Agored Cymru · RQF Level 3
Agored Cymru Level 3 Certificate in Essential Skills for Work and Life
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits16
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification31
Awarded by Agored Cymru · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Agored Cymru 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.
Calculations with MeasureReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know how formulae are used in calculations. (N2.2)
- Use formulae in practical situations. (N2.1) (N2.2)
- Apply the results of calculations using measurements. (N2.3)
Calculations with MeasureReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Apply formulae in calculations involving measure. (N3.1, N3.2)
- Understand how the principles of proportional change can be applied to problems involving shape and measure. (N3.1, N3.2, N3.3)
Collection, Presentation and Interpretation of Continuous DataReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of discrete and continuous data.
- Collect, organise and present continuous data for a specific purpose. (N2.1, N2.3)
- Know ways of describing continuous data statistically. (N2.2)
Collection, Presentation and Interpretation of Discrete DataReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of discrete and continuous data.
- Collect, organise and present discrete data for a specific purpose. (N2.1, N2.3)
- Know ways of describing data statistically. (N2.2)
Critical ReadingReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the main points and lines of argument or reasoning in complex texts. (C3.2 C3.3)
- Understand how writers use language to convey meaning which is not explicit. (C3.2, C3.3)
- Critically compare texts. (C3.2, C3.3)
Digital CollaborationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how collabouration can enhance personal, professional and organisational practice.
- Plan collabourative tasks effectively.
- Apply efficient collabourative working practices.
- Reflect on all aspects of the digital collabourative process.
Digital CollaborationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how digital collabouration can enhance personal and professional practice.
- Collabourate online effectively and efficiently.
- Reflect on the digital collabourative process.
Digital CreativityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how digital creative solutions have the potential to develop opportunities for entrepreneurship and enterprise.
- Use a range of digital tools and techniques to complete a complex task.
- Critically review creative digital solutions.
Digital CreativityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how digital tools and techniques can be used creatively.
- Use a range of digital tools and techniques to create a multi media resource.
- Use digital tools creatively for a social media task.
- Review creative digital solutions to tasks.
Digital Information LiteracyReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know how a digital information search may be refined so that it more accurately meets its purpose.
- Search for, refine, assess and organise digital information.
- Use and review the digital information to complete a task.
Digital Information LiteracyReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques used to gather and evaluate digital information.
- Search for, evaluate and use digital information to complete a complex task.
- Use and review digital information to complete a task.
Digital ProductivityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand common digital problems and how to resolve them.
- Assess, select and use appropriate digital technologies andtools to complete a task.
- Organise, store, share and protect digital information.
Digital ResponsibilityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand protocols for digital responsibility and security.
- Design a protocol for digital responsibility for an organisation or digital community.
- Refine a digital footprint.
Digital ResponsibilityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of digital responsibility in a wide range of digital communities and environments.
- Review a personal digital footprint.
Finding, Selecting and Exchanging Information using Information and Communication Technology ICTReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Find and select ICT and other resources to carry out a specified activity. (ICT2.1, ICT2.2)
- Use a range of ICT-based and other sources of information. (ICT2.1, ICT2.2)
- Enter, save and organise information. (ICT2.2)
- Exchange information using ICT. (ICT2.2)
Following Safe and Healthy Working Practices when using Information and Communication Technology ICTReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Follow recommended safety practices when using ICT. (ICT2.1)
- Protect data from loss when using ICT. (ICT2.1)
- Understand security measures that need to be taken when using ICT. (ICT2.1)
- Understand online safety measures. (ICT2.1)
Giving a Formal PresentationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a formal talk or presentation. (C3.1, ICT3.1)
- Research and prepare for a presentation. (C3.1, ICT3.2)
- Give a formal presentation. (C3.1, ICT 3.3)
- Evaluate own performance. (C3.1)
Giving a PresentationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for a talk or presentation. (C2.1, C2.2)
- Understand how to organise material for a talk or presentation. (C2.1, C2.3)
- Give a talk or presentation. (C2.1)
- Evaluate own performance.
Interpretation of DataReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how graphical information can be used as a source for data. (N3.1)
- Collect organise and analyse discrete and continuous data. (N3.1, N3.2, N3.3)
NumberReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Use indices in number operations. (N3.2)
- Solve a multistage problem involving number. (N3.1, N3.2, N3.3)
NumberReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Add and subtract fraction quantities. (N2.2)
- Use ratios and direct proportion to calculate quantities and measures. (N2.2)
- Use percentages. (N2.1, N2.2)
- Solve a multistage problem involving number. (N2.1, N2.2)
ProbabilityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the applications of probability calculations.
- Understand the relationship between theoretical probabilities, observed outcomes and sample sizes. (N2.2)
- Use probability of combined events to inform decisions. (N2.3)
Reading for a PurposeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Locate and select source documents and texts for a specific purpose. (C2.2)
- Identify main points and specific detail. (C2.2, C2.3)
- Evaluate texts in relation to purpose. (C2.2)
Reading, Researching and ReportingReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Locate relevant information. (C3.2, ICT3.2)
- Understand complex documents. (C3.2, C3.3)
- Synthesise information from two or more documents. (C3.2, C3.3, ICT3.3)
- Reference source materials.
Speaking and Listening - Providing and Receiving InformationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Overcome barriers to effective speaking and listening.
- Understand and respond to spoken language.
- Speak to communicate in a range of contexts.
Taking Part in Formal DiscussionsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a discussion. (C2.1, C2.2)
- Take part in a purposeful group discussion. (C2.1)
- Reach consensus. (C2.1)
- Evaluate the discussion. (C2.1)
The Purpose and Intention of TextsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the main points and arguments in texts. (C2.2)
- Understand how language and layout are used in writing to convey argument and opinion. (C2.2)
- Understand the purpose and intentions of texts. (C2.2)
Using Information and Communications Technology ICTReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for how ICT can be used to address multi-stepped activities. (ICT2.1)
- Use a range of hardware and software for a specific purpose. (ICT2.1)
- Manage file and folder structures. (ICT2.1)
- Solve problems when using ICT. (ICT2.1)
Writing Persuasive TextReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan a piece of persuasive writing. (C2.3)
- Draft persuasive writing. (C2.3)
- Edit and revise persuasive writing to produce a final version. (C2.3)
Writing a Complex DocumentReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare an extended piece of writing. (C3.2, C3.3)
- Plan, and structure writing. (C3.3)
- Complete and evaluate a piece of extended writing. (C3.3, ICT3.3)
Writing to Convey InformationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Plan both formal and informal writing. (C2.3)
- Write texts conveying information. (C2.3)
- Edit and revise text to produce a final accurate version. (C2.3)
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 3 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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
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.
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.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Agored Cymru Level 3 Certificate in Essential Skills for Work and Life
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Agored Cymru.
- Calculations with Measure
- Collection, Presentation and Interpretation of Continuous Data
- Collection, Presentation and Interpretation of Discrete Data
- Critical Reading
- Digital Collaboration
- Digital Creativity
and 19 more in the full unit list below.
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.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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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