National Learning Opportunities Database (NLOD)

Course information held in the NLOD is used for all course searches across Skills Development Scotland's websites. When learners or employers call SDS helplines or speak to advisors in our centres, information on the NLOD is used to advise these people. NLOD course listings also feed through to our partners' sites such as the Sector Skills Councils.

NLOD Registration

Register on the NLOD to benefit in the following ways

• Free marketing of your course information
• Access to PROMT - free software which allows you to update your course information and have control over how it is presented to learners through our websites
• Save time - update your course information in one place to reach out to a wide range of learners, trainees and employers looking for staff training
• Support from your own allocated Information Specialist who will help you with all aspects of uploading your course information
• The option to attend one of our free PROMT workshops

Are you a National Training Programmes (NTPs) provider?

• If you are an NTP provider, you are contractually obliged to register on the NLOD and list all NTP provision (including Modern Apprenticeships, Get Ready for Work and Training for Work)

Do you offer courses to learners in the 16-19 age range?

• The new 16 19 Learning Choices course search to help young people move on to positive destinations after school uses NLOD course information

Register on the NLOD