SeniorNet Motueka

Course Planning and Enrolment

Course Planning

All new members are expected to take or to have taken previously the equivalent of the beginner’s Computer Awareness course before proceeding further.

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.

After completing the computer awareness course it is recommended that you take the following sequence of courses.

Email,
Introduction to Word Processing

and to fully consolidate your initial computer knowledge,
Files and Folders
Manage Your Computer

And remember there is always a good case to be made for repeating a course if you feel you need to, in order to fully grasp the teaching in it.

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 contact 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