This Digital Production, Design & Development T Level includes the following core units:

• Business context: understanding the business environment including dealing with end-user, customer and business needs, the value of digital in business and technical change management
• Culture: ethical and moral issues raised by the increasing reliance on technology including impact on culture, autonomous operations and addiction
• Data: concepts and fundamentals of data including how organisations use data, key features and functions of information systems, data format, analysis and maintenance, data modelling and data across different platforms
• Digital analysis: understanding algorithms, action and pattern recognition
• Digital environments: systems fundamentals including physical, virtual and cloud
• Learning: awareness of emerging technology trends and innovation
• Legislation: legal and regulatory requirements and importance of industry standards, where to find them and staying up to date
• Planning: principles of planning including cost-benefit, dependencies, prioritisation, quality and time
• Security: understanding privacy and confidentiality of information, processes and protocols plus threats, vulnerabilities and risk management
• Testing: the importance of testing of components, interfaces, usability etc.
• Tools: understanding digital tools and their use in business

In addition to the core units, there are also specialist units that develop the specific knowledge and skills needed to design, implement and test software while also considering ethical principles and legal or regulatory requirements. It also develops skills to change, maintain and support software and to analyse problems and work collaboratively to find solutions.