Essential Digital Skills

Overview

The Essential Digital Skills course is designed to help you improve basic IT skills for your daily life and work.

You will learn to use digital devices, create and edit content and documents, communicate and shop online, and be safe from scams.

Entry Requirements

• • Adults (aged 19 and above)
• • Have the legal right to live and work in the UK

Before starting, you will need to complete

• • An Initial Assessment to assess your skill level
• • An Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) session with us

Progression

By achieving these qualifications, you may be able to progress:

• • To the next level of the programme (e.g. from Entry 2 to Entry 3 or from Entry 3 to Level 1)
• • To another course
• • To employment (dependent on prior qualifications and experience)
• • Or to other vocational career paths, such as apprenticeships or volunteering opportunities (also depending on your qualifications and experience)

At the end of the course, you will have increased your confidence, motivation and the skills you need to be a valuable member within your community, in the workplace and/or in any further learning.

In this course, you will learn to:

• • Identify different parts of a computer, switch a computer on/off and use the keyboard and mouse
• • How to use software applications for a purpose
• • Use a computer safely to minimise physical stress
• • Understand how to keep information secure and how to protect yourself online
• • Use the Internet to search for information, send and receive emails and search for jobs online
• • How to create professional emails and send with attachments
• • Create and edit basic to advance documents, such as CVs and posters
• • Check your work and print it
• • Input data on different database systems such as Excel and Access
• • How to create basic to advance formulas as well as charts

Qualifications you will receive upon completion:

• • Functional Skills in ICT (Entry Level 1 - Entry Level 3)

Progression

By achieving these qualifications, you will be able to progress:

• • To the next level of this programme (e.g. from Entry 2 to Entry 3 or from Entry 3 to Level 1)
• • To employment (dependent on prior qualifications and experience)
• • Or to other vocational career paths, such as apprenticeships or volunteering opportunities (also depending on your qualifications and experience)

At the end of the course, you will have increased your confidence, motivation and the skills you need to be a valuable member within your community, in the workplace and/or in any further learning.

Qualifications & course requirements:

In addition to our Entry Requirements, you should:

• • Have achieved a Functional Skills English Entry Level 3 or a Level 1 certificate
• • Be currently seeking employment and looking for strong new skills to take to the workplace

In this course, you will learn:

• Improving Productivity:
• • Plan and use appropriate IT software for tasks set
• • Complete straightforward tasks with IT and check that tasks have been completed properly


• Word Processing (Microsoft Word):
• • Create, open and save documents e.g. write a letter
• • Work with different templates, enter and change the look of a text/paragraph
• • Add pictures and tables
• • Review different layouts, spell check and print a document


• Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel):
• • Create, open and save worksheets
• • Enter and change the look of a text
• • Use calculations and formula/functions e.g. budgeting
• • Analyse data, create graphs/charts
• • Spell check and print a worksheet


• Presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint):
• • Create, open and save presentation/slideshow
• • Enter and enhance the look of a text
• • Add pictures, videos and charts
• • Use slide animation and slide transitions
• • Spell check, prepare and print a presentation

Qualifications you will receive upon completion:

• • BCS ECDL – IT User Skills Level 1
• • BCS ECDL – IT User Skills Level 2

Progression

By achieving these qualifications, you will be able to progress:

• • To the next level of this programme (from Level 1 to Level 2)
• • To another course (such as a Business IT for Office after completing Level 2)
• • To employment (dependent on prior qualifications and experience)
• • Or to other vocational career paths, such as apprenticeships or volunteering opportunities (also depending on your qualifications and experience)

At the end of the course, you will be able to search and apply for jobs online and you will have increased your confidence, motivation and the skills you need to be a valuable member within your community, in the workplace and/or in any further learning.