Tech Review: OnCourse Enrolment System

In the process of evaluating a student recruitment system on behalf of a university client, we came across an excellent free enrolment system. OnCourse, which is made by Sydney-based company ish, is a powerful tool for RTOs and universities. OnCourse is not really a learning management system but rather a system for recruiting, screening, enrolling and managing students and learners.

For an open source platform, onCourse really has some extensive features. As well as helping to manage contacts and communications, there are some tools that are useful for staff management, timetabling and reporting. Basic customisation of the system is pretty simple and because its open source, good developers could easily perform more significant customisations and integrations with other systems.

We managed to get onCourse up and running in a few minutes. For Australian RTOs, the system has NTIS data for all of your units pre-loaded so it would be a great solution for those with time constraints and budget constraints. Though the system was easy for us to install and use, it may be worthwhile engaging the ish team to help with customisation, hosting, data migration and training. Ish offer many of these services by subscription and their prices are fully public here.

Overall, a great system which should be included in your short list of potential management systems.

Platform: Client-server system with PC and Mac Versions

Cost: “Free to a good home” (open source).

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