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Is there anyone out there who is doing there ECDL if so help!!!

Hi wildamythist. Welcome to H2G2. I'm not doing my ECDL at the moment, but will be starting the course soon. Some of my work colleagues have just passed theirs and are sooo excited about it . One was showing off her certificate and passport for all the units completed, she was really pleased.

What are you having problems with, I know that IT can sometimes seem quite daunting at times, can't it? When I first started with a desktop computer it was so unnerving, but now I've got used to it and working with student records I wouldn't be without it, even with the specialist packages that I have to use. They took some learning but with help and time I got used to them.

I hope you're not having too much trouble with it, if you're getting stressed take some time out in your glorious garden, and wind down.

Sorry wildamethyst, can't spell!

Hi Yvonne,I am not really having trouble with the course itself ,it is just that I only got a pc a few months ago so it is all very new.I am actually becoming ever so slightly obssessed with my computer now ,it is a sort of love hate relationship,because I get really when it seems to have a mind of its own!
You will enjoy the course well I am at least!and you are right about taking a break and relaxing in my garden.Although I love to read in the garden despite being frequently distracted or I should say easily distracted. You should find it fairly easy if you are working with computers already!!

Did my ECDL a few years ago; got it free in school, so jumped at it. Really, there's not much to it. nothing about how a computer actually works, just how to use it. They give you a licence to sy you can drive the thing, but you never have to lift the bonnet!

Great someone who has passed!There are different levels of ECDL I am doing the proficient learner and the first module is all about how computers workdifferent kinds of memory and such like.There is also ECDL advanced and a beginner ECDL.That is a lot of ECDL going around.I just hope to pass

What what what what what??? Never knew there were different levels of it. !!

I wouldn't worry about it because there are people doing the course that don't know there are different levels
Has ECDL helped you get a great job?

By 'doing' do you mean teaching?


I did it in school as I said, aged 15-16. I'm noe in 3rd level edu so no job yet. But I just took a computer exam a couple of hours ago & was finished a two-hour paper in 20 mins, but then most were out by 40 mis at the most. I'd definatley put it on my CV, it says your competant to use the machine, but more importantly, that you know how to use the help menu, for instance, & that you will learn to use new programs easily enough.

You could be right about the 'teaching'I hardly see my tutor and when he appears he is always on the phone.I had considered I may be in the wrong depaartment but my name is on the register and there are other confused persons there.

No, the reason I asked that was coz what you had said ('some doing the course don't know there are different levels') was obvious from the fact that I've taken the course & didn't know. I thought maybe you were saying that some of those teaching don't even know, which would be a different matter.

Well that also could be true because the Tutor is rarely there,maybe it is him in the wrong department?

Not to just randomly show up or anything >poof!< but what does ECDL stand for? >paf!< [a small bliding short flash on the 'ground' in front of speakers as thorn simultaneously exits thread].
-Thorn

We meet again thornthedruidguyECDL stands for European computer Driving Licence(it isn't anything to do with driving though)it is a computer course with a 7 exams.Am a part time student and I am really enjoying it.

Oh,thanks. Foreign Acronyms always get me like that, even though there are plenty of them running around being used in the states as well.

Are you studying anything ?