The learning experience of this certificate is organised into five clusters, allowing you to focus intensively on each topic before moving onto the next cluster.

These clusters include:

• Introduction to VET and Work Skill Instruction 
• Introduction to foundation skills (LLN)
  
• Delivery of learning programs
  
• Assessment of learning programs
  
• E-Learning (Design and Assessment) for learning programs.
  

The Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, delivered over 12 months, offers two learning delivery options. Students can opt for face-to-face or online delivery, both of which require scheduled contact hours with your tutor and classmates in addition to self-paced learning.

The Fast-Track Intensive Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, delivered over 6 months, involves a combination of intensive face-to-face teaching workshops and online assessment support sessions.

Learning activities in both the 6 or 12 month course options include discussions, quizzes, peer presentations, small group work, online research tasks, simulations and creating workplace documents. These activities and the participant manual form a core component of the course and the relevant activities will need to be completed prior to the live session each week.

Ongoing assessment throughout this certificate includes written assessments in the form of knowledge questions, case studies, presentations, peer reviews and validation. All assessments are geared towards the theoretical and practical learnings you need to become a qualified VE trainer and assessor.

This certificate is led by highly experienced and qualified trainers who model best practice in training skills.

You will have the opportunity to practise your skills in a supportive environment, as well as applying them in workplace-based assessment projects.

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice.

The typical contact hours (class time) for each learning cluster are:

• Introduction to VET and work skill instruction – 28 hours
  
• Introduction to foundation skills (LLN) – 28 hours
  
• Delivery cluster – 70 hours
  
• Assessment cluster – 77 hours
  
• E-learning cluster – 49 hours.

Enrolment into the 6-month fast-track intensive certificate requires attendance to face-to-face workshops and weekly online support and assessment sessions.  

You may choose to enrol in the 12-month Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as follows:

• face-to-face delivery, which requires one full day of on-campus attendance per week in addition to self-paced online learning

OR

• online delivery, which requires live online participation for two classes per week (generally after work hours), in addition to ongoing self-paced learning.

Please note: face-to-face and online options require scheduled contact hours with your tutor and classmates in addition to self-paced learning.

For each hour of class time, it is expected that students will spend an equal amount of time outside class time working on their assessment tasks, conducting independent research, reading and or any other supporting work that may be appropriate to the course being undertaken.

The knowledge and skills you will acquire throughout this certificate and how they can be applied in your career are described in the learning outcomes.

• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment Fast-Track Intensive

There are 12 units of competency – six are core and compulsory units and there are six prescribed electives.

The units are organised into 5 clusters:

• Introduction to VET and work skill instruction
• Introduction to foundation skills (LLN)
  
• Delivery cluster
  
• Assessment cluster 
  
• E-Learning cluster