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Education & Training
Website Design

Thrive designs websites for registered training organisations, schools, colleges, training companies and education publishers across Australia. Our Gold Coast team builds education websites around the course or the enrolment: a page per course with the details students and ASQA expect, online enrolment and payment, student information that answers the questions before the phone rings, and a site your admin team can keep current.

Websites for training organisations, schools and educators

A prospective student or parent is comparing courses and providers in one sitting, and will enrol or book a tour with the one that explains things clearly and makes the next step easy. Thrive Digital designs education websites that do exactly that.

What makes a great learning and education website?

Whether the visitor is a school leaver, a career changer, an employer booking training or a parent choosing a school, they want the same thing: clear information, a sense of the place, and an easy way to enrol or enquire.

  • A page per course or program with duration, delivery mode, units or curriculum, entry requirements, fees, intakes and a clear enrol or enquire button.
  • For RTOs, your RTO code, national course codes and the student information the regulator expects, easy to find.
  • Online enrolment and payment, or an enquiry and booking path that lands with admissions immediately.
  • Staff and educator profiles with real photos and qualifications.
  • Student support, policies, fees and refunds, and what a typical week looks like, so fewer questions reach the front desk.
  • For schools and centres, tour booking, enrolment steps and a sense of the community.
  • A content system your admin team can run: new intakes, new courses, new dates.

Learning and education websites we have designed

AppleBerries Early Learning

Thrive created a new brand identity and website for AppleBerries Early Learning, a group of Queensland childcare centres: a warm, nature-inspired brand and a site built around locations, learning journeys…

Physiotots

Physiotots has been offering paediatric physiotherapy services for over 23 years. With clinics throughout Melbourne, Physiotots caters to children aged 0 to 18+ years, young adults and beyond. Physiotots approached…

QSport

QSport partnered with Thrive Digital to refresh their brand, reflecting their evolving role within Queensland’s sporting landscape. We crafted a modern, inclusive identity and redesigned their website to deliver a…

Currumbin Alley Surf School

Currumbin Alley Surf School is the Alley's original surf school, established in 1993. They offer year – round surfing lessons on the Gold Coast for people of all ages, sizes…

Kool Beanz

Kool Beanz Academy, a family-owned and operated childcare provider, has centres located across NSW and QLD. Their innovative, play-based learning programs focus on both social and emotional development, igniting children's…

Tax Banter

Tax Banter reached out to Thrive Digital for a full site upgrade to coincide with the launch of their new branding. The collaboration resulted in an innovative and user-friendly website…

Certitude Australia

To better connect with their potential clients, Certitude Australia approached Thrive Digital to create an engaging website that showcases their wide range of services, while positioning them as a leader…

Aurora Training Institute

Aurora Training Institute provides exceptional education and training choices to help individuals looking for their first job, returning to the workforce, seeking a career change, or a promotion with their…

ManTnatal – The Modern Dad

Gary, Founder of ManTnatal reached out to Thrive Digital for a logo, branding, and website for his business, which helps men prepare and set up for the life changes that…

Institute of Management

The Institute of Management contacted Thrive Digital to create a professional, mobile-friendly website which outlines their offerings and makes it easy for people to search and purchase courses of interest.…

COBA First Aid

COBA First Aid produces stunning educational videos in order to help teach people about first aid. They wanted a digital persona that was clean and simplistic yet gave them a…

School Searcher

School Searcher was created to help parents filter through the overwhelming amount of schools and nurseries in the United Arab Emirates. The website has evolved into the largest database resource…

The Sector

The Sector is the first dedicated online business news, views and reviews website for Early Childhood Education and Care. Published by the sector, for the sector, the publication aims to produce…

Life Education Australia

Life Education Queensland programs teach children safer and healthier choices by introducing key health messages about nutrition, physical exercise, online safety, legal and illegal drugs, and cyberbullying. To reflect the…

The Language Academy

Located in the heart of Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast, The Language Academy offers fantastic learning opportunities for students in one of the most beautiful places in Australia. The…

Great Start Early Learning Centre

The Great Start Early Learning Centres focus on building children’s social, emotional and physical wellbeing, and were in need of a dynamic website with advanced functionality and smoother navigation. With…

ACE Community College

ACE Community College was looking for a complete rebuild with a modern, stable platform capable of showcasing courses at various college locations with the ability for users to enrol and…

"From conception to delivery of the site the team were professional, receptive, available and responsive. We are so happy with the ManTnatal website and are looking forward to working with Thrive long term and, most importantly, helping as many dads as we can in the future."

The ManTnatal team

ManTnatal, The Modern Dad

What an education website needs

The course is the page

Students search for the course, not the provider: “Certificate III in Individual Support Gold Coast”, “first aid course Brisbane”. Each course gets its own page with everything a student needs to decide, named the way people search, so the site ranks for every course you deliver.

Compliant with the training regulator

RTOs are expected to publish their RTO code, use national course titles and codes, and give students accurate information about fees, entry requirements and support before they enrol. We build course pages so this is the default.

Enrol without the paperwork

Online enrolment and payment where it suits, or a short enquiry that captures the course, intake and funding situation and lands with admissions straight away. Connected to your student management system where it helps.

Answer before they ask

Fees and funding, intake dates, delivery modes, support services, policies, what a week looks like. Clear pages on each reduce the calls to your front desk and the drop-off between interest and enrolment.

The place and the people

Real photography of your campus, classrooms and educators. Parents and students want to see where they will be and who will teach them.

Built to change every term

Intakes, dates, prices and courses change constantly. We build education sites so your admin team can update them without a developer, and so each change flows through everywhere it appears.

Aurora Training Institute website design, Learning & Education

RTOs, schools, colleges, training companies and publishers

A registered training organisation needs a course catalogue that satisfies the regulator and sells the course, with enrolment and funding information handled properly. A school or college needs enrolment steps, tour booking, a sense of community and information for current families. A corporate training company needs course pages, public and in-house options, and a booking path for employers.

An education publisher or directory needs search, listings and content at scale. We have built all of these, and the first thing we do on any education project is work out who is enrolling, how they search and what they need to read before they commit.

School website design

School web design has its own audience split: prospective parents comparing schools, current families looking for the calendar, the newsletter and the portal login, and staff who need to update all of it without calling a developer. A school website design from Thrive puts enrolment and tour booking where parents look first, keeps the daily links one tap away for families, and gives the office an editor it can actually use. Primary, secondary or independent, the school website designers who scope the project are the ones who build it in Burleigh Heads.

Education websites across the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Australia

Thrive is based in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and has designed websites for education providers locally, in Brisbane and nationally. Work includes Aurora Training Institute and ACE Community College, training providers with online enrolment and payment; Tax Banter, Australia’s tax training specialist; Institute of Management; Certitude Australia; Life Education Australia; The Language Academy; Currumbin Alley Surf School; QSport; and School Searcher, a school directory for families in the UAE.

Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so a college in Sydney gets the same process as one in Burleigh. We also have dedicated pages for childcare centres and not-for-profits.

ACE Community College website design, screen 1 of 7

Marketing for education and training providers

A website only works if students find it. The same team that builds education websites runs SEO for the course-and-city searches students make, Google Ads for the intakes you need to fill, Facebook and Instagram ads for career changers and parents, email marketing for enquiries that have not enrolled yet, and the digital marketing strategy that ties it together.

Got questions?

Education & Training Website Design FAQs

How much does an education website cost?


It depends on the number of courses or programs, whether you need online enrolment, payment or student management integrations, and how much of the content we write. Every project starts with a written scope and a fixed quote, so you know the price before we begin. A single-course training company and a college with eighty courses are very different projects.

How long does it take?


Most education websites take six to twelve weeks from the first meeting to launch, depending on the size of the course catalogue. Course content and compliance review are the usual reason projects run long, so we build the course template first and load courses in stages you can review as we go.

Can students enrol and pay online?


Yes. We build online enrolment with payment through WooCommerce or a payment gateway, capturing the details your student management system needs, and we connect to systems such as aXcelerate, VETtrak or Wisenet where it helps. For courses with eligibility or funding checks, we build an enquiry-first path instead. ACE Community College is an example.

What does an RTO website need to show?


Your RTO code, the national title and code of each course, accurate information about fees, entry requirements, delivery and support, and your policies on refunds, complaints and student rights. The regulator expects students to be able to find this before enrolling. We build course pages so it is there by default.

Can the website integrate with our learning management system?


Yes. We link to your LMS, such as Moodle, Canvas or aXcelerate, for student login rather than rebuilding it, and we can show course content, timetables or intake dates from it on the public site where that helps.

Do you build websites for schools and colleges?


Yes. School sites need enrolment steps, tour booking, information for current and prospective families, staff, news and events, and a structure that keeps the two audiences from getting in each other’s way. The Language Academy is an example.

Do you work with education providers outside the Gold Coast?


Yes. We build education websites for providers across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, regional Australia and overseas. Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so distance makes no difference to the result.

Do education websites need SEO?


Yes. Students search for a course and a place, and the provider that appears gets the enquiry. We structure the site with a page per course so it can rank for those searches, and our SEO team can keep building on that after launch.

Will the website look like a template?


No. Every site is designed from scratch around your courses, your campus and your students, using your own photography wherever possible. A real classroom with real students builds more trust than any stock photo of a graduate throwing a cap.

Who looks after the website once it is live?


We do, if you want us to. Our hosting and support plans cover the server, security updates, daily backups and help with changes, and we train your admin team so updating courses, intakes and fees is something you can do yourselves.

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