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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.

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01What it is

NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.

These are the units NOCN 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.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Advanced Word Processing Real unit · NOCN
This unit develops learners' advanced word processing skills, enabling them to manage document options and settings, apply advanced formatting and styling, create and manage references, perform mail merge operations, and create custom document elements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Manage document options and settings to optimise document creation
  • Design documents with advanced formatting and styling to enhance visual appeal
  • Create and manage advanced references, such as tables of contents and indexes
  • Perform mail merge operations to personalise documents for mass distribution
  • Create custom elements in documents to meet specific needs
Productive Thinking Skills Real unit · NOCN
This unit introduces learners to productivity improvement by understanding its importance and factors contributing to it. You'll identify root causes of issues, use data in improvement projects, and analyse the benefits of such projects within an organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of productivity improvement and its importance in organisational success.
  • Identify the root cause of an issue or problem that is hindering productivity.
  • Understand the use of data collection and analysis in an improvement project to inform decision-making.
  • Understand how to analyse the benefits of an improvement project, including cost savings and efficiency gains.
Word Processing Real unit · NOCN
You'll gain skills to create and manage documents using word processing software. They will format text, paragraphs, and sections, create tables and lists, manage references, and insert and format graphic elements to produce professional documents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create documents using word processing software
  • Manage documents using word processing software
  • Format text within a word processing document
  • Format paragraphs within a word processing document
  • Format sections within a word processing document
  • Create tables within a word processing document
  • Create lists within a word processing document
  • Create references within a word processing document
  • Manage references within a word processing document
  • Insert graphic elements into a word processing document
  • Format graphic elements within a word processing document
By email

Free, by email

Is this the right qualification for you?

One email to help you decide: the facts, what it teaches and where to start free. With a link back here. Nothing else follows unless you confirm your address.

Your employer, or 'self-employed'

Study the units online with a personal AI tutor, for £70 a month. Your first Future Fluency module is free.

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.

  • Create and edit digital documents

    Standard
Still deciding?

One email to help you decide: the facts, what it teaches and where to start free. With a link back here. Nothing else follows unless you confirm your address.

04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN 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

Advanced Word ProcessingProductive Thinking SkillsWord Processing

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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Advanced Word Processing” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Advanced Word Processing” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Advanced Word Processing, one of this qualification's own units.

Advanced Word Processing Level 3

Applied to your own work

This unit develops learners' advanced word processing skills, enabling them to manage document options and settings, apply advanced formatting and styling, create and manage references, perform mail merge operations, and create custom document elements.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

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.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for NOCN Level 3 Award in Digital Productivity Skills - Word Processing

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.

  1. Advanced Word Processing
  2. Productive Thinking Skills
  3. Word Processing
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.

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