Course
Planning and Enrolment
Course
Planning
Course Planning – the club recommends that beginners will benefit most from completing courses in the following sequence
•
Computer Awareness. By taking the computer awareness course you will
get a basic grounding which will help you to follow later courses more
easily. However, if you have prior experience, you may need to discuss
your starting point with the course coordinator.
• Email
• Introduction to Word Processing
• Files and Folders
• Manage your computer
After
gaining
your initial computer confidence members’ interests may lie in a
number of other course areas click
here to see other course details. To find out which
courses are being held this term click
here.
Course
Enrolment
New members will be put on a waiting list for a Computer Awareness course and advised when a place becomes available.
For all other courses, members will be advised prior to the commencement of each term of the course schedule for that term.
The procedure is as follows:
• To enrol, phone or email the tutor listed on the course schedule and book in.
• Make your payment on the first day of the course, preferably by cheque. A receipt will be issued.
•
Should there be too many applications – numbers are limited to 4 or 5
per class – you may be placed on a waiting list - or another class may
be formed if there are sufficient waiting.
• Please have your membership number ready when applying.
Course
Fees
The prescribed course fee is
calculated on the basis of $5 per week up to a maximum of $40 per
course, each week involving a class of 2 hours duration.
The following discounts apply:
•
Learners who repeat a course, provided they have the relevant course
manual, are not required to pay a further course fee for that course.
•
Learners who receive their course manual in CD format instead of a
printed manual will receive a discount of $5 from the prescribed course
fee.
• Current tutors and tutor assistants are
entitled to attend a class free of charge provided there is a vacancy.
Course
Terms and Course Lengths
The courses are scheduled in four terms of the year. Click here to see
term dates. All courses are run as two hour weekly sessions. That is:
• an eight week course is eight, two hour sessions weekly.
• a four week course is four, two hour sessions weekly
Workshops are usually scheduled as one single two hour session.
Course
Materials
A
take
home course manual, course notes, or a CD disk is provided with each
course.
To
see Course Summaries click
here
To
see Workshop details
click here
To see the schedule of courses
being held at present click here