RSL Awards Ltd · RQF Level 2
RSL Level 2 Extended Certificate in Creative Digital Media
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning180 hours
- Units in this qualification26
Awarded by RSL Awards Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
RSL Awards have a complete portfolio of Vocational Qualifications, covering Music, Performing Arts and Creative Digital Media from Levels 1-5.
These are the units RSL Awards 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.
3D AnimationReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Animate existing 3D static imagery for a range of media products
- Animate existing 3D static imagery for a range of media destinations
Careers in Creative Digital MediaReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify career opportunities in creative digital media
- Relate career opportunities to personal aspirations within creative digital media
Creating Digital ArtReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create digital art for a range of media products
- Create digital art for a range of media destinations
Creating Digital Art (Skill Unit)Real unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create digital art using appropriate software and techniques
- Produce digital art suitable for a range of specified media products
- Adapt digital art to meet the requirements of different destinations, such as web, print, or social media
Creating a Social Media CampaignReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use recognised tools to create a social media campaign to promote an identified product, service or event to a specified audience
- Use recognised processes to create a social media campaign to promote an identified product, service or event to a specified audience
Creating a Social Media StrategyReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a social media strategy to promote a product, service or event
- Identify a specified target audience for the social media strategy
- Select appropriate social media platforms to reach the target audience
Creating and Publishing Digital ContentReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise a range of current content creation tools effectively
- Create digital content that aligns with a specific purpose
- Publish digital content using appropriate platforms and methods
Creative Digital Media DestinationsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of how audiences engage with different types of digital media products
- Explain the factors that influence audience engagement with digital media, such as content, design, and platform
- Analyse the reasons why audiences engage with specific digital media products
- Apply knowledge of audience engagement to the creation or modification of digital media products
Designing UX & UIReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design user interfaces (UI) that are visually appealing and easy to navigate
- Design user experiences (UX) that are intuitive and meet user needs
- Apply UI and UX principles to a range of digital media products, such as websites, apps, or games
- Evaluate the effectiveness of UI and UX designs based on user feedback and testing
Digital Audio ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create digital audio for a range of media products
- Create digital audio for a range of media destinations
Digital Games ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop an original digital game idea
- Create a game demo that showcases the core mechanics and features of the game idea
- Tailor the game demo for a specified target audience
Digital Graphics & Graphic DesignReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design digital graphics for a range of media destinations
- Create digital graphics for a range of media destinations
Digital Moving Image ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a digital moving image package
- Ensure the digital moving image package is appropriate for a specific creative digital media product
- Ensure the digital moving image package is appropriate for a specific creative digital media service
Interactive Digital Media ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create an interactive digital media product that meets the specified requirements
- Tailor the interactive digital media product for a clearly defined target audience
Making a WebsiteReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design a website to promote a defined digital media product
- Create a website to promote a defined digital media product
Marketing and Promoting Digital Media ProductsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in marketing a digital media product
- Understand the processes involved in promoting a digital media product
Meeting a Digital Media BriefReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a proposal for a digital media product in response to a brief
- Develop a proposal for a digital media service in response to a brief
- Tailor the proposal to a specified audience
Music Video ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the production of a music video, considering all necessary resources and logistical requirements.
- Produce a music video, adhering to the planned schedule and budget.
- Evaluate the success of the produced music video against pre-defined objectives and target audience response.
- Identify personal strengths demonstrated during the music video production process.
- Identify areas for personal development based on the experiences and challenges encountered during the music video production process.
Photographic Image ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Capture digital photographic images using appropriate equipment and techniques
- Edit and enhance digital photographic images using relevant software
- Produce digital photographic images that meet the specific requirements of a creative digital media product or service
- Select and present photographic images in a suitable format for the intended audience and purpose
Pitching a Digital Media Product or Service IdeaReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a clear and concise pitch for a digital media product idea.
- Develop a clear and concise pitch for a digital media service idea.
- Create an effective plan to realise the digital media product or service idea.
- Present the pitch for the digital media product or service idea, incorporating the realisation plan.
Planning a Creative Digital Media BusinessReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a comprehensive business plan for a specified creative digital media product.
- Develop a comprehensive business plan for a specified creative digital media service.
- Develop a comprehensive business plan for a specified creative digital media event.
Planning a Media EventReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the planning process for a defined media event
- Support the organisation of a defined media event through practical assistance
Podcast ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a podcast
- Produce a podcast
- Identify personal strengths relevant to podcast production
- Identify areas for development relevant to podcast production
Using Social Media PlatformsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess a range of social media platforms to determine their suitability for promoting a specific product, service, or event.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different social media platforms in reaching specified target audiences.
- Determine which social media platforms are the most effective tools to promote an identified product, service or event to specified audiences.
Vlog ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the structure and content of a vlog episode
- Present a vlog episode in a clear and engaging manner
- Edit a vlog episode using appropriate software and techniques
- Deliver a vlog episode in a format suitable for a specified audience and platform
Writing in the Creative Digital Media SectorReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Write effectively for a range of digital media destinations, adapting style and tone to suit the specific platform.
- Tailor written content to meet the requirements of different digital media formats.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of effective writing for digital media.
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 2 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.
- Generate ideas for potential games and interactive media projects
- Monitor and use social media to promote venues and events
- Pitch ideas for editorial content
- Publish digital content for social media channels
- Write Text
- Write and edit copy for games and interactive media projects
Where this can lead
Associate Marketing UX/UI Designer
Your journey here starts with learning and supporting, but the potential for growth is massive. We're investing in you for the long term, and we're excited to see where your career takes you within Zavmo and beyond. It's a challenging but incredibly rewarding path, honestly.
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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
This unit enables learners to animate existing 3D static imagery for various media products and destinations. Learners will apply appropriate animation techniques, explain the animation's purpose, and adapt animations to suit specified media platforms.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for RSL Level 2 Extended Certificate in Creative Digital Media
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by RSL Awards Ltd.
- 3D Animation
- Careers in Creative Digital Media
- Creating Digital Art
- Creating Digital Art (Skill Unit)
- Creating a Social Media Campaign
- Creating a Social Media Strategy
and 20 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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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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