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A tooled-up skill or a certified function
A few weeks are enough to gain full command of a tool; a few months to run a complete function. Both formats are taken while working, publish their hours and award verifiable proof. This page sets them on one grid so the choice takes a single read.
What each format puts in your hands
Website Creation
Put a professional site online, from domain to hosting. Structure a site around a clear commercial objective.
Digital Transformation Certificate
Lead the digital change of a whole organisation. Produce an honest digital maturity diagnosis.
The difference is one of scope
A short course takes one tool or technique and makes you operational on it: you leave with a finished piece of work and the ability to do it again alone. A certificate takes a whole function — framing, deciding, running, reporting — and equips you at each of its stages. The first format is measured in weeks and deliverables; the second in months and responsibilities held. Both publish their supervised hours block by block.
Both formats, criterion by criterion
| Criterion | Website Creation | Digital Transformation Certificate |
|---|---|---|
| What is awarded | Course attendance certificate | Professional certificate |
| Duration | 3 months | 6 months |
| Weekly workload | 8 h per week | 12 h per week |
| Teaching blocks | 4 | 4 |
| Supervised hours | 60 h | 180 h |
| Credits | 6 credits | 18 credits |
| Fees | 1 400 000 GNF in total | 3 600 000 GNF in total |
How the programmes break down
- Website Creation
- 4 (50 %)
- Digital Transformation Certificate
- 4 (50 %)
How to settle it
- A specific deliverable to produce yourself: the short course goes straight there
- A function to run end to end: the certificate covers all of its stages
- A need that translates into a tool: start with the short format
- A need that translates into responsibility: the certificate matches it
- The two stack: the short course prepares the ground, the certificate widens it
Useful clarifications
Are both taken while working?
Yes. The table gives the weekly workload of each: that is the figure to compare with your actual week.
What proof remains after a short course?
A course attendance certificate, the list of blocks covered and the work you produced during the course, which stays yours.
Does a short course count towards a certificate?
Blocks already covered are reviewed on entry to the certificate and lighten the path where they overlap the same framework.
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