Cohort Notes

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An independent publication about digital course craft

Not a school, not a training provider, and not connected to any organisation that previously used this domain name.

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Cohort Notes publishes editorial guides on how digital courses for adults are designed, delivered and finished: scoping a course people complete, running a cohort at a distance, understanding where learner time actually goes, and keeping the operation behind a small training business solvent.

Who this is written for

Practitioners who teach. Someone running their second cohort alongside client work. A specialist turning what they know into a course. A small training team of two or three people. And, in the learner time section, the people taking the courses.

Most writing about online education assumes an institution: instructional designers, learning technologists, a support desk. Very little of it translates to one person who is also the instructor, the marker, the support team and the accounts department.

Important: this is not a school. This domain previously belonged to a school for children in India. That school is not connected to this site in any way. We are not that school, we do not represent it, we hold none of its material, and we cannot forward a message to it. There are no admissions here, no application forms, no enrolment and no student records. If you were looking for the school, please contact it directly through its own current channels.

What this site is not

  • It is not a school, college, academy or training provider. Nobody is enrolled, no course is sold and no qualification is issued.
  • It has nothing to do with the education of children. Everything here concerns adult professional learning.
  • It does not collect applications, admissions data or student information of any kind. There is no form on this site.
  • It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any organisation that previously used this domain name. No previous site’s text, photographs, names, staff details or contact information are reproduced here in any form.

How this site is funded, plainly

There is no advertising, no tracking and nothing is sold here. References to software and external resources are included only where they help explain a practical point in a guide.

Everything else named in these guides — platforms, video tools, assessment software — is named because it illustrates a category. There are no affiliate arrangements and nobody has paid for a mention.

For open web standards and technical reference material, the World Wide Web Consortium maintains public documentation used across the web.

On the advice given here

The guides are written in general terms and describe common practice rather than rules. Anyone running training commercially should take their own advice on contracts, consumer rights, refunds, tax and data protection, all of which differ by country and change over time.

How the guides are put together

Each guide deals with one problem and tries to answer it at a level someone could act on: what to decide, what to measure, what it costs, and what happens when it goes wrong. Where a recommendation has a cost — and most do — the cost is stated rather than omitted.

Guides are revised when practice changes rather than on a schedule. The full list is in the index.

No contact form, by design. This site collects nothing. There is no enquiry form, no newsletter, no login, no comments, no analytics and no cookies. Nothing you do here is recorded, because there is nothing here to record it with.