Picture this: You are a training manager, and you have been working for months creating a comprehensive customer onboarding course online. After one month of your course being active, your analytics report shows that about half of the customers are dropping out of the training after the third module. Why are they leaving before the training is complete? Have they lost interest in your product, or just your online course?
Topics: Instructional Design, LMS, Creating Content
This past October, we released a study on Customer Training Completion Rates. This post will be outlining our findings regarding how SCORM impacts these completion rates and whether or not SCORM lessons will benefit your training program.
Topics: Training, LMS, Analytics & Metrics
This past August, we published our eBook "Best Practices for Launching an LMS." So far, we have discussed the first step in the LMS launch process, Defining and Scoping, and the second step, Planning. Today's post will cover the third and final step, The Launch.
Topics: LMS, Creating Content
This past August, we published our eBook "Best Practices for Launching an LMS." Last week, we discused the first step in the LMS launch process, Defining and Scoping. Today's post will be focusing on the second step, Planning.
Topics: LMS
This past August, we published our eBook "Best Practices for Launching an LMS." This post will focus on the first step of launching your LMS: Defining and Scoping.
Topics: LMS
At Skilljar, we understand that your business relies on Salesforce as the source of record for all customer data. Our Salesforce integration puts the LMS data you need right into your CRM, in real time, to increase your team’s efficiency and create a flawless customer training experience. When your team runs on Salesforce, you can accelerate results by seamlessly integrating your LMS and CRM, with the ultimate goal of improving your product adoption and long-term revenue.
In this blog post, we discuss the specific benefits of integrating your LMS with Salesforce.
Topics: LMS, Integrations, Advanced Topics
More and more companies are turning to web-based or software LMSes to deliver online training to their customers and partners, and it’s easy to see why. Integrating an LMS comes with a host of benefits for all involved– users get a streamlined learning experience and companies are able to exercise greater control over the delivery of training materials.
When launching a new platform to deliver training, there are a few key items to keep in mind. The best and simplest way to stay organized during this process is to follow the tried-and-true practices in this eBook. Keep reading for some important questions and areas of consideration when planning to launch an LMS.
In choosing an LMS, an important first decision is whether to build it yourself or to buy it from a vendor. In this blog post, we make the case for each.
A key challenge for startups that sell to enterprises is overcoming objections based on company size. As the saying goes, "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM." Startups carry unknown risks of product stability, financial viability, and business continuity.
Yet there are many powerful advantages for enterprises that choose to work with startups, of course, assuming that the product and team are reasonably proven. Skilljar is fortunate to already be working with the Fortune 1000, as well as outstanding mid-market companies and high-growth startups.
In this blog post, we outline the benefits of working with a startup and key ways to mitigate risks.
Topics: LMS
The benefits of publishing a SCORM package are numerous, but at the end of the day, our goal is one thing: communicate a learner’s interaction with the course content - how long they spent in it, the answers they selected on a quiz, or whether or not they’ve completed the course. The SCORM package “talks” to the learning management system (LMS) and tells it the information we want to know.*
Topics: Training, Instructional Design, LMS, Creating Content, Course Management, Advanced Topics