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title: "Training: Manager's guide | Training management | myhrtoolkit"
description: Here is our manager's guide to using the training management tool to manage training courses and requests on our HR software platform.
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# Training – Manager’s guide

This guide serves as an overview for Training Managers on how to set up training courses and events in myhrtoolkit.

 

## First steps: assigning Training Managers

Controllers can select controllers or managers to become Training Managers. Only Training Managers can create training courses and events, so you need to assign these roles to start with the training module.

- To set Training Managers click on Config > Access rights > User permissions.
- To allocate users to the Training Manager go to Config > Access rights > Training Managers.

 

## Training settings

All settings related to Training can be accessed via the ‘Slider’ icon.

[![Assign Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_08_settings.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_08_settings.png)

All aspects of Training can be controlled from here, apart from the assignation of Training Managers which are set in Config.

[![Assign Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_09_settingspage.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_09_settingspage.png)

For additional information on settings, see the [Training Settings support guide](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/training-settings/).

 

## The Training Course

   [![Training Courses](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_01_courses.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_01_courses.png)

A *Course* in the context of myhrtoolkit is an intended overview of the training to be taught. In educational terms, it can be defined by the course outline or any other documents added.

In business terms, it has attributes such as Cost Centre (mandatory), CPD points, category, the qualification to which it leads, renewal frequency, and a collection of documents (as required).

The [Training Glossary](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/training-glossary/) defines some terms used in Training.

### Adding a new Training Course

To create a course, navigate to Management > Training > Go to Managed Training Courses. Click the ‘New‘ button at the top of the list.

[![Training Courses](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_02_newcourse.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_02_newcourse.png)

When all relevant details have been put in, click the Create button. The new course will now appear in the list of courses.

After the form submission and creation of the new Course, you will be prompted for what you want to do next, whether adding events to the new course, managing visibility (selecting which users can see this training course and enable attendance requests), or adding another course.

 

## Training Events

Once a course has been created, a manager can create *Training Events* which are courses which have a time, a place, and a provider. e.g. a ‘First Aid Course’ might have a provider of “St. John’s Ambulance”, a date of 24th May, and a location of “Town Hall Meeting room 2.”

To create a new Training Event use the Actions menu and select View Events.  
[![Training Course menu](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_03_courseMenu.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_03_courseMenu.png)

Click the New button at the top of the (potentially empty) list.  
[![New Training Event](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_04_newcourseevent.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_04_newcourseevent.png)

Fill in the form with the relevant details, and on clicking the Create button the new event will appear in the Events list.  
[![Training Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_05_courseevents.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_05_courseevents.png)

#### Time Windows

We recognise that not every training event will have all the delegates together, in one location as with a more traditional ‘training course’ – this paradigm doesn’t work if the training is self-regulated within a time window.  
E.g. “In August everyone must do alcohol training.”

To handle this there is a training ‘time window’ option. This allows users to complete the course and be marked independently in time.

When selecting the date range for the training course event, there is also a selector with 2 options:

- *Single Event Training*
  
  Allow marking after end date of event (all users attend the same event)
- *Time Window Training*
  
  Users attendance can be marked anytime after start of the time window (training should be completed at any time with in the two dates – and send reminders to Staff and managers with 5 days to go).
  
  Once this option is set, it cannot be changed after the time window has begun. Equally the dates for the time window cannot change once the window has begun, and not set into the past.

 

## “I’m going on a course...”

Managers can then assign employees to an instance.

[![Assign Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_06_courseeventAssignMenu.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_06_courseeventAssignMenu.png)

Employee selection is via the [Omnibox](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/training-glossary/#omnibox).

Employees can request to go on a training event (see the [Training – Users Guide](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/training-users-guide/) for more information). These requests will appear as a notification, and can be accepted or denied.

When an event has been created and has employees assigned, it will be visible in the Future tab.

[![Future Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/PersTrain-Mgr-03-Future.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/PersTrain-Mgr-03-Future.png)

After the training event has taken place, attendees can then rate their experience of the course. Managers can also assign marks, or keep an attendance record of the course.

 

## Marking Courses

After a training event has run, there is provision for recording attendance, along with a mark and/or pass/fail as needed. Navigate to Management > Training > Training Results.

[![Marking Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_07_courseeventMarking.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_mgr_07_courseeventMarking.png)

This screen presents all employees who were registered to be on training events which have run, but have not been ‘marked.’

Columns can be sorted to group training events or employees together to ease the inputting. As some courses do not assign marks, or may not even have a ‘pass/fail,’ these fields can be left untouched as needed. The Reset button can be used to clear values. When the correct assessment has been inputted, use the Mark button to record the values. Additional comments can also be added in the Manager Feedback box as appropriate. These will be visible to the User.

> Note – Users are also able to update their results. If an expecetd entry cannot be found here, it is likely that the user has already entered their score. The record would then be shown in the Records tab.

 

## Reports

The reports section of the training module provides an array of reports, covering costs, course feedback, and individual employee training records.

Where applicable, results can be filtered by accessing the orange Filters tab at the top of the report.

(image of several of the report menus and a report-screen)

[![Assign Training Events](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_user_03_trainingReportsMontage_5.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_user_03_trainingReportsMontage_5.png)

 

## Notifications

Myhrtoolikit uses a sophisticated Notifications system to track activity surrounding training courses – employees requesting attendance, attendance being marked, etc. It is designed to help managers keep up to date and to let employees know about available training.

[![Training User Feedback Notification](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_Notifications_Feedback.png)](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/supportal_images/Training_Notifications_Feedback.png)

Further reading about Notifications can be found in the [Guide to Training Notifications](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/training-notifications/).

 

## What if..?

 

** What if someone went on the course unplanned?

If a course event has passed, but it transpires that an additional employee (or employees) attended at the last minute, they can be added into the attendees selection easily.

Find the course event in question, and using the Actions menu, select “Assign to Employees.” Even though the course event has passed, employees can still be assigned to the event.

** What if someone didn’t attend?

If an employee failed to attend, depending on the reason, there are two available courses of action:

#### Mark the employee as absent

Find the event in Results and then the employee. In the Results box, mark the employee as ‘Absent.’ This will record that the employee failed to attend.

#### Remove the employee from the event

If it was known sufficiently in advance that the employee would not attend, or had been assigned to the event in error, it may be best to remove them completely from. This can be done my using the Manage Attendees option from the Actions menu against the Course Event.

Use the red icon of a person with a line through to remove them from the list. This method will leave no trace that they were ever assigned to the event.

** What if an event is rescheduled?

If, for whatever reason, and event needs to be moved in time, this can be done using the Edit Event option from the Event’s Action menu.

> ***Note*** – Currently, a change of date like this will not generate a notification for the attendees, and will need following up with them.

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[Employee files guide for Managers and Controllers](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/support/how-to-guides/guide-employee-files/)

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