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Bring your university’s short courses together.

You want more people to benefit from your university’s expertise. That might mean reaching new professional communities, responding to an employer or bringing courses from more departments into view. onCourse gives your teams a common place to manage course information, enrolment and administration. ISH helps you shape the responsibilities and connections around the way your university works.

The university’s internal complexity should not become the learner’s experience.

Start with the work you want to improve
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Make your university’s expertise easier to reach.

For someone looking to learn, the question is simple: is this the right course, and how do I join? Your departments may organise their programs differently, but learners still need clear information and a consistent experience.

A common onCourse environment connects the course and enrolment work, with responsibilities and access configured for the teams involved.

Explore the learner experience

Illustrative university model

Departmental contributions

  • DepartmentsExpertise and course details
  • FacultiesExpertise and course details
  • Program teamsExpertise and course details

One common onCourse environment

Course information, enrolment and administration

A consistent learner experience

Find the right course.
Understand the details.
Enrol with clear information.

Configured responsibilities and permissions

Agree course ownership, staff access and each team’s part in the shared work.

Illustrative university approach. Departments contribute to one common environment, with responsibilities configured around your teams. Connections to other university systems are agreed and tested separately.

Start with the opportunity. Follow one course through.

Tell us what you want your short-course program to achieve, then choose a familiar course to explore together. We will follow publication, enrolment, changes, payments and completion, including the handovers between departments. That makes it easier to identify a useful first scope, the responsibilities that should stay local and the connections that need checking.

  1. Follow the course from start to finish

    Look at publication, enrolment, changes, payments and completion. Identify the people, records and handovers involved.

  2. Clarify the shared and departmental responsibilities

    Agree what learners should experience consistently, who owns course information and what each team needs to see or change.

  3. Test a useful starting scope

    Use representative courses to explore onCourse’s existing capabilities, the setup your teams need and any connections requiring separate work.

A common onCourse environment provides a shared place for course information, enrolment and administration, with responsibilities and permissions configured around your teams.

Established work with university teams.

University of Sydney, Sydney Short Courses

Sydney Short Courses at the University of Sydney is an ISH customer. Our work with its team has included connecting onCourse with the University’s finance system and Adobe Experience Manager.

Our work with the University’s Centre for Continuing Education has included daily enrolment and payment reporting, alongside corporate enrolment and invoicing workflows.

Each university’s connections and responsibilities are agreed and tested for its environment.

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See what deserves your next investment.

You are deciding which programs to develop, where demand is emerging and what your team can realistically deliver. Waiting-list records can help you examine interest; enrolment and financial reports show recorded activity; class budgets let you review income, costs and enrolment assumptions.

Together, these give you information to discuss with departments and university leaders. Any tailored university-wide reporting or external reporting feed is agreed and tested separately.

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Detail from onCourse

Selected detail of the sample photography class budget with minimum 8, maximum 16, projected 12 and actual 0 enrolments, income, discounts, costs, projected and actual profit and conditional cover-cost guidance

Start with participation

Compare expected enrolments with the actual number so far.

Compare the result

Review projected and actual figures using the income and costs entered.

Sample class budget
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Fit the systems your university relies on.

Connect short-course operations with the university systems your teams rely on. We work with your finance and technology teams to agree authoritative records, permissions, data exchange and how exceptions are handled. We scope and test the interfaces your environment needs.

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Make more room for lifelong learning.

Your university holds knowledge that can help people throughout their lives. Short courses open that expertise to working professionals, employers and the wider community, whether someone needs a new skill, a fresh direction or simply wants to keep learning.

Start with a useful group of programs.

Begin with an agreed group of programs on an established platform. We work with your teams on the setup, decisions and connections needed to begin, then support additional departments as you extend the approach.

  1. Agree the shared work

    Define common processes, local responsibilities and representative programs.

  2. Prepare and begin

    Configure, connect and test the agreed setup against clear acceptance criteria, then prepare teams.

  3. Extend with support

    Bring additional departments onto the common foundation when their information and responsibilities are ready.

The work reflects your first scope, dependencies and your team’s readiness. We agree responsibilities and the checks needed to get started, with support as more departments come on board.

Tell us what you want your university’s short-course program to do next. We can explore a familiar course, the departments involved and what should stay in place.

We can use relevant examples to identify a useful next step and questions worth checking. If a demonstration would help, we can focus it on those priorities.

Talk through your university’s next step Explore onCourse at your own pace

Still clarifying your aims? Work through your priorities.