Course Booking System
Online course bookings for individuals and groups
Use Coursedate to promote your courses and reach more learners. Build an engaging online course directory and capture course bookings online from both client organisations and individual learners.
Course Booking System Features
All the tools you need to publish courses, capture course bookings and simplify back-office admin.
Professional Online Course Directory
- It takes only minutes to create a course page. Listings are SEO and mobile friendly by default.
- Use our widgets to optionally integrate your course directory with your website - changes to course pages automatically show in your website.
- Course admins can schedule courses to appear, auto-hide when past the start date and fast copy to make new instances.
Individual and Group Course Bookings
- Learners can book directly onto your courses. Client organisations can also book staff onto courses.
- Bookings will close automaticaly if you set a limit on course places.
- You can set your booking form to allow multiple delegates per booking - so individuals can book themselves and/or colleagues.
Streamlined Learner Management
- No more spreadsheets - you start collecting structured data about learners, bookings, enquiries and the courses they attend.
- Easily view a learner's course booking history - spot other opportunities to promote your courses to previous learners.
- Data is easy to search and filter - respond more quickly to enquiries from individual learners and organisations.
Simple Training Provider CRM
- Build a database of leads and relationships that can be used to inform marketing campaigns.
- Take advantage of Coursedate's structured database - identify new market niches and course opportunities.
- Coursedate becomes your training company/course provider CRM system.
How does Coursedate's course booking system work?
1. Set up your organisation
Start with information about your organisation, your logo and tagline.
Course categories
Create top level categories for your courses - make courses easier to find when people browse your course directory.
Training Venues
You can also set up multiple training venues. Include information like directions and parking instructions.
2. Create your course pages
Each course needs a course overview page that includes things like a course title, description and outcomes.
Course fees
Set the cost of your course. You can also have more than one course fee for each course.
Course sessions
Course sessions are optional, but they allow you to define a more detailed course structure and record attendance.
3. Publish your courses
Open courses for course booking. Choose either a simple course booking form (one learner per booking) or allow multiple delegates per course booking.
Website integration
Optionally integrate your course directory with your training company website - vistors get a more joined up experience.
Share course pages on social media and reach a wider audience
Course pages are optimised to look great (with preview images) on social media.
4. Manage course bookings and enquiries
As course admin, you can track bookings and enquiries. Coursedate's admin dashboard shows you your latest bookings.
Review your course bookings
Add notes to individual course bookings.
Respond to course enquiries
See latest enquiries, review a learner's previous course history and respond more quickly to enquiries about upcoming courses.
Trusted by course providers
Coursedate is used by language colleges, training companies, charities, CPD providers and academy trusts.
Schools and MATs
- Create a teacher CPD hub with Coursedate.
- Promote CPD courses to both your own teaching staff and colleagues in other schools.
- Teachers can use Coursedate's CPD timeline to set CPD goals and reflect on their CPD journey
Language Schools
- Create attractive course pages to promote language classes.
- Reach a wider audience with Coursedate's social media friendly course pages.
- Use Coursedate to track attendance at evening classes.
Charities
- Coursedate is a low cost course booking alternative to platforms like Eventbrite.
- Build a course directory that can be integarted with your charity website.
- Run courses for internal staff, colleagues in partner organisations and the public.
University Short Courses
- Coursedate can be used to promote university short courses.
- Courses can easily be set up at university department level.
- Works well for both professional development courses and community evening classes.
Training Companies
- Integrate your course directory with your training company website.
- Clients can book individual learners or multiple delegates on a single booking.
- Create tutors in Coursedate and track training session attendance.
Public Sector
- Manage course bookings on internal staff training.
- Create external-facing course directories for community learning and other courses.
- With Coursedate's analytics you can identify interest in a topic that may be a gap in your course offer.
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