What is the deal with Vision2learn?

Flyonthewall

teamshepherd wrote: »

And this ends up being an accredited and recognized certification in UK?
If that's the case then awesome!

Yep.

"Creating Careers is now the UK’s leading company developing and supplying accredited e-learning to the Further Education sector through its vision2learn brand – the UK’s first and only complete, integrated and accredited e-learning service designed specifically for the FE sector in England. Vision2learn’s vocational qualifications are suitable for people aged 19+ and as they lead to national qualifications are eligible for government funding in England."

https://www.vision2learn.com/about-us.aspx

LushesFaith

I did a Level 2 Business and Administration course. Was given extra time to complete. I was also told of when my certificate would arrive and it did. I plan to try another course as soon as

juno

I've done quite a few courses and think they're great - and I'm fairly sure they helped me get my new job

teamshepherd

LushesFaith wrote: »

I did a Level 2 Business and Administration course. Was given extra time to complete. I was also told of when my certificate would arrive and it did. I plan to try another course as soon as

I was looking into this as well and from their description I don't think I would have a problem completing it, however I am wondering if I need to do Level 1 first? But they don't offer it.
Did you? Or did you have previous experience with this (I don't).

teamshepherd

juno wrote: »

I've done quite a few courses and think they're great - and I'm fairly sure they helped me get my new job

So glad to hear it! I got my enrollment form in post today. Already filled it out and sealed just gotta drop it in the mail now!

Flyonthewall

teamshepherd wrote: »

I was looking into this as well and from their description I don't think I would have a problem completing it, however I am wondering if I need to do Level 1 first? But they don't offer it.
Did you? Or did you have previous experience with this (I don't).

If you have a decent knowledge or better of the Microsoft programmes you'll be fine doing level 2. Level 2 isn't that hard and they have information on their site for you to read through anyway. Just make sure you read the assignment tasks properly and do exactly what it says.

teamshepherd

Flyonthewall wrote: »

If you have a decent knowledge or better of the Microsoft programmes you'll be fine doing level 2. Level 2 isn't that hard and they have information on their site for you to read through anyway. Just make sure you read the assignment tasks properly and do exactly what it says.

Gotcha! I will do that one after I do the IT Level 2 one as I should be starting full time work hopefully in a few weeks so don't want to over load myself.

juno

teamshepherd wrote: »

I was looking into this as well and from their description I don't think I would have a problem completing it, however I am wondering if I need to do Level 1 first? But they don't offer it.
Did you? Or did you have previous experience with this (I don't).

if you already have GCSE or above qualifications then Level 2 will be fine. It doesn't stand for "the second level of the course", but means that the stuff you study will use the same level of skills as gcse work. (If you haven't got GCSEs you can still do it, you'll just find it harder, and if your GCSEs were a long time ago you might feel a bit rusty at first).

But you can submit work multiple times until you get it right. Your tutor will then give hints on what to do - they won't say "the answer is ctrl+alt+delete", but they might say "read page 4, and think about how this might be relevant", or even things like "the question is asking you to explain, so you need to describe how and why this happens".

teamshepherd

juno wrote: »

if you already have GCSE or above qualifications then Level 2 will be fine. It doesn't stand for "the second level of the course", but means that the stuff you study will use the same level of skills as gcse work. (If you haven't got GCSEs you can still do it, you'll just find it harder, and if your GCSEs were a long time ago you might feel a bit rusty at first).

But you can submit work multiple times until you get it right. Your tutor will then give hints on what to do - they won't say "the answer is ctrl+alt+delete", but they might say "read page 4, and think about how this might be relevant", or even things like "the question is asking you to explain, so you need to describe how and why this happens".

I see, that doesn't sound too bad.
I don't have GCSE's as I didn't go to school here so I am not sure if that is like a high school diploma in the US or?
But I think I will be ok!
Thank you for the explanation

juno

teamshepherd wrote: »

I see, that doesn't sound too bad.
I don't have GCSE's as I didn't go to school here so I am not sure if that is like a high school diploma in the US or?
But I think I will be ok!
Thank you for the explanation

I'm not sure on the exact conversion, but if you took exams at age 16 or older they should be fairly similar.