TAE50216 Diploma of Training Design and Development

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for TAE50216 ended on 6 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 8 December 2023 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
TAE — Training and Education Training Package
Currency period ends
6 December 2022
Latest release
Release 3 · 8 December 2022 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
TAE50211
Superseded by
TAE50122 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. TAE50216Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Training Design and Development
  2. not equivalent
  3. TAE50122CurrentDiploma of Vocational Education and Training

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • TAE50211TAE50216equivalent5 April 2016

    Units revised to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • TAE50216TAE50122not equivalent7 December 2022

    Superseded by and is not equivalent toTAE50122 Diploma of Vocational Education and Training.

Is TAE50216 on your scope?

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What TAE50216 is made of

training.gov.au lists 20 units for TAE50216: 5 core and 15 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
TAEASS502Design and develop assessment toolsnot current
TAEDES501Design and develop learning strategiesnot current
TAEDES502Design and develop learning resourcesnot current
TAEDES505Evaluate a training programnot current
TAETAS501Undertake organisational training needs analysisnot current

Elective units 15 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
TAEASS501Provide advanced assessment practicenot current
TAEASS503Lead assessment validation processesnot current
TAEASS504Develop and implement recognition strategiesnot current
TAEDEL501Facilitate e-learningnot current
TAEDEL502Provide advanced facilitation practicenot current
TAEDES503Design and develop e-learning resourcesnot current
TAEDES504Research and develop units of competencynot current
TAEICR501Work in partnership with industry, enterprises and community groupsnot current
TAELLN411Address adult language, literacy and numeracy skillsnot current
TAELLN412Access resources and support to address foundation skills in vocational practicenot current
TAELLN413Integrate foundation skills into vocational training deliverynot current
TAELLN501Support the development of adult language, literacy and numeracy skillsnot current
TAEPDD501Maintain and enhance professional practicenot current
TAERES501Apply research to training and assessment practicenot current
TAEXDB511Develop and implement training and assessment strategies for learners with disabilitycurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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