Additional rules and guidance for Essential Digital Skills Qualifications
This document sets out additional rules and guidance for awarding organisations offering Essential Digital Skills Qualifications.
We have developed these rules and guidance with the intention that Essential Digital Skills Qualifications should fulfil the following purposes:
- to enable learners to develop the digital skills they need for life, work, or further study as set out in the National Standards for Essential Digital Skills
- to provide reliable evidence of learners’ attainment in relation to the National Standards for Essential Digital Skills
They build on, and should be read alongside, our rules and guidance for all regulated qualifications.
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Information about these rules and guidance, including when they came into force, and who and what they apply to
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Rules about the content of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications, including how the qualifications should reflect relevant national standards
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Rules and guidance on the application of our general rules to Essential Digital Skills Qualifications, including some general rules which do not apply
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Rules and guidance about assessment strategies for Essential Digital Skills Qualifications
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Rules governing our technical evaluation of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications, both before they are first made available, and on an ongoing basis
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Rules about assigning levels, Guided Learning and Total Qualification Time to Essential Digital Skills Qualifications
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Rules about assessment in Essential Digital Skills Qualifications
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Rules and guidance about setting standards for Essential Digital Skills Qualifications
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Interpreting these rules and guidance, including defined terms