The Latitude LMS Certification and Curriculum features provide flexible, performance-driven competency management tools to portal administrators, enabling them to define and manage their Training Programs. These tools provide the ability to mix prerequisites, equivalencies, electives, and mandatory courses with performance data to create certifications and curriculums that drive employee performance. From the simplest requirements to complex setups with certifications and curriculums nested in hierarchies, the LMS has the ability to turn training plans into reality.

Portal Administrators who have monetized their LMS with tuition-based courses and enabled the eCommerce feature now have the option of running sales campaigns for training content. With just a campaign name, discount amount, and term of offer, and you can generate a list of unique coupon codes for distribution and further market your courses!  

Latitude has made it easy for portal administrators to monetize their Learning Management System with several eCommerce options. Once eCommerce is enabled and properly configured for your portal, you can offer clients, partners or distributors the ability to purchase courses and other training-related activities within the LMS. Thanks to Latitude’s partnership with PayPal, administrators can choose whether they want to accept payments via Credit Card, Direct Bill, or both.  

Students can purchase LMS courses and other training-related activities in one of two ways: Direct Bill or Credit Card. Thanks to Latitude’s partnership with PayPal, learners who enroll in tuition-based courses can use their Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or debit cards to make online payments, or agree to be invoiced for the cost of tuition.  

Self-Study courses allow LMS users to train at their own pace, exploring resources such as a book, video, PowerPoint, etc. Depending on the nature of training materials, Portal Administrators can use this flexible course delivery method to accomplish multiple business goals:

• Upload a resource to the LMS, then use its URL to configure a "Launch Content" button for enrolled students
• Integrate content hosted on a third-party site, such as Vimeo.com or YouTube.com, to create video-based courses
• Attach multiple training resources to a single course

The Quick Profile Update tool provides authorized administrators a streamlined way to conduct user account management tasks, such as updating primary profile assignments or user deactivation. Because standard Edit User capabilities are restricted to Portal Administrators, this tool also allows the extension of user maintenance capabilities to others, specifically those users with the Administrator or Instructor roles.

If your organization uses our LMS Add-On for Virtual Classrooms, you will be using Saba Centra to attend online classes. This document provides students important information to help them successfully launch and attend Virtual Classroom Offerings (VCO) with Saba Centra – an application that enables live, web-based training using your workstation and a headset/microphone.

If the Latitude Learning LMS is new to you as a Portal Administrator, or to your organization as a whole, please consider attending some of Latitude’s training webinars to help you master the important features of the LMS. Courses cover topics ranging from foundational elements (adding/maintaining organizations, users, and course catalogs) to more complex functions (managing certifications and curricula).

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The Assessment Authoring Tool enables portal administrators to create, deliver and analyze a range of assessments, from simple quizzes to sophisticated exams. This powerful toolset can help you build a basic text-based test, or create a multimedia experience with text, images, and videos provided as question or answer content. This is a great feature if you would like users to watch a training video, and then answer review questions to assure competency; or if you want to ensure your students can identify company products by sight.

The Latitude Learning LMS gives Portal Administrators great flexibility to edit, brand, and otherwise manage system-generated notifications. There are more than 30 customizable messages that will automatically notify students, managers, and administrators when certain system events are scheduled and when specific training activities take place.

If you want to make LMS coursework a centerpiece item to a broader population of learners, you may consider placing a link to it on your organization’s web site, or perhaps incorporating direct links within your Home page “Welcome” message. Using embedded links bypasses the users’ Home page experience and eliminates the need to search for a course.  

All Latitude Learning LMS users are inherently grouped by basic profile assignments such as Role, Position and Organization unit (i.e. Company, Business Unit, Division, Location). However, our LMS provides portal administrators the option to further organize users into functional groups by creating a Department unit or ad-hoc User Group . These user categories can then be leveraged to configure unique lists of employees for the purposes of mass enrollment, ad-hoc announcements, activity reporting, and more.
 
This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a Department and manage user membership. It will also explain the main drivers and key functionality of this LMS feature, which may ease many of your daily administrative processes.  

LMS data Pickers provide users a fluid way to search for various types of records and filter data for field entry selections. Pickers are designed to assist administrators in scoping their search to view records (e.g. the Search User process) and to provide only the valid options for field entries in Add/Edit forms (e.g. during the Add Course process, when you must Choose Organizations to add a course to catalogs within Business Units.)

Pickers are found throughout the LMS and function in similar ways, regardless of the type of search taking place or the purpose of the resulting selection. This document will refer to a few of the more common data pickers as examples.