats.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of email usage, including composing, sending, and receiving messages
  • Know the fundamental principles of the internet, including browsing, searching, and online communication
  • Use IT systems securely, following established security protocols and best practices
  • Understand common IT security threats, such as viruses, malware, and phishing attacks
  • Protect data from unauthorised access, loss, or damage, implementing appropriate security measures
Email, Internet and IT Security 2Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll learn to send and receive emails, conduct internet research, and manage emails effectively. The unit also covers internet safety, security risks, and strategies to protect against IT security threats.

What you'll be able to do

  • Send and receive emails, using appropriate etiquette and communication skills
  • Use the internet for research, evaluating the credibility and relevance of sources
  • Understand internet safety and security risks, including phishing, malware, and online scams
  • Protect against IT security threats, implementing appropriate security measures
  • Manage email effectively, using folders, filters, and other tools to organise and prioritise messages
Email, Internet and IT Security 3Real unit · Pearson EDI
This unit provides advanced understanding of email functions, internet protocols, and IT security measures. You'll learn to implement security controls, manage email efficiently using filters and mail merge, and protect data against sophisticated IT security threats.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand advanced email usage, including features such as mail merge and filtering
  • Know advanced internet principles, including network protocols and security considerations
  • Use IT systems securely, following best practice guidelines
  • Understand advanced IT security threats, including malware and phishing attacks
  • Protect data from unauthorised access and loss
  • Implement security measures to protect IT systems and data
Presentation Software 1Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll learn to create and deliver presentations using presentation software. The unit covers slide creation and formatting, adding text and images, and using transitions and animations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the basic functions and features of presentation software
  • Create and format slides with different layouts and designs
  • Add text and images to slides and arrange them effectively
  • Use transitions and animations to enhance the presentation
  • Deliver a presentation using presentation software
Presentation Software 2Real unit · Pearson EDI
It teaches you to use presentation software effectively by creating and formatting presentations. They will learn to incorporate multimedia elements, apply transitions and animations, and deliver presentations confidently using different software views and master slides.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the features and functions of presentation software
  • Create presentations using presentation software
  • Format presentations to enhance visual appeal and clarity
  • Use multimedia elements within presentations
  • Deliver presentations effectively to an audience
Presentation Software 3Real unit · Pearson EDI
It teaches you to create and format presentations using presentation software, incorporating multimedia elements. You'll also develop skills to deliver presentations effectively and understand advanced software features.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create presentations using presentation software, incorporating appropriate design principles
  • Format presentation slides to ensure clarity and visual appeal
  • Add multimedia elements, such as images, audio, and video, to enhance presentations
  • Deliver presentations effectively, using appropriate techniques and communication skills
  • Understand advanced presentation software features, including animation, transitions, and interactive elements
Spreadsheet 1Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll gain foundational skills in using spreadsheet software, including opening and navigating spreadsheets, entering and formatting data, and saving and printing documents. Basic calculation skills using formulas are also covered.

What you'll be able to do

  • Open and navigate a spreadsheet application, identifying key features and functions
  • Enter data into a spreadsheet accurately and efficiently, using appropriate data types
  • Format data in a spreadsheet to improve readability and presentation, using features such as fonts, colours, and alignment
  • Save and print a spreadsheet, selecting appropriate file formats and print settings
Spreadsheet 2Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll develop the ability to create and format spreadsheets, use formulas and functions, and present data effectively. The unit also covers key spreadsheet software features such as data validation and conditional formatting.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create and format spreadsheets using appropriate tools and techniques
  • Use formulas and functions to perform calculations and data analysis
  • Present spreadsheet data effectively using charts, graphs and other visual aids
  • Understand the features of spreadsheet software, including data validation and conditional formatting
Spreadsheet 3Real unit · Pearson EDI
You'll develop expertise in advanced spreadsheet functions such as pivot tables, macros, and lookup functions. The unit also covers advanced formatting, data presentation, and data validation techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the advanced functions and features of spreadsheet software
  • Create and format spreadsheets effectively, using appropriate tools and techniques
  • Use formulas and functions to perform complex calculations and data manipulation
  • Present spreadsheet data effectively using charts, graphs, and other visual aids
  • Understand and apply data validation techniques to ensure data accuracy and integrity
Word Processing 1Real unit · Pearson EDI
This unit provides foundational knowledge of word processing software. You'll be able to create, format, and print documents, including inserting and editing images and saving files in various formats.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the basic functions and features of word processing software
  • Create new documents and save them in different formats
  • Format text and paragraphs using various tools and techniques
  • Insert images into documents and edit their properties
  • Print documents with appropriate settings and layout
Word Processing 2Real unit · Pearson EDI
This unit develops learners' skills in advanced word processing features such as styles, templates, tables, charts, and mail merge. Collabourative document editing using track changes and comments is also covered.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand advanced features of word processing software, such as track changes and comments
  • Use styles and templates to create consistent and professional documents
  • Create tables and charts to present data effectively within a document
  • Use mail merge to create personalised documents for multiple recipients
  • Collaborate on documents using features such as shared editing and version control
Word Processing 3Real unit · Pearson EDI
This unit covers advanced word processing techniques including the use of fields, sections, macros, and automation. You'll learn to create complex documents, manage document versions, and troubleshoot common word processing issues.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand advanced word processing techniques, including the use of fields and sections
  • Use macros and automation to streamline repetitive tasks
  • Create complex documents with features such as table of contents and indexes
  • Manage document versions and track changes effectively
  • Troubleshoot common word processing problems and find solutions

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 1 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Database 1Database 2Database 3Email, Internet and IT Security 1Email, Internet and IT Security 2Email, Internet and IT Security 3Presentation Software 1Presentation Software 2

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Create Digital PresentationsCreate enhanced digital presentations

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Database 1Level 1

Applied to your own work

Learners will be introduced to database fundamentals and terminology, including tables, fields, and records. They will develop the ability to create simple databases, enter data accurately, and retrieve information using basic queries.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
Your PlanIllustration

Built for EDI Level 1 Certificate in ICT Applications

15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.

  1. Database 1
  2. Database 2
  3. Database 3
  4. Email, Internet and IT Security 1
  5. Email, Internet and IT Security 2
  6. Email, Internet and IT Security 3

and 9 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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