Smart and Skilled - a reform of the NSW vocational education and training system. It's helping people get the skills they need to find a job and advance their careers.
Smart and Skilled provides eligible students with: - an entitlement to government-subsidised training up to and including Certificate III - government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.
Create a Course which will be used for Smart and Skilled Students only.
Setup intake dates for the Course
Application Management
Student ID
After the Offer Letter has been approved, generate Student ID
Funded checkbox must be checked
Select Manually Specify under AVETMISS claim
Please provide Commitment ID in Contract Code while generating Student Id.
Student Management
Commitment ID
If Commitment ID becomes available in later stages where Student (must be Domestic) has enrolled for a ‘Smart and Skilled Course’, please follow below steps to enter Commitment ID into the system.
Navigate to the Student Profile Summary
Click the Course Action Icon
Click the Edit Selected Course Action Icon
Ensure the AVETMISS Claim (Funded) is checked
Enter Commitment ID in Purchasing Contract Code (this field is used differently for different states)
Click Update
It is mandatory to provide Commitment ID before AVETMISS reporting.
Enrolment
The Student must be enrolled in all units for course (as per packaging rules) and reporting must be for all units for every submission as funding is based on this
Navigate to the Student Profile Summary
Click the Result Action Icon
Select the Course
Select Subject as Type of Enrolment
Ensure the Venue/Training Location is in NSW
Funding Source State is NSW: OTH – Any Other Course (11)
Select the required Final Outcome (for each enrolment) from the valid options.
Click Enrol
Valid Smart and Skilled outcomes are:
NSW: 85 – Not yet started (NYS) - prior to 2018 this was blank
NSW: 70 – Continuing enrolment (CE)
NSW: TNC – Training Not Completed (Smart & Skilled Program Only) (TNC)
NSW: D – Deferred (Smart & Skilled Program Only) (D)
Commitment ID must be assigned to every unit the Student is enrolled in.
Navigate to the Student Profile Summary
Click the Result Action Icon
Select the Course
For any listed Enrolled Unit, click the Edit Student Activity AVETMISSAction Icon
Enter the Commitment IDin Purchasing Contract Code (this field is used differently for different states)
Ensure Venue/Training Locationis in NSW
Funding Source State is NSW: OTH – Any Other Course (11)
All Units must be selected
Click Update Data Icon
AVETMISS Export
Go to Home and select AVETMISS option and provide correct details to extract AVETMISS report for Smart & Skilled students.
Select export type as State
Select correct range to extract AVETMISS data
Select correct state
Select ‘Smart and Contracts’ for which you are intending to receive AVETMISS data
After providing all the details, extract report in TXT NAT format using option: Smart and Skilled eReporting Format
Provide correct Collection Processing details by selecting following items in the list
Organisations
Your chosen account name
Type
VET Provider Collection
Year
Current collection year
Period
Correct month range
Click Add Files and locate your data file and click open
Click Upload Files
Click Preliminary Checks and check following tick boxes
Exclude all validations relating to Activity End Date on NAT00120
Exclude all validations relating to Activity Start Date on NAT00120
Exclude validations relating to Blank Outcome Identifier - National on NAT00120
Click Validate to process your data.
Correct any errors in your system.
Re-upload to AVS until all data files has a status of Validated, except for NAT00120 file which will have a status of Part Validated due to preliminary settings.
Export Summary
Once your data has been successfully validated in AVS, click Export Summary
In the next dialogue, ensure that the CSV option is selected.
Click Export
The eReporting system will only accept an AVS file with name ‘csv’, when you export the Collection Processing Summary Report csv file, it will append your provider name to the end of the file name ‘CollectionProcessingSummaryReport_<trainingorganisation name>.csv
It is important to remove the training organisation name from the filename when saving.
AVS will also email a summary attachment to you, this will be a PDF file and is not sutaible for upload to eReporting. You can choose to turn this off in your account settings.
Save the exported error summary in the same zip folder containing your AVETMISS data.
STS - State Training Services
Report via STS Online - a secure portal for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) to do business with Training Services NSW. It provides a secure way to access information, services and functions.