Workshop Feedback – Corndel Forms

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Date of workshop*

Programme*

Unit*

Facilitators

BCP4

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SPP7

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DDL

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L&M

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FR

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PM

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Softwire

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Data

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BA

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LM7

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PP5

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S4B

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Degree level

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Workshops Questions

To what extent do you agree with the following statements?*

	Strongly agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly disagree
Agenda and objectives for the workshop were clearly stated and achieved
The environment throughout the session was conducive to learning
The presenters were appropriately knowledgeable for the subject matter of the workshop
The presenters made the workshop engaging

Leadership & Management Level 3

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
How your programme will support you to develop as a manager: What you can expect, how you’ll learn, and what’s expected of you
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British values in the context of your programme
How you can manage your time effectively to get the most from your programme
Your next steps on the programme and setting up your first 1-2-1 with your Professional Development Expert

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
The differences and overlaps between leadership and management and what this means for you in your role
Key leadership theories and what these mean in practice for you as a manager
How you can use one or more of the theories to help you develop as manager

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
How you can develop your skills and build successful teams
What is involved in coaching vs mentoring
How to use the GROW model of coaching with your team
How you can put into practice your new skills with your team

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
What continuous improvement means in practice for you as a manager
How you might make improvements in your team / business area
Developing a good business case using the PASS Framework

Leadership & Management Level 3 - 3.2

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
The differences and overlaps between leadership and management and this means for you in your role
Key leadership theories and what these mean in practice for you as a manager
How you can use one or more of the theories to help you develop as a manager
The difference between coaching & Mentoring
Using the GROW model of coaching in practice to support you in your management role

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Learning from Unit 3
Application of new skills
Developing peer relationships
Learning from the experience of others on the programme
Applying new learning to your own work context

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

Leadership & Management Level 3.6

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Knowing what success looks like and how to get there
Understanding the course structure and how to get the most from your learning
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British Values in the context of your programme
Preparing for your first 1-2-1 coaching slot
Feeling confident in completing your programme

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Connecting with others in your cohort
Gaining clarity around presentation scenarios
Experiencing practical engagement with AI
Understanding of experience required in Unit 2

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Consolidating learning from Unit 2.
Exploring and practicing influencing skills.
Looking ahead to Unit 3 and evidence requirements for your POEs.
Exploring the characteristics of constructive feedback.
Practicing two coaching skills: active listening and summarising.

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

Leadership & Management Level 5

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
How your programme will support you to develop as a manager: What you can expect, how you’ll learn, and what’s expected of you
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British values in the context of your programme
How you can manage your time effectively to get the most from your programme
Why you're starting the programme and how to kick start your personal development planning
Your next steps on the programme and setting up your first 1-2-1 with your Professional Development Expert

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
What coaching means in practice, and why it is an important tool for leaders
Applying coaching models in practice
Reflecting on your natural approach to critical conversations in order to help you deal with conflict
To review and share best practice in handling conflict and to increase confidence addressing issues

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

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The differences and relationships between data, knowledge and information and how you can use them as a leader
Awareness of what knowledge management means in practice for an organisation
Your organisational and individual approach to knowledge management

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

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What you need to do for your Work Based Project proposal and how you will be assessed
Sharing best practice on the components of an effective project including planning and progressing your project proposal.
The fundamentals of a business case and how you begin to develop and test this for your work based project
Conducting a stakeholder analysis to identify, understand, prioritise and manage the stakeholders for your work based project

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

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How and why we set budgets
How we monitor budgets and analyse the data to increase profit and/or control costs
The key terminology involved in budgeting
Working effectively with your finance team in setting and monitoring budgets in your organisation

Leadership & Management Level 5.6

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Knowing what success looks like and how to get there
Understanding the programme structure and how to get the most from your learning
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British Values in context with your programme
Preparing for your first 1-2-1 coaching slot
Feeling confident in completing your programme

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understanding the requirements of the project to be delivered during Unit 3 & 4
Building your confidence
Identifying the fundamentals of a business case
Starting to develop your own business case

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understanding the requirements of the professional discussion.
Considering how to prepare for the professional discussion.
Practicing possible professional discussion questions.

L&M 5 - Women in Leadership

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Knowing what success looks like and how to get there
Understanding the programme structure and how to get the most from your learning
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British Values in context with your programme
Preparing for your first 1-2-1 coaching slot

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
To understand the requirements of the professional discussion
To consider how to prepare for the professional discussion
To practice possible professional discission questions

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understanding the requirements of the project to be delivered during Unit 3 and 4
Building your confidence
Identifying the fundamentals of a business case
Starting to develop your own business case

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

Leadership & Management - EPA

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
The EPA assessment process and what it consists of
The the marking scheme and how to go from good to great
The Assessment process including the evidence and the live assessment
How to use the EPA guide and best practice for preparation and hints & tips

Fundraising Level 3

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
How your programme will support you to develop as a fundraiser
What you can expect, how you’ll learn, and what’s expected of you
Introducing Safeguarding, Prevent & British values in the context of your programme
How to use Aptem to complete CPD tasks
Your next steps on the programme and setting up your first 1-2-1 with your Professional Development Expert

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
How to network internally and externally
How to produce a community map which shows the various potential supporters in your network
how to build rapport and build new connections
your next steps for building a network internally and externally

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Your understand the key components of a good case for support
Your ability to articulate your own charity’s case for support and learn from others
Your understanding of how to adapt your case for support into case statements for different audiences
Your knowledge on how to engage supporters with what your charity does with a short fundraising proposition

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Your understanding of what good presentations look like and how you can work towards overcoming the fear factor
Your skills around building effective PowerPoints/Slides to engage your audience
How you put presentations together now and how you currently prepare for these
Your understanding of what you will do differently for your next presentation

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understand EPA: Understand the EPA assessment process and what it consists of
Understand the results: Fail, Pass and distinction – how to go from good to great
Assessment process: The evidence, The presentation, the live assessment
Revision guidance: How to use the EPA guide, best practice for preparation and hints & tips

To what extent did the workshop increase/consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the following?

DevOps

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understand the structure of the Software Developer apprenticeship programme
Get to know the team you'll be working with - Tutors, support staff, and your fellow apprentices
Understand how safeguarding and British Values are important in this programme
Start to develop a deeper understanding of what DevOps means, and how it will benefit your current role
Know what to do to prepare for your first technical workshop (invite to follow)

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Reinforce understanding of coding fundamentals in Python
Obtain a grasp of basic web app concepts (using Flask)
Establish familiarity with common git commands
Become confident in creating and uploading to git repositories (incl. raising pull requests)

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Practice pair/mob programming using the driver/navigator pattern
Understand the benefits of APIs for automation and how to find documentation
Establish awareness of clean coding principles, refactoring and tech debt
Obtain experience with whiteboarding and program design

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Practice writing different types of tests, which types of risks they mitigate, what tooling is required for each type
Reinforce understanding of how TDD works, and its advantages/disadvantages
Demonstrate how to write code in a way that makes testing easy / possible
Experience how tests facilitate safe refactoring of code

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Reinforce understanding of the basics of terminals, incl. reading/writing to files, searching & chaining commands
Practice creating & executing Bash scripts (with a shebang and shell options)
Develop confidence connecting to remote servers over SSH
Automating the creation of virtual machines

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Explain the benefits of immutable infrastructure over maintaining long term servers/services
Practice building and running docker containers
Orchestrate multiple containers locally using docker compose
Demonstrate uploading and downloading images from container registries

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand concepts such as user personas & user journeys, and how they can be used to build user stories
Practice translating user needs into deliverable tasks
Experiment with various design and planning tools
Practice presenting to technical and non-technical audiences

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Demonstrate setting up a CI workflow linked to a git repository (e.g. GitHub Actions)
Introduce addons/actions to an existing pipeline
Setup a dedicated CI server locally
Automate the sending of notifications when pipelines terminate

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Automate the build of release artefacts as part of a pipeline
Obtain experience setting up a continuous deployment pipeline
Practice promotion of releases to different environments
Deploy containers to a hosting provider (Heroku)

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Establish familiarity with various databases technologies and the trade-offs between them
Discuss how to process and manage data within the context of data protection policy and legislation
Understand the varying requirements on a database (e.g. read, write heavy loads, high availability, recovery plans etc.)
Learn how different database architectures can be used to satisfy varying requirements

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Develop awareness of common threats and attack vectors, and understand common mitigation techniques
Understand how architectural design can influence data security and attack surface area
Assess identified and potential security threats and take appropriate action based on likelihood vs impact
Setup federated authentication using OAuth and using this to facilitate RBAC and ACL

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand the different types of Cloud tooling (SaaS vs IaaS vs PaaS)
Learn the trade-offs between public and private cloud setups
Establish familiarity with using a public cloud platform (Azure) and provisioning resources
Practice working with Serverless architectural design (using Azure Functions & Message Queues)

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand the advantages of using IaC to provision infrastructure
Learn the differences between the various tools available (Single vs Multi-Platform, Declarative vs Imperative)
Experience setting up new infrastructure using IaC
Practice migrating existing infrastructure to a manged IaC framework

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Install & manage logging on an existing cloud application
Setup analytics for a web application to track logs and metrics
Practice setting up alerts based on metrics that will notify interested parties
Construct dashboards to visualise performance across slices of cloud infrastructure

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand the differences between various common container orchestration tools
Introduce the basics around Kubernetes, including the architecture, configuring pods & services, and deploying workloads
Setup scaling policies for your cluster based on various performance metrics
Practice working with a managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Feel confident using Visual Studio Code to write and execute Python files
Understand the core concepts of variables and data types
Practise defining and calling functions
Practise using control flow such as “if” conditions

Dev Ops 4.3

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understanding the course structure and how to get the most from your learning.
Knowing what success looks like and how to get there.
Considering safeguarding, Prevent & British values in the context of your organisation and your course.
Preparing for your first 1-2-1 coaching slot.
Familiarising yourself with 'A Cloud Guru' and starting to explore it.

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Having an idea of how long the absolute minimum cycle can be to produce value and respond to feedback
Getting a practical idea of how to create "value" using the technical skills you've acquired in the last two weeks
Getting an early preview of how deploying to the cloud can make it easy for you to get a working system in front of people quickly and robustly

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Gaining confidence in writing Python to analyse data
Understanding the benefits of git and git workflows
Feeling comfortable with raising a pull request
Getting experience in pair programming

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understanding how to use an API by reading its documentation.
Interacting with an API using command line and programming tools.
Understanding the relationship between frontend websites and backend APIs.
Modifying and augment an existing API.

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Getting familiar and comfortable with the TDD workflow.
Getting comfortable and capable of writing code backed by tests.
Gaining insight into what good tests look like.
Understanding how good tests enable you to write code more confidently.
Understanding how good tests enable you to refactor code more confidently.

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Getting experience connecting to virtual machines.
Gaining familiarity in working with virtual machines at the command line.
Becoming comfortable using configuration management tools to provision virtual machines.

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understand the different types of Cloud tooling (SaaS vs IaaS vs PaaS)
Establish familiarity with using a public cloud platform (Azure) and provisioning resources
Practice working with serverless architectural design (using Azure Functions/Logic Apps & Message Queues)

Software

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

	Significantly	Somewhat	Not at all
Understand the structure of the Software Developer apprenticeship programme
Get to know the team you'll be working with - Tutors, support staff, and your fellow apprentices
Understand how safeguarding and British Values are important in this programme

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand how to write logical code in at least one programming language
Use code to fetch data from an external API and display it on a front-end
Store, access and manipulate data using a database
Test your code using unit tests, debuggers and manual testing

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand the format for the exam and the required pass mark
Explain the difference between Agile and Waterfall development methodologies, and when each one is appropriate
List the seven stages of the SDLC, and explain the purpose and outputs of each
Understand the roles and responsibilities commonly involved in software development projects

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand how the portfolio is graded, and what formats are acceptable
Explain how the work you've done is valuable to the business
Understand that the portfolio should cover the full breadth of the standard, and review the criteria for that
Make a start on your own portfolio, including a professional summary page

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand what the synoptic project is, and why it's important
Have considered the three available options for the synoptic project to identify the one that's most suitable for you
Know how to plan your time to ensure you can complete the project in time
Understand options for preparing for the synoptic project

To what extent did the workshop support you to..

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Understand what's required to pass the exam, and where to find the syllabus for reference
Identify any areas of uncertainty, and highlight parts of the course material or other material that might be useful for revision
Discuss methods of effectively revising for technical exams