Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Information Technology
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Guided learning720 hours
- Units in this qualification20
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
BTEC Nationals are level 3 vocational qualifications that provide specialist, work-related learning in a range of sectors.
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Big Data and Business AnalyticsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the role of big data and business analytics to improve performance in organisations
- Investigate the role of big data and business analytics for benchmarking in organisations
- Investigate the role of big data and business analytics to trigger innovation in organisations
- Explore the statistical software tools used to analyse data in organisations
- Explore the statistical techniques used to analyse data in organisations
- Carry out analysis of statistical data to meet the needs of an organisation
Business Process Modelling ToolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and application of business process modelling tools
- Identify different types of business process modelling tools and their features
- Apply business process modelling tools to create visual representations of business processes
- Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of different business process models
- Understand the importance of business process modelling in organisational improvement
Cloud Storage and Collaboration ToolsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the use of cloud technologies and tools within organisations
- Design a cloud-based collaboration service to meet a client’s needs
- Deploy a cloud-based collaboration service to meet a client’s needs
- Manage a cloud-based collaboration service to meet a client’s needs
- Review a cloud-based collaboration service to meet a client’s needs
Computer Games DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of computer games development
- Design computer games
- Develop computer games using appropriate software and tools
- Test and evaluate computer games
Creating Systems to Manage InformationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of information management systems
- Design systems to manage information effectively
- Implement information management systems
- Evaluate the effectiveness of information management systems
Customising and Integrating ApplicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the customisation and integration of applications used by organisations to meet their needs
- Explore the technologies and techniques used to customise and integrate applications
- Develop customised and integrated applications to meet organisational needs
Cyber Security and Incident ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of technical language related to cyber security
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of security threats
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of system vulnerabilities
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of security protection methods
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of implications resulting from successful threats
- Apply knowledge and understanding of security threats, system vulnerabilities and security protection methods and implications in order to risk assess systems
- Select appropriate tools to secure systems
- Analyse forensic evidence data and information to identify security breaches
- Manage security incidents
- Evaluate protection methods to make reasoned judgements about their efficacy
- Evaluate security documentation to make reasoned judgements and draw conclusions about their efficacy
- Plan a secure computer network
- Manage security incidents
- Justify the plan for securing a computer network and managing security incidents
Data ModellingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of data modelling
- Design data models to meet specific requirements
- Implement data models using appropriate software and tools
- Validate and refine data models
Digital 2D and 3D GraphicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the purpose and characteristics of digital graphics that are an important part of visual communications
- Design 2D and 3D digital graphics products to meet a client brief
- Develop 2D and 3D digital graphics products to meet a client brief
Digital Animation and EffectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the purpose of digital animations and effects that are an important part of communicating
- Investigate the characteristics of digital animations and effects that are an important part of communicating
- Design a digital animation and effects product to meet a client brief
- Develop a digital animation and effects product to meet a client brief
Enterprise in ITReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the nature of enterprise and entrepreneurship in an IT context
- Develop a marketing plan for an IT product or service based on market research
- Present a plan for a start-up IT enterprise using lean or traditional business principles
IT Project ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the principles of IT project management as used in industry
- Investigate the methodologies of IT project management as used in industry
- Carry out a project initiation for an IT project
- Carry out the planning of an IT project, using an appropriate methodology
- Carry out the execution of an IT project, using an appropriate methodology
- Carry out the monitoring of an IT project, using an appropriate methodology
- Carry out the controlling of an IT project, using an appropriate methodology
- Undertake the closure of a project
- Reflect on the success of personal performance during the project
- Reflect on the project outcome
IT Technical Support and ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the IT system support needs of different organisations that are essential to their operation
- Examine the IT system management needs of different organisations that are essential to their operation
- Examine the IT system support characteristics of different organisations that are essential to their operation
- Examine the IT system management characteristics of different organisations that are essential to their operation
- Carry out routine support activities on IT systems
- Carry out routine management activities on IT systems
- Develop a plan to support a new IT system using industry standards and methods
- Develop a plan to manage a new IT system using industry standards and methods
Information Technology SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of information technology systems
- Install and configure IT systems
- Maintain and troubleshoot IT systems
- Understand the importance of IT security
- Manage data within IT systems
Mobile Apps DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of mobile app development
- Design user interfaces for mobile applications
- Develop mobile applications using appropriate programming languages and frameworks
- Implement data storage and retrieval mechanisms in mobile apps
- Test and debug mobile applications
- Deploy mobile applications to app stores
- Understand the security considerations for mobile app development
- Evaluate the performance and usability of mobile applications
ProgrammingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of programming
- Design programming solutions to meet specific requirements
- Implement programming solutions using appropriate programming languages
- Test and debug programming solutions
Software TestingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the software development methodologies commonly used during the development life cycle to quality assure software
- Understand the software testing methodologies commonly used during the development life cycle to quality assure software
- Carry out a range of testing methodologies on a software product to meet a client’s needs
- Review and present the results from software tests to meet a client’s needs
- Suggest improvements based on the results from software tests to meet a client’s needs
The Internet of ThingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine systems that form part of the Internet of Things
- Examine services that form part of the Internet of Things
- Develop a design for an Internet of Things system to solve a problem
- Develop a design for an Internet of Things device to solve a problem
- Carry out the prototyping of an integrated Internet of Things system to solve a problem
- Carry out the prototyping of an integrated Internet of Things device to solve a problem
Using Social Media in BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of social media in business organisations
- Plan social media campaigns for business purposes
- Implement social media campaigns
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of social media campaigns
Website DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of website development
- Plan and design a website
- Develop a functional website
- Test and evaluate a website
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Where these credits take you
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- Analyse and interpret the results of software testing activities
- Design and develop mobile applications for digital content
- Design tests for software products
- Develop Data Models
- Establish and lead IT projects
- Execute the organisation's software testing strategy
- Identify and deal with threat and areas of vulnerability
- Initiate an IT project
Where this can lead
Systems Support Specialist Manager
Your journey as a Manager, Global Systems Support, is just one step on a path that can lead to significant influence and impact, both within our organisation and beyond. We're here to support your growth every step of the way, helping you build the skills and experience to achieve your long-term career aspirations.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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 work in any of these jobs
Learners will investigate the role of big data and business analytics in improving organisational performance and innovation. The unit includes exploring statistical software tools and applying data analysis techniques to meet organisational needs.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Information Technology
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Big Data and Business Analytics
- Business Process Modelling Tools
- Cloud Storage and Collaboration Tools
- Computer Games Development
- Creating Systems to Manage Information
- Customising and Integrating Applications
and 14 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
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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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