Running ProTrainings courses
ProTrainings is our Trade Body for our Accredited First Aid courses. It certifies our courses and provides the multiple choice question paperwork.
Current practice:
- Pre-course
- Booking confirmed with you – Booking letter emailed out along with details (course ID, Centre ID) for the course assessment paperwork
- Manuals sent out only if you need top-ups.
- Learners added to the course by 4 Minutes ready for the online MCQs if at all possible.
- You can complete a whole ProTrainings course online with no paperwork. If you choose to use paperwork then before the course you will need to print out any course paperwork needed. Download it from the ProTrainings Dashboard. Fill in the Course paperwork – Client, venue, your name. Include Course ID (supplied by us on your Booking confirmation, or you can get it from your dashboard) and 4 Minute’s Centre no (91108). From the Dashboard you can also print out pre-filled learner sheets.
- Course day
- You deliver the course, and run the test at the end using the online MCQs where possible.
- Some learners may need editing on the day (see here for notes on how to do this)
- MCQ test taken and marked. Online (ideally) or paper-based (need to be marked by hand)
- Learners get two attempts. If they fail the first one you need to use your Dashboard to review the incorrect answers with them and reset the test.
- If any fail (two MCQ fails, or you are not happy with their Practical Assessment), explain why to them and complete a Professional Discussion sheet. Scan & upload it with the rest of the paperwork post-course.
- Post-course
- You scan any completed paperwork to PDF and upload directly to the ‘Course paperwork’ section for that course on your ProTrainings dashboard, rather than emailing to us. Let us know when done. If it was all online (Reg, MCQ, evaluation) for all learners there is nothing to upload.
- We IQA it and issue the Certificates for those that passed to the client.
- You can destroy any physical paperwork once we advise you that IQA is good.
- You invoice us for the course delivery plus £20 per course for the printing costs and any learner editing on the day. As long as we are happy with the paperwork IQA, invoice will be paid within 7 days
Advantages of online-only courses
- The only posting needed is for additional manuals to go out to you, so you do not have any return costs unless you are stopping delivering for us.
- The online MCQs save you all the time of marking and feeding back during a course
- More environmentally friendly – if you print and keep a float of course forms, none will go to waste if (say) we send out 12 sets and you only use 7
Changes for Internally Certified courses
For internally Certified courses, the process is roughly the same, but you do need to email us with PDFs of the Registration Forms and Assessment Forms. We don’t use MCQs and the feedback can be given online at 4Minutes.co.uk/feedback – or via the QR code if you want to incorporate it into your Powerpoint.
Notes for Andy
Blended learning
If existing learner they won’t get a training reminder. Instead, just get them to log in and click ‘Recertify’.