Mode of study: Online, self-paced

Indicative study hours: 6 to 8 hours per week

Duration: 10 to 14 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: 60

Total qualification time: 80

Credit value: 8

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:

• anyone who uses AI tools at work, or will soon be asked to, and wants a recognised standard for doing it well;
• staff and team leaders in roles such as:
  • office and administration;
  • customer service;
  • HR and recruitment;
  • marketing;
  • education;
  • health and social care;
• people looking for work or returning to work who want an accredited AI qualification on their CV;
• employers who want their staff to share a common, accredited standard for using AI.

Knowing how to use AI responsibly is now useful in most jobs. 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:

• the NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Workplace. It contains the same four units and adds two more, on human oversight of AI and on keeping your AI skills up to date;
• 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.

• Each unit has one assignment, set in a fictional workplace. It combines short written answers with practical tasks in which you use an AI tool and show your prompts, the tool’s outputs and your review of them.
• 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.