Are you looking for ways to use your Learning Toolkit platform to its fullest potential? Or are you interested in finding out more about what’s possible within the system? This blog highlights the top features you should know if you want to maximise your L&D and use the Learning Toolkit to its fullest potential. The Learning Toolkit distinguishes itself from other learning management systems by providing specialised workforce development tools built on an adaptable framework. The platform enables organisations to:
- Create customised learning paths and tailored learning journeys
- Provide robust regulatory compliance management and monitoring
- Access sophisticated L&D functionality while avoiding unnecessary complexity.
- Incorporate strategic performance management tools with comprehensive feedback systems from multiple perspectives, and seamlessly integrated workplace training programs.
Read on to discover the top features your team should be using.
Reports
Turn key learning data into actionable insights with powerful reporting functionality. Its robust reporting and analytics capabilities allow organisations to measure learning ROI and make data-driven decisions about their workforce development initiatives.
Reports are a core component of any eLearning platform, enabling admins and L&D teams to be more proactive and strategic when enhancing learning activities and improving training outcomes. However, not every eLearning platform offers the flexibility, functionality and site-wide, detailed analysis required to do this effectively.
The Learning Toolkit allows admins to create customisable reports using the easy-to-use report builder. Taking data from a broad range of site-wide data sources, admins can analyse a whole host of user activity, from sign-on rates to competencies, making it easy to tailor reports to specific objectives, workflows and training needs.
What’s more, reports can be configured so that they are automatically scheduled and distributed to relevant users, such as team managers or HR leaders, delivered directly to their inbox daily, weekly, or monthly.
Certifications
A fundamental tool for ongoing compliance training and mandatory learning. Certifications can be configured to expire, prompting learners to recertify with automated notifications (reducing admin and mitigating the risk of non-compliance as a result).
The Learning Toolkit offers strong tools for managing and tracking compliance training, certifications, and audits, especially valuable for regulated industries. With certifications, admins can create a certification path or recertification path which outlines a set of courses and activities. Once learners have completed them, the platform will immediately check to see if completion rules have been met, and the certification status will be updated.
As certifications are only valid for a certain amount of time, learners will be automatically notified of the upcoming expiration and prompted to recertify. With a formal deadline attached to certifications, learners are motivated to complete mandatory training and encouraged to be held accountable for their own progress.
Collaborative social learning tools
Create a collaborative social learning environment and empower employees to learn as a team and seamlessly build collaborative learning into the flow of work. With forums, workspaces, wikis, and Microsoft Teams integrations, social learning has never been easier or more impactful.
Whether you want to build cross-functional teams, encourage collaboration amongst different departments or facilitate dynamic knowledge sharing amongst geographically dispersed employees, social features offer everything you need.
Interactive social tools such as content sharing, ratings, comments, hashtags, and survey tools put learning into the users’ hands by empowering them to actively engage rather than passively consume training content. Learners can come together in collaborative workspaces and share content, knowledge, and insights, allowing users to learn from one another, resulting in more meaningful and impactful learning experiences.
Seminars for blended learning
Striving for blended learning success? Seminars are a must. Whether teaching virtually or in a face-to-face environment, seminar activities allow Site Admins and trainers to effortlessly create, manage, and report on training events and activities.
A seminar activity can hold one or several Events, which in turn can be made up of one or several Sessions. Each Session has a start and finish time and day, and may be assigned a specific Room, Assets and Facilitators.
With Seminars, learners can self-book, or admins can assign them, ensuring no one misses out on vital training. All booking comes with communications straight to the learner’s inbox with instructions and iCal invites. What’s more, admins can use the Seminar functionality and reporting tools to track attendance and completion status to identify those who have yet to complete assigned learning.
The benefit of Seminars is that admins and managers can streamline training events whilst simplifying the logistics of managing them, regardless of whether they’re online or offline.
Personalisation tools
Personalised learning is the backbone of a strong L&D strategy and the Learning Toolkit handles it with dashboards, learning plans, hierarchies, recommended learning, and so much more.
We know that personalisation is a sure-fire way to optimise your L&D and maximise training outcomes – let’s explore some of the options below:
Personalised learning pathways
With personalised learning pathways, site admins can create learning plans comprised of specific courses and content designed to best serve a learner’s unique training needs and goals.
Dashboards
Learners can customise the ‘My Dashboard’ area to display achievements, completed learning, recent learning activities, calendars with upcoming deadlines, and assigned training.
Hierarchies
Admins can use hierarchies to map out tailored learning based on a predefined set of criteria such as job role, department, and management levels. Once this has been mapped out, training content will be distributed to relevant parties, meaning training targets specific groups and users.
Recommended learning
With the recommended learning engine, learners will receive targeted training recommendations based on data such as previous learning and competencies.
The list above highlights just some of the key development capabilities that make the Learning Toolkit unique. But that list is far from exhaustive.
In essence, the Learning Toolkit differentiates itself by combining flexibility and power of an open-source solution with a comprehensive suite of tools that support a truly adaptable, engaging, and performance-driven approach to workforce development.
You can learn more about the capabilities of the Learning Toolkit and request a free demo here: https://www.electralearning.com/learningtoolkit/