Mode of study: Online, self-paced

Indicative study hours: 8 to 10 hours per week

Duration: 14 to 18 weeks. This is indicative. You can finish sooner if you study for more hours each week.

Course fee: Contact the centre for pricing

Guided learning hours: 100

Total qualification time: 130

Credit value: 13

Grading: Achieved / Not yet achieved

• Age: minimum 16 years
• Work experience: none required. The practice tasks and assignments give you a workplace setting to work in.
• Qualifications: no formal qualifications required. A Level 1 digital qualification is helpful but not essential.
• Language skills: good reading and writing in English. All assessed work is completed in English.
• Basic skills: basic computer skills and internet access.
• AI tool: access to a general AI assistant. A free account is suitable.

The course suits:

• people who use AI tools regularly at work and are responsible for checking or signing off what those tools produce;
• team leaders, supervisors and managers who decide how AI is used in their team;
• staff in roles where errors carry weight, such as:
  • HR;
  • recruitment;
  • customer service;
  • health and social care;
  • education;
  • finance and administration;
• people looking for work or changing career who want the larger of the two accredited AI qualifications;
• learners who have completed the Level 2 Award and want to go further.

The Certificate shows an employer that you can:

• use AI tools;
• judge their output;
• keep your skills current.

NCFE names these sectors in particular:

• business and administration;
• health and social care;
• education and training;
• marketing;
• media;
• engineering;
• HR;
• recruitment.

After this qualification you could progress to:

• Level 2 or Level 3 qualifications in cyber security;
• Level 2 data qualifications;
• Level 2 digital qualifications.

You are assessed through a portfolio of evidence. There are no exams.

• The assignments are set in a fictional workplace. They combine short written answers with practical tasks in which you use an AI tool and show your prompts, the tool’s outputs, your checks and edits, and the result.
• Unit 06 includes a short self-assessment and an action plan for your own AI skills.
• A Nexsy assessor marks every assessment criterion as achieved or not yet achieved and gives you written feedback.
• If a criterion is not yet achieved, you can resubmit until every criterion is achieved.
• You sign a declaration that the work is your own, including where and how you used AI.
• Your portfolio is internally quality assured by Nexsy Academy and externally quality assured by NCFE.
• If you achieve some units but not all, you can request a certificate for the units you have achieved.