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01What it is
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These are the units Innovate Awarding 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.
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02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Audio Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit provides learners with skills to capture, combine, edit, and present audio sequences using audio hardware and software. You'll connect audio devices, import and record audio, apply editing techniques, and present final audio products.
What you'll be able to do
- Use audio hardware to capture sequences
- Use audio software to capture sequences
- Use audio software tools to combine sequences
- Use audio software techniques to combine sequences
- Use audio software tools to edit sequences
- Use audio software techniques to edit sequences
- Play audio sequences
- Present audio sequences
Audio Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop advanced skills in using audio hardware and software to capture, edit, and present high-quality audio sequences. They will apply professional techniques to optimise audio capture and produce polished audio content.
What you'll be able to do
- Use audio hardware and software to capture audio sequences effectively
- Use audio software tools and techniques to edit audio sequences to a professional standard
- Play and present audio sequences in a suitable format
Audio Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of audio hardware and software to capture, edit, and present audio sequences and prepare for presentations.
What you'll be able to do
- Use audio hardware and software to capture sequences
Bespoke Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit involves inputting, organising, combining, and editing information using bespoke software applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Input, organise and combine information using bespoke software
Bespoke Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' ability to use bespoke software to input, combine, and verify information accurately. You'll select suitable data structures and utilise software functions to organise, retrieve, process, and present information efficiently.
What you'll be able to do
- Input information using bespoke applications
- Combine information using bespoke applications
- Use appropriate structures to organise information efficiently
- Use appropriate structures to retrieve information efficiently
- Use the functions of the software effectively to process information
- Use the functions of the software effectively to present information
Bespoke Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of bespoke software to input, combine, organise, and retrieve information efficiently. You'll learn to create and modify logical structures within the software and exploit its functions to process and present information effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine information effectively using bespoke software
- Create appropriate structures to organise information using bespoke software
- Modify existing structures to organise information using bespoke software
- Retrieve information efficiently using bespoke software
- Exploit the functions of the software effectively to process information
- Exploit the functions of the software effectively to present information
Computerised Accounting Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit addresses the use of computerised accounting packages to manage bookkeeping tasks.
What you'll be able to do
- Access, enter and edit accounting information
Computerised Accounting Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to use computerised accounting software effectively, including accessing the software, entering and editing financial data, processing business transactions, and producing accounting documents and summary reports to meet organisational requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Access computerised accounting software effectively
- Enter accounting information accurately
- Edit accounting information accurately
- Select appropriate tools to process business transactions
- Select appropriate techniques to process business transactions
- Use appropriate tools to process business transactions
- Use appropriate techniques to process business transactions
- Produce accounting documents to meet requirements
- Produce summary reports to meet requirements
Computerised Accounting Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop the ability to access, enter, and edit accounting information using computerised accounting software. The unit covers processing business transactions, developing management reports, and interpreting financial information accurately.
What you'll be able to do
- Access accounting information using computerised accounting software
- Enter accounting information accurately into a computerised accounting system
- Edit accounting information within a computerised accounting system
- Process business transactions using source documents within a computerised accounting system
- Develop management information reports using computerised accounting software
- Interpret management information reports generated from a computerised accounting system
- Set up a computerised accounting system ready for use, configuring settings as required
Data Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to accurately enter, edit, and maintain data records within a data management system. The unit also covers retrieving and displaying data records to meet specified organisational requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter data records accurately into a data management system
- Edit and maintain data records within a data management system
- Retrieve and display data records from a data management system to meet specified requirements
Data Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of data management software to enter, retrieve and display information effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter, edit and maintain data records in a data management system
Data Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' skills in accurately entering, editing, and maintaining data records within a data management system. You'll retrieve and display data records according to defined criteria and maintain data integrity through regular updates.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter data records accurately into a data management system
- Edit existing data records within the data management system to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Maintain data records in a data management system, ensuring data integrity
- Retrieve specific data records from the data management system based on defined criteria
- Display retrieved data records in a clear and understandable format to meet requirements
Database Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit focuses on using database software to enter, manipulate and report information.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter, edit and organise structured information in a database
Database Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to create and modify non-relational database tables, enter and organise structured information, and use database software tools to run queries and generate reports. The unit also covers adapting database structures to meet changing requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Create non-relational database tables, defining appropriate fields and data types
- Modify existing non-relational database tables to meet changing requirements
- Enter structured information accurately into a database
- Edit existing information within a database to ensure accuracy and currency
- Organise structured information within a database to facilitate efficient retrieval
- Use database software tools to run queries to extract specific information
- Produce reports from a database, presenting information in a clear and organised manner
Database Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll plan, create, and modify relational database tables to meet data requirements, defining relationships and primary keys. They will enter, edit, and organise structured information, and use database tools to create, run queries, and produce reports.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan relational database tables to meet requirements
- Create relational database tables to meet requirements
- Modify relational database tables to meet requirements
- Enter structured information in a database
- Edit structured information in a database
- Organise structured information in a database
- Use database software tools to create data queries
- Use database software tools to edit data queries
- Use database software tools to run data queries
- Use database software tools to produce reports
Design Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to obtain, insert, and combine information effectively within designs using design software. The unit covers creating, manipulating, and editing designs to meet specified requirements using various software tools.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information for designs
- Insert information for designs
- Combine information for designs
- Use design software tools to create designs
- Use design software tools to manipulate designs
- Use design software tools to edit designs
Design Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll use design software to obtain, insert, and combine information from various sources for design projects. They will develop skills to create, manipulate, and edit designs using appropriate tools and techniques to achieve effective visual layouts.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information from various sources for use in designs
- Insert information into designs effectively
- Combine different types of information within designs
- Use design software tools to create designs
- Use design software tools to manipulate designs
- Use design software tools to edit designs
Design Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to obtain, insert, and combine information for designs using design software. The unit covers creating, manipulating, and editing designs to meet specified criteria and produce original or enhanced design documents.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information from appropriate sources for use in designs
- Insert information accurately into design documents
- Combine different types of information effectively within designs
- Use design software tools to create original designs
- Manipulate existing designs using software tools
- Edit designs to meet specific requirements using appropriate software functions
Desktop Publishing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to select and set up appropriate Internet connections, configure browser software, navigate webpages, and use browser tools to search for and communicate information online efficiently and securely.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate designs for publications
- Use appropriate page layouts for publications
- Input text within publications
- Combine text and other information within publications
- Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit publications
- Use desktop publishing software techniques to format publications
Desktop Publishing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to select suitable designs and page layouts for publications using desktop publishing software. You'll input and combine text and other information, and apply editing and formatting techniques to produce publications tailored to their purpose and target audience.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate designs for publications based on their purpose and target audience
- Use suitable page layouts to enhance the readability and visual appeal of publications
- Input text accurately into publications using desktop publishing software
- Combine text with other information, such as images and graphics, within publications
- Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit publications to improve their quality
- Format publications to meet specific requirements, such as branding guidelines or accessibility standards
Desktop Publishing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit deals with using desktop publishing software to combine and manipulate text and graphic elements.
What you'll be able to do
- Select and use appropriate designs and page layouts for publications
Drawing and Planning Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to input, organise, and combine information within drawing or planning software. The unit focuses on editing, manipulating, formatting, and presenting drawings or plans to meet professional standards and specific presentation requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Input information accurately into drawing or planning software
- Organise information effectively within drawing or planning software
- Combine different types of information to create drawings or plans
- Use appropriate tools to edit drawings or plans
- Manipulate elements within drawings or plans to achieve the desired outcome
- Format drawings or plans to meet specific presentation requirements
- Present drawings or plans in a clear and professional manner
Drawing and Planning Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to input, organise, and combine information for drawings or plans using drawing and planning software. The unit also covers editing, manipulating, formatting, and presenting drawings or plans using appropriate software tools and techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Input information, including text, dimensions and symbols, for drawings or plans using appropriate software tools
- Organise information within drawings or plans to ensure clarity and accuracy
- Combine different elements of information to create complete drawings or plans
- Use drawing and planning software tools and techniques to edit drawings or plans
- Manipulate drawings or plans to achieve the desired visual representation
- Format drawings or plans to meet specific requirements
- Present drawings or plans in a suitable format for the intended audience
Drawing and Planning Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers inputting, organising, and combining information for drawings or plans using specialised software. You'll edit, manipulate, format, and present drawings or plans effectively using appropriate tools and techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Input information into drawing or planning software
- Organise information within drawing or planning software
- Combine information effectively within drawing or planning software to create drawings or plans
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to edit drawings or plans
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to manipulate drawings or plans
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to format drawings or plans
- Present drawings or plans effectively using the software
IT Communication Fundamentals Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' ability to select, access, and evaluate information from various sources, including the Internet. You'll also learn to use IT tools to communicate and exchange information safely, responsibly, and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Select and use a variety of sources of information to meet specific needs
- Access, search for, select and use Internet-based information effectively
- Evaluate the fitness for purpose of Internet-based information
- Select and use IT tools to communicate and exchange information safely, responsibly and effectively
IT Communication Fundamentals Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the fundamentals of IT communication including email and online information search.
What you'll be able to do
- Use a variety of sources of information to meet needs
IT Security for Users Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit provides learners with knowledge of IT security risks and procedures to mitigate them. You'll select, use, and develop methods to monitor and minimise security risks to IT systems and data, adapting to evolving threats.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate procedures to monitor security risks to IT systems and data, such as regular security scans and audits.
- Use appropriate procedures to minimise security risks to IT systems and data, such as implementing strong passwords and access controls.
- Develop appropriate procedures to monitor security risks to IT systems and data, adapting to evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
IT Security for Users Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to identify security threats to IT systems and data, understanding their potential impact. You'll apply appropriate methods to minimise risks and implement security measures to protect IT systems and information.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential security risks to IT systems
- Identify potential security risks to data
- Use appropriate methods to minimise security risks to IT systems
- Use appropriate methods to minimise security risks to data
IT Security for Users Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain knowledge of potential security risks to IT systems and data, and learn to select and apply appropriate methods to minimise these risks in line with organisational policies and data protection legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate methods to minimise security risks to IT systems, in line with organisational policies
- Use appropriate methods to minimise security risks to data, in line with data protection legislation
- Apply selected methods to protect IT systems and data from identified security risks
IT Software Fundamentals Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop an understanding of IT software applications, including selecting appropriate software to meet needs and solve problems. The unit covers entering, developing, formatting, and presenting information effectively using various IT tools.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate software applications to meet specific needs and solve identified problems
- Use selected software applications effectively to achieve desired outcomes
- Enter different types of information accurately and efficiently
- Develop and format information to ensure clarity and suitability for its intended meaning and purpose
- Present information using appropriate methods and formats to suit the intended purpose and target audience
- Make effective use of available IT tools and facilities to enhance the presentation of information
IT Software Fundamentals Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain foundational knowledge of IT software applications, including selecting suitable software to meet specific needs. The unit covers entering, combining, formatting, and presenting information appropriately, as well as evaluating IT tools and facilities.
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate software applications to meet specific needs and solve identified problems
- Use selected software applications effectively to achieve desired outcomes
- Enter different types of information accurately and efficiently
- Develop and format information to ensure clarity and suitability for its intended meaning and purpose
- Combine different types of information effectively
- Present information using appropriate methods and formats to suit the intended purpose and target audience
- Evaluate the selection of IT tools and facilities for presenting information, considering their suitability and effectiveness
- Evaluate the use of IT tools and facilities for presenting information, identifying areas for improvement
Imaging Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to obtain images from various sources and combine them effectively using imaging software. The unit covers creating original images, manipulating existing ones, and arranging image elements to produce visually appealing results.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain images from various sources and insert them into imaging software
- Combine different image elements effectively within the imaging software
- Use imaging software tools to create original images
- Manipulate existing images using the software's editing functions
- Edit images to enhance their quality and appearance using appropriate tools
Imaging Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to source, evaluate, and insert various types of information into images using imaging software. You'll develop skills in combining and manipulating image elements to create and edit images effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information from various sources for inclusion in images
- Insert information accurately and appropriately into images
- Combine different types of information effectively within images
- Use imaging software tools to create original images
- Use imaging software tools to manipulate existing images
- Use imaging software tools to edit images to meet specific requirements
Imaging Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to obtain, insert, and combine images from various sources using imaging software. The unit covers creating, manipulating, and editing images, including producing composite images through the effective use of software tools.
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information for images from various sources
- Insert information into images using imaging software
- Combine information from different sources to create composite images
- Use imaging software tools to create images
- Use imaging software tools to manipulate images
- Use imaging software tools to edit images
Improving Productivity using IT Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit involves planning the use of appropriate IT systems and software to meet requirements, using IT systems and software efficiently to complete planned tasks, and reviewing selections and outcomes to enhance productivity.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the use of appropriate IT systems and software to meet requirements
- Use IT systems and software efficiently to complete planned tasks
- Review the selection and use of IT tools to ensure work activities are successful
Internet Safety for IT users Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit provides learners with an understanding of internet safety risks, including malware, phishing, and cyberbullying. You'll learn how to safeguard themselves and others online, maintain data security, and comply with legal and organisational guidelines.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential risks that can exist when using the Internet
- Safeguard yourself when working online
- Safeguard others when working online
- Take precautions to maintain data security when working online
- Follow legal constraints which apply when working online
- Follow organisational guidelines which apply when working online
- Follow organisational procedures which apply when working online
Multimedia Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' ability to plan, organise, and create multimedia products using multimedia software. You'll obtain content from various sources, input and combine media types, and adhere to copyright and quality standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the content of multimedia products, taking into account the target audience and purpose.
- Organise the structure of multimedia products to ensure logical flow and ease of navigation.
- Obtain content from various sources, ensuring copyright and permissions are adhered to.
- Input content into multimedia software, maintaining quality and accuracy.
- Combine different types of content (e.g., text, images, audio, video) to create engaging multimedia outcomes.
- Use multimedia software tools to edit content, enhancing its visual and auditory appeal.
- Format multimedia content to meet specific requirements, such as file size, resolution, and accessibility standards.
- Play and present multimedia outcomes effectively, demonstrating their functionality and purpose.
Multimedia Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to plan, source, input, and combine multimedia content to build multimedia products. You'll use tools and techniques to edit and present multimedia outcomes that meet specified needs and objectives.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the content and organisation of multimedia products to meet identified needs and objectives
- Obtain, input and combine content from various sources to build comprehensive multimedia outcomes
- Use tools and techniques to build and edit multimedia content, ensuring quality and consistency
- Play and present multimedia outcomes effectively to a target audience
Multimedia Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to plan, create, and edit multimedia products using appropriate software. You'll plan content and organisation, obtain and combine media types, format multimedia content, and present final products effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the content of multimedia products to meet identified needs
- Plan the organisation of multimedia products to ensure logical flow and user-friendliness
- Obtain content from appropriate sources for inclusion in multimedia products
- Input content accurately into multimedia software
- Combine different types of content effectively to build complete multimedia outcomes
- Use multimedia software tools to edit multimedia content
- Format multimedia content to meet specified requirements using appropriate software functions
- Play multimedia outcomes to check functionality and appearance
- Present multimedia outcomes effectively to a target audience
Optimise IT System Performance Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit provides learners with knowledge and skills to maintain IT hardware and software, manage files to sustain system performance, troubleshoot common IT problems, and customise the working environment to suit individual needs.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain IT hardware components in working order, following organisational procedures
- Maintain IT software applications in working order, following organisational procedures
- Manage files and folders effectively to maintain optimum IT system performance
- Respond to common IT system problems and errors, using appropriate troubleshooting techniques
- Customise the IT working environment, including settings and preferences, to meet individual needs
Optimise IT System Performance Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to maintain and optimise IT system performance through hardware and software upkeep, file and disk management, troubleshooting common issues, and customising the working environment to improve efficiency.
What you'll be able to do
- Implement procedures to keep computer hardware operating efficiently
- Implement procedures to keep computer software operating efficiently
- Manage files effectively to optimise system performance
- Manage disks effectively to optimise system performance
- Troubleshoot common IT system problems and errors effectively
- Respond appropriately to common IT system problems and errors
- Customise the working environment to improve individual performance
- Customise the working environment to improve overall system performance
- Maintain software through updates and patches to meet performance needs
Optimise IT System Performance Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit focuses on optimising IT system performance through hardware and software maintenance and file management. You'll troubleshoot system problems, plan and monitor maintenance activities, and review system configurations to ensure efficient operation.
What you'll be able to do
- Keep computer hardware operating efficiently through appropriate actions
- Keep computer software operating efficiently through appropriate actions
- Manage files to maintain IT system performance effectively
- Manage files to improve IT system performance effectively
- Troubleshoot IT system problems quickly
- Respond to IT system problems effectively
- Plan the routine maintenance of hardware and software
- Plan the non-routine maintenance of hardware and software
- Monitor the routine maintenance of hardware and software
- Monitor the non-routine maintenance of hardware and software
- Review hardware to maintain performance
- Modify hardware to maintain performance
- Review software to maintain performance
- Modify software to maintain performance
Presentation Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit focuses on using presentation software to create, format, and present effective presentations.
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine text and other information within presentation slides
Presentation Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of presentation software to input and combine text, images, and charts within slides. You'll learn to structure, edit, format, and prepare slides to meet specific presentation and audience requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Input text and other information, such as images and charts, within presentation slides
- Combine different types of information effectively within presentation slides
- Use presentation software tools to structure slides in a logical sequence
- Edit slides to ensure accuracy and clarity of information
- Format slides to enhance visual appeal and readability
- Prepare slides for presentation, considering the needs of the intended audience
- Adapt slides to suit the specific presentation environment and equipment
Presentation Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to create and edit presentations using presentation software. You'll input and combine text and other information, structure and format slides, and prepare slideshows for effective presentation delivery.
What you'll be able to do
- Input text accurately and efficiently into presentation slides
- Combine text with other information, such as images and charts, within presentation slides
- Use presentation software tools to structure slide sequences logically
- Use presentation software tools to edit slide content for clarity and accuracy
- Use presentation software tools to format slides for visual appeal and consistency
- Prepare slideshow for presentation, ensuring all elements are correctly positioned and functioning
Presentation Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' skills in creating and editing presentations using presentation software. You'll input and combine text, images, and charts, structure and format slides, and prepare interactive slideshows for effective delivery.
What you'll be able to do
- Input text into presentation slides effectively
- Combine text and other information within presentation slides appropriately
- Use presentation software tools to structure presentations logically
- Use presentation software tools to edit presentations accurately
- Use presentation software tools to format presentations consistently
- Prepare an interactive slideshow for presentation, incorporating multimedia elements
Project Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers creating and defining projects, including setting SMART objectives and establishing scope. You'll enter and update information about tasks and resources, and use appropriate tools to display and report on project progress effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Create and define a project, establishing clear objectives, scope, and deliverables
- Enter and edit information about project tasks and resources, assigning responsibilities and allocating resources effectively
- Update information about project progress, tracking milestones and identifying potential delays
- Select and use appropriate tools and techniques to display and report on project status, communicating progress to stakeholders
Project Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to use project management software to create and define projects, enter and edit information about tasks and resources, update project progress, and apply tools and techniques to display and report on project status.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a project using project management software
- Define a project using project management software
- Enter information about project tasks using project management software
- Edit information about project tasks using project management software
- Enter information about project resources using project management software
- Edit information about project resources using project management software
- Update information about project progress using project management software
- Select appropriate tools to display project status
- Use appropriate tools to display project status
- Select appropriate techniques to report on project status
- Use appropriate techniques to report on project status
Project Management Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to create and manage project plans using project management software. The unit covers defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables, entering and updating task and resource information, and reporting on project status.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a project plan, defining the project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
- Define the tasks required to complete the project, breaking down the work into manageable components.
- Enter information about project tasks, including start and end dates, dependencies, and resource requirements.
- Edit information about project tasks and resources, making adjustments as needed to reflect changes in the project plan.
- Update information about project progress, tracking the completion of tasks and identifying any delays or issues.
- Select appropriate tools and techniques to display project status, such as Gantt charts, timelines, and dashboards.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to report on project status, communicating progress to stakeholders and highlighting key milestones.
Set Up an IT System Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to safely select and connect personal computer hardware, storage media, and communication services. The unit includes installing and configuring software, and verifying the successful operation of the IT system.
What you'll be able to do
- Select a personal computer and associated hardware to meet specific needs safely
- Connect a personal computer with associated hardware safely
- Select appropriate storage media to meet specific needs
- Connect storage media to a personal computer safely
- Select an IT system to connect to a communication service to meet specific needs
- Connect an IT system to a communication service to meet specific needs
- Install software for use on an IT system
- Configure software for use on an IT system
- Check that the IT system is working successfully after setup
- Check that the communication service is working successfully after setup
Set Up an IT System Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit equips learners to select, connect, and configure a personal computer with associated hardware and storage media. You'll install operating systems and application software, ensuring the IT system and communication services function correctly to meet user needs.
What you'll be able to do
- Select a personal computer and associated hardware components based on identified needs
- Connect a personal computer safely with associated hardware and storage media
- Select an appropriate IT system for communication based on identified needs
- Connect an IT system successfully to a communication service
- Install an operating system on the IT system
- Configure the operating system for use
- Install application software on the IT system
- Configure application software for use
- Check that the IT system is working successfully
- Check that the communication service is working successfully
Set Up an IT System Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to connect a personal computer, printer, and peripherals safely, set up communication services, install and configure software, and verify the successful operation of the IT system.
What you'll be able to do
- Connect a personal computer to a power source and other necessary cables, following safety guidelines.
- Connect a printer to the computer, ensuring proper cable connections and power supply.
- Connect peripheral devices (e.g., keyboard, mouse, monitor, scanner) to the computer, using appropriate ports and cables.
- Connect to an IT communication service, such as a local area network (LAN) or the internet.
- Set up software for use, installing and configuring applications according to user needs.
- Check that the IT system is working successfully, verifying that all components are functioning correctly.
- Check that the communication service is working successfully, ensuring connectivity and data transfer.
Specialist Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop the ability to input, combine, and organise information using specialist software. The unit focuses on creating and modifying data structures, verifying accuracy, and exploiting software functions to process and present information efficiently.
What you'll be able to do
- Input information accurately using specialist software
- Combine different types of information effectively within the specialist software
- Create appropriate data structures within the specialist software to organise information
- Modify existing data structures to improve organisation and retrieval efficiency
- Retrieve information efficiently from the specialist software using appropriate search and filtering techniques
- Exploit the available functions of the specialist software to process information effectively
- Present information clearly and effectively using the specialist software's presentation tools
Specialist Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop the ability to input, organise, combine, edit, process, format, and present information using specialist software. The unit focuses on utilising a range of tools and techniques within the software to manage information effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Input, organise and combine information effectively using specialist software
- Use a range of tools and techniques to edit information using specialist software
- Use a range of tools and techniques to process information using specialist software
- Use a range of tools and techniques to format information using specialist software
- Use a range of tools and techniques to present information using specialist software
Specialist Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to input and combine information using specialist software, selecting appropriate data structures to organise and retrieve information efficiently. You'll use software functions effectively to process and present information to meet specific requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine information accurately and efficiently using specialist software applications
- Use appropriate data structures to organise information within the specialist software
- Retrieve information efficiently from the specialist software using appropriate search and filter techniques
- Use the functions of the specialist software effectively to process information according to requirements
- Present information clearly and effectively using the specialist software's presentation tools
Spreadsheet Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to enter, edit, and organise numerical and other data within spreadsheets. The unit emphasises summarising information using formulas and tools, and presenting data effectively through various display techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter numerical and other data accurately
- Use a spreadsheet to edit numerical and other data effectively
- Use a spreadsheet to organise numerical and other data logically
- Use appropriate formulas to summarise spreadsheet information
- Use appropriate tools to summarise spreadsheet information
- Use appropriate tools to display spreadsheet information
- Select appropriate tools to present spreadsheet information effectively
- Use appropriate techniques to present spreadsheet information effectively
Spreadsheet Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of spreadsheet software to enter, edit, and organise numerical and other data accurately. You'll select and apply appropriate formulas and data analysis tools, and use formatting techniques to present spreadsheet information clearly and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter numerical and other data accurately
- Edit and organise numerical and other data effectively within a spreadsheet
- Select and use appropriate formulas to perform calculations and data analysis
- Select and use appropriate data analysis tools to meet specific requirements
- Select and use appropriate tools and techniques to present spreadsheet information clearly
- Format spreadsheet information effectively to enhance readability and understanding
Spreadsheet Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to use spreadsheet software to enter, edit, and organise numerical and other data accurately. You'll select appropriate formulas and data analysis tools, and present spreadsheet information clearly and effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Use spreadsheet software to enter numerical and other data accurately
- Edit data within a spreadsheet to ensure accuracy and consistency
- Organise data within a spreadsheet to facilitate analysis and reporting
- Select appropriate formulas to perform calculations on spreadsheet data
- Use data analysis tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights from spreadsheet data
- Present spreadsheet information clearly and effectively using appropriate formatting techniques
- Format spreadsheet information to meet specific presentation requirements
- Publish spreadsheet information in a suitable format for sharing and distribution
Using Collaborative Technologies Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of collabourative technologies to effectively work together in groups and teams.
What you'll be able to do
- Stay safe and secure when using collaborative technology
Using Collaborative Technologies Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain knowledge to use collabourative technologies safely, understanding organisational policies and risk management. They will plan, set up, and prepare IT tools for collabouration, contributing effectively to tasks while maintaining data protection and online safety.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to stay safe and secure when working with collaborative technology, adhering to organisational policies and procedures
- Plan and set up appropriate IT tools and devices for collaborative working, considering the needs of the task and participants
- Prepare collaborative technologies for use, ensuring they are configured correctly and ready for participants
- Contribute effectively to tasks using collaborative technologies, communicating clearly and sharing information appropriately
Using Collaborative Technologies Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to use collabourative technologies safely and securely, identifying potential security risks and applying protective practices. They will plan, set up, and prepare IT tools and devices for collabourative working, managing tasks efficiently within a secure environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and apply safe and secure practices when working with collaborative technology to protect personal and organisational data
- Plan the use of IT tools and devices effectively for collaborative working activities
- Set up IT tools and devices correctly to facilitate collaborative working
- Prepare collaborative technologies for use by ensuring they are configured correctly and ready for participants
- Manage tasks effectively using collaborative technologies to track progress and ensure completion
- Use collaborative technologies to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders
Using Email Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' proficiency in using email software to compose, format, send, and manage emails. You'll learn to address recipients correctly, manage incoming messages, and organise email accounts effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Use e-mail software tools to compose messages, including addressing, subject lines, and message body.
- Use e-mail software techniques to format messages, including font styles, paragraph alignment, and bullet points.
- Send messages to recipients, ensuring correct addresses and attachments.
- Manage incoming email effectively, including sorting, filtering, and prioritising messages.
- Use e-mail software tools to reply to and forward messages, maintaining communication threads.
- Organise emails into folders and labels, ensuring easy retrieval and management.
Using Email Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to compose, format, and send clear and concise emails using email software tools. The unit also covers managing incoming emails efficiently through sorting, filtering, prioritising, and organising messages.
What you'll be able to do
- Use e-mail software tools to compose clear and concise messages
- Apply appropriate techniques to format e-mail messages effectively
- Send e-mail messages accurately to the intended recipients
- Manage incoming e-mail efficiently by sorting, filtering, and prioritising messages
- Use e-mail software features to organise and archive e-mail messages effectively
Using Email Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to use email software effectively, including composing, sending, and managing email messages. The unit emphasises appropriate language, tone, and formatting to ensure clear and professional communication.
What you'll be able to do
- Use e-mail software tools to compose messages
- Use e-mail software tools to send messages
- Use e-mail software techniques to compose messages
- Use e-mail software techniques to send messages
- Manage the use of e-mail software effectively
Using Mobile IT Devices Real unit · Innovate Awarding
It teaches you to set up and customise mobile IT devices to meet individual needs. You'll use applications and files, transfer data, and maintain device performance through basic maintenance and security configurations.
What you'll be able to do
- Set up the mobile device to meet specific needs
- Use applications on the mobile device effectively
- Use files on the mobile device effectively
- Transfer data to the mobile device efficiently
- Transfer data from the mobile device efficiently
- Maintain the performance of the mobile device through appropriate actions
Using Mobile IT Devices Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the setup and customisation of mobile IT devices to meet user needs. You'll develop skills in configuring network and security settings, managing email accounts, selecting and using applications, transferring data, and optimising device performance.
What you'll be able to do
- Set up a mobile device to meet specific needs
- Customise a mobile device to meet specific needs
- Select appropriate applications for use on the mobile device
- Use selected applications effectively on the mobile device
- Select appropriate files for use on the mobile device
- Use selected files effectively on the mobile device
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to transfer data to mobile devices
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to transfer data from mobile devices
- Optimise the performance of mobile devices to ensure efficient operation
Using the Internet Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to connect to the Internet using various methods and use browser software to navigate webpages effectively. The unit also covers searching for information, communicating online, and understanding essential online safety and security practices.
What you'll be able to do
- Connect to the Internet using appropriate methods
- Use browser software to navigate webpages effectively
- Use browser tools to search for information from the Internet efficiently
- Use browser software to communicate information online effectively
- Understand the need for safety practices when working online
- Understand the need for security practices when working online
Using the Internet Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll gain skills to select and set up suitable Internet connections and configure browser software. The unit covers navigating webpages, using browser tools to search efficiently, and communicating information online while applying appropriate safety practices.
What you'll be able to do
- Select an appropriate connection to access the Internet based on given requirements
- Set up an appropriate connection to access the Internet based on given requirements
- Set up browser software to navigate webpages effectively
- Use browser software to navigate webpages effectively
- Use browser tools to search effectively for information from the Internet
- Use browser tools to search efficiently for information from the Internet
- Use browser software to communicate information online effectively
- Develop appropriate safety practices when working online
- Apply appropriate safety practices when working online
- Develop appropriate security procedures when working online
- Apply appropriate security procedures when working online
Using the Internet Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll learn to connect to the internet and navigate web pages using browser software. They will use search tools to find information, communicate online, and understand the importance of safety and security practices when working on the internet.
What you'll be able to do
- Connect to the internet using appropriate hardware and software
- Use browser software to navigate web pages efficiently
- Use browser tools to search for information effectively from the internet
- Use browser software to communicate information online in a clear and concise manner
- Follow and understand the need for safety and security practices when working online to protect personal data and prevent cyber threats
Website Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit focuses on creating and maintaining websites and web content.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and create web pages
Website Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll plan, create, and publish web pages using website software. They will structure and format content to enhance usability and visual appeal, ensuring web pages meet identified requirements and are accessible.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and create web pages that meet specific requirements
- Use website software tools to structure and format web pages for optimal user experience
- Publish web pages to the Internet or an intranet, ensuring accessibility and functionality
Website Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit equips learners with the skills to create and publish basic websites using website software tools. You'll develop website structures and styles, prepare content including text and multimedia, and understand usability and accessibility principles.
What you'll be able to do
- Create appropriate structures for websites
- Create effective styles for websites
- Use website software tools to prepare text content for websites
- Use website software tools to prepare image content for websites
- Use website software tools to prepare multimedia content for websites
- Publish websites effectively
Website Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
You'll develop the ability to create multi-page websites using website software tools. The unit covers creating website structures and styles, incorporating multimedia and interactive features, and publishing and testing websites to meet user requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Create appropriate structures for websites
- Create effective styles for websites
- Use website structures and styles to produce complete websites
- Select appropriate website software tools for developing websites
- Use website software features to develop multiple page websites
- Use website software features to incorporate multimedia elements into websites
- Use website software features to incorporate interactive elements into websites
- Publish multiple page websites effectively
- Test multiple page websites to ensure functionality
- Test multimedia elements within websites to ensure correct operation
- Test interactive features within websites to ensure correct operation
Word Processing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit covers the use of word processing software to create and format text documents.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter and combine text and other information accurately
Word Processing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit equips learners with skills to create, modify, and format word processing documents effectively. You'll accurately enter and combine text and other information, design document layouts and structures, and present documents to meet specified requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter text accurately into word processing documents
- Combine text and other information accurately within word processing documents
- Create layouts for word processing documents
- Modify layouts for word processing documents
- Create structures for word processing documents
- Modify structures for word processing documents
- Use word processing software tools to format documents effectively
- Use word processing software tools to present documents effectively to meet requirements
Word Processing Software Real unit · Innovate Awarding
This unit develops learners' skills to enter and combine text and other information accurately within word processing documents. You'll create and modify layouts, structures, and styles, using software tools to format and present documents to meet specific requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Enter and combine text and other information accurately within word processing documents, ensuring clarity and consistency
- Create and modify appropriate layouts, structures and styles for word processing documents, to enhance readability and visual appeal
- Use word processing software tools and techniques to format and present documents effectively to meet requirements, adhering to organisational guidelines
03The standards
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Capture and manipulate multimedia content
- Standard
Create a database implementation
- Standard
Create and integrate multimedia elements into digital content
- Standard
Create databases to store and retrieve data
- Standard
Optimise IT System Performance
- Standard
Optimise performance of cloud services
04Where it leads
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 5 roles, drawn from 6 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Junior Transformation Project Manager
This work can lead to senior transformation project manager roles, then on to programme management or principal-level positions.
See the whole journey05The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Innovate Awarding 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
Audio SoftwareAudio SoftwareAudio SoftwareBespoke SoftwareBespoke SoftwareBespoke SoftwareComputerised Accounting SoftwareComputerised Accounting Software
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.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration The Navigator Your plan for “Drawing and Planning Software” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Drawing and Planning Software” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Computerised Accounting Software” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Data Management Software” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Project Management Software” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
IAO Level 1 Diploma In IT User Skills (ITQ)
- Capture and manipulate multimedia content
- Create a database implementation
- Create and integrate multimedia elements into digital content
- Create databases to store and retrieve data
- Optimise IT System Performance
- Optimise performance of cloud services
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 Audio Software, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
This unit provides learners with skills to capture, combine, edit, and present audio sequences using audio hardware and software. Learners will connect audio devices, import and record audio, apply editing techniques, and present final audio products.
How the thinking builds
- 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 IAO Level 1 Diploma In IT User Skills (ITQ)
27 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Innovate Awarding.
- Audio Software
- Bespoke Software
- Computerised Accounting Software
- Data Management Software
- Database Software
- Design Software
and 21 more in the full unit list below.
Free tools
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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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