31st January 2012 9:00
By Blue Tutors
Things are finally starting to get back to normal again. I did spend a lot of the last week helping Laura to settle in, and trying to make myself available as much as possible for all the questions. I suppose I take our website for granted a little, in terms of how easy it is to use, and, to be honest, it is fairly easy, but to be whizzing around it quickly you need to use it for a few days. Even I struggle when I’m looking at a page I don’t use very often.
I’ve now managed to automate our application process completely. There was a small amount of manual input that used to be done to check that a submitted application was ok, but after creating a few clever checks, the process is now completely automatic. Obviously this was done partly to help me and Laura, because it’s one task fewer that has to be done each day. However, I think it will offer a genuine benefit to applying tutors because they will be notified sooner if there is a problem with the application, and will be more quickly invited to attend an assessment.