Welcome to your online learning hub for your Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship!
On this online platform, you will find:
Your Level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship programme is effectively split into two parts. These can be described as the On Programme Assessment (with Velocity Academy) and the End Point Assessment(with Active IQ). Around 80% of your apprenticeship will be completed with Velocity Academy and the final 20% will be completed with Active IQ. The easiest way to understand this, is to relate your apprenticeship to learning how to drive a car. When you learn to drive a car, you spend the majority of your time with your driving instructor (In this case, Velocity Academy is the Driving Instructor). Then you come to your final assessment and this is completed by an external driving assessor (In this case, Active IQ would be the End-Point Assessor).
Technical knowledge and understanding is assessed on programme through completing work-based assignments. These must be passed before the end point assessment can take place. There are 7 assignments in total within this portfolio for you to complete over the duration of your apprenticeship.
The final, end point assessment is completed in the last few months of the apprenticeship. It is based on:
A Knowledge Test – You will undertake a 50 question, 60 minute online multiple-choice test. This should be passed before you can progress on to the portfolio-based interview and project presentation assessments.
A Project Presentation- The project presentation will be your third and final assessment. You will be required to deliver a 10-15 minute presentation, and then take part in a further 10-15 minute question and answer session. The content of the presentation will be either a project that you have completed or a process that you have improved during your apprenticeship.
A Portfolio Based Interview - The portfolio-based interview is a 30-45 minutes assessment in which you answer questions asked by your Active IQ independent assessor. The content for the interview is based on the Portfolio of Learning.
A Portfolio of Evidence – A portfolio of evidence will be submitted as supporting evidence for your End Point Assessment. This will cover all of the required criteria needed to meet the Business Administrator Standard.
An independent assessor will assess each element of the end point assessment and will then decide whether to award successful apprentices with a pass, a merit or a distinction
Your apprenticeship programme requires you to demonstrate your understanding of a range of technical knowledge criteria which are needed to carry out your job effectively. However, you don’t just need to develop your technical competencies. This knowledge is applied in day-to- day work tasks during which you will be operating in a work environment alongside your colleagues. To put your technical knowledge into practice you also need a broad skill set and a range of behavioural competencies. Business Administrator Behaviours cover a variety of assessment criteria you will find in your Apprenticeship Standard.
This document is going to be used to collect evidence for your apprenticeship portfolio. As highlighted above, your apprenticeship portfolio will be a collection of evidence from real world work projects. These projects have to be completed during your apprenticeship and have to cover all of the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to meet the Level 3 Business Administrator standard. Don’t worry, Velocity Academy has mapped in all of the required criteria to the template work set. So all you have to do is ensure that you evidence the work to a good, quality standard and then you should have everything covered.
Organisations are rarely the same. They each have different elements that affect their behaviour, future planning and resources they use.
Your role is valuable as it helps everyone perform to their maximum potential.
Stakeholders are people who influence or are affected by an organisation
Laws and regulations have a huge effect on the way that business administration is carried out.
It is important that you understand your organisation's internal policies as well as key business policies relating to your sector.
In your administrator role, you will be actively involved in business fundamental aspects.
It's important you understand how your organisation operates, such as processing data and administrating invoices and payment data.
There are a huge number of factors which affect how your business operates and you need to be aware of these.
Most organisations rely on IT to operate efficiently.
Records and business documents include business activities such as meeting minutes, contracts, budgets as well as customer and employee data.
Decision making is an important skill to develop. You need to make decisions when it comes to completing your own tasks.
You use your interpersonal skills to help you build and maintain relationships with members and other people across your organisation.
Good communication skills is vital to working effectively as a business administrator
The quality of the work done by the organisation's employees reflect the quality and standard of the organisation.
To be effective in your role, you need to be organised and plan how to do things.
At work, you need to be able to use relevant management principles and tools to plan, monitor and report.
This section is designated to helping you prepare for your End Point Assessment.
