Digital Functional Skills - Entry Level - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

This Digital Functional Skills Entry 3 course is designed for adults who want to build confidence using everyday digital skills. It is suitable if you who have some basic experience but want to improve your understanding in a supportive setting.

The course will help you use a computer for simple tasks, find information online and communicate safely with others.
You will learn how to use email, work with documents and understand how to keep your information safe. Each session will give you time to practise new skills and ask questions.
By the end of the course, you will feel more confident using digital tools at home, at work or in the community.

This course aims to help you take the next step in your digital learning and support you in becoming more independent in daily computer tasks. You will learn and practice along the way and take an exam at the end. You will gain a certificate for this qualification.

Units covered will be:
1. Using devices and handling information
2. Creating and editing
3. Communicating
4. Transacting
5. Being safe and responsible online.

Entry requirements:
No previous formal qualifications are required for entry to this qualification but an interest in computers is needed. Any basic IT skills would be beneficial.

What you will need to bring to the course:
You do not need a computer; you can use the laptops provided.
Feel free to bring a pen and paper to take any notes!

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.