How the Workplace Lab works.
Not watch, quiz, certificate. Your simulated employer sends you a brief and the files. You do the work in the software the job uses, submit it, and a facilitator tells you whether it meets the standard. Every task adds to a portfolio you can show.
- Task brief
- Files
- In progress
- Submit
- Feedback
- Competent
Compare three supplier quotations for RFQ 041
Procurement has received three quotations for the office printer contract. Prepare the comparison schedule, check each supplier's documents and flag anything missing before Thursday's approval meeting.
Files
- RFQ-041.pdf
- Quotation-A.pdf
- Quotation-B.pdf
- Quotation-C.pdf
- Procurement-policy.pdf
- Budget-2026.xlsx
Instructions
- Create the procurement folder for RFQ 041
- Check each supplier's documents against the checklist
- Build the quotation comparison schedule in Excel
- Flag anything missing or expired
- Update the procurement register and submit
Submission
- Quotation-comparison-RFQ041.xlsx
- Supplier-document-check.docx
- Procurement-register.xlsx
Facilitator feedback
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First submissionResubmission required
Comparison complete and correctly weighted; you caught Supplier B's expired tax clearance. The register is missing the purchase order number. Resubmit the register only.
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Second submissionCompetent
Register corrected. Recorded on your Skills Passport as Procurement and tender administration.
Learn. Do. Prove.
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Learn
The task needs it
You learn the process and the tool because the task in front of you needs them. Knowledge is taught in the order the work needs it.
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Do
In real software
A brief, the files, a deadline. Excel, a CRM, a project board, accounting software: the tools the job uses.
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Prove
Assessed, recorded, verifiable
A facilitator assesses the work against the NIBS standard. Competent results go on your Skills Passport with a credential id anyone can check.
The life of a task
- AssignedThe task appears in your Workplace Lab with its brief, files and deadline.
- In progressYou do the work in the software, saving as you go.
- SubmittedYou upload the documents, spreadsheets and records you produced.
- Under reviewA facilitator reads it against the standard for that task.
- Competent, or resubmission requiredClear feedback either way. Not yet competent is a step, not a verdict.
- RecordedNIBS records the competency on your Skills Passport.
The states, always the same
- Assigned
- In progress
- Submitted
- Under review
- Competent
- Resubmission required
- Closed
Practice and assessment
Workplace Lab practice tasks are included in NIBS Plus. Assessment of a complete pathway portfolio for a NIBS credential is done by a person and may carry a separate fee, confirmed before you submit. See NIBS Plus.
What the tasks look like, by career.
Tender and Procurement Administrator
- Create the procurement folder for RFQ 041
- Check three supplier document packs for what is missing
- Build the quotation comparison schedule
- Prepare the submission and the approval email
- Record the procurement in the register
- Compile a tender file to the checklist
- Handle a supplier query about a late payment
Project Administrator
- Create the project tracker for a new project
- Prepare the kick-off meeting agenda and pack
- Capture the minutes and update the action log
- Update the schedule after a slipped milestone
- Log and track a new risk to closure
- Produce the status report for the sponsor
- Close the project file with a lessons register
Bookkeeper
- Set up a new business in accounting software
- Capture a month of transactions from source documents
- Reconcile a bank statement with unmatched items
- Age the debtors and chase what is overdue
- Prepare a supplier reconciliation
- Produce a trial balance and an income statement
- Prepare the VAT working papers
- Hand over the month to the accountant with a close checklist
Where the Lab lives.
The Workplace Lab is part of NIBS Campus. When your first pathway opens, your tasks appear there and your link appears in your campus. If you study at an e-Learning Cafe, the facilitator in the room can help you find your way around, but the assessment is always against the same NIBS standard.