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 Gateway Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Gateway Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Gateway Qualifications Limited.
The Level 3 Diploma in Software Development prepares learners for employment in various roles within the digital technology sector. It also facilitates progression to higher-level qualifications in the same or related areas. Learners will develop skills in areas such as project management, JavaScript, and object-oriented programming.
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. 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 Gateway Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Gateway Qualifications Limited 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
JavaScript Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of JavaScript in web development.
- Use JavaScript in web pages.
Maths for Computing Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply matrix methods.
- Apply sequences and series, probability and recursion.
- Apply number systems.
- Interpret data.
Object Oriented Programming Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of object oriented programming.
- Use tools and techniques of an object oriented programming language.
- Design and develop an object oriented program to meet requirements.
- Test and document an object oriented program.
Programming Implementation Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand programming languages.
- Understand how programming is implemented.
- Understand the importance of good programming practices.
- Understand functional and non- functional requirements in programming.
Project Management Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of project management and the methodologies used by organisations to manage IT projects.
- Use project management software to plan an IT project.
- Use project management software to monitor and review an IT project.
Robot Technology Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the operating, design and control principles of different types of robots.
- Understand the legal and ethical issues in the development and use of robots.
- Design and develop an operating program for a robot.
- Understand hazards and health, safety and maintenance requirements associated with robots.
Software Testing Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand software testing.
- Develop and implement a test plan.
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
Architect Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions
- Standard
Develop and Deploy Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Solutions
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 17 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Robotics Technician
This work can lead to senior roles designing subsystems and mentoring others, or specialist roles focused on areas like perception systems.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited 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
JavaScriptMaths for ComputingObject Oriented ProgrammingProgramming ImplementationProject ManagementRobot TechnologySoftware Testing
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Programming Implementation” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Lead it Apply
“Project Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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 JavaScript, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will understand the role of JavaScript in web development and develop practical skills to use JavaScript for input validation, dynamic content display, object manipulation, and adding special effects within web pages.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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.
Built for Gateway Qualifications Level 3 Diploma in Software Development
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.
- JavaScript
- Maths for Computing
- Object Oriented Programming
- Programming Implementation
- Project Management
- Robot Technology
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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