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Office & Administration

Running an office smoothly: documents, spreadsheets, scheduling, records, correspondence and business systems.

Area status: Open — early accessStarter → Proficient

Open to learners today. New and still being improved. Tell us if anything is unclear.

At a glance

  • 3 training programmes
  • Levels: Starter → Proficient
  • Used in 7 seed pathways
  • 11 skills

Training in this area

3 training programmes

Each programme shows its own status. Planned modules are an outline and may change before they are built and reviewed.

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Office Skills

Documents, spreadsheets, slides and sharing, on a phone or a computer, with free tools.

  • Level range: Starter → Proficient
  • No related pathway yet
  • About 7 hours (estimate)

Units

  1. Your Free Office Tools
  2. Your First Document
  3. Make It Look Professional
  4. A CV That Gets Read
  5. Spreadsheets 1 — Rows, Columns and Clean Data
  6. Spreadsheets 2 — Totals and Simple Formulas
  7. Spreadsheets 3 — Sort, Filter and One Chart
  8. A Five-Slide Pitch
  9. Share and Work Together
  10. Office Skills Practical Project (reviewed practical assessment)

What you’ll practise

  • Formatting a quote so a customer takes it seriously
  • Writing a one-page CV for a real advert
  • Totalling a monthly budget with formulas
  • Building a five-slide pitch
  • Sharing a document with view-only access

Skills

  • Choosing and setting up free office tools
  • Saving, naming and finding work
  • Documents and word processing
  • Putting together a CV that gets read
  • Spreadsheet basics
  • Spreadsheet formulas
  • Building a short, clear presentation
  • Sharing work safely and working together

Best after: Digital Foundations

Status: Planned

Office Administration Essentials

The core of office work: documents and templates, correspondence, calendars, filing and records, and business systems.

  • Level range: Starter → Capable
  • 4 related pathways

Planned modules

  1. Documents and templates
  2. Email and correspondence
  3. Calendars and scheduling
  4. Filing and records
  5. Working with business systems

What you’ll practise

  • Formatting a letter from a template
  • Rescheduling a meeting for several people
  • Setting up a records folder structure

Skills

  • Documents and word processing
  • Email communication
  • Calendars and scheduling
  • Filing and records
  • Spreadsheet basics

Best after: Digital Foundations

Status: Planned

Spreadsheet Foundations

Build tidy, reliable spreadsheets: entering and formatting data, simple formulas, sorting and filtering, using examples from your own kind of work.

  • Level range: Starter → Capable
  • 6 related pathways

Planned modules

  1. Rows, columns and cells
  2. Entering and formatting data
  3. Simple formulas
  4. Sorting and filtering
  5. A tidy, readable sheet

What you’ll practise

  • Building a small list with totals
  • Fixing a broken formula
  • Sorting and filtering a list

Skills

  • Spreadsheet basics
  • Spreadsheet formulas

Best after: Digital Foundations

Examples adapt to your work: the same skills, with examples for farmer, office administrator, business owner.

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Before you start: some programmes here build on Digital Foundations.

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Current availability

Open — early access

  • Open — early accessOpen to learners today. New and still being improved. Tell us if anything is unclear. 1 training programmes
  • PlannedDesigned and scheduled, not yet in development. 2 training programmes

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