How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- 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.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
The NOCN Level 5 Certificate aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills required to design solar photovoltaic systems and produce supporting documentation such as feasibility studies.
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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Photovoltaic Systems Design and Development Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components that form a solar photovoltaic system
- Understand the principles of photovoltaic technologies and their applications
- Understand the requirements of a site survey
- Interpret current legislation relevant to photovoltaic systems design
- Understand health and safety considerations in photovoltaic systems design
- Source and interpret final connection requirements to an electrical grid
- Identify and apply methods for producing photovoltaic system designs
- Identify appropriate methods for installing photovoltaic designs
- Understand requirements for testing and commissioning documentation for photovoltaic systems
- Understand operation and maintenance documentation for photovoltaic systems
Producing Photovoltaic Technical Reports and Feasibility Studies Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and requirements of a photovoltaic system technical report
- Produce wiring and module layout diagrams to support a photovoltaic system technical report
- Produce a commercial feasibility study of a photovoltaic system
- Produce a photovoltaic system technical report
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.
- Standard
Develop and agree project designs for Solar PV
The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 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
Photovoltaic Systems Design and DevelopmentProducing Photovoltaic Technical Reports and Feasibility Studies
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 Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Producing Photovoltaic Technical Reports and Feasibility Studies” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Photovoltaic Systems Design and Development” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
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 Photovoltaic Systems Design and Development, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit provides learners with the background to solar photovoltaic systems and the necessary tools to produce system proposals and feasibility studies.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 5 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Engineering
2 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Photovoltaic Systems Design and Development
- Producing Photovoltaic Technical Reports and Feasibility Studies
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