Unit 5: Providing Information to Clients

Providing Information

This unit provides learners with an opportunity to explore and evaluate range of relevant useful and up-to-date sources and materials which can be used in information advice or guidance delivery and to use these to identify progression routes for clients. It also enables them to investigate ways in which information technology can be used to aid delivery.

The unit has four learning outcomes:

• Understand information needs of clients within own contexts.
• Know the range and relevance of information available to clients within own context.
• Understand how to use computer-based packages to identify information, advice or guidance needs of clients within own context.
• Know how to plan progression routes and methods to meet client’s needs and requirements within own context.

The unit assessment includes online quizzes. All assessments for this unit can be found on the Unit 3: assessment page.

Engaging In Our Online Course

We have included a number of features which will help you study this course. The course is designed to run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices; however, some of the learning material will work best using a larger screen.

Comment box

You will have lots of opportunities to communicate and share ideas with other learners. You can join the discussion by adding your views in the comment box, which can be found at the bottom of the page.

Downloads and Links

The course learning materials also includes downloadable PDFs or Word documents, alongside links to useful information from the web, providing you the chance to explore a topic in more depth.

The course features several quizzes to test your knowledge. These will be marked by the course tutor and nwill form part of your assessment.

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