The following are the details of the courses offered on CMS by exeGesIS. For costs, see the CMS Price List page. The dates shown below are for public courses. Courses for a single organisation can be arranged at any mutually convenient time. If you have three or more people wanting training, this is a cheaper way to organise training.

CMS training courses can be organised solely for one organisation at any time or you can join in a scheduled course where attendees are from a number of organisations.

The next scheduled course dates are:

2008 

CMS7 Software - Foundation: September 18

2009

Management Planning Theory: January 23-24
CMS7 Software - Foundation: January 25
CMS7 Software - Intermediate: January 26

Management Planning Theory: June 23-24
CMS7 Software - Foundation: June 25
CMS7 Software - Intermediate: June 26

Management Planning Theory: September 22-23
CMS7 Software - Foundation: September 24
CMS7 Software - Intermediate: September 25

All these courses will be held at the exeGesIS offices in Talgarth in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Fees are £183 per person per day and do not include lunch. A minimum of three people are required for the course to run so these course details are being circulated to all CMS users now. We reserve the right to postpone the course, for instance, if sufficient people have not enrolled 14 days before the course start date. As numbers are limited, bookings are taken on a first come first served basis.

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Day One:

Introduction
Principles of Management Planning
Vision Statement
Policy Statements
Site Description
Identifying Nature Conservation Features
Creating Objectives for identified features
Identifying Factors and limits
Identifying Attributes and limits
Identifying Objective Status
Objective Rationale and Prescriptions

Day Two:

Recap on Day 1 with exercises
Project Planning
Other interesting features
Relationship with the Local Community
Access and Tourism
Interpretation
Responsibilities and Obligations
Plan Review
Plan Audit

In these two days, participants will be encouraged to create examples from their own sites. Note that there is no training given here in the CMS7 software. This is only about management planning.

Introduction to CMS7
Starting off
Entering Site Details
Entering Site Description Details
Entering Management Plan
Entering Project Records
Reporting

It is strongly advised that the Management Planning course is attending before sitting this CMS7 software course. However, if staff are recording work done and not involved in the planning process, then this is the correct course to attend. It will be assumed that attendees will be familiar with the CMS approach to management planning so planning issues will not be taught on this course, just use of the software.

Introduction to CMS7

Setting up the software
Issues relating to managing a multi-user or multi-site system
Rolling Plans Forward
Adjusting Planned Budgets
System Manager Options
Advanced Reporting
LibraryLink demonstration
MappingModule demonstration

At least one person from each organisation running CMS should attend this course as attendees will learn how to manage the system as well as the advanced functions of CMS.