Overview

Easy to create courses
Stopford CPD allows users to easily create courses. Course tutors can be setup as users and allowed to create their own courses within their curriculum areas and you control what options are available to them. Courses can be saved and returned to later and then curriculum leaders can review and modify if required. The system is highly flexible and ensures you a more efficient method of managing your courses.

Handle bookings with ease
The system allows users to book online or through entry of booking forms and allows you to review course bookings with ease. The system allows bookings to be easily confirmed, transferred to other courses or cancelled and all correspondence generated by email or letter. Through the use of waiting lists, the system gives you the ability to fulfil your courses with ease.

Market your courses
Stopford CPD gives you the ability to market your courses. Through the use of online browsing and automatic production of course booklets you can be sure that your courses are being seen by the right people.

Viewing at a Glance
Stopford CPD allows you to search and view courses with ease. The system allows you to search by criteria and display as a list showing the current status of the course or can be viewed in a calendar form with daily, weekly or monthly views.

Reporting at a Glance
Generate information from a variety of reports that allow you to quickly and easily see course information, attendance and income. By using standard reporting tools we can also help you to create your own custom reports if required.

Features and Benefits

Creating Courses

• Automatic course numbering system
• Specify divisions for different training (e.g. INSET, Governors)
• Save courses as they are created to come back to later
• Preview course advert real time as course is created
• Specify all fields required for advertising the course
• Specify budget codes for income of course
• Specify minimum and maximum numbers for course
• Ability to specify courses as authority only
• Specify individual sessions for courses
• Specify room requirements and layouts
• Specify catering and refreshments for each session
• Specify who will be taking the course
• Specify additional costs and budget codes for tutors
• Specify equipment required for each session
• Automatic calculation of course costs
• Ability to specify costs if required
• Automatically create advertising brochures using criteria
• Create proposed courses to gauge interest
• Convert proposed courses to actual courses with ease

Managing Courses

• Courses are submitted by Course Tutor to Curriculum leader for approval
• Courses are assigned facilities by Administration teams
• Courses are made live by authorised persons
• Simple to repeat courses occurring more than once
• Copy previous similar courses
• Feedback summary recorded against course
• Specify which attendees allowed to print own certificates
• Close courses that have run
• Cancel courses and generate correspondence to attendees
• Tutors can print own registers for sessions.
• View courses by daily, weekly or monthly calendar views

Manage Bookings

• Ability to book courses online or through entry of booking form
• Ability to specify which establishments are paying for course
• Easily accept bookings when course is viable
• Easily transfer bookings to another course
• Easily cancel booking and calculate or specify cancellation fee.
• Notify waiting lists when proposed courses become actual courses
• Tutors can view number of bookings

Online

• Dedicated website for users to browse and book courses.
• Simple search engine to find courses
• Browse course adverts
• Promote new courses and low attended courses
• Register on website for online booking
• Not allow online booking past closing date if required.
• View own training records and current bookings and status
• Print own certificates for courses attended
• Register interest on proposed courses.
• Indicate courses can also be offered as bespoke training
• Receive enquiries about bespoke training

Dedicate portal for schools and establishments to approve and reject bookings Schools can view training records for teachers in school.

Correspondence

• Specify sending of correspondence by email or Letter.
• Automatic notification when courses are submitted for approval
• Automatic notification when courses are ready for allocation of facilities
• Automatic notification when courses are ready to go live.
• Automatic notification when courses have reached minimum number of bookings
• Automatic notification when course should be reviewed viable
• Automatic generation of correspondence confirming, cancelling and transferring bookings

Attendees

• Automatic synchronisation with HR systems to maintain school and teacher data.
• Ability to add and remove attendees
• Search by name, school, account number or DFES number
• Specify password for online booking
• Specify schools and start/end date
• Ability to view training records of attendee
• Ability to specify categories of courses for targeted marketing
• Link to postcode lookup if required for easy address entry

Consultancies and Bespoke Training

• Record consultancies performed
• Ability to specify multiple schools per consultancy
• Ability to specify pre-purchased consultancy hours used
• Ability to specify tutors and their budget codes
• Ability to specify activities undertaken and hours used.
• Ability to specify fees for consultancy.

Management

• Ability to specify and customise accreditation
• Ability to specify and customise advertising areas
• Ability to specify and customise budget codes
• Ability to specify and customise costing schemes
• Ability to specify and customise course categories
• Ability to specify and customise course groupings
• Ability to specify and customise course types
• Ability to specify and customise discounts
• Ability to specify and customise departments or divisions
• Ability to specify and customise equipment
• Ability to specify and customise establishments and schools
• Ability to specify and customise ethnicities
• Ability to specify and customise key stages
• Ability to specify and customise regions and venues
• Ability to specify and customise room configurations
• Ability to specify and customise staff categories
• Ability to specify and customise internal and external tutors
• Manage user access and privilege rights
• Automatic link to Stopford Room Booking for automatic update of rooms if required

Reporting
Full reporting available including:

• Attendance by type of staff on course
• Course attendance by establishment
• Course income
• Course organised by closing dates
• Courses with supply cover
• Course attendance marked
• Courses by category

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Technical Requirements

Software Requirements

• Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 or 6 (6 Preferred)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Also compatible with 2005)
• Microsoft Web Service Enhancements (WSE) version 2 Service Pack 3