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Ascentis · RQF Level 1

Ascentis Level 1 Award In Digital Technologies for Learning

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 1
  • Total credits6
  • Guided learning54 hours
  • Units in this qualification5

Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The Ascentis Level 1 Award is for learners developing basic digital skills for learning. It covers digital information presentation, capture, review, and management. Successful candidates will gain knowledge of using digital technologies to support their learning.

These are the units Ascentis 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.

Digital Information CaptureReal unit · Ascentis
It teaches you to capture information digitally using various methods such as scanning, photography, and audio recording. You'll understand the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies and the importance of data security, including password protection.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the different methods and technologies available for capturing information digitally.
  • Know the importance of data security and privacy when capturing information digitally.
  • Capture information digitally using appropriate tools and techniques.
  • Store and organise captured information effectively.
  • Ensure the accuracy and integrity of digitally captured information.
Digital Information ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
You'll understand the importance of setting and tracking learning goals for personal development. The unit enables the use of digital technology to establish SMART goals, monitor progress, and identify barriers to achievement to improve learning outcomes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of setting learning goals to improve performance and track progress.
  • Understand the importance of tracking learning goals to measure achievement and identify areas for development.
  • Use digital technology, such as software applications or online platforms, to set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) learning goals.
  • Use digital technology to monitor progress towards learning goals and identify any barriers to achievement.
Digital Information PresentationReal unit · Ascentis
You'll learn to prepare and deliver digital presentations, considering visual design elements such as fonts and colours. The unit covers effective use of visuals, audience considerations, delivery methods, and self-review to enhance communication through digital technology.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the key considerations when preparing a visual presentation.
  • Know different methods for delivering a visual presentation effectively.
  • Prepare a presentation using appropriate digital technology and software.
  • Incorporate different media types into a digital presentation.
  • Deliver a presentation using digital technology to a specified audience.
  • Use appropriate presentation techniques to engage the audience.
  • Review own performance in preparing and delivering a digital presentation.
  • Identify areas for improvement in future presentations.
Digital Information ReviewReal unit · Ascentis
You'll learn to review digital information effectively, using methods such as spell check and proofreading. The unit emphasises accuracy, clarity, and consistency, enabling learners to edit content and present information in a clear and understandable manner.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know different methods for reviewing information digitally, including proofreading and editing tools.
  • Know the importance of checking information for accuracy, clarity and consistency.
  • Review information digitally to identify errors and inconsistencies.
  • Use digital tools to correct errors and improve the quality of information.
  • Present reviewed information in a clear and understandable format.
Digital Technologies for LearningReal unit · Ascentis
This unit explores different learning styles and how digital technologies can enhance learning experiences. You'll use digital tools for online and collabourative learning, accessing resources and communicating effectively to support diverse learning preferences.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about different learning styles and preferences.
  • Know about a range of online learning resources and platforms.
  • Know how digital technologies can be used to enhance learning experiences, including accessibility features.
  • Know how digital technologies can facilitate collaborative learning.
  • Use digital technologies to access online learning materials.
  • Use digital technologies to communicate and collaborate with others in a learning environment.
  • Use digital technologies to manage and organise learning resources.

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.

Digital Information CaptureDigital Information ManagementDigital Information PresentationDigital Information ReviewDigital Technologies for Learning

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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Where this can lead

Associate Digital Learning Coordinator

Your journey here starts with getting the basics right, but the potential to grow, specialise, and lead is enormous. We're investing in people who want to build a career in digital learning, and we'll give you the tools and opportunities to make that happen.

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Opens the roleAssociate Digital Learning CoordinatorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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.

Develop Digital Information Strategies

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.
Digital Information CaptureLevel 1

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Associate Digital Learning Coordinator

This unit enables learners to capture information digitally using various methods such as scanning, photography, and audio recording. Learners will understand the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies and the importance of data security, including password protection.

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.
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Built for Ascentis Level 1 Award In Digital Technologies for Learning

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.

  1. Digital Information Capture
  2. Digital Information Management
  3. Digital Information Presentation
  4. Digital Information Review
  5. Digital Technologies for Learning
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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