e2train announce SCORM 2004 compliance in new version of Kallidus LMS
e2train’s latest version of Kallidus LMS (V7.2) offers a host of new features to enhance its position as the UK’s favourite LMS.
Kallidus LMS is already renowned as a fully-featured system available at a sensible price. Now, the new enhancements cover all areas of the system, including accreditation, reporting, email integration and launching content. The new system will also be one of the first in the world to comply with the most recently announced SCORM 2004 standard.
With SCORM 2004, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) has built on its collection of specifications and standards to create an even more useful suite of e-learning capabilities, which will enhance interoperability, accessibility and encourage the reuse of web-based content. The new standard adds sequencing and navigation to enable SCORM content to be ordered via learner or system-initiated.
Explained Martin Belton, e2train’s Sales and Marketing Director; “We’re delighted to add SCORM 2004 functionality to Kallidus LMS V7.2. The revisions to the Run Time and Content Aggregation SCORM books will mean a more robust and assured environment for trainers to run content. But the addition of the new sequencing and navigation book will now enable authors to deliver ‘intelligent courses’ where content can be rearranged to suit. That means authors will be able to create courses which include automatic branching dependent upon results. Alternatively an introductory piece may be made mandatory before a learner gets the freedom to choose between all the other bits of content. It’s these kind of operations that enable the LMS users to have better control of their content and enhance the way it is presented to the learner.”
Although only a point release, there are some significant additions to the software. Kallidus is already used widely for keeping track of accreditations. These new additions in V7.2 will now enable users to:
·Re-assign accreditations automatically on expiry.
·Link lessons to accreditation elements.
·Assign recommended courses to accreditation elements.
·Create additional notifications to occur after an accreditation has expired.
Management of classroom events will also find new features to improve the way that they handle these events. They include:
·Automatic emails to users when an event is cancelled.
·A notification group for administration emails.
·A new record of course cancellations.
·The facility to update Outlook calendars with event dates and reminders.
·Warning email if a user books onto a large number of events.
·Default event details for a lesson.
·Notes field for creating administration checklists.
·CPD points for classroom lessons.
No less than six new reports have also been added. They include:
·Available events and resources booked today.
·Incomplete courses.
·Accreditation summary (graphical).
·Kallidus question summary for multiple users.
·Resource utilisation report.
·Resource year planner.
Improvements to the system interface include enhanced search facilities and a fully customisable navigation bar. There is also now a provision to create user interface profiles for groups and individuals.
Other improvements include:
·A new template to enable automatic emails.
·New course upload and import functionality which allows courses to be updated.
·Ability to copy users and groups to other groups, and merge group members.
·Categories for groups, courses, competencies and documents.
·The facility to copy training records from one user to another.
·An automatic purge for the audit log.
The new system will be available from February 2005.