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Course overview
Build your familiarity of working with digital devices, learn new abilities and achieve essential qualifications with our digital skills courses. Our courses give you in-demand skills that help boost your confidence, employment opportunities and study options.
You will experience a friendly environment with expert tutors supporting you every step of the way. Whether you are studying a construction qualification with us, or not, there’s a course for you at Leeds College of Building.
The Essential Digital Skills Qualification is offered at Entry Level 3 in Essential Digital Skills and Level 1 in Essential Digital Skills.
What do the qualifications cover?
Using devices and handling information
This skills area covers a basic understanding of hardware, software, operating systems and commonly used applications.
Students will develop fundamental digital skills by learning how to manage and store information and identify and solve simple technical issues.
Creating and editing
Students will first learn to create and edit documents before moving on to creating and editing other types of digital media, such as images, audio files and videos.
Eventually, students will be taught to use applications to edit, enhance and format different types of information for a range of purposes and audiences.
Communicating
The communication skills area requires students to demonstrate an understanding of electronic communications, such as email and video calls.
Students will gain awareness and be able to use digital communication for a range of contexts and audiences.
Transacting
This skills area involves the ability to complete and submit an online form, comply with digital verification checks, and purchase an item or service online.
Eventually, students will learn to compare products against other available online options and manage their transactional account settings.
Being safe and responsible online
The final skills area is to understand the importance of digital wellbeing, students will learn about being responsible online.
This will involve privacy and data protection, conducting best practice online behaviour, backing up data, and understanding the psychological health risks of online activity.
Assessment information
You will be assessed at the end of the course.
In addition, you will be regularly internally assessed through in class-controlled assessments, which will be used by your tutor to monitor your progress.
Feedback and actions will be provided after each assessment, with online resources available to further develop your weaker skills.
Further information
Please note that courses run subject to minimum viable class sizes.
The course is free however there may be additional costs for books, materials, or other expenses.
To apply today, please complete this form.
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