Support
Your cohort, available between sessions
Between two sessions, the cohort stays connected: a forum per course, threads per module and study groups open to anyone who wants one. A question posted in the evening often finds its answer before the next morning.
The spaces for exchange
The course forum
Open to everyone enrolled on the same programme. It carries the substantive questions, the ones that benefit everyone.
The module thread
Attached to one specific sequence. Exchanges stay tied to the lesson, which makes them findable months later.
The study group
Formed freely, around a shared time slot. You work together on exercises there, live or asynchronously.
What makes a thread useful
A well-framed question gets a fast answer, and then serves everyone who finds it later. Four habits are enough, and they take a week to install.
- Name the module and sequence in the first line
- Write what you already tried, and what it produced
- Ask a precise question rather than stating that you are stuck
- Come back and post the solution once found, for the next reader
How far the spaces reach
Every programme in the catalogue carries its forum, and each school groups its own. The material exchanged draws on the same base as the courses: that is what keeps a cohort answer consistent with what is taught.
- programme forums
- 30
- schools grouped
- 6
- fields covered
- 13
A data question finds readers coming from several programmes.
The tutor and the cohort work together
The two supports meet different needs and complement each other. The tutor handles your block the moment it arises, inside the exact content of your course. The cohort brings something else: other ways of approaching it, the working experience of people already in post, and the written trace of a difficulty someone cleared before you. The most frequent questions then move up into a live session, which closes the loop.
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