Preparation for delivering the CICO course

Providers' tasks checklist

Here is a list of tasks that may help providers.

Well before the course (4 weeks +)
  1. Facility rooms booked
  2. Equipment and resources sourced
  3. Course materials prepared
  4. Marketing and recruiting completed. Participants’ bookings confirmed via email
  5. Course manual
  6. Teaching faculty
    1. Booked
    2. Roles allocated: course director and faculty roles
    3. Prepared: preparatory information provided and briefings completed
  7. Technical and support personnel
    1. Rostered
    2. Roles allocated: team leader and roles
    3. Technical staff consulted and briefed about course schedule and format
  8. Administrative coordinator/contact person assigned
  9. Catering ordered
Shortly before the course (day before and morning of course)

Set up:

  1. Rooms including chair configuration, whiteboard
  2. Course materials: PowerPoint (check embedded video); main seminar room videos (confirm working with adequate audio); handouts; faculty guides; sign-on sheets, name badges, appraisal forms, certificates printed
  3. Other course coordination materials: sign on sheets, handouts, writing paper, appraisals, certificates
  4. Assignment of participants into groups of four to six
  5. Assignment of faculty to breakout rooms
  6. Rooms identified with signage to streamline movement of participants
During the course
  1. Pre-course faculty preparation: meeting with course director
  2. Interaction with participants: meet and greet; sign on sheets completed; name badges allocated; personal items secured; general support; confidentiality forms signed
  3. 'Housekeeping' briefing (during introduction): course privacy policy; confidentiality requirements; amenities; schedule; break opportunities; parking; security; Q&A
  4. Course coordination: timekeeping, catering
  5. Technical support of IT
After the course

Evaluation and certificate

  1. Appraisal forms distributed and collected at the end of the course
  2. Data entry of evaluations
  3. Certificates completed and distributed

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