The Course Finder Navigation Icons
The Course Finder is like a website within a website, so it has its own navigation icons:| Home takes you back to the start of the Course Finder Tool | |
| Shows you all the courses that you have saved or bookmarked in this session. | |
| link to the Help page (this page!) |
Course Finder Main Section
All the available courses have been divided up into 16 sectors. These sectors are taken from the 15 routes that are used on the Institute for Apprenticeships website, plus Preparation for Work.An Example — looking for an Electrical course
- click on the Construction sector
- this will open up a new set of boxes within the Construction page
- click on the Electrical box
Colour-coded Boxes
| Higher Education | |
| Apprenticeship | |
| Full-time | |
| Part-time |
Saving Courses
To save a course to review at the end of the session, tick the tickbox in the top–right corner
these saved courses will be lost once you have closed the browser.
Exiting the Courses List
click on the in the top right cornerFiltering Courses
- You can filter courses according to whether they are HE, Apprenticeships, Full–time, Part–time etc, and by Level
- on a large screen, this will be on the left
- on a tablet or smartphone, the menu will be displayed after tapping on the filter icon:
- Once your filter(s) have been applied, then any boxes with no courses meeting your filter settings will be faded BUT can still be opened
you must click on the Apply button for your changes to take effect
Postcode
If a postcode is entered, the Course Finder will then give you a distance (as the crow flies, so actual journey times may be very different) from the course location to this postcode.Searching for Courses in a New Sector
You will need to go back to the Course Finder home, by clicking on, then navigate to the new sector.
The Saved Courses Page
- is accessed via the Bookmark icon
- Here you can review all the courses that you have bookmarked
- Remember that these courses will not be saved once the browser is closed, so if you want to save them, you would need to print them off
