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For community colleges and education organisations

More room for your community to learn.

You know what learning can mean in your community: a first step back into study, skills for work, a new interest or a place to belong. You may want to reach people who are missing out, strengthen the programs you already run or try something new. onCourse brings course information, enrolments and the work behind delivery together, with ISH helping your team find a practical starting point.

Start with the work you want to improve
A tutor helping two adults work with a laptop and notebooks in a library
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Know what your community wants to learn next.

Before you commit to another class, you want to understand the interest behind it. onCourse waiting lists record preferred courses, locations and times.

Your team can review that interest alongside participation and local conversations when deciding what to offer, where to offer it and who may still need a way in.

See how waiting lists work

Detail from onCourse

Selected detail of the onCourse sample enquiry’s Private notes, including preferred Tuesday evenings after 6 pm or Saturday mornings

Remember what suits them

Preferred days and times stay with the enquiry when you plan the next class.

Sample course enquiry
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Help people join, and help your team be ready.

Illustrative learning and planning cycle

  1. 01

    Recorded interest

    Course, location and time preferences

  2. 02

    Plan a class

    Enrolment assumptions, tutors and rooms

  3. 03

    Support participation

    Enrolments, communications and attendance

  4. 04

    Review and plan again

    Participation and class finances

Feed the review back into planning. Your team combines recorded activity with local knowledge to decide what to offer next.

Your team brings local knowledge. onCourse provides records and class figures to help you plan, organise and review.

Someone has found a course that interests them. They need to understand what it involves, how to join and where to get help. Behind that experience, your team is preparing tutors, rooms, communications and attendance.

onCourse brings course, enrolment and session records together. Where payments apply, invoices and payment records support the work around the booking. Training-plan and outcome records support programs that need them.

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A varied college or a focused local program.

Your mix of programs shapes the setup. If you offer funded or accredited learning, we agree and check the relevant funding, reporting and learner-support workflows with your team.

  • Leisure learning
  • Career and short courses
  • Accredited qualifications
  • Foundation skills

Know what you can keep offering, and what to try next.

A worthwhile program also needs a workable way to continue. Review expected participation, income and delivery costs using your class budgets and enrolment assumptions.

onCourse class budgets bring actual and projected income and expenses together using your entered figures and enrolment assumptions.

That gives your team a basis for discussing what to sustain, what to adjust and where a new idea needs more information.

Where you report to a board, committee or manager, agree the questions and measures before choosing the report. Enrolment, attendance, relevant outcomes and financial records can support that discussion. We agree the measures and definitions, and separately scope any tailored reporting you need.

Explore class budgetsSee budget summariesReview reporting evidence
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Start with your aim. Follow a familiar program.

Choose a familiar course or a small group of programs, including an ordinary complication such as a date change or a learner who needs help to join. Follow the work together before deciding what needs to change.

  1. Follow the learner and the work.

    Look at enquiries, joining, class preparation, delivery and review. Notice who contributes, which records they use and where extra follow-up is needed.

  2. Keep what already works.

    Identify the local knowledge, website, systems and ways of supporting learners that your team values. Agree what should stay and where a connection or different approach may help.

  3. Try a useful starting scope.

    Use representative courses to explore onCourse’s existing capabilities, the setup your team needs and any additional work. Agree responsibilities and checks before making a change.

A practical guide to use with your team.

Map one course, its handovers and the questions worth exploring. Read it online and use it with colleagues. No sign-up needed.

Read the short-course workflow guide

onCourse is already operated and maintained by ISH; setup is shaped around the first agreed work. Straightforward setups can move quickly when the scope, information and decisions are ready.

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Customer story

Sydney Community College: supporting busy enrolment periods.

Sydney Community College is an ISH customer. Our work with its team has included course publication and online enrolment during busy enrolment periods.

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Wider-community inspiration

Stories belong to the communities behind them.

Explore independently published stories about local learning from beyond the ISH customer community.

Learning in the community

What would you like your organisation to be able to do?

Perhaps you want to make a popular program easier to run, welcome people who are not joining yet or explore a new offering. Tell us what matters to your organisation and what already works.

We can look at a familiar course together, share relevant examples and identify a useful next step.

Talk about your priorities

Still clarifying your aims? Work through your priorities first.