At PD&R time, a lot of staff ask what professional development courses they attended in the last year. Maureen used to have to keep a manual record of this, and it was very time consuming.

Now staff development courses are being managed via the online course booking system, meaning that not only can staff book themselves into courses, but if they are checked on the course booking system as having actually attended, it is very easy to see who has been to what and when. However it does require that the person who takes the course, not only notes who attended, but then ticks them as having attended using the course booking system.

To do this, go to the course admin.

1) At the top of the page, beside the box where you can select the courses by group, there is a link “Display all sessions”. Click this. This then displays ALL the sessions for courses, including past sessions.
2) Then find your course and choose the session that you want to mark the attendance for.
3) At the top of the box for the session there is a link “Current Bookings”. Click on this to see who was booked. For past sessions there is a check box beside each name – click this for everyone who attended.
4) If anyone attended who was not booked, you can add them at the top of the list. You’ll need to do this by usercode – you can find this using the address book in Outlook.

See also the help pages for the Online Course Bookings on Camelot wiki. Any questions, or if you want help with doing any of this, contact Library IT.

Catherine