How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer The Learning Machine has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and The Learning Machine awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from The Learning Machine.
This Entry Level Award in ICT is for learners developing basic IT user skills. It covers using IT to improve productivity, understanding social media, and IT security. Learners will plan IT use, complete tasks, and minimise security risks.
These are the units The Learning Machine 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with The Learning Machine. It does the teaching and the mapping. The Learning Machine sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
Free first step
Try a free Future Fluency lesson first
The free part is a Future Fluency lesson on using AI at work. It is not part of this qualification. Next, a free account. We build your plan for this qualification as you set up. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
IT Security for users Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential security risks when using IT systems
- Implement strategies to minimise security and safety risks when using IT systems
- Apply safe practices when using IT systems to protect data and personal information
Improving productivity using IT Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the effective use of IT to meet specified requirements and objectives
- Use IT systems and software applications to complete planned tasks efficiently and accurately
Presentation Software Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Appreciate the use of presentation applications
- Understand the use of presentation applications
- Use presentation software tools to format files
- Use presentation software tools to save files
- Deliver a basic presentation of slides
Understand social media Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Identify different social media platforms and their characteristics
- Describe the features and functions of various social media platforms
Video Communication Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Start a video communication session
- Communicate using a video application
The credits, and who awards them
Entry Level credits are regulated, and they are awarded by The Learning Machine rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
IT Security for usersImproving productivity using ITPresentation SoftwareUnderstand social mediaVideo Communication
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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“IT Security for users” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from IT Security for users, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to identify common IT security threats such as viruses, phishing, and malware, and understand the risks of sharing personal information online. Learners will develop skills to minimise security risks when using IT systems, including safe practices for public Wi-Fi usage.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for TLM Entry Level Award in ICT Open Systems and Enterprise (ITQ) (Entry 2)
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Learning Machine.
- IT Security for users
- Improving productivity using IT
- Presentation Software
- Understand social media
- Video Communication
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Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.
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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.