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Bundle Multiple Courses into an Ordered Series
5/4/2015 - Posted by Latitude Learning Team

Portal Administrators use the Course Series functionality to bundle multiple courses into a logical chain of predecessor and successor coursework. The Series feature is a flexible course configuration tool, allowing you to design unique tracks of learning in many ways. This document provides just a few examples of how a Series can be defined, and how auto-enrollments and/or interest records are generated for users based on different enrollment scenarios.


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Create Subscription Programs for Specific LMS Locations
4/27/2015 - Posted by Sarah Robinson

Subscription programs are a collection of courses only made available to specific organizations (i.e clients, franchises, stores) within your LMS. Once a Subscription is created and assigned, student-users within the subscribed organization have at-a-glance access to program coursework under the “Available Subscription Courses section of their home page. Learn about the course, organization, and subscription settings that can be used to forgo enrollment requirements for tuition payment or manager approval.

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Add Student Training History for Past Course Offerings
4/24/2015 - Posted by Latitude Learning Team

Administrators who would like to create transcript records for course offerings that took place in the past have three primary ways to add training history. Selecting the most suitable option will depend on the volume of data being imported and/or your role assignment within the LMS. This document explains how to:

  • Manually Add a New Transcript to a User’s Profile
  • Create or Reopen a Past Offering and Manage the Roster
  • Import a Large Volume of Transcript Data


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Conduct Online Meetings and Webinars with Classroom Course Offerings
4/23/2015 - Posted by John Schroeder

Many organizations prefer to use online meetings or webinars to conduct instructor-led training sessions, leveraging the benefits of a classroom learning environment while controlling the travel- and time-related costs of bringing people to a physical classroom. With the Latitude Learning LMS, Portal Administrators and Instructors can set up webinar-style sessions and manage attendance records using classroom course Offerings. This document explains how to create Offerings that include links to training events established in online meeting applications such as WebEx, GoToMeeting, Join.me, and Google+ Hangouts. 



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Enrolling Others in a Course
4/20/2015 - Posted by Latitude Learning Team

The Latitude Learning LMS provides Student users the ability to search for and enroll in courses made available to them. LMS Instructors, Managers, and Administrators are provided the additional option to enroll others in courses, either in batches or by individual Username. This document, and the linked training video, demonstrates how authorized users can best utilize the Enroll Others function within the LMS.


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Create User Distribution Lists for Classroom Course Enrollment
4/17/2015 - Posted by John Schroeder

Distribution Groups are used to define rules that control user ability to enroll, or be auto-enrolled, in scheduled course Offerings.  By default, when you create an offering for a classroom course, it is available to all users within the Business Units that house the course in their catalogs. You can limit the availability of an offering to a specific subset of users by assigning them to distribution groups.  


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Adding Classroom Courses and Offerings
4/10/2015 - Posted by Latitude

Classroom courses are designed to function as Instructor-led Training (ILT), either in a physical location or via webinar using a preferred web meeting application. After a Portal Administrator creates a Classroom course, he or an authorized Instructor can create Offerings in which students can enroll in the course for a specific date, time, and location. Review this step-by-step information to learn more about creating Classroom courses and Offerings.  



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User Self Registration Feature
4/10/2015 - Posted by Sarah Robinson

Self Registration is a new standard feature in the Latitude Learning LMS that allows students to create their own user accounts. The enhancement relieves portal administrators of having to manually enter large numbers of users into the system. This document explains how typical user Self Registration works. It also provides instructions for LMS administrators who want to customize the registration form, configure their portals to require registration approval, or disable the feature all together.


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Design Custom Content Pages in the LMS
4/10/2015 - Posted by John Schroeder

There are several ways in which a Portal Administrator can customize the look and feel of the LMS. Many of these options target existing LMS pages, but it is possible to add new pages to the LMS. This extends your ability to present custom content, such as contact information, a standard operating procedures list, or other information your users might need. This feature allows you to embed videos, link to social media sites, add widgets, and link to videos hosted on external sites.  


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Design Assessments to Evaluate Student Proficiency
4/2/2015 - Posted by Sarah Robinson

The Latitude LMS Assessment Authoring Tool enables portal administrators to create, deliver and analyze a range of assessments, from simple quizzes to sophisticated exams. This document will describe how key features allow you to:

  • Define multiple test objectives and sub-objectives
  • Shuffle assessment questions in real time
  • Shuffle answer choices in real time
  • Create pools of questions for each test objective, allowing for randomization in each attempt
  • Control the number of test attempts per participant
  • Control session time limits
  • Define pass/fail requirements



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