BookmyCourse – Our new look site
What’s New on BookmyCourse?
Here at BookmyCourse we are always optimising our website to enhance user experience and make it as easy as possible to find the right course for your needs. Recent developments put in place include:
New Top Level Navigation Bar
Bookmycourse has an updated top level navigation bar, which allows us to create more sections. The “More” button allows you to access more section pages. One of our most recent additions is the Utilities & Safety Passports category, which contains easy access to all CCNSG, EUSR and SPA Safety Passport categories.
Special Offer Button
The special offer button has been updated to a new colour - bright red, which we hope is most effect to giving direct access to all course events with special offers, helping you to find more cost effective courses. You can find this link on all key pages of our website.
E-Learning Button
E-learning courses are extremely popular, and we have implemented a direct link to all available on all key pages on the website on the right hand side.
Saturday Courses
We know that not everyone can train in the week, and from feedback that easier ways to find Saturday specific courses would be beneficial, we have implemented a direct link to these course options. You can find this link on all key pages of our website.
Day Release Courses
As with Saturday courses, we have updated each key page on the website to include a direct link to Day Release courses. These are great for apprentices who need to fit training in around their workplace roles.
Course Finder
The course finder bar allows you to search by course category or by keyword text.
When you search using the Course Finder, Google Maps opens automatically, allowing you to see where course are located in the UK. You can also enter your location, so that you can see where the courses are located relative to you.
You can page through the search results and you can even click on a map pin to show all the course dates for courses at a specific location.
Once you have entered a location the “Miles Radius” slider comes into play and this should help to find the courses that are closest to you.
The “Max Price” slider can be employed to limit the search by course price.
The advanced filter offers a range of new filter functions. For example, you may only be interested in day release courses as you cannot take time off in one block, so you can select only those courses that are day release events. Or, you might only be able to start a course on a specific day of the week, so you can select the day of the week that the course starts.
You can, also, use the advanced filter to search for Special Offers only.
Site Search
The Site Search extends the search capability of the site and will search down into the detailed wording of course overviews. Site Search returns the first 300 search results from a search, so it is sometimes better to extend your search with more keywords to get better results. For example, you may want to find a CPCS Course for an Excavator. On the first attempt you search for the word “Construction”, and Site Search returns too many results, and only shows the first 300, none of which include Excavator courses. If you now extend you search to “Construction CPCS”, the search results are more relevant as the courses that you want to see come into the results. If you then extend the search further “Construction CPCS Excavator”, the search results are even more relevant.
Recently Viewed Courses
This feature, which appears on the home page and all section pages allows you to see the course pages most recently visited, and provides links so that you can return to them.
Most Popular
This feature provides visibility of the most popular courses on the site, with quick links to the course pages.
Pinned Courses
Pinned courses feature provides a summary of linked courses that you have pinned for reference. By clicking on the links you can revisit these courses and un-pin them should you wish that they be removed from the pinned courses list.
Quick Links Boxes
We have provided a number of quick links boxes on the Home page and Section pages, these quick link boxes allow you to access weekend courses, day release courses or simply provide fast links to see course dates for the most common course types.