An applicant has a full-time job, two children and about fifteen hours a week he could realistically give this. He wants to know whether that is enough, and every provider he has asked has told him it is manageable.
If it is not, telling him now is worth more than the enrolment.
What applicants ask
They usually ask how many hours a week it takes, when the live sessions are, whether they are recorded, whether they can watch them later, what happens if they miss one, how long the whole thing takes, whether they can pause, whether the workload is evenly spread and whether people with jobs actually finish.
Publish the honest weekly figure
Live hours plus independent work, stated as a range. Understating it fills a cohort and empties it by week six, which costs more in outcomes and reputation than the enrolments were worth.
Example conversations
These scripts use information a provider might publish. Your answers should come from your own pages.
Applicant: I work full time. Is the part-time route realistic? Assistant: The part-time page gives the weekly commitment, separating live sessions from independent work, and shows when sessions run including the weekend elements. It also explains what people with jobs typically find hardest. Could you tell me roughly how many hours a week you have available so the team can advise honestly?
Applicant: What if I miss a session because of work? Assistant: The page explains which sessions are recorded, how catch-up works and what support exists if you fall behind, including the deferral option and how it affects your fees.
Applicant: How long does the part-time version take? Assistant: The page shows the duration for each format and the intake dates, so you can see how the schedule falls against your own commitments. It also explains the breaks built into the programme.
Be specific about session timing
Which evenings, what time, how long and whether weekends are involved. Someone with childcare or shift work needs the actual schedule, not a general description.
Explain the recording position honestly
Whether sessions are recorded, how long they remain available and whether missing live attendance affects anything. Many programmes depend on live participation and should say so.
Describe the hardest weeks
Every programme has a point where the workload peaks. Naming it lets someone plan leave around it rather than reaching it unprepared.
Publish the deferral and pause options
Life happens over nine months. Knowing there is a route to pause, and what it costs, is what lets someone commit at all.
Say what employers sometimes do
Study leave, flexible hours or sponsorship. Suggesting the conversation is worth having helps applicants who assumed it was not.
Career change is the underlying subject
It is covered in career change questions bootcamp applicants ask.
Funding sits alongside the time question
It is covered in funding and payment questions for bootcamps.
Evening study is a category of its own
It behaves as in short course and evening class enquiries, and layered enquiries are handled as in how AI handles multi-part customer questions.
Getting started
Publish the honest weekly hours, session timing, recording policy and deferral options, then capture availability at any hour. SpideyChat for education providers answers from your published pages. Try SpideyChat on your own site, or read about capture on the features page.