Gateway Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 1
Gateway Qualifications Level 1 Certificate in Digital and IT Skills
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- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits15
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification40
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The Level 1 Certificate in Digital and IT Skills introduces learners to fundamental concepts within the digital technology sector. The qualification includes units on cybersecurity, computer-aided design, and networking, suitable for those beginning their journey in IT.
These are the units Gateway Qualifications Limited 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.
Computer-Aided DesignReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain knowledge of CAD software features and functions for 2D and 3D design. This unit covers the importance of complying with national and international drawing standards and teaches you to produce drawings meeting specified requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the features and functions of different CAD software packages
- Explain the importance of complying with national and international drawing standards in CAD
- Use CAD software to produce 2D drawings to meet specified requirements, including dimensions and tolerances
- Use CAD software to produce 3D drawings to meet specified requirements, including visualisation and rendering
Computer-Aided DesignReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit equips learners with knowledge of CAD software features and functions, emphasising compliance with national and international drawing standards. You'll produce 2D and 3D drawings to industry standards for design and manufacturing purposes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features and functions of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software.
- Understand the importance of complying with national and international drawing standards in CAD.
- Produce 2D drawings using CAD software to meet industry standards.
- Produce 3D drawings using CAD software to meet industry standards.
Computerised Accounting SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit extends skills in managing accounting data, including backing up and reconciling data, processing business transactions accurately, and producing customised accounting documents and summary reports using computerised accounting software.
What you'll be able to do
- Manage accounting data effectively
- Process business transactions accurately
- Produce accounting documents in a clear and concise manner
- Produce summary reports that are informative and easy to understand
Computerised Accounting SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit covers managing accounting data, processing business transactions, and producing accounting documents using computerised accounting software. You'll learn to input, store, retrieve, and present accounting information accurately and securely.
What you'll be able to do
- Manage accounting data effectively
- Process business transactions accurately
- Produce accounting documents in a clear and concise manner
- Produce summary reports that are informative and easy to understand
CybersecurityReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity principles, including security protection, risk management, and current threats to IT systems and data. They will explore legal and ethical requirements and implement measures to safeguard IT environments.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand security protection issues relating to IT systems and data
- Understand risk management issues relating to IT systems and data
- Understand measures to protect IT systems and data from current threats
- Understand measures to protect IT systems and data from evolving threats
- Implement measures to protect IT systems
- Implement measures to protect data
- Understand current legal requirements relating to IT security
- Understand current ethical requirements relating to IT security
- Understand IT security policies
- Understand IT security procedures
CybersecurityReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with foundational knowledge of cybercrime, including types of threats and their impacts. You'll understand protective cybersecurity methods and relevant legislation and codes of conduct to maintain security in digital environments.
What you'll be able to do
- Define cybercrime and describe different types of cyber threats
- Explain protective methods to maintain cybersecurity, including firewalls, antivirus software, and password management
- Describe legislation and codes of conduct related to cybersecurity, including data protection laws and ethical hacking guidelines
Database Design and DevelopementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit covers database structures and principles, enabling learners to design, develop, and test relational databases, analyse and present data, and review databases to identify potential improvements.
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the structure, components and underlying principles of databases, including relational database management systems
- Utilise database tools and techniques to design, develop, and rigorously test a relational database that effectively meets specified requirements
- Use appropriate database techniques to analyse data and present findings in a clear and understandable format
- Critically review a relational database, identifying potential issues and suggesting improvements to its design and functionality
Database SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the use of database software tools to enter, edit, and organise routine data accurately. You'll learn to retrieve and print database records to meet specific requirements, alongside understanding key features, data types, and the importance of data validation and integrity.
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively use database software tools to accurately enter, edit, and organise routine data.
- Retrieve and print specific database records in order to meet clearly defined requirements.
Desktop Publishing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to create publications tailored to a specified purpose and audience using desktop publishing software, manipulate content to enhance the publication, and proofread and prepare it for printing.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a publication to meet a specified purpose
- Create a publication that is appropriate for a specified audience
- Manipulate content to enhance a publication
- Proof a publication
- Print a publication
Desktop Publishing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll learn to create publications for various purposes and audiences using desktop publishing software, manipulate content to enhance design, and proofread and print publications effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a range of publications using desktop publishing software, considering different purposes and target audiences
- Select appropriate templates and layouts for different types of publications
- Incorporate text, images, and other multimedia elements into publications
- Manipulate text content within publications to enhance readability and visual appeal
- Manipulate images and graphics within publications to improve their impact and effectiveness
- Apply design principles to enhance the overall appearance and effectiveness of publications
- Proofread publications to identify and correct errors in spelling, grammar, and layout
- Print publications using appropriate settings to achieve the desired output quality
Diary ManagementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll learn to use online calendar software to manage appointments and schedules, including creating, editing, deleting, and sharing calendar entries while controlling access and preferences.
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively use online calendar software to manage appointments and schedules
- Accurately manage calendar entries, including creating, editing, and deleting appointments
- Manage and share calendars with others, controlling access and permissions as required
Digital GraphicsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of digital graphics principles and software applications. You'll plan, develop, review, and refine bitmap and vector graphics in response to a client brief, applying appropriate techniques to meet design specifications.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning digital graphics creation and manipulation.
- Plan design ideas for bitmap digital graphics in response to a given client brief, considering target audience and purpose.
- Plan design ideas for vector digital graphics in response to a given client brief, considering target audience and purpose.
- Develop bitmap digital graphics according to the planned design, utilising appropriate software and techniques.
- Develop vector digital graphics according to the planned design, utilising appropriate software and techniques.
- Review bitmap digital graphics against the original client brief and design specifications.
- Refine bitmap digital graphics based on the review, making necessary adjustments to improve quality and meet requirements.
- Review vector digital graphics against the original client brief and design specifications.
- Refine vector digital graphics based on the review, making necessary adjustments to improve quality and meet requirements.
Digital GraphicsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand digital graphics principles and develop skills to plan, create, and review digital graphics projects that meet client requirements using appropriate software and techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts and principles of digital graphics
- Plan digital graphics projects effectively to meet specific client requirements and objectives
- Create digital graphics using appropriate software and techniques
- Review digital graphics, identifying areas for improvement and ensuring they meet the required standards
Digital Skills Career ProgressionReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to identify digital skills valued by employers, understand their application in different job roles, and produce a digital skills development plan to support career progression and employability goals.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the digital skills that are highly valued by employers in various industries
- Describe the importance of digital skills for career advancement and employability
- Identify the specific digital skills required in different job roles within the digital sector
- Explain how digital skills contribute to effective performance in various job roles
- Produce a digital skills development plan that aligns with intended career or progression goals
- Set realistic and achievable goals for improving specific digital skills
- Identify resources and opportunities for developing digital skills, such as online courses, workshops, and mentoring programmes
- Outline a timeline for achieving the goals outlined in the digital skills development plan
Digital Skills ProjectReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll learn to propose, plan, develop, present, and review a digital skills project. This unit covers project management, digital tool utilisation, and effective communication to achieve and evaluate project outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- Propose ideas for a digital skills project, demonstrating creativity and feasibility
- Plan a digital skills project, including defining objectives, scope, and resources
- Develop a digital skills project to meet proposal requirements, utilising appropriate tools and techniques
- Present a digital skills project, communicating key features and benefits effectively
- Review a digital skills project, evaluating its success against objectives and identifying areas for improvement
Digital Skills ProjectReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to identify, plan, research, develop, present, and evaluate a digital skills project aligned with personal interests and learning objectives, applying appropriate digital tools and techniques throughout the project lifecycle.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a suitable digital skills project based on personal interests and learning objectives
- Select appropriate resources and tools for the chosen digital skills project
- Plan the stages and activities required to complete the digital skills project within a given timeframe
- Carry out research to gather information and insights relevant to the digital skills project
- Analyse research findings to inform the development of the digital skills project
- Undertake practical activities to develop the digital skills project, applying relevant digital tools and techniques
- Document the development process of the digital skills project, including challenges faced and solutions implemented
- Present the completed digital skills project to an audience, demonstrating acquired skills and knowledge
- Evaluate the success of the digital skills project against the initial plan and objectives
- Reflect on the learning experience and identify areas for further development of digital skills
Games Design and DevelopmentReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll explore the purpose, types, and platforms of computer games, generate and plan game design ideas, develop and present a game prototype, and review the design and prototype for improvements.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the purpose of computer games
- Identify different types of computer games
- Identify different platforms for computer games
- Generate ideas for a game design
- Plan a game design effectively
- Develop a game prototype
- Present a game prototype clearly
- Review the computer game design, identifying areas for improvement
- Review the game prototype, identifying areas for improvement
Games Design and DevelopmentReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the understanding of different computer game types and platforms. You'll design, develop, test, and review a computer game based on a client brief, applying knowledge of gameplay, storyline, user interface, and target audience considerations.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of computer games available, including their genres, platforms, and target audiences.
- Design a computer game in response to a client brief, considering gameplay, storyline, and target audience.
- Develop a computer game based on the design, utilising appropriate software and tools.
- Test a computer game to identify and resolve any bugs or issues.
- Review a computer game to evaluate its overall quality, gameplay, and adherence to the original design brief.
IT Support FundamentalsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain foundational knowledge of IT systems, including hardware and software components, and the role of IT support within organisations. They will develop practical skills to install, update, and test hardware and software to diagnose and resolve common IT problems.
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the different types of hardware and software components that make up IT systems.
- Know about the role and responsibilities of IT Support within an organisation, including service provision and problem resolution.
- Install and update hardware and software components to effectively support user needs and maintain system functionality.
- Perform hardware and software tests to diagnose and resolve common IT problems, ensuring minimal disruption to users.
IT Technical SupportReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand the role of IT support within organisations, diagnose IT faults using troubleshooting techniques, and install, configure, and test hardware and software components to meet user requirements in IT systems and mobile devices.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the role of IT support within different types of organisations
- Explain the procedures used when diagnosing IT faults, including troubleshooting techniques
- Install hardware components in IT systems according to given specifications and user requirements
- Configure hardware components in IT systems to ensure optimal performance and compatibility
- Test hardware installations in IT systems to verify functionality and meet user requirements
- Install software applications in IT systems and mobile devices according to given specifications and user requirements
- Configure software applications in IT systems and mobile devices to meet user requirements
- Test software installations in IT systems and mobile devices to verify functionality and meet user requirements
- Apply safety measures to IT systems and mobile devices to prevent damage and ensure user safety
- Apply security measures to IT systems and mobile devices to protect data and prevent unauthorised access
Interactive MediaReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain an understanding of interactive media products, including their characteristics and applications across sectors. They will develop skills to design, develop, test, and review interactive media products in response to a design brief, considering user interaction and target audience needs.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and applications of various interactive media products.
- Design an interactive media product in response to a given design brief, considering target audience and objectives.
- Develop and rigorously test an interactive media product to ensure it functions as intended.
- Review an interactive media product, evaluating its effectiveness and identifying areas for improvement.
Interactive MediaReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand interactive media products, their characteristics, and applications. It develops skills to design, develop, test, refine, and review interactive media products in response to a design brief, considering user needs and technical constraints.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and applications of different interactive media products.
- Design an interactive media product based on a given design brief, considering user needs and technical constraints.
- Develop an interactive media product using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Test the functionality and usability of an interactive media product.
- Review and refine an interactive media product based on testing and feedback.
Introduction to NetworkingReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit introduces learners to networking fundamentals, including network types, features, and uses. You'll design, develop, test, and review networks to meet user requirements, ensuring performance, security, and identifying areas for improvement.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the features of different types of networks, including LANs, WANs, and wireless networks
- Explain the uses of networks in various contexts, such as home, business, and education
- Design a network to meet user requirements, considering factors such as bandwidth, security, and scalability
- Develop a network according to the design specifications, configuring hardware and software components
- Test a network to ensure it meets performance and security requirements
- Review a network, identifying areas for improvement and recommending modifications
Introduction to ProgrammingReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit introduces the basic principles of programming, enabling learners to design, develop, test, document, and review simple computer programs using graphic-based programming languages, focusing on programming constructs and client requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the basic principles of programming
- Design a simple computer program in response to a client brief
- Develop the program using a graphic-based programming language
- Test the program thoroughly
- Document the program clearly
- Review the program, identifying areas for improvement
NetworkingReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of network components, protocols, and applications. You'll learn to configure secure networks, implement security measures, troubleshoot issues, and review network performance and security.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function of different network components, protocols, and applications.
- Configure a secure network, implementing appropriate security measures.
- Troubleshoot common network issues and identify potential solutions.
- Review a network's performance and security, suggesting improvements.
Photo Editing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll use photo editing software to adjust, modify, and prepare digital images for specific purposes, including optimising image properties and file formats for web and print applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Use photo editing software for a specific purpose
- Adjust digital images to meet requirements
- Modify digital images to meet requirements
- Prepare digital images to meet requirements
Photo Editing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to proficiently use photo editing software to adjust, modify, and prepare digital images for specific purposes, ensuring images meet required dimensions and quality standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Use photo editing software proficiently for a specific, defined purpose
- Adjust, modify, and prepare digital images to meet specific requirements, ensuring they are suitable for their intended use
Presentation SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to create, layout, edit, and format presentations for different purposes and audiences using presentation software, effectively applying slide layouts, transitions, and animations.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a presentation for different purposes
- Create a presentation for different audiences
- Layout presentations
- Edit presentations
- Format presentations
Presentation SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit develops learners' skills to create, amend, edit, and format presentations using presentation software. You'll tailor presentations for different purposes and audiences, ensuring accessibility and visual appeal.
What you'll be able to do
- Create a presentation suitable for different purposes
- Create a presentation suitable for different audiences
- Amend the layout of a presentation to ensure accessibility
- Edit a presentation to ensure accessibility
- Format a presentation to ensure accessibility
Social Media MarketingReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand the role and benefits of social media marketing, how campaigns engage target audiences, and develop proposals for social media marketing campaigns to promote products or services.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and importance of social media marketing in contemporary business
- Understand how social media marketing campaigns can be strategically used to effectively engage target audiences
- Create a comprehensive proposal for a social media marketing campaign designed to promote a specific product or service
Social Media MarketingReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll develop knowledge of social media marketing concepts, platforms, and audience engagement strategies. They will plan social media marketing activities to promote products or services, taking into account platform characteristics and marketing objectives.
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key concepts and terminology associated with social media marketing.
- Know the different social media platforms and their respective audiences.
- Know how social media marketing can be used to engage with audiences and build relationships.
- Know how social media marketing can be used to promote products or services.
- Plan social media marketing activities to promote a specific product or service, considering target audience and marketing objectives.
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand the features and functions of spreadsheet software and its use in organising and analysing data. They will create spreadsheets to improve productivity and review and refine them to enhance usability and accuracy.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features and functions of spreadsheet software applications.
- Understand how spreadsheets are used in various contexts to organise, analyse, and present data.
- Create a spreadsheet using appropriate software to improve productivity in a given task.
- Review a spreadsheet for accuracy, clarity, and functionality.
- Refine a spreadsheet to improve usability, ensuring it is easy to navigate and understand.
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to understand the purposes and features of spreadsheet software. You'll create spreadsheets tailored to specific requirements and review them to ensure accuracy, fitness for purpose, and effective data analysis and organisation.
What you'll be able to do
- Know how spreadsheet software can be effectively used for a variety of different purposes and applications.
- Create spreadsheets tailored to meet specific requirements and achieve different purposes.
- Review spreadsheets critically to ensure they are fit for purpose, accurate, and meet user needs.
Using Digital TechnologiesReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll explore the role and impact of digital technologies in society. It develops skills to interact with digital services and online document systems for specific purposes, and to communicate effectively while adhering to data protection and ethical considerations.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact and role of digital technologies in contemporary society.
- Interact effectively with digital services for specific purposes, demonstrating appropriate online behaviour.
- Engage with online document systems to complete tasks, adhering to data protection guidelines.
- Interact and engage with digital communications for specific purposes, demonstrating effective communication skills.
Using Digital TechnologiesReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain an understanding of digital technologies and their applications in everyday life. It develops skills to use digital services for accessing information, communication, and completing transactions effectively and securely.
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different types of digital technologies and their applications.
- Use digital services effectively for a range of purposes.
- Use online document systems to create, edit, and share documents.
Virtual MeetingsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to set up, schedule, host, and manage virtual meetings using appropriate software and tools. You'll develop skills in facilitating communication, controlling access, and contributing effectively to achieve meeting objectives.
What you'll be able to do
- Set up and schedule virtual meetings using appropriate software and tools.
- Host virtual meetings, ensuring effective communication and participation.
- Participate in virtual meetings, contributing to discussions and achieving meeting objectives.
- Manage virtual meetings, including controlling access, muting participants, and sharing content.
Website DesignReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain knowledge of website uses and features and develop skills to design, create, test, and review websites for specified audiences and purposes, utilising website building tools and ensuring usability.
What you'll be able to do
- Know the uses of websites
- Know the features of websites
- Design a website for a specified audience
- Design a website for a specified purpose
- Create a website
- Test a website
- Review a website
Website Design and DevelopmentReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of website design and development principles, enabling them to design, plan, create, test, and refine functional websites that meet client briefs and are suitable for specified audiences and purposes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of website design and development.
- Design a website that is appropriate for a specified audience and purpose.
- Produce comprehensive planning documentation for a website in direct response to a client brief.
- Create a functional website using appropriate technologies and techniques.
- Thoroughly test, review, and refine a website to ensure optimal functionality and usability.
Word Processing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll learn to edit, format, and arrange information in word processed documents, modify styles and layouts to enhance presentation, and proofread and print documents to ensure accuracy and clarity.
What you'll be able to do
- Edit information within word processed documents to ensure accuracy and clarity
- Format information within word processed documents using appropriate styles and layouts
- Arrange information within word processed documents to create a logical and visually appealing structure for specific purposes
- Modify the style of word processed documents to enhance readability and visual impact
- Modify the layout of word processed documents to improve presentation and meet specific requirements
- Proofread documents to identify and correct errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Print documents using appropriate settings to achieve the desired output quality
Word Processing SoftwareReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit develops learners' ability to create and edit word processed documents for specific purposes, modify styles and layouts to improve presentation, and proofread and print documents using appropriate software features.
What you'll be able to do
- Create information within word processed documents for specific purposes
- Edit information within word processed documents for specific purposes
- Modify style to enhance document presentation
- Modify layout to enhance document presentation
- Proof documents
- Print documents
The honest bit
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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.
Computer-Aided DesignComputer-Aided DesignComputerised Accounting SoftwareComputerised Accounting SoftwareCybersecurityCybersecurityDatabase Design and DevelopementDatabase Software
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Gateway Qualifications Level 1 Certificate in Digital and IT Skills
- Create Digital Presentations
- Develop skills and competencies about social media channels and digital platforms
- Edit and enhance images using a digital kiosk
Where this can lead
IT Support Technician
Your journey here starts with helping people, but where it goes is really up to you. We'll give you the tools, the training, and the opportunities to explore different paths within IT. The most important thing is your willingness to learn and your drive to make things better for our users.
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Skills it covers
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Create Digital PresentationsDevelop skills and competencies about social media channels and digital platformsEdit and enhance images using a digital kiosk
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.
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Which job do you mean?
Learners will gain knowledge of CAD software features and functions for 2D and 3D design. This unit covers the importance of complying with national and international drawing standards and enables learners to produce drawings meeting specified requirements.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Gateway Qualifications Level 1 Certificate in Digital and IT Skills
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computerised Accounting Software
- Cybersecurity
- Database Design and Developement
- Database Software
- Desktop Publishing Software
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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.