ECDL courses

[dyarwood]

I have recently started looking into these courses. I do a lot of work with MS Office applications and VBa, SQL coding behind the scenes. I have done a few courses which have given my a very indepth knowledge of office pro. My question is should I consider studying for this qualification? Has anyone had experience of ECDL courses? What level would suit my abilities?

Cheers in advance

dyarwood

 

[sha76]

Been looking into it myself for work. I'll probably end up doing it in the next few months, but mainly as a guinea pig & so I can better support our end users through it. My understanding is that it is geared toward basic end users (ie I don't think it touches on VBA or SQL). I don't think it has levels as such, although you can do a more basic version, which misses out the modules on things like access & powerpoint.
It'd be interesting to here from anyone who has done it.

 

[dyarwood]

I had a look on the 'official ECDL' website and there is a basic, advanced and specialist levels. Think the specialist is more for trainers. I would think that an experienced office pro user would probably do that course or the advanced. Another question I have is what would the modules cover?

 

[sha76]

I've been looking mainly on the NHS site, which I don't think is a restricted one, so you should be able to access it at

http://www.ecdl.nhs.uk,

there's some useful bits & bobs, but you will have to hunt around for them!