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Standards for RTOs 2025

Compliance checks from live records. One Standards sign-off a year.

RTObase checks your records against the rules and tracks the dates your regulators set. Once a year, an admin reads one summary across the 23 Outcome Standards, adds required changes and signs. The signed copy becomes your audit pack.

$0/month to start · no credit card · shipped compliance monitoring on every plan

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RTObase Continuous Assurance dashboard showing result and review progress across the Quality Areas

23 Standards

summarised in one sign-off a year

26 rules

automatic record-level compliance checks

One ZIP

audit pack with a readable PDF and supporting files

$0/month

compliance monitoring included on every plan

Included on all plans

Automate the checking. Guide the judgment.

RTObase runs 26 rules over your live records. An alert clears when you fix the owning record. The judgment and the yearly Standards signature stay with your people.

Trainer credentials

4 checks

Know before ASQA does if a trainer's TAE or industry currency has lapsed.

Course & unit currency

2 checks

Stop enrolling students into superseded qualifications past their transition date.

Assessment coverage

3 checks

Ensure every course has assessment tools and every competent unit has evidence on file, including practical files, photos, declarations and video recorded during the assessment.

Dates & delivery activity

5 checks

Catch impossible sequences and delivery activity outside the dates recorded for training.

AVETMISS & record completeness

6 checks

Flag the missing fields that cause NAT file validation failures before you hit submit.

Governance & learner support

5 checks

Surface overdue policies, care plans, complaint SLAs, risk reviews, and governance meetings.

Fix the issue. The alert resolves itself.

No manual dismissals, no ticking off checklists. RTObase monitors the underlying data and resolves alerts automatically when the issue is corrected.

Issue detected

When a trainer's credential expires, RTObase adds a plain-language alert and next action to your compliance checks.

You fix it

Upload the renewed credential in the trainer profile. That's the only action you need to take.

Alert resolves automatically

RTObase detects the fix and resolves the alert. No manual dismissal, no stale alerts cluttering your dashboard.

Audit trail

A clear change history for core records, including approved AI changes.

RTObase records who changed core operational data and when. The AI assistant follows the same permissions and approval path: it proposes a change, you approve it, and supported writes land in the same audited records.

Audited change history across core student, enrolment, training and assessment records

Access logs, with export for audits

Every AI change is propose → approve → execute. Nothing writes until you approve

AI-driven actions tagged distinctly; no deletes, no reaching another organisation

A record-scoped RTObase audit trail showing changes, actors and timestamps

One calm path from finding to defensible evidence.

Use the records you already keep. Fix what the checks find, add a required change where something needs work, and sign once a year. The signed copy is kept as your audit pack.

Automated compliance alerts

RTObase watches for the issues that cause ASQA findings and NCVER rejections, expired credentials, impossible dates, missing fields. Fix the problem and the alert resolves itself.

RTObase Continuous Assurance overview showing the current position and priority work

Flags issues before your next audit

Catches AVETMISS errors before submission

Alerts resolve when you fix the data

One Compliance checks page

Included on all plans

AVETMISS Release 8.0

A guided wizard generates AVETMISS Release 8.0 NAT files from your live data, then helps you validate, fix and lodge. Built-in checks catch errors before submission.

RTObase AVETMISS readiness workflow showing pre-export checks

Standard Release 8.0 NAT file set supported for current AVETMISS exports

Guided generate → validate → fix → lodge wizard

Pre-submission validation with per-record fixes

Import AVS errors, each mapped to the student and field to fix

AVS-ready national submission format

USI verification

Verify student USIs against the Australian Government USI Registry once Registry access is set up. Manual attestation is available for RTOs that verify through the USI portal.

A fictional learner's RTObase record showing a verified USI and verification date

Registry verification available after RTO setup is complete

Automatic checks using the Australian Government’s own authentication, once set up

Verified badge with date on every confirmed student

Every verification recorded in the student activity feed for audit

Manual mark-as-verified fallback while RAM setup is in progress

Handles both standard and single-name students

A work plan your team can act on

Compliance checks put rule alerts, regulator dates, registers and dated commitments from your records in one list. Each item says what is wrong, which records it affects, when it is due and where to fix it.

RTObase Continuous Assurance overview showing grouped work and review progress

Total VET Activity, Annual Declaration, Quality Indicator and Annual Registration Charge dates

Validation due dates, trainer credential expiry and policy review dates

ESOS welfare and monitoring reviews for CRICOS providers

One grouped alert instead of thousands of repeated issues

Plain-language reasons and next actions

One Standards sign-off a year

Turn on Standards reviews in Settings. An admin reads one summary of what RTObase holds for each of the 23 Outcome Standards and the fee rules, adds a required change for anything that needs fixing, and signs once.

Covers 1 January to 31 December of the year before

Opens 1 February, due 15 March, two weeks before ASQA's Annual Declaration closes

A Standard's status comes only from open rule alerts

Parts you do not use in RTObase show as not used, never as a gap

Prepaid fees above $1,500 per learner, terms and refund page, and the ESOS 50% rule

Two reminder emails to admins: when it opens and when it is due soon

Trainer authorisation from the Trainer matrix

The Trainer matrix still declares who can deliver or assess each unit or product. The assurance workbench reads that scope and turns missing evidence into clear actions instead of exposing internal tables or reason codes.

One scope shared with the existing Trainer matrix

Separate deliver and assess authorisation

Credential, competence, currency and professional development checks

Under-direction and supervision evidence where required

Direct guidance for every Not authorised result

Guided training product transitions

A transition is the managed response to a verified national register change, not a student transfer. RTObase guides the team from confirming the replacement through impact review, activation and closure.

Verified national register change before action begins

Affected offerings, assessments, trainers and learners grouped together

Prepare changes without moving live delivery too early

Guarded approval and activation

Downstream verification before closure

Your CEO still declares to ASQA

RTObase does not lodge ASQA's Annual Declaration on Compliance. The signed sign-off gives your CEO one checked summary to read before they declare on ASQA's own portal.

Sign after your AVETMISS submission so the summary counts cleaned data

Required changes stay on the list until they are done

Earlier sign-offs and audit packs stay in the history

An admin, or a member who can manage compliance, signs

An audit pack from the signed copy

Signing freezes the summary. Download audit pack gives one ZIP with a readable PDF and the supporting files. The pack is stored, so every download returns the same file.

Cover, RTO profile, scope and locations

The 23 Standards by quality area, fees and missing facts

Required changes and the signed declaration

CSVs, published policy files and uploaded final TAS files

Validation programme list

Secure data storage

Primary student records stored securely in Australia with encryption at rest and in transit. Support your data retention obligations with export and audit-history workflows.

Australian primary data hosting

Encrypted storage

Automatic backups

30-year record retention support

Privacy-policy and subprocessor disclosure support

Document management

Store and manage student documents, evidence of competency, and training records with proper version control.

Student document uploads

Assessment evidence storage

Version history

Secure access controls

Bulk document handling

Issuing-authority lodgement

For licence courses that lodge with a regulator alongside, or instead of, NCVER. RTObase records the assessment against an accredited assessor and produces a ready-made lodgement export for review and submission.

High Risk Work Licence, state and territory WHS regulator workflows

Regulator-accredited assessor register

Notice of Satisfactory Assessment tracking

Liquor & Gaming NSW (RSA / RCG)

NSW Food Authority (Food Safety Supervisor)

AVETMISS

Reporting to NCVER? That has its own page.

AVETMISS Release 8.0 NAT files, USI verification, pre-submission validation and STARS readiness all live on the AVETMISS reporting page, files from your live records, with validation issues flagged before upload.

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RTObase AVETMISS reporting after readiness checks have run

Regulatory alignment

Built around the Standards for RTOs 2025.

The Standards summary is built from records RTObase already holds. A Standard's status comes only from open rule alerts. Parts you do not use in RTObase show as not used, never as a gap.

Training quality

Shows enrolments, classes and learner and employer feedback for the year.

Standard 1.1

Assessment validation

Shows validation programmes that are current, planned, overdue or due in the next 12 months.

Standard 1.5

Information and suitability

Shows your public information, published policies and pre-enrolment screening.

Standards 2.1 and 2.2

Feedback: complaints and appeals

Shows complaints and appeals received, those still open and your published policy.

Standards 2.7 and 2.8

VET workforce

Shows active trainers, their authorisations and industry currency expiring soon.

Standards 3.1 to 3.3

FAQ

Compliance questions

Common questions about AVETMISS, USIs, and regulatory compliance.

RTObase automatically maps your student and enrolment data to the AVETMISS Release 8.0 format. When you're ready to submit, click "Generate NAT Files" and RTObase validates your data, highlights issues, and produces NAT files for your review and upload.

Replace compliance admin, not accountable judgment

RTObase automates repeat checks, regulator dates and transition detection. Once a year your team reads one summary, adds required changes and signs.

No credit card required. AVETMISS reporting included on all plans.