Certificate III in Wildlife and Exhibited Animal Care at Online Campus

Knowledge assessments: multiple choice questions, matching questions, true or false questions and short question answers

Practical skills assessments: demonstrations under observation

Project assessments: research tasks

Case study assessments: scenarios and assignments

You must undertake a minimum of 252 hours of work placement. It must be conducted at a licensed and operational wildlife or exhibited animal care facility.

You may be required to do more hours depending on your campus. Contact your campus to confirm your class and work placement time commitments. Also check whether your campus will arrange your work placement with a partnership facility, or whether you’ll need to organise your own work placement.

Access to a computer with a reliable internet connection

Access to recording equipment such as a camera or smartphone

Access to the equipment, resources, a variety of non-domestic animals in your host workplace

Access to equipment and tasks necessary to develop your skills and undertake your workplace assessment tasks

Access to workplace policies and procedures, and animal record systems

You must have basic animal care skills to apply. You can qualify in one of 2 ways. You can successfully complete a Certificate II in Animal Care (or a similar course) and provide a copy of your certificate or transcript. Or you can have strong work experience in animal care and show this with your resume and examples of your work.

You must arrange your own work placement. This is for one day a week for the whole course. You must organise your placement before you apply.

Read the student work placement guide to learn how to find a placement.

When you find a workplace, give your supervisor the host workplace and supervisor guide.

Ask your supervisor to fill in the online workplace supervisor and facility checklist

You must show that you have good reading, writing and maths skills. Complete the RUReady tool and get at least Level 2 in Reading and Numeracy, and Level 3 in Writing.

You should be comfortable typing, using the internet and email, talking online with teachers and classmates, and reading course content online. You will also need to upload assessments, including video files.