choosing a computer training provider
Some important questions to ask.
Course content
Will each course provider take the time to discuss your particular needs?
Will the content of every course be planned and structured for your needs, to avoid time being wasted on unnecessary things and waiting for necessary things?
Can more time be spent on things that are important, and things which for any reason take a little longer to pick up? (We all do that sometimes.)
Can time be saved by simply checking off and skipping things that are already well known, rather than waiting for other people?
Can you get just a small amount of topping up or filling in gaps in knowledge, if that’s all you need?
Can everything needed be learned in one course?
If training from more than one course provider is needed, will the providers coordinate all their course content and session times to suit you, so everything is learned in a logical sequence that makes sense?
Times
Can the courses be scheduled to start when you need them to?
Can you have sessions as frequently as you would like, to get it all done sooner?
Can session times be schedule to suit your needs?
Can you avoid time clashes between sessions in different courses?
Can you change individual session times?
Can training be paused whenever necessary, then resumed where you left off, at a time to suit you?
Can you be sure of not being refused a training booking because of courses being full?
Computers
Can training be done on your own computers?
Will the computers and software be the same as yours?
Location
Can the trainer come to you, to save you travel time and enable you to learn on your own computers?
Can you have training from the same provider at multiple locations?
Can training content and times be varied between locations to suit different people doing different jobs?
Missed sessions
Can missed training sessions be made up to avoid falling behind?
Can you arrange a catchup session before the next scheduled one?
Can you be sure that nothing will be missed as a result of a session being missed and the rest of the group going on anyway?
Can you be sure that missing a session will not result in an impossible amount of catch up work before the next one?
Can you be sure that missing a session doesn't mean waiting for the course to be run again, then risking missing the same material again?
Can you be sure that learning will not drag on for weeks or months longer than you had anticipated?
Can you be sure that, if you give advance notice, you will not be charged for a session time that you need to change or miss?
Can you get refunds or credits for session time that you don’t attend?
Can you get a partial refund if sufficient learning has already been done before the course finishes?
Learning effectiveness
Can you arrange short training sessions, to avoid brain fade and excessively long absences from work or other things?
Will the sessions be free of interruptions and unrelated questions from other learners you don't even know?
Will the experience be a positive and stress free one?
Will effective learning happen this way?
Guarantee
Will you get a guarantee that the training will result in effective learning of the necessary skills?
With ComTutors the answer to every one of these questions is Yes.
Now consider the costs - including all the hidden ones.
Add the costs of the different courses needed.
What’s the attendance time worth?
What about the value of travel time?
And travel expenses?
And parking fees?
Allow for the possibility a session being missed, being left behind, dropping out, forfeiting course fees and waiting for courses to be run again if you can’t organise catchup sessions.
Include the value of lost work time and income due to specific fixed course session times, and if that work can’t practically be done at other times.
Include costs of child care, extra meals or anything else as a result of attendance at course sessions at inconvenient fixed times.
Remember that absence from a training session, and the lack of any way to catch up, may mean doing the whole course again, however far in the future that is, and hoping that no session is missed next time.
Allow for the cost of delaying improvement of skills (or getting a better job) until all the courses are finished.
What’s your total?
Be very careful when comparing costs.
Consider the overall value that you get from ComTutors.
You get convenient effective training by tuition, where and when you need it, in a sequence that makes sense and carefully builds knowledge and skills.
You get the flexibility to reschedule lessons, with no extra charge or lost fees, and even for training to be paused if necessary, ready to resume when it suits you.
Painless, convenient, effective.
And you get the ComTutors double guarantee - the content that we recommend will be right for your needs, and learning will be effective and painless, so you get the results you need.
All at fees that aren't even expensive.
ComTutors is your clear choice.
Some important questions to ask.
Course content
Will each course provider take the time to discuss your particular needs?
Will the content of every course be planned and structured for your needs, to avoid time being wasted on unnecessary things and waiting for necessary things?
Can more time be spent on things that are important, and things which for any reason take a little longer to pick up? (We all do that sometimes.)
Can time be saved by simply checking off and skipping things that are already well known, rather than waiting for other people?
Can you get just a small amount of topping up or filling in gaps in knowledge, if that’s all you need?
Can everything needed be learned in one course?
If training from more than one course provider is needed, will the providers coordinate all their course content and session times to suit you, so everything is learned in a logical sequence that makes sense?
Times
Can the courses be scheduled to start when you need them to?
Can you have sessions as frequently as you would like, to get it all done sooner?
Can session times be schedule to suit your needs?
Can you avoid time clashes between sessions in different courses?
Can you change individual session times?
Can training be paused whenever necessary, then resumed where you left off, at a time to suit you?
Can you be sure of not being refused a training booking because of courses being full?
Computers
Can training be done on your own computers?
Will the computers and software be the same as yours?
Location
Can the trainer come to you, to save you travel time and enable you to learn on your own computers?
Can you have training from the same provider at multiple locations?
Can training content and times be varied between locations to suit different people doing different jobs?
Missed sessions
Can missed training sessions be made up to avoid falling behind?
Can you arrange a catchup session before the next scheduled one?
Can you be sure that nothing will be missed as a result of a session being missed and the rest of the group going on anyway?
Can you be sure that missing a session will not result in an impossible amount of catch up work before the next one?
Can you be sure that missing a session doesn't mean waiting for the course to be run again, then risking missing the same material again?
Can you be sure that learning will not drag on for weeks or months longer than you had anticipated?
Can you be sure that, if you give advance notice, you will not be charged for a session time that you need to change or miss?
Can you get refunds or credits for session time that you don’t attend?
Can you get a partial refund if sufficient learning has already been done before the course finishes?
Learning effectiveness
Can you arrange short training sessions, to avoid brain fade and excessively long absences from work or other things?
Will the sessions be free of interruptions and unrelated questions from other learners you don't even know?
Will the experience be a positive and stress free one?
Will effective learning happen this way?
Guarantee
Will you get a guarantee that the training will result in effective learning of the necessary skills?
With ComTutors the answer to every one of these questions is Yes.
Now consider the costs - including all the hidden ones.
Add the costs of the different courses needed.
What’s the attendance time worth?
What about the value of travel time?
And travel expenses?
And parking fees?
Allow for the possibility a session being missed, being left behind, dropping out, forfeiting course fees and waiting for courses to be run again if you can’t organise catchup sessions.
Include the value of lost work time and income due to specific fixed course session times, and if that work can’t practically be done at other times.
Include costs of child care, extra meals or anything else as a result of attendance at course sessions at inconvenient fixed times.
Remember that absence from a training session, and the lack of any way to catch up, may mean doing the whole course again, however far in the future that is, and hoping that no session is missed next time.
Allow for the cost of delaying improvement of skills (or getting a better job) until all the courses are finished.
What’s your total?
Be very careful when comparing costs.
Consider the overall value that you get from ComTutors.
You get convenient effective training by tuition, where and when you need it, in a sequence that makes sense and carefully builds knowledge and skills.
You get the flexibility to reschedule lessons, with no extra charge or lost fees, and even for training to be paused if necessary, ready to resume when it suits you.
Painless, convenient, effective.
And you get the ComTutors double guarantee - the content that we recommend will be right for your needs, and learning will be effective and painless, so you get the results you need.
All at fees that aren't even expensive.
ComTutors is your clear choice.