BTEC LEVEL 3 INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Student Expectations &
Induction for 2023
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WELCOME TO THE BTEC
EXTENDED CERTIFICATE
IN IT AT HNC
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WELCOME ACTIVITY
In our first unit we will be looking at social media in business.
On your whiteboard write down a caption for this Instagram post and
tell me how you made it engaging.
Time – 5 minutes.
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TEAMS
Extended Certificate in IT
Year 12
• Moonisha Patel – based in Business office – email or teams
Year 13
• Aisha Ahmed – based in Business office – email or teams
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HNC EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL LESSONS
To enter any classroom, you must;
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Ensure you are wearing a badge, or a temporary badge
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Remove coats, hats, hoods and earphones
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Set your phone to silent and put it out of sight
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Unlidded drinks and food are not allowed in classrooms.
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Badges should be always clearly visible when on the College campus. Please do
not remove in lessons without explicit request from classroom teacher.
If you are late, you must knock and wait.
• The teacher will let you know when you can enter the room, so that the learning
of others is not disrupted.
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YOUR COURSE
You are studying…
• Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate in Information Technology
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Two-year course
360 GLH
1 A level Equivalent
• Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Information Technology
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Two-year course
720 GLH
2 A level Equivalent
• Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Information Technology
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Two-year course
1080 GLH (510 GLH in year 1)
3 A level Equivalent
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YEAR 13 UNITS - EXTENDED CERTIFICATE
• Unit 3 – Using Social Media in Business - 90 hours – Internal assessment (Mandatory)
• Unit 2 – Creating systems to manage information – 90 hours – Externally assessed (Mandatory)
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YEAR 12 UNITS - EXTENDED CERTIFICATE
• Unit 6 – Website development – 60 hours – Internal assessment (Optional)
• Unit 1 – Information Technology Solutions – 120 hours - Externally assessed (Mandatory)
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WHERE EVERYTHING IS…
1. Student Portal
The student portal is the one stop shop for ALL your online college needs
• You can access this in a few different ways.
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Visit https://portal.huddnewcoll.ac.uk/
Open the Edge Browser and click the ‘chain link icon’ in the top left of the home screen then select
Student Portal
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WHERE EVERYTHING IS…
1. Student Portal continued
Moodle
• All learning resources for the course
Email
• Your professional communication tool
Cedar
• Course work grades,
• Attendance
• Course Tracking
• Etc.
Office 365
• Access to ALL Office Software
• OneDrive
• Etc.
MS Teams
• Communication
• Lesson Activities and Homework
• Course work tracking
Growing your digital skills!
• Learn the basics of all HNCs online systems
• Develop tools for learning and your CV!
NOTE: You should be checking your email and
teams messages AT LEAST once per day!
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WHERE EVERYTHING IS…
2. VLE (Moodle)
• All of your class resources are on the internal VLE (Moodle)
• You can access this in three ways.
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Student Portal > Moodle (As seen earlier)
Open the Edge Browser, Login and go to ‘My Courses’ > BTEC L3 IT RQF
Through MS Teams > Your Course Team > General Channel > Moodle
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WHERE EVERYTHING IS…
3. Home page and Student Handbook
• In MS Teams Click on the first link – Home page – scroll down, this will give you access to the
Student Handbook link
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