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I currently run a business giving courses of various types in large companies. Most of my clients only ask for one or two courses for a small group of students. In these cases, I normally have one contact with HR, and every month I manually generate a report of student attendance and evaluation results to send them. This probably isn’t a particularly efficient way of doing it, but as they’re small groups and only one or two courses, it doesn’t take up much of my time.
However, I have one client who started small, but currently ask us to teach around 65 students, for 12 different courses. The company is divided into various legal entities, all with their own HR contact. In the past few months, I’ve experienced the following issues:
1) Students sometimes don’t attend, then message me with an excuse, and checking its validity is nothing to do with me.
2) Some students miss certain classes and then ask my teachers to send them the topics they missed, which takes a lot of time.
3) Different HR contacts need to see the attendance / results of each student.
4) Students sometimes forget which room / link the class is in.
5) Generating the monthly report for each student takes a huge amount of time.
6) Manually entering grades etc allows for a possibility of human error.
There are probably other issues that I’ve forgotten too.
My idea is to use some kind of online portal where students can log in, see all the material for each class, complete evaluations (Google Forms style) register their attendance along with any possible excuses, see evaluation dates, see class links / locations / grades etc. This portal would also allow HR to log in and see the data they require.
Something like Google Classroom would be ideal, but as I’m not an actual school, it doesn’t seem like I don't qualify to get it. I’ve tried using Seesaw but it isn’t very user friendly and lacks some of the functionality I’m looking for.
So, are there any possible solutions people are aware of? I was even thinking of paying someone to create a live excel document that we could all edit etc, but I’m not sure how viable that is. I’m happy to pay for the right application as it would save us all a significant time each year and avoid a lot of potential problems.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
However, I have one client who started small, but currently ask us to teach around 65 students, for 12 different courses. The company is divided into various legal entities, all with their own HR contact. In the past few months, I’ve experienced the following issues:
1) Students sometimes don’t attend, then message me with an excuse, and checking its validity is nothing to do with me.
2) Some students miss certain classes and then ask my teachers to send them the topics they missed, which takes a lot of time.
3) Different HR contacts need to see the attendance / results of each student.
4) Students sometimes forget which room / link the class is in.
5) Generating the monthly report for each student takes a huge amount of time.
6) Manually entering grades etc allows for a possibility of human error.
There are probably other issues that I’ve forgotten too.
My idea is to use some kind of online portal where students can log in, see all the material for each class, complete evaluations (Google Forms style) register their attendance along with any possible excuses, see evaluation dates, see class links / locations / grades etc. This portal would also allow HR to log in and see the data they require.
Something like Google Classroom would be ideal, but as I’m not an actual school, it doesn’t seem like I don't qualify to get it. I’ve tried using Seesaw but it isn’t very user friendly and lacks some of the functionality I’m looking for.
So, are there any possible solutions people are aware of? I was even thinking of paying someone to create a live excel document that we could all edit etc, but I’m not sure how viable that is. I’m happy to pay for the right application as it would save us all a significant time each year and avoid a lot of potential problems.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.