Features of the LMS (User)

Benefits
Description

Personal Home Page for each User

Each student receives a personalized homepage which serves as their launching pad into e learning.

In a single page, they are presented their personal training curriculum tailored to their specific needs.

Finally, all the information ONLY for them is presented: Notes, Transcripts, Learning Plan, and Discussion Topics.

Courses In Progress

Each enrolled course for the student is tracked and the progress is reported.

The ultimate completion date for the course, the percentage of the course already completed the current score and finally the reward points are all tracked and reported here.  

This section can easily be customized to include other information.

Required and Suggested Courses

 

This area is personalized to meet each student's specific needs for their CURRENT job position.

These courses are managed on a group basis, with each group identified by ANY characteristic you want to manage by. These groups and their characteristics are created instantly by the administrator so your training program can be as dynamic as you need.

Finally, to avoid learning gaps, the system automatically checks all prerequisites for courses before a student is allowed to enroll in a course. If the prerequisites are not met, the student can automatically petition to have the prerequisites waived by an administrator.

Announcements

Students are notified of all important notices, such as past due enrollments, new courses, or organization advisements automatically. 

It can be used in conjunction with normal email or used alone to handle all the correspondence within the Learning environment.

90% of the normal correspondence is sent automatically by the system based on the guidelines established by the administrators. .

Reward Points

Since e-learning is new to everyone, you need to overcome a certain cultural adversity to it.

Educate-Global LMS does this in 2 ways. First, emails are sent out automatically to the students and supervisors if certain goals are not achieved.

Second, students are awarded points for each achievement, such as completing an exercise, signing up for a course.

The reward system is controlled by the administrator so it can be aligned to meet organizational goals and strategies.

Bookmarking

Students can start and stop anywhere within the lesson and the LMS will remember where they left off and let them resume at the same place in the course.

Transcript

Every student can track their progress in their curriculum.

It gives the student their overall GPA, the total number of units completed and a complete listing of all their finished courses including their overall class ranking.

This information can also be used by management to evaluate and identify employees for promotions, benchmark educational performances, etc.

My Profile

This allows the student to personalize their cyber identity and the look of their home page.

A series of open ended text fields can be customized by the administrator to allow the student to change or add information about themselves. This info is displayed in the discussion boards, chats, etc.

Students can also manage their own passwords and custom features like preferred language type.

It is completely up to the administrator to determine what fields can be modified by the student so your organization specific information is protected!

My Notebook

Students can maintain their own individual notes from the courses and retrieve them for later use.

Notes can be found by keyword or by subject matter. This allows students to continue to build their knowledge over time and have the information they received in training available whenever they need it.

Course Catalog

Only those courses which have been approved for their curriculum are displayed to the student; either automatically based on group properties or by petition to a supervisor.. 

The student can also search the entire catalog by entering in the course name or keywords to find courses on specific subjects. The catalog can handle all types of courses including on line, video, CD or live courses.

Course Description

Each course has a detailed description which tells the student the overall difficulty of the course, the number of units, an overview of the course subject and even a complete course outline. 

The course policies are all clearly stated, and can be easily changed by the administrator.

Finally, each course has user reviews which are specific to your organization. These reviews are both free form text and a numeric quantification so an overall assessment of the course is available

Technical Support

Here the student can find answers to all their questions via several different options.

Common problems can be addressed by a discussion with FAQ and answers presented by subject matter.
This is all managed by the administrator.

This is all managed by the administrator. . 

They can email questions or call an 800 number for support.

Discussion Board

Optional -Here students can participate in lively discussions on any variety of topics which may be of interest to your organization or to the individual student. s. 

The student can read every conversation, see the profile of the people participating, or can customize the board to only show topics which are of immediate interest to them or to their current job position.

Chat Features

Optional - Here the student can participate live in a variety of areas.

They can chat with a tutor and other students on line to discuss problems; or they can participate in an instructor led discussion on a subject or receive "live training"; they can participate in group projects or assignments from anywhere around the globe.

White Board

 

Optional - Students can work together and exchange ideas by having the images they create on their computer displayed for everyone to see.

An instructor can even take over the student's machine to illustrate a lesson.

Calendaring

Optional - The calendaring feature allows organizations to plan and present "live courses" with instructors.

You can assign and track resources, instructors, students, locations, etc.  

This can also be used to capture the costs associated with a live course.

E-Counselor

Optional - This feature allows the student to see all the jobs within the organization and the required curriculum to master each position.

This is used by the employee to manage the future of their career by showing them what courses are needed and allows them to petition the administrator to add these courses to their list of approved courses.

E-Library

Optional - This feature allows the student to access your organization library for technical information, research material or organization policies.  

A separate library can be created, or you can simply link the student to your existing organization library.


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