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onCourse for universities

Bring your university’s short courses together.

You’re helping departments bring their expertise to people through short courses. onCourse gives your university one environment for consistent discovery and enrolment, with configured local responsibilities and ISH alongside your team.

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Why 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.

When each department has to piece together its own course setup, promotion and enrolment processes, more effort goes into organising the program. A common onCourse environment connects that work, helping teams put more of their attention into relevant programs and the people taking part.

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

How teams share

What is shared, and what stays with each team?

Your departments need local flexibility without making learners navigate a different experience each time. We configure the common environment around your university, agreeing course ownership, staff responsibilities, permissions and reporting so teams can run their programs within a clear shared approach.

From departmental expertise to a shared learner experience

  1. University teams

    • Departments
    • Faculties
    • Program teams

  2. Common onCourse environment

    • Common course information
    • Learner discovery
    • Enrolment

  3. Agreed local responsibilities

    • Course ownership
    • Permissions
    • Reporting
Illustrative university model, not a customer system. Teams contribute to one environment, with configured local responsibilities.

System connections agreed separately

Finance, web, learning, identity and student systems: agree the records, permissions, exchanges and checks your university needs. These are not assumed out-of-box connections.

What are you trying to make possible?

Plan your programs with the working day in view.

When you lead a university short-course program, you’re balancing new ideas, employer relationships, your team’s workload and the experience learners have with you. You also need to show your university how the program is going.

onCourse brings course publication, customer records, enrolment and financial administration into a connected way of working. For the people doing the administration, that means a shared place to keep course details, enrolments and communications organised. Your team can manage the day-to-day activity, while you use enrolment and financial reporting to understand performance and plan what comes next.

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How onCourse could help your teams bring courses together.

Your university’s expertise sits across many departments. Your work is to help those teams bring their courses to people, without asking learners to understand the university’s internal structure.

For the people coordinating those courses, clear responsibilities and repeatable steps make it easier to offer the same professional experience each time.

A common onCourse environment gives teams a shared foundation for course information, enrolment and administration. Course ownership, permissions and responsibilities are agreed with you, helping each department contribute to a consistent public experience.

See what teams can shareExplore the learner experience

How does it fit university systems?

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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In practice

What can you look at today?

University of Sydney, Sydney Short Courses

In the historical Sydney Short Courses account from the University of Sydney, onCourse was connected with the University’s finance system and Adobe Experience Manager. Read that published example, then explore the guides, security information and support that matter to your university.

Read the published exampleBrowse the handbookSee support

How do we bring departments on board?

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. 01

    Agree

    Define common processes and local responsibilities.

  2. 02

    Begin

    Start with representative programs and clear acceptance criteria.

  3. 03

    Prepare

    Configure, connect and test the agreed setup, then prepare teams.

  4. 04

    Extend

    Bring additional departments onto the common foundation with support.

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.

Let’s talk about your university’s short courses.

Talk through programs, teams, systems and the evidence you need next.

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