Pharos Tutors launches brand new website and branding

From Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd (www.pharostutors.com):

Brand new Pharos Tutors branding, website and student experience

Pharos Tutors offers short online courses and certificate programmes in family history, local history and related topics. We are delighted to announce that we have today launched the brand new Pharos Tutors website and online course experience. 

The new system better serves the current Pharos Tutors business, which now has twenty tutors and over fifty courses, with more in development.  The key features are:

•    Updated look and feel
•    An easy to navigate website featuring the brand new Course Finder: The default view shows all courses and may be ordered by start date or course title. However, the course list can also be filtered by course type, e.g. just courses in the Intermediate Certificate programme, by level of difficulty, e.g. beginner’s courses, by Tutor or by start month. There is also an option to search by keyword, e.g. ‘parish registers’
•    Updated and modernised platform and technology
•    A single login for all Pharos Tutors systems - only one password to remember!
•    Technology used to run our courses brought ‘in house’ to run within the Pharos Tutors website
•    A totally redesigned Student interface, our Student Area, in keeping with a modern LMS (Learning Management System).

The Student Area is now organised by course, as we know many of our students take more than one course simultaneously and wanted things more easy to find. Lesson notes and other course documents are now located in the Course materials area. Messages from the tutor are in the Messages area and students can also contact their tutor directly from here. We also have a brand new forum and chat room system. Times for chat sessions and the links to them will appear in the Chat / Zoom area. Many of our tutors are now running some of their tutorials using the Zoom video system, and the links to those can also be found in the Chat / Zoom area.

The new Pharos Tutors website has been developed as an intuitive system with simple navigation, providing a much enhanced visitor experience for both current students and those considering taking a course with us. We look forward to seeing you on a Pharos Tutors course in the near future.

NB: If you'd ike to try out the new site, there's no better time than today with the launch of my my brand new course Researching Scottish Ancestral Crisis - details at https://www.pharostutors.com/researching-scottish-ancestral-crisis.

Chris 

(With thanks to Karen Cummings)

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