LearnForce is an online hosted Learning Management System

Learning management system

A learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content...

(LMS) developed and maintained by Australian company e3Learning. The system was first created in 2001 and is now in revision 7. The system features both propriety course delivery and support for hosting SCORM 1.2 and 2004 compliant courses.

Users & Usage

According to e3Learning's website over 500,000 users are registered internationally and the system delivers an average of 4 million course pages per month.

Online Portals

Instances of LearnForce are skinned (branded) for corporate elearning portals. A public offering also exists through partner sites where access to the compliance training and administration tools can be purchased.

Recognition

LearnForce was awarded "Best Hosted LMS Gold Award" at the LearnX 2011 Asia Pacific Awards for e-learning and training..

Adaptics

Adaptics is a script-able system which expands the internal course delivery of LearnForce. The implementation allows for adaptive learning paths where courses dynamically add, pass or remove content based on a learner's refresher assessments or previous course results. During refresher periods a reduction in training time is possible for individual learners by targeting their specific knowledge gaps.

The Adaptics system also allows learning sytles based on individual preference. Courses adapt to learning styles which determine favorable delivery for an individual learner. Options include variations to text (such as full text or dot points), visual content and audio. Options for language preference in audio or text is another possibility.

Features

The following is a list of some of the key features of LearnForce as stated on e3Learning's website:

For Administrators

• Parent/child hierarchy permission structure
• Create/edit/delete accounts
• Create/edit/delete groups
• View on screen statistics, full user details and activity
• Branded certificates
• Quiz and assessment engine
• Dashboard
• Review historic course completion data
• Set course deadlines and auto reset based on compliance requirement
• Review detailed progress logs down to page and quiz level
• Search functionality
• Surveys
• Pre-requisite course allocation
• Bulk email reports
• Help desk support for 2 points of contact

For Users

• Account editing/password change
• Course listing and status
• Certificates
• Page by page tracking and logging
• Course memory
• Help and support

Additional LearnForce LMS Services

• Documented API
• Content editing and authoring
• Collaborative learning
• Podcast integration
• Hosting of SCORM 1.2 and 2004 compliant courseware
• External training records management
• Online store/ecommerce
• Integration and Single Sign On with external LMS or HR systems
• Qualitative assessments (e.g. free text entry and editable pdf documents)
• Delivery and management of accredited training programs
• Event triggered notification system (e.g. learner fails quiz more than 3 times, notification sent to appropriate manager and system administrator)
• Online bookings for face-to-face training
• Custom reports and automatic upload to other systems via SOAP, Email, HTTP, FTP
• Event driven email notifications and alerts (e.g. email on course assignment)
• SMS notifications
• Contractor management interface (includes custom fields, insurance, service type, license upload)
• Assign, deploy and monitor readership of policies and procedures
• Verification system for contractor licenses
• Self registration interface
• Auto account creation and expiry
• Training needs analysis
• Learner self selection and enrolment to courses
• Uploaded Resources
• First-line help desk support