Looking for a great training provider in your area?

We’ve always enabled you to find *a* training provider: our Class Locator tool has referred hundreds of thousands of customers to Certified Partners for Learning Solutions over the years.

Today, however, we’re pleased to announce a new Class Locator feature:

You can now see what our customers think of the training providers featured in Class Locator!

How it works:

At the end of every Microsoft Official course taught at or by a CPLS, the MCT who teaches the class asks the students to complete an on-line course evaluation.

Those evaluations are stored in an on-line database, indexed to the CPLS that offered the class.

When you search for a class in Class Locator, the search results now include a Customer rating, showing the number of surveys we have on file for that center from the previous twelve months, and a “star” rating indicating how satisfied those customers were with the training they received.

You can also view the detailed breakdown for the scores for a particular class.

Let’s take an example… here I search for a CPLS offering a particular Windows Server 2008 course (6421, Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure) within 100 miles of Philadelphia. My results look like this:

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All three of top matches have the same star rating, but Solartech’s New Jersey office has the most evaluations collected. So I’ll take a closer look there, clicking on “View course results…”

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Those are some pretty satisfied customers!

So the next time you’re looking for a place to take a Microsoft Official course, consider using our Class Locator to find a provider evaluated by other students like you!

Posted by Krosen