If You're New Here...
1) Join our Student-Only Facebook Group
If you haven’t already, we would love you to join the Novice/Grads Facebook group. This is a general support and advice group but we do a lot of course organisation within this group so it really is rather important that you join.
PS – Please do not, under any circumstances, private message your Educators on Facebook. If you don’t want to post publicly in the group, email us instead.
2) Complete our Pre-Training Survey
If you haven’t already done this for previous classes, please head over to this link and fill out our Pre-Training Survey. You will need to complete a Learning Styles quiz and Personality Test beforehand so that you can add the answers within the survey. Both are quick and easy but it’s crucial that we have the results to be able to help you learn in the best possible way. We’re trained to fully understand the outcomes and adjust our teaching styles accordingly.
3) Start your Course!
Access to the online components of your course by logging into this website. You’ll find them under Dashboard > Courses.
Click on any Module to start going through the course content. You will occasionally see markers that say ‘It’s time to book a lesson’ (which refers to a 3-Hour block with an Educator, either in person or via our Virtual Classroom video link).
4) Book your Lessons!
Only once you have reached a Lesson Marker (‘It’s time to book a lesson’) in your online workbook can you book in to work with an Educator on a particular skill. You can book via the Marker page or at the bottom of the page you’re on now.
If you want to do all live lessons back to back (for example you are travelling or taking time off work to do them), you are more than welcome to do this, just complete all online content first.
4) Find models for your lessons
All Lessons require models. You can see details of what models are required by downloading and printing the Lesson Guides for each Module (linked below).
A hand out to help you find the models you need can be found below too. You can also follow the instructions on the Models Page to ask for help sourcing models. If you know someone who wants to BE a model, there is a link on that page where they can be added to our Mailing List.
You are welcome to use our Student Facebook group to find other students with whom you can share models. This just takes off the time pressure during a lesson.
Lesson Guides for All Modules
Portfolio Guides
As you work through the practical modules, you will see the Portfolio Sets in amongst the lessons, along with the opportunity to submit your work for review. You are required to submit these Portfolio Sets in order to get recognition of Module Completion.
Assessment Links
Click any of the Practical Assessment links and then enter your name as Test Test and your email as your real email. You will then be able to see the criteria and click through the entire marking sheet.
You can also access ‘How to Pass’ videos for each Assessment in the relevant online module.
Other Useful Downloads
Also Note
ADDRESS – Unless specified otherwise in the Reminder Email you are sent a week before class starts, the address for class is 123C Main Highway, Ellerslie.
Book a Lesson
Don’t book anything until you reach a Marker that says ‘It’s time to book a lesson’ in your online workbook. When you get that far, download and read the Lesson Guide for your Module and then come back here.
You can view our schedule on the Google Calendar below (including Educator/Mentor details) and then once you have a plan, scroll a little bit further to book the spaces you want via Shedul. Do not attempt to book via the Google Calendar, it won’t work!
Finished all your Lessons? You can also use these calendars to book a desk in our studio. Bring a model and practice using our full range of products.
If you book for one of the ‘Optional’ lessons you will be invoiced $90, payable immediately.
Please note that In-Person students are welcome to complete lessons via the Virtual Classroom instead, any time they want. Online students can book In-Person classes instead of using the Virtual Classroom but will need to pay $30 per Lesson to use our studio products. We don’t charge for product used to sit an Assessment.
Booking a Lesson? Any cancellation made within 72 hours of a Lesson will be charged a cancellation fee of $90. This covers the cost of you using a desk when you rebook the lesson. It is necessary because we run at very small class sizes. When you don’t turn up and then need to rebook that lesson, you have used 1/6th of our potential income twice, instead of the once that was covered in your Course Fees.
Booking a free repeat or an Assessment? Any cancellation made within 72 hours of a Lesson will lose you the privilege of free repeats. You will only be allowed to repeat in future at the per-lesson cost of $90.