e-skills Passport

Key features

1. Framework viewer
This allows you to add custom techniques relevant to your organisation. These may be in specialist or bespoke software or in non-IT related areas such as Health and Safety. If using e-skills Passport to plan and monitor ITQ progress, Sector Specific Units from other qualifications can be imported to build skills profiles suited to your needs.

2. In-house training
e-skills Passport allows you to add training that may be available to learners from within your organisation. For example you may have an in-house training program in operation, such as presentation skills, that you would like to make use of, or would like to suggest to learners.  This training can be added to the e-skills Passport and mapped to the relevant areas of the framework you have defined.

3. Setting targets
Setting learners a target skills profile is a great way of providing them with goals and enables e-skills Passport to identify skills gaps. Targets can be set by job role, or if you are moving towards ITQ in your organisation, the in-built ITQ calculator allows you to quickly and easily design ITQ profiles that meet the requirements of the qualification.

4. Managing users
Managing your users is easy with the tools available to you through the management area known as e-skills Passport Office. As well as being able to add new learners you can: choose which information you gather from each learner the first time they sign in; create teams; assign individuals and managers to teams; and view individual’s details, profiles, and usage statistics.

Managers are able to approve completed self-assessments of learners in their team and view a clear picture of each individual’s current skills, qualifications, progress and targets.

5. Effective reporting tools
With the reporting tools available to you through e-skills Passport Office you can quickly and easily produce graphical and raw data reports. These provide a snapshot of current and target skills levels across the organisation and allow you to identify key skills gap areas for prioritisation.

6. The user experience
Learners using the e-skills Passport find it simple and straight forward to use. Once logged in, they self-assess their current skills in a variety of IT techniques by answering a series of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions to determine their skills level, from inexperienced (very limited skills), to super-user (high skills levels). They then log any previous IT user qualifications already held that could evidence their skills assessment or contribute towards gaining an ITQ.

If a target profile has been assigned to the individual, e-skills Passport will recommend training that could help the learner progress to the target level in that technique. The learner can add recommended learning to their e-skills Passport to build an individual learning plan. All the information is summarised and is downloadable so that the learner and their sponsoring organisation can view their current skills, targets, qualification achievements and learning plan. 

Last modified: 14 Mar 2008