WebMentor LMS™
Features & Benefits
WebMentor LMS is a scalable browser-based Learning Management System designed
to support a single course up to a complete online training operation.
- Registration/Subscription Requests and Approvals
An Organization may specify that student registration requests for course sessions and/or subscriptions require approval before being processed. Requests may be approved by the Organization, a Group Manager of a Group to which a requesting student belongs, or a Course Administrator or Course Instructor assigned to the course session.
Benefit: Students can browse the course catalog and request approval to take a course more easily, while Management can review and process such requests more efficiently.
Students may use a shopping cart to purchase courses and subscriptions. The shopping cart is optional for each Organization.
Benefit: Students can purchase several courses and/or subscriptions at one time and use coupon codes to reduce the total cost of the purchase.
Organizations may create discount coupons that students may use when purchasing courses and/or subscriptions. The Course Provider can also create coupons for use by one or more Organizations. Coupons can be used with the shopping cart or with the standard non-shopping cart payment method.
Benefit: Organizations can offer and manage pricing incentives for courses.
- Improved Reporting
- New reports for Organizations:
- Training status of the members of one or more Groups, similar to the Group Training Report
- A summary report that displays training summary information for one or more Groups, similar to the Group Training Summary Report
- A Training Summary Report that shows the training completions for students enrolled in the Organization
- New reports for Group Managers:
- Training status of the members of the Group
- Training summary report for the entire Group
- Custom Reports: The Course Provider may now create custom reports for use by one or more Organizations. Organizations may run the custom reports at will, supplying variable values to tailor the results as needed. Results may be sorted by any column, printed, and downloaded.
Usability
- Modern, streamlined user interface with collapsible inline help
- Full run-time delivery system that requires
only a browser on the student computer. No proprietary plugins or technologies required.
- Complete feature tailoring within organizations. An organization can display or hide any tab or menu for its user base to optimize the user's experience
- Full support for Instructor-Led Training (ILT), including downloadable course handouts and uploadable student assignments, resource scheduling, printable attendance sheets, and more
- Course Ratings:
Courses can be rated on a scale of 1
to 5 by registered students if permitted by the Course Provider, their
organization and the course itself. If course ratings are
turned on for a course and student, the rating will show
up in the Course Catalog. The student can click on the
rating and get a more detailed description of what the
ratings mean and any comments entered by other
students about the course.
- Student lesson plan (curriculum)
- A curriculum can include core (required) courses and/or elective (optional)
courses or subscriptions.
- Curricula may be assigned to groups.
- Group members may be assigned to a curriculum by their group manager
or automatically by virtue of their becoming a member of the group.
- Students may be assigned to a curriculum individually.
- Wait lists
- A course may have a course wait list associated with it.
- Individual sessions of a course may have a session wait list associated
with them.
- Students on a wait list are notified by e-mail when a seat becomes
available.
- A notified student will have a specified number of days – depending
upon the wait list - to register for the course before being dropped
from the wait list.
- Check completion criteria and print certificates of
completion if requirements are met. If the required criteria are not met,
the student can be advised of the steps necessary to fulfill remaining
requirements.
- Support for distribution of courses on CD-ROM to remote locations
for installation and delivery on local computers. Tracking and performance
data may be returned to the central server and synchronized in the student
record database.
Standards
- Support for SCORM, the ADL
standard for interoperability and reusability of courseware.
- Support for ODBC-compliant database products (e.g., Access,
Oracle, or SQL Server) to support all aspects of the training environment.
Extensibility
- Flexible "facet"-based programmatic interface for adding custom functionality to a WebMentor LMS training server. A facet is a replaceable set of ColdFusion methods that provide a specific type of functionality. Release 5.2 contains built-in facets for user authentication (login) and e-commerce.
- Full student records management for WebMentor courses
as well as "foreign
courses" from vendors such as MindLeaders, SmartForce, NETg, and SkillSoft.
Security & Scalability
- Hardened against common web-based threats (SQL injection, etc.)
- Scales to support the largest eLearning operations
(> 2 million active registrations)
- Scalability through administrative roles that can
be assigned to one individual to centralize responsibility or to many individuals
to distribute authority.
Internationalization
- Full multilanguage support throughout the system, including complete localization in Spanish
Ecommerce
- Fully integrated e-commerce functions for secure
online credit card transactions and automated validation.
- Support for multiple e-commerce merchant accounts from VeriSign and/or
E-xact
- Ability to assign one or more organizations to any merchant account
- Payment receipts for e-commerce transactions
- Organizations may access and manage their financial transactions and
display financial reports
Collaboration
- Course and organization conferences that support threaded discussion
and attachments, e-mail notification, and searching
- Bulletin boards
Reporting
- Robust reporting throughout, including sortable report columns, HTML and PDF printing, and CSV-format file downloads
 |
