Software for Education and Training Providers

The platform is not the problem

Learning platforms are a mature category and building one is almost never justified. What providers actually struggle with is everything around the learning: getting people enrolled, scheduling rooms and instructors, tracking attendance, and issuing certificates.

For funded or accredited provision, that administration is also where the compliance risk lives.

Enrolment

• Apply once, with documents uploaded rather than posted
• Eligibility checked automatically against funding rules
• Payment or funding recorded at the point of enrolment
• Confirmation with joining instructions, automatically
• A waiting list that fills cancellations without an administrator

Most training providers we meet are running enrolment across a form, a spreadsheet, an inbox and a payment link. That chain is the project.

Scheduling instructor-led delivery

Rooms, instructors, equipment, certifications and cohorts — a genuine constraint problem, and one that generic calendars handle badly.

1. Instructor qualifications matched to what they can teach
2. Room capacity and equipment as hard constraints
3. Cohort progression, so sessions run in the right order
4. Cancellation and rescheduling that notifies everyone affected
5. Utilisation reporting, which is how a provider improves margin

Attendance and certification

For accredited and funded provision, attendance is evidence rather than administration. It has to be reliable, timestamped and auditable.

• Captured at the session, not reconstructed later
• Signed or scanned by the learner where required
• Completion criteria evaluated automatically
• Certificates generated from the record, with verification
• Expiry tracked for certifications that lapse

Funded provision

Funding bodies have specific data requirements, submission formats and audit expectations. Getting this wrong is expensive in a way that is not obvious until an audit.

We treat the funding return as a first-class output of the system rather than a report generated at the end: the fields it needs are collected as part of enrolment and attendance, validated as they are captured.

What it costs

Frequently asked questions