Course Type
Led by a live instructor, learn virtually (via Microsoft Teams) alongside a small group of other students. Find and book a scheduled course date below.
Duration
1 day
Certification
6 CPD Credits, Certificate of Completion
Course Type
Learn online in your own time, and at your own pace via our eLearning platform.
Duration
24 hours worth of learning broken down into bite-sized lessons. Each lesson follows 5/2/2 learning principles.
- 5 minutes of content delivery (video or case scenario).
- 2 minutes of active engagement or activity (tasks and quizzes).
- 2 minutes for learners to repeat or reflect on what they’ve learnt (tasks and quizzes).
Certification
6 CPD Credits, Certificate of Completion & Virtual eLearning Badge
If you’re looking for something more bespoke; if you need to educate a group of people; or if you’d like to schedule in some face-to-face, on-site training, please do contact us.
Course Overview
- Introduction
- Organisational Context
- Definitions
- Policy & Procedures
- Frameworks for good Records Management
- Key Principles & International Standards
- The rationalle for good Records Management
- Records and their value
- The Informaiton Lifecycle & analysing work processes
- What should be in a Records Inventory or Informaiton Asset Register
- Records, related processes & technology
- Physical records management
- Digitisation
- What to keep following scanning
- Business classification schemes
- Metadata
- Metadata in practice
- Naming conventions & records security
- Protection of records
- Retention & disposal
- Applying retention policies & defensible destruction
- Destruction certificate
- Information sharing & transfer
- What to do next
Learning Objectives
This course will provide you with an introduction to Records Management, to support you to fulfil the tasks and tools.
- Understanding the information your organisation holds
- Records Management Systems
- Managing physical records
- Protection of records
- Classification and metadata
- Definition and application of retention policies
- Disposal processes
Who is this course for?
This course is for Records Managers/Officers or anyone staff that work or are associated with the management of records.
Delegates would include Records Managers/staff, Information Governance Officers or Managers and Privacy Officers.
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Payment Options
Don’t know what courses you’ll need to book just yet?
For our instructor-led courses we offer a pre-pay option, where you can pay now and choose what courses to book later (within a year). This option is both cost efficient and speeds up the booking process. It’s really handy for large companies/organisations who have frequent training needs. eLearning not included.
Need training for a group of people?
If you’re looking to train a small group, a whole team, or an entire company of employees, please get in touch as we’re able to offer discounts on multiples.
