Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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NewProducts: Content to quickly deliver customized interactive courses to every employee. A user-friendly interface makes it simple to build, update and manage employee training while webhosted content ensures that staf always have direct access to the most current and relevant information and materials possible. —More info: www.RethinkTraining.com IMPROVING SCORM PUBLISHING VIA CLOUD With the Bravais Cloud Player from Xyleme, SCORM courses are now stored in a central repository in the cloud where user and/or group access permissions can be set for each individual course. Learners can access these courses from any learning management system they use with scores reported back to the LMS. And Bravais also persists user-tracking data for all courses it delivers, providing training organizations a holistic view of performance across all of the LMS's they support. Additional features: >> Single Sign-on with SAML: Already authenticated users don't need to re-enter their login and password. >> Enhanced encryption: All content is encrypted at rest and in transit. >> Secure CDN distribution: Content is delivered through a secured network that reduces download times. —More info: www.xyleme.com GETTING TO THE CRUX OF HIGH PERFORMANCE Aperio International, a Washington, D.C.based specialty consultancy, has released fve of 20 planned high-performance elearning courses. Courses One and Two are foundational courses provided pragmatic defnitions and examples of high-performance cul- tures and teams. Course Tree helps individuals and teams sharpen focus and align around goals and priorities. Course Four delineates a framework for execution that examines in detail the core promises the organization, its teams and people make, how those promises translate into strategy, and strategy translates into execution. Course Five defnes key roles and responsibilities while illustrating and giving examples of the collaborative framework utilized by leading competitors. When adopted, this process and framework delineates pathways to business, team and individual success while deepening accountability and radically improving efciency and results. —More info: www.aperiointernational. com/products TACKLING EARLY NEW EMPLOYEE PROBLEMS Rethink Training's cloud-based service solution gives companies the ability to quickly create customized training materials from scratch or through a company's existing content, complete courses and grade the results. Te fundamental elements of the web-based coursework include documents, graphics, essays, quizzes and streaming video content. Rethink Training's unique learning management system (LMS) allows companies IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH NEW FEATURES Soonr's Workplace and Scribble solutions have new features to improve productivity for businesses that need to collaborate quickly for maximum efciency. New features include document annotation from any touch-based Android smartphone or tablet, enhanced presentation mode for maximum visual impact, and more. Touch-based Annotation of popular document types such as Microsof Ofce, PDF and even Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop is now available for all Android phones and tablets from major manufacturers like HTC, LG, Motorola, Panasonic and others, in addition to the already supported Samsung S Pen interface and Apple iOS. Te document annotation capability includes improved features to enable smoother drawings for sharp, detailed annotations, notes and markups. —More info: www.soonr.com EASY ACCESS TO SHORT VIDEO-COACHING MODULES AthenaOnline's MyQuickCoach portal for tablets and smartphones is a new web-based application that features access to 2,000 short video coaching modules called SmartBytes. It allows enterprise customers to search and access the SmartBytes on their iPads. While currently only available to users on iPads, optimized iPhone and Android versions of the application are in development. Te MyQuickCoach Web app is currently available to enterprise customers with 50 users or more. It can be used on by itself or linked to the desktop version of MyQuickCoach for administration, user tracking and additional features. Users can share coaching modules and their profles between the two systems. —More info: www.athenaonline.com Government Elearning! April / May 2013 47