VET: Student Contact Hours

keeping track of delivery hours

VET data in the class window

The VET tab in the class record

On the class window, there is a tab called VET, which contains fields that are useful for RTOs and relate to AVETMISS and other delivery statistics. There are also three AVETMISS specific fields ‘Delivery mode’, ‘Funding source’ and ‘DET booking ID’.

Delivery mode – This refers to how the class is conducted. Most programs are classroom based, and this is the default value. You can also change this at the outcome level if necessary, e.g. if one student completes the program by distance.

Funding Source – This refers to how the class is funded. These are set selection of national codes. You can also change the funding source at the outcome level, e.g. for AMEP funded students. For more information, visit the NCVER site

DET Booking ID – This field is specific to the NSW APL report. Visit Training Market NSW for more information on reporting and lodging your data

Information about the qualification and unit/s of competency delivered in your class are set at the course level.

Nominal hours, classroom hours and Student Contact Hours

The following fields in the class relate to your delivery hours and AVETMISS reporting:

Qualification Hours – These are the nominal hours set by NCVER for the qualification. Often, this field is left blank, which is acceptable for AVETMISS. You can also add the nominal hours to the qualification yourself in the Qualification table.

Student Contact Hours – This field multiplies the number of students enrolled by the number of reportable hours. SCHs are often used by funding bodies to measure delivery.

Classroom Hours – The total hours you have defined as scheduled activity by setting sessions or by defining the minutes per sessions and number of sessions on the General tab. This is not reported as part of AVETMISS – it is for your information only.

Nominal Hours – The total nominal hours of the units of competency assigned to the course. While the nominal hours are usually set by NCVER, you can override them or add them where they are missing in Module/Unit of Competency record.

Reportable Hours – These are the hours that will be reported against each enrolment in the NAT00120 file. They default to the nominal hours of the course. If there are no nominal hours as set by the module, i.e. in a non-VET course, the nominal and reportable hours will default to the classroom hours. You can override the reportable hours field to the classroom hours or any other number that you wish to export in it’s place. You can also override the reportable hours in each outcome, if they differ from the class reportable hours.

Making use of this data

The report Class funding will provide you with summary information, per qualification, per funding code of how many student contact hours you have delivered over the classes selected for the report. This can be used to check at various points during the year, the number of hours you have delivered that compare to your funding targets.