A common platform. Local control.

People turn to TAFE to enter work, build on their experience or prepare for a changing industry. Short courses and skill sets can provide a focused next step, while helping employers and communities develop the capabilities they need.

When training is easy to find and understand, people are better placed to choose a program that suits them. onCourse connects course publication, enrolment, communication and delivery administration, helping institutions respond to local needs with less repeated work.

• Courses easier to find and join
• Less repeated administration
• Employer and group bookings coordinated
• Program activity visible

Begin with a useful first scope rather than assuming the final network design. ISH operates one established onCourse product with ongoing updates and support, while each participating institution retains a dedicated environment and agreed local responsibilities.

1. 1

   Run the first two institutions well

   Support course discovery, bookings, enrolment, payment where applicable, communications, administration, agreed integrations and useful reporting. Validate each institution's real learner, staff and finance scenarios before extending the approach.

2. 2

   Make further participation repeatable

   Use the common maintained product and a repeatable onboarding approach, with appropriate institution-specific branding, responsibilities, configuration and data boundaries. Each institution still completes its own preparation, testing and acceptance.

3. 3

   Develop shared capabilities where agreed

   Treat shared identity, coordinated discovery and consolidated reporting as separate work. Define governance, data flows, permissions, metric definitions, reconciliation, support ownership and acceptance before relying on the shared service.

Start with an agreed first scope, then decide together what wider participation needs.

Agree which system holds each record, who can use it and how information moves between teams. We work with you to define and test the required connections with finance, learning, identity and student systems.

That design work includes practical questions such as where course details are maintained, how payment information reaches finance, which learner information is exchanged and who investigates a failed transfer. Access and reporting requirements are considered with the institutions involved.

The handbook documents funded-training progression and funding invoices for a single enrolment under a configured non-fee-for-service funding contract. For programs where a learner does not pay a fee, the enrolment, payer, invoice, confirmation, reporting and reconciliation path should still be configured and tested. This does not establish funding eligibility or promise automated government claims.

Explore handbook tasks for enrolment, delivery and reporting, alongside the historical Sydney Short Courses account of connections to institutional finance and content systems. Use these sources to frame the scenarios and separately scoped connections your own institutions need to test.

Start with the institutions and programs selected for the first scope. onCourse is an established platform; we agree the local setup, required connections and checks, then support additional institutions through the same approach.

1. 01

   Agree the first scope

   Define participating institutions, local responsibilities and acceptance criteria.

2. 02

   Configure and test

   Prepare the setup and test any agreed migration or integration work.

3. 03

   Prepare and launch

   Support teams into use, then onboard additional institutions with their own setup.

Clear decisions, prepared information and agreed responsibilities give the work a sound foundation. We plan the first scope together and retain each institution’s own environment and local control.

We’ll talk through the institutions and programs involved, expected course activity, existing systems and the responsibilities each team needs to retain. From there, we can identify the best starting point and the evidence you need to assess the fit.