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Basic ICT: Essential Digital Skills
## Course overview Most digital skills courses teach you where the buttons are in one particular program. Then the program updates, the buttons move, and the learner is back where they started believing they are "not good with computers". This course teaches the ideas underneath. What a file actually *is* and where it goes. Why a password manager is safer than a memorable password. How to tell a real message from a scam. What happens when you click "save" — and why you sometimes cannot find the thing afterwards. Understand those and you can work out any program. That is the difference between using a computer and being confident with one. Nothing here assumes prior knowledge, and nothing here treats you as though the difficulty is your fault. Modern software is genuinely confusing and it is designed by people who forgot what not knowing feels like. ## Who this course is for Adults with little or no confidence using digital technology: people returning to work, those whose job has become digital around them, anyone who avoids online tasks and asks family members to do them, and people preparing for an Essential Digital Skills Qualification who want a gentle introduction first. If you already use email, save files and shop online comfortably, this course is below your level. ## How the course is taught Five modules matching the five skill areas of the national standards. Each has three lessons and a knowledge check. Every lesson ends with a **Check your understanding** task you do on your own device, because digital skills are learned by doing rather than by reading. Instructions are given by principle first and by button second, so they still make sense after the next update. ## Assessment Five module knowledge checks and a final assessment at a 70% pass mark, unlimited attempts, with plain-English feedback on every question. ## Recognition and scope — including a free alternative you should know about **This course is not an Ofqual-regulated qualification.** It is an EduQan certificate of completion, verifiable by any employer through our public credential check. **You should know this before buying:** adults in England aged 19 and over with no or low digital skills are entitled to study an **Essential Digital Skills Qualification (EDSQ) free of charge** under the government's statutory digital entitlement, introduced in August 2020. These are Ofqual-regulated qualifications offered by awarding organisations including **BCS, Pearson, OCN London and TLM**, usually through a further education college or adult education provider. If you are eligible, **that free qualification is worth more than this course** and we would rather you knew. Contact your local college and ask about the digital entitlement. This course is genuinely useful if you are **not eligible** for the funding, if you want **self-paced learning at home** rather than a timetabled class, if you want to **build confidence before** joining a class, or if you want the underpinning understanding alongside a qualification. Those are honest reasons. "It replaces the free qualification" is not one. The course is built around the DfE's **national standards for essential digital skills**, which were revised on **15 July 2026** and now describe skills across five levels. This course sits at the foundation end of that framework. ## Progression An EDSQ at Entry Level or Level 1 through your local college. After that, our Data Analysis and Power BI courses build on these foundations, and Customer Service or CV Writing put the digital skills to work.
- Level
- Introductory
- Duration
- 4h 26m
- Price
- £40.00
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Power BI Data Analyst
## Course overview Most Power BI training teaches the buttons. This course teaches the model — because the buttons are easy and the model is where reports go wrong. The pattern is familiar to anyone who has inherited a Power BI file: it worked when it was built, then a second fact table arrived, the totals stopped reconciling, and nobody could say why. That is almost never a visual problem. It is a grain problem, a relationship problem, or a filter-context problem, and all three are decided in the first hour of building a model. You will work through the full path — connecting and cleaning in Power Query, shaping a star schema, writing DAX that behaves predictably under filters, choosing visuals that answer the actual question, then publishing with refresh and row-level security that hold up in front of an audience who did not build it. ## Who this course is for Analysts, reporting officers, finance and operations staff who already work with data — typically in Excel — and need to produce reporting that other people depend on. You should be comfortable with spreadsheets, formulas and the idea of a table of records. No programming background is assumed; DAX is taught from first principles. ## How the course is taught Five modules, each building one layer of a working report. Every lesson ends with a **Check your understanding** prompt for immediate retrieval practice, and every module closes with a graded knowledge check whose questions map to that module's tasks. A final assessment covers the whole build at the end. Concepts are introduced against a single running example — a retailer with sales, returns, stores and a calendar — so each new idea lands on a model you already understand rather than on a fresh abstraction. ## Assessment Five module knowledge checks plus a final assessment, each at a 70% pass mark, with unlimited attempts and worked feedback on every question. Feedback explains *why* an answer is right, because a check that only reports a score tests recall while one that explains teaches. ## Recognition and scope This course is **aligned to** the domains assessed by Microsoft's PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst certification, and is useful preparation for it. It is **not** a Microsoft certification, is not awarded or endorsed by Microsoft, and completing it does not confer PL-300. The exam is booked and sat separately with Microsoft. What you receive here is an EduQan certificate of completion, verifiable by any employer through our public credential check. ## Progression Learners who complete this commonly move on to data modelling at scale, Power Query's M language, or a broader analytics path. It also pairs naturally with our Data Analysis & Data Literacy certificate, which covers the SQL and statistical grounding this course assumes only lightly.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 5h 5m
- Price
- £149.00
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Professional Diploma in Software Development & Web Design
This professional diploma gives you the complete toolkit to become a job-ready software developer. Starting from the absolute basics, you will work through eight structured units covering Python programming, web development fundamentals, responsive design, React front-end development, Node.js back-end development, database design, version control, and a final capstone project. What you will learn: Programming fundamentals with Python Web development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript Responsive and mobile-first web design Front-end development using React.js Back-end development with Node.js and Express Database design with MySQL and MongoDB Version control with Git and GitHub Portfolio development and career readiness Duration: 6 months self-paced | 12 months platform access Projects: 5 core projects including a personal portfolio and a full-stack web application Entry: No prior programming experience required. Basic computer literacy and internet access needed.
- Level
- Introductory
- Duration
- 2h 34m
- Price
- £400.00
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Professional Certificate in Data Analysis & Data Literacy
Data skills are among the most in-demand in today’s job market. This certificate course takes you from data beginner to confident analyst through seven practical units, each built around real workplace scenarios. You will work with Excel, SQL, Tableau and Power BI, and complete a capstone project using real-world data. What you will learn: Data literacy and the data lifecycle Data cleaning and preparation with Excel Advanced Excel analysis: Pivot Tables, formulas and functions SQL for data querying and retrieval Data visualisation with Tableau and Power BI Storytelling with data and presenting insights End-to-end capstone project Duration: 4 months self-paced | 8 months platform access Entry: Basic numeracy required. No prior data analysis experience needed. Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer required.
- Level
- Introductory
- Duration
- 2h 51m
- Price
- £149.00