For businesses, making the correct decision when it comes to your employees learning and development process is extremely important. Employees deserve the delivery of good quality and engaging training on a secure platform. This platform must offer exceptional reporting, automation, certification management and much more. There are many different learning management systems that a business can choose from. So… how do you make an informed decision of what is best for your organisation? There are numerous factors to consider within this process. Everything from reporting and integrations to costings and support. From our experience, there is one defining element to a learning management system that businesses need to acknowledge when it comes to their decision – the usability of the platform.
The learning management system needs to offer a clear support to its learners through an all-inclusive portal. Learners need simple access to their training courses and other training material, which can include (but not limited to):
· Digital content
· Feedback forms
· Supplemented information
· Presentations
Other important factors of usability to consider are search capability – how easy is it for users to navigate the system and find what they are looking for? When they find what they are looking for how easy is it to complete the tasks given? Users appreciate a learning experience that is personal to them, so therefore ensuring that search capability is concise throughout a learning management is very important. A truly intuitive system is required for the learners to feel like it is easy to use.
When it comes to training courses, the system needs to offer a seamless process of progression through the training. The employer needs to consider if the system can help the learner understand what they need to do next so that they can plan accordingly to make the most of their time. The success of your training program, and thus your employee experience is based on users having a stress-free time while using your learning management system.
SAFEWARE
We have developed SAFEWARE with every one of our future users in mind. We understand the importance of the usability of our learning management system, and we have developed engaging content to match this. We want our users to be excited about their learning and development process. Some of the key features to ensure this include:
· Personalised / Private Branches
· Learning Plans
· Notifications
· Reminders
Branches
Branches allow users on SAFEWARE to view and progress through training exactly as required. It allows for a seamless process. Branches are created like that of a group. They possess their own unique branch code which a user inputs upon self-registration or an administrator can input while registering users. This code automatically assigns the user to your branch. The branch is set up exactly as the employers wishes, permissions are set for certain a view of the platform and the assignment of specific training courses on the platform. This branch can act as a stand-alone group for the organisation.
Learning Plans
Learning plans can then be created for these branches. A learning plan consists of a number of courses that the user must follow in a specific order; which can then be customised to allow specific enrolment rules, certifications, reporting and much more. Branches can then be assigned to the learning plans that is required for this organisation. Creating branches and learning plans allows for users and administrators to navigate through the system, eliminating the stresses of having to find their training. They are automatically assigned to where they need to be and this makes the usability of the platform extremely straight forward.
Notifications
We believe it is imperative for users to be kept informed and up to date during their training process. SAFEWARE allows you to create and send dynamic-content notifications to users via email. Notifications are customisable and can be targeted towards specific users. Notifications can be sent both manually and automatically. This can be based on several conditions which include:
· User creation
· Enrolment in training
· Progress Reporting
Reminders
We understand that each individual user is different, in terms of their role within their organisation or other factors. It is important that all users for an organisation have the same experience within the platform. For those with differing timing schedules and those finding it hard to create time to log in and complete their training, we have developed an intuitive reminders features to assist them with time planning. From within SAFEWARE we can send (manual or automatic) prompts in the form of reminders to inform users what they are supposed to be doing. For instance, what training they have been enrolled in and are due to complete by a certain set date. Reminders can be set on weekly, fortnightly or a monthly basis. It is an encouragement feature, that allows users to understand that we have not forgotten about them, that we understand that they are busy and will complete their training when they can and want them to share in the same experiences as other members of their team.
If you would like to trial SAFEWARE today and experience the coherent usability of our learning management system, please register using this LINK and entering the branch code DEMO.