Essential Digital Skills - BTEC Award in Pre-Vocational Studies (Beginners)

About this course

This qualification-based course introduces essential digital skills through tutor-led demonstrations, walkthroughs and practical activities. Learners practise navigating digital interfaces, creating, saving and printing documents, and using Microsoft 365 tools for editing and formatting. Activities include spellcheck, cut and paste, inserting images, designing posters and producing a simple digital document such as a personal budget sheet. Assessment is based on a portfolio of digital tasks, supported by worksheets, projects, tutor observation and feedback. Learners also examine how information is presented in different documents and contribute to planning and working towards agreed targets.

What you'll learn

• Create, save and print a basic digital document
• Use Microsoft 365 tools to edit and format text
• Apply functions such as spellcheck, cut and paste, image insertion and page formatting
• Identify how information is presented in different types of documents
• Select relevant information and produce a simple document with support
• Complete portfolio tasks involving planning, target-setting and basic problem-solving

Is this course right for you?

The course is intended for beginners, including learners returning to learning, and does not require previous digital experience. Teaching combines demonstrations, guided tasks, portfolio work and group collaboration. Basic literacy and numeracy are recommended for the course activities and assessment.

• Leads to a Pearson BTEC Pre-Vocational qualification
• Assessment involves completing a portfolio of digital tasks
• Learners receive support and feedback during practical work

Before you go

• Bring a mobile phone to set up multi-factor authentication for use of the college computers.
• Basic literacy and numeracy are recommended.