Automotive training and assessment resources
Automotive training and assessment resources built for the service bay, not the boardroom.
AUR Resources publishes training and assessment material for the AUR Automotive Retail, Service and Repair Training Package. Written by people who have turned spanners and marked competency.
What is in the library
Each unit product is a complete kit. You get a learner guide that works through the underpinning knowledge, a set of learner activities, a written knowledge assessment with a model answer set, a practical observation task with a checklist the assessor fills in on the workshop floor, a third party report for workplace supervisors, and an assessor guide that explains what a satisfactory performance looks like for that unit. Files come as editable Word documents so your trainers can change what needs changing.
The practical instruments are written around real jobs rather than invented scenarios. A brake system unit asks the learner to inspect and service a disc and drum arrangement on a vehicle that is actually on a hoist, measure rotor thickness and runout against manufacturer specification, and record the readings. An engine management unit asks them to interrogate the vehicle with a scan tool, read live data, and reason from a freeze frame to a probable fault. The paperwork follows the job. The job does not follow the paperwork.
Coverage runs across the light vehicle mechanical stream, heavy commercial, automotive electrical, body repair and refinishing, and the sales and servicing stream. Where a unit sits in more than one qualification, the same product carries the mapping for each.
How units are mapped
Every product ships with a mapping document that traces each assessment item back to the unit of competency it is evidencing. Elements and performance criteria are addressed item by item. Performance evidence, knowledge evidence and the assessment conditions each get their own table, so an auditor or a validator can pick up the map and follow it without asking you to explain your own resource to them.
Foundation skills are shown against the tasks that require them rather than listed in a block at the end. If a unit needs the learner to read a wiring diagram or interpret a torque specification table, the map says which task carries that demand. Where a unit sits inside a licensing or regulated area, the map notes it plainly rather than glossing over it.
Contextualising for your workshop
No two automotive providers train in the same environment. Some run a full commercial workshop with hoists, alignment equipment and a spray booth. Some run a simulated bay with donor vehicles and no live customer work at all. Some deliver almost entirely through apprentice employers and see the learner one day a week. The resources are supplied editable because the setting has to be written in, not assumed.
Practical guidance for contextualising is included with each kit. It sets out which parts you can safely change (vehicle makes and models, tooling brands, workplace forms, employer names, the order of tasks) and which parts you should leave alone because changing them would narrow the evidence below what the unit requires. If you swap a task for one that suits your fleet, keep the same performance criteria in play and record the change so your validation panel can see what you did and why.
Assessment conditions the units demand
AUR units are specific about where assessment happens. Most require a workplace or a close simulation of one, with the tools, equipment, technical information and safety arrangements that a working automotive shop would have. That means service and repair manuals or an equivalent electronic information system, the correct measuring instruments, personal protective equipment, and a means of disposing of waste oil and coolant safely.
Repeat performance matters. Many performance evidence statements require the task to be done on more than one vehicle, or across more than one system type, so a single observation will not be enough. The observation checklists are built to be used more than once and have space for multiple dated instances against the same learner.
Workplace safety is assessed as part of the work, not as a separate module bolted on. The checklists ask the assessor to confirm safe hoist use, correct isolation and lockout on high voltage systems, correct handling of airbag and pyrotechnic components, and correct housekeeping before the job is signed off.
Validation support
Validation is your responsibility and no purchased resource discharges it. What the library gives you is material that is straightforward to validate: a clear map, a documented assessment rationale for each unit, and a pre populated validation record you can take into a panel meeting.
The validation record lists the questions a panel would sensibly ask. Do the tasks cover all performance evidence. Are the assessment conditions achievable in this workshop. Are the knowledge questions pitched at the AQF level of the qualification. Is the marking guidance specific enough that two different assessors would reach the same judgement on the same piece of work. You record your panel's findings and any rectification directly on the form.
Licence terms in plain language
The licence is short and says what you can and cannot do with the files.
- Scope
- A licence covers one RTO and the delivery sites listed on that RTO's registration.
- Editing
- You may edit, rebrand and contextualise the files for your own delivery without asking.
- Learners
- You may distribute learner materials to your own enrolled learners in print or through your own learning platform.
- Not permitted
- Reselling, sublicensing, or supplying the files to another RTO or to a consultant working for another RTO.
- Term
- Access continues for the licence period stated on your invoice, including updates released in that period.
- Superseded units
- When a training package release supersedes a unit, the older product stays available to you so that learners already enrolled can finish on the version they started.
Updates and superseded releases
Automotive training package releases change more often than people expect, and a compliance date attached to a new release will not wait for your development schedule. When a unit is updated, the product is reworked against the new version and released with a change note that says exactly what moved. Nothing is deleted from your account. The superseded version stays there so your transition arrangements are supported by real documents rather than by memory.
The change note is written for the person who has to do the work. It lists the performance criteria that were reworded, the knowledge evidence that was added or removed, and the assessment tasks that had to change as a result. If nothing material changed, the note says so plainly so you do not spend a week revalidating a cosmetic edit.
Working with us
Orders can be placed for a single unit, a cluster, or a full qualification. If you are extending scope and need a specific set of units, ask for the list rather than the catalogue. Sample material is available before purchase so your compliance manager and your lead trainer can both look at the actual instruments instead of a brochure.
Questions about how a task was designed get answered by someone who can talk about the trade. If you think a task is wrong for the unit, say so. That feedback goes into the next revision.
Get the resource that matches the vehicle in front of the learner, then make it yours.