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Section two · learner-facing

The Learner Hubs

Four sites, and between them one continuous journey: deciding, being inducted, enrolling, then doing the apprenticeship. They are separate apps on purpose — the first has to work for someone with no account at all, and the last has to still be there two years later.

4hub sites
1public, pre-account
3behind the same SSO

The learner journey, hub by hub

the through-line

Each hub hands over to the next. The handovers are the interesting part: the first is where a visitor becomes a name TLC holds and gains an account, the second is where the paperwork is signed, and the third is where the plan written at induction starts being worked against.

Before · public

Apprenticeships Portal — is this right for me?

No account, no sign-in, and by design nothing is sent to TLC. The tools — fit explorer, route explorer, readiness check, Decision Lab — keep their answers in the visitor's own browser. The journey only becomes visible to TLC when the learner chooses to express interest.

Handover 1 · gains an account

Induction Hub — three parts, then we start

Sets expectations, covers the essentials, shows the curriculum timeline for the standard, collects what TLC needs before enrolment, and produces the personal development plan. This is the first hub behind the SSO, so from here the learner has an identity the rest of the family recognises.

Handover 2 · signs up

Enrolment Hub — fourteen steps and a signature

One long form broken into short steps, saved as you go, ending in a review, a signature and a PDF. Induction sets up the learner; this is where they formally commit.

Handover 3 · on programme

e-Portfolio — the work itself

Evidence uploaded and mapped to assessment criteria, a verdict per criterion from the assessor, off-the-job hours logged against the 6-hrs/week rule, LMS courses and quizzes, and certificates at the end. Progress is simply the share of criteria marked Met.

The hubs

four sites

In journey order.

Apprenticeships Portal Induction Hub Enrolment Hub e-Portfolio

Apprenticeships Portal

The public, pre-enrolment site — deciding whether this is for you.
tlcapprenticeships/ Public — no sign-in Answers stay in the browser

The only learner hub outside the SSO family, because it has to be reachable before anyone has an account. It exists to make an informed choice possible and evidenced: the tools ask honest questions, the answers are kept in the visitor's own browser rather than sent to TLC, and the whole "Get started" set is written to withstand an Ofsted question about whether the learner really chose this.

Land
Home
The decision page: is this route for me at all?
Learn
Apprenticeships / Careers
The chapter reader and the seven careers sections.
Test it
The tools
Fit explorer, route explorer, readiness check, Decision Lab.
Decide
Get started
Deciding for yourself, the honest contract, the other routes.
Commit
Express interest
submit-interest.php — the first thing that actually reaches TLC.
Hand off
Induction Hub
From here on the learner has an account.
Top navigation
Home
Hero, welcome, "more than a qualification", the six "Are you ready?" cards, final call to action.
index.php
Apprenticeships
A chapter reader — 16 cards across 8 slides, from levels and off-the-job time to safeguarding, Prevent and your rights.
apprenticeships-hub.php
Partnerships
The three-way partnership, the partner showcase, curriculum and commitment.
partnerships.php
Careers
Seven tabbed sections plus the tools below.
careers.php
Support
Entitlements, the team around you, wellbeing, FAQ, verified helplines.
support.php
Get involved
The charity directory — national and regional.
get-involved.php
Inside Apprenticeships
Why people say yes
The honest reasons, the worries first, and how it looked once they were in.
why-people-say-yes.php
What you gain
Six things this route gives that full-time study often does not.
apprenticeship-what-you-gain.php
The honest challenges
What it asks of you, with the support beside each point, plus six myths.
apprenticeship-challenges.php
Questions and jargon
Ten terms in a line each, from KSBs to gateway and EPA.
apprenticeship-questions.php
Careers tools
Occupational maps
All 15 technical-education routes and what they lead to.
occupational-maps.php
Career pathways
Pick the work you are in, see the climb rung by rung. Holds the curriculum timelines.
career-pathways.php
Career fit explorer
A short self-assessment that suggests careers that fit. On-device, no sign-up.
career-fit-explorer.php
Route explorer
Compare the routes side by side, then carry the thinking into the Decision Lab.
route-explorer.php
Decision Lab
Right route, right time? Turns your own answers into a sheet you can print.
right-route-right-time.php
Readiness check
An honest self-check with a personal report. Your name and your own words are never sent.
apprenticeship-readiness.php → submit-readiness.php
Get started — the informed-choice set
Deciding for yourself
The hub of the set, for a learner nominated by their employer: voluntariness and the right to decline.
deciding-for-yourself.php
The honest contract
Pay, employment status, holiday, the 6-hrs/week off-the-job rule, EPA independence, duration, zero cost.
honest-contract.php
The three-way deal
What the employer, TLC and you each commit to.
three-way-deal.php
The other routes
T Levels, full-time study, HTQs, bootcamps, staying as you are — so the choice is real.
alternatives.php
Maths and English
Where you stand, what assessment looks like, what support exists.
maths-and-english.php
What happens next
The full enrolment-to-certificate journey with honest timescales.
what-happens-next.php
Parents and carers
A short read for the people supporting a 16–18 learner.
parents-and-carers.php
Safeguarding and policies
How to raise a concern before enrolment, plus plain-English policy summaries.
safeguarding-and-policies.php
Your portal & footer
Your portal
Everything you chose to keep from the tools — results, learning profile, Decision Passport. Held in your own browser, yours to clear.
my-account.php, portal.php
My answers
Read back and print what you have answered.
my-answers.php → my-answers-print.php
Express interest
The point where the portal stops being anonymous.
express-interest.php → submit-interest.php
Site map / privacy / accessibility
The portal keeps its own site map — this page mirrors it.
sitemap.php, privacy.php, accessibility.php
Curriculum timelines — reached from the Career pathways tool
  • L2 Production Chef — curriculum-production-chef-l2
  • L3 Senior Production Chef — curriculum-senior-production-chef-l3
  • L4 Senior Culinary Chef — curriculum-senior-culinary-chef-l4
  • L2 Adult Care Worker — curriculum-adult-care-worker-l2
  • L3 Lead Adult Care Worker — curriculum-lead-adult-care-worker-l3
  • L5 Leader in Adult Care — curriculum-leader-in-adult-care-l5
  • L3 Safeguarding Support Officer — curriculum-safeguarding-l3

Induction Hub

The first hub behind the sign-in — what happens, and what we need from you.
induction_hub/ induction.tlcbase.org site:induction First hub behind the SSO

The bridge between choosing the route and formally signing up for it. It sets expectations ("three parts, then we start"), covers the essentials, shows the curriculum timeline for the standard, collects what TLC needs before enrolment, and produces the personal development plan the e-Portfolio later works against.

Arrive
Home
"Your apprenticeship starts here" — what induction is.
Understand
Essentials
The apprenticeship essentials everyone covers.
Your course
Curriculum page
The timeline for the standard you are on.
Give us
Get started
Everything we need before we begin, including the learning profile.
Plan
PDP
A plan that is yours — carried forward into the e-Portfolio.
Hand off
Enrolment Hub
On to the formal paperwork and the signature.
Section nav
Home
"Your apprenticeship starts here", plus the support block.
index.php
Essentials
Apprenticeship essentials — the shared ground everyone covers.
essentials.php
Your course
The curriculum timeline for the learner's standard.
curriculum-safeguarding-l3.php
Get started
"Everything we need before we begin." The #profile anchor is the learning profile.
get-started.php
Your induction
"Three parts, then we start" — how induction is structured.
your-induction.php
PDP
The personal development plan.
pdp.php

Enrolment Hub

One long form, broken into fourteen short steps.
enrolmenthub/ enroll.tlcbase.org site:enrolment Linear wizard

The narrowest hub in the family and deliberately so: it does one thing, in one order, once. Every step lives in its own file under steps/, loaded in filename order — adding, removing or reordering a step is a rename, nothing else. It has no database of its own, so its section tabs are a static list rather than a table.

1–4
Who you are
Welcome, about you, identity, residency.
5–8
Your situation
Job, learning so far, support needs, care-leaver bursary.
9–12
The formal parts
Declarations, keeping you safe, goals, data consent.
13–14
Sign and finish
Review and sign, then done — the record is saved and a PDF generated.
Hand off
e-Portfolio
On programme — evidence, criteria and off-the-job hours.
The wizard
Enrolment
The single page that hosts all fourteen steps; includes/steps.php loads steps/*.php in order.
index.php
Save
Writes progress — the form survives leaving and coming back.
save.php
PDF
The signed enrolment as a document.
pdf-template.php
Document log
What has been produced and when.
doc-log.php
Privacy notice
The second section tab; the only other page in the nav.
privacy.php
The fourteen steps, in order
  • 01 Let's begin — welcome
  • 02 About you
  • 03 Your identity
  • 04 Where you live — residency
  • 05 Your job
  • 06 Your learning so far
  • 07 Support for you
  • 08 The care leaver bursary
  • 09 The important stuff — declarations
  • 10 Keeping you safe
  • 11 Your goals
  • 12 Your data — consent
  • 13 Review and sign
  • 14 That's it — done

e-Portfolio

On-programme: evidence, criteria, off-the-job hours and learning.
eportfolio/ efolio.tlcbase.org site:eportfolio Role-routed

Where the apprenticeship actually gets done. A learner uploads evidence and maps it to assessment criteria; an assessor sets a verdict per criterion (Met / Not yet / Referred); progress is the share of the qualification's criteria marked Met. Uploaded files are never linked directly — every one is fetched through a serve script that re-checks the requester owns it, assesses it, or administers it.

Enter
index.php
A router, not a page — it reads usertype and redirects.
Land
Your dashboard
Learner, line manager, client admin or site admin.
Or leave
Back to TLC Base
Assessors and admins are sent to the e-Portfolio section on TLC Base — both halves moved there.
Work
Evidence → criteria
Upload, then map it to the criteria it proves.
Verdict
Met / Not yet / Referred
Set by the assessor, per criterion, with feedback.
Finish
Certificates
Progress reaches 100% and the record is complete.
Learner — the main journey
Dashboard
Where you are and what is outstanding.
learner/dashboard.php
Portfolio
The criteria tree, unit by unit, with progress.
learner/portfolio.php → portfolio_unit.php
Gap analysis
What is still unproven.
learner/gap_analysis.php
Evidence
Upload, map to criteria, then read the verdicts and feedback thread.
learner/evidence.php → evidence_add.php → evidence_view.php
OTJ hours
Off-the-job time logged and exportable — the 6-hrs/week rule made auditable.
learner/otj.php → otj_export.php
Learning
The LMS side: courses, lessons and quizzes.
learner/learning.php → learning_course / _quiz
Course material
Additional material, including material attached to a specific criterion.
learner/course_materials.php → course_material.php
Certificates
What you have completed.
learner/learning_certificates.php → learning_certificate.php
The other roles
Line manager
Sees their people and how far each has got.
linemanager/dashboard → learners → learner → progress
Client admin
A client organisation across several sites.
clientadmin/dashboard → sites → site → learners → learner
Site admin
One site's learners.
siteadmin/dashboard → learners → learner → progress
Assessor / admin
Not in this app any more — the router sends them to the e-Portfolio section on TLC Base.
→ TLC Base
View as
Lets an admin see the app as another user sees it.
view_as.php
Protected files
Evidence files
Locked by .htaccess; the serve script re-checks ownership on every request.
evidence_files/ → evidence_serve.php
Criteria & course material
Same pattern for every other upload root.
criteria_serve.php, course_material_serve.php, ep_lms_serve.php

Two things worth knowing

The portal deliberately forgets

The Apprenticeships Portal holds a learner's answers, results, learning profile and Decision Passport in their own browser, not on a TLC server, and says so on the page. That is what makes an honest self-check honest — and it means clearing the browser really does clear it.

The e-Portfolio is a router first

index.php renders nothing. It reads usertype and redirects: learner, line manager, client admin and site admin each to their own dashboard — and assessors and admins straight back out to TLC Base, because both of those sections moved there.