Benefits/Features

PeakSkills e-Learning Platform Benefits

  • All-In-One Solution ? Learning Management Solution and Authoring Tools
  • Perfect for Blended Solutions ? Webinars plus self-paced eCourses
  • No Instructional Designers needed
  • No additional development tools needed
  • Optional elearning design course
  • Interactive learning features allows you to train to the point of behavior change
  • Pre- and post-assessments to track learner progress with re-do feature
  • Easy to edit ? no involvement with IT
  • Easy to duplicate ecourse or part of eCourse and edit for other uses, departments, groups
  • Economical
  • Affordable entry rates for smaller groups
  • Log in directly from your website
  • Branded to your colors and logo
  • 24 hour email support with responses within 24 hours, including support for admin, authors and instructors; 9-5 M-F telephone emergency technical support for key personnel,
  • Full user manuals for each area of the e-learning platform ? Admin (LMS), Learner, Author, Instructor

PeakSkills e-Learning Platform Features

  • A robust Learning Management System for courseware and information management and delivery, to simplify the process of managing your training delivery function
  • Built in Authoring Tools to easily develop sophisticated interactive elearning courses with full multimedia
  • Learner Area for easy course access
  • Instructor Area for interface with learner?s progress and scores
  • Optional certification in elearning course design to turn your staff into elearning courseware developers if required

LMS/LCMS features

  • Three ways to register users for courses ? batched registration, individual registration, user self-registration
  • Subgroups accommodated through different course sections or multiple portals
  • Bulk enrollment of existing user groups to new courses
  • Learner course catalog with manager approval process for individual courses, if needed
  • Multiple section setup ? pure self-paced e-learning, instructor led, blended solutions
  • Reports by course and by user (includes pre- and post-assessment grades, time on task, start and completion dates for any course or user)
  • Easy set-up with four levels of permission – learners, administrators, authors, instructors
  • Automated creation of URLs for demo courses that can be displayed directly ? you are your website
  • Offline course tracking of classroom training
  • Information documents, powerpoints, videos displayed as stand-alones in addition to being embedded in full elearning courses
  • (SCORM Player coming in next release to allow learner access to courses not developed in the PeakSkills Authoring Area of the eLearning Platform)

Learner Features

  • Clean and easy-to-use learner interface
  • Course catalog for self-selection of courses, if desired
  • Self-registration for courses, or assigned registration
  • Free access to courses or permission needed
  • Integrated message system within the LMS/LCMS
  • Learner tracking area for tracking courses and scores
  • Bookmark feature for easy return to any page in any course
  • Action Plans, Journals, Discussion Threads and Resource Files built into every course

Course Management

  • Course categories
  • Course description
  • Course activation dates
  • Course expiration in numbers of days from enrollment or absolute date
  • Course deactivation
  • Offline course tracking (classroom)
  • Course cost for tracking of training expenses
  • Course help
  • Course downloadable resources
  • Course prerequisites
  • Calendar-based course scheduling
  • Multiple sections
  • Forums
  • Browse global resources
  • Report by user or course of time on task, pre- and post- assessments, start and end dates

Course Development – Authoring Tools

  • Sophisticated Authoring
  • Easy initialization of courses
  • Instant Learner View of any course in development
  • Course Menu with three levels
    • Course Title
    • Lessons
    • Pages within lessons
  • Multiple customizable templates to create sophisticated interactive courses, all templates using an editor with Word-like interface
    • Text and image page
    • Self-assessment with feedback
    • Assessment with feedback
    • Pre- and post-assessments
    • Skills Drills
    • Interactive Workbook
    • How To
    • Action Plan templates ? goals, action items, progress report
    • Journal and Notes template
    • Full audio per page
    • Video, Flash, Powerpoint, Spreadsheet file, Document, HTML upload
    • Multiple images uploaded simultaneously
    • Pre- and Post-Assessments and Assessments include Multiple Choice and True and False, with feedback on correct and incorrect answers
    • Easy reuse of course elements, easy editing
    • Course Resources
      • Action Plan viewable by instructor
      • Downloadable Journal pages
      • Downloadable Resource section
      • Forums
      • Course help

Instructor Area

  • Check course enrollments
  • Check learner progress
  • Check pre-and post-assessments and give feedback
  • Authorize learners to retake courses if they fall below a certain cut-off score
  • Send assignments
  • Check Action Plans and give feedback
  • Assign webinars

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