Don't just use AI. Build it for your classroom.
The Level 3 Award in AI in Education, delivered two ways. Learn to use AI with confidence, or join the AI Builder cohort and design your own assistant - and leave with a regulated qualification either way.
Persona
Name, role, tone and audience
Instructions
What your assistant should do
Knowledge
Your own documents and schemes
Guardrails
What it must refuse or escalate
Test chat
"Give my Year 10 group three retrieval questions on photosynthesis."
Awarding body
Focus Awards
Level
Level 3 · 10 credits
Guided learning
89 hours
Assessment
Portfolio, no exam
Study
100% online
Why this is different
Most AI courses are a webinar. This is a lab.
You will not just watch someone else use AI. You will plan with it, question it, set its limits and evidence what you learn - for a qualification that carries weight.
Build, not just watch
On the Builder route you design a working assistant around your own subject, learners and resources.
Safe by design
Everything runs in a sandbox, with guardrails and malpractice built into what you study.
Recognised outcome
An Ofqual-regulated Level 3 Award, kept in your free Passport alongside the rest of your CPD.
Choose your route
One qualification. Three ways in.
Every route leads to the same Level 3 Award. Pick the one that fits how you like to learn.
Practitioner route
Self-paced. Start when you are ready.
The full Level 3 Award, focused on using everyday AI tools well - planning, assessment, policy and academic integrity.
- Full Ofqual-regulated Level 3 Award
- Self-paced online study
- Tutor-assessed portfolio, no exam
- Start any time
From £499
Enrol on the Practitioner routeAI Builder cohort
Two intakes a year. Limited places.
Everything in the Practitioner route, plus live build workshops and your own sandboxed AI assistant - designed, tested and evidenced for your portfolio.
- Everything in the Practitioner route
- Live build workshops with your tutor
- Design and test your own AI assistant
- Small cohort, shared community
- Spring and Autumn intakes only
£649
For schools & colleges
A private cohort for your staff.
Run the AI Builder programme for your team, shaped around your setting, your policies and the tools you already use.
- Private cohort for your staff
- Aligned to your AI policy
- Progress visible to leaders
- Invoiced to your organisation
Quoted for your team
What you will study
Four units, one clear journey
Focus Awards Level 3 Award in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education (RQF) · QRN 610/5345/4 · TQT 100 · 10 credits.
- 1Unit 124 guided hours · 3 credits
Foundations of AI in education
How AI actually works, what it is good at and where it falls short in teaching and learning.
- 2Unit 227 guided hours · 3 credits
Practical applications of AI
Use AI to plan lessons, adapt resources and support assessment - and, on the Builder route, build your own assistant.
- 3Unit 320 guided hours · 2 credits
The future of AI in education
Emerging trends, opportunities and what they mean for your setting and your learners.
- 4Unit 418 guided hours · 2 credits
AI use and malpractice
Academic integrity, misuse, detection and the policy responses that protect learners and staff.
See the full specification, learning outcomes and enrolment details →
For the people doing the work
Teachers, tutors, trainers, assessors and curriculum leads in schools, colleges and training providers who want to lead on AI rather than react to it.
- FE and skills tutors
- School teachers and leaders
- Assessors and IQAs
- Digital and curriculum leads
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