If you want to highlight a set of courses for your student-users, but do not want to enroll them upfront, you can feature courses on their Classic home page or the Navigation Page using tools included with the Latitude Learning LMS.

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.

I recently read an article on franchise.com titled Evaluating a Franchise Training Program: Five Essentials to Ensure Your Potential Franchisor Will Provide Adequate Support. Bart Puett, President and CEO of Maid Brigade, Inc., and author of this article, outlines a checklist of five key support assets to look for when evaluating a franchise and its training program.

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.

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

Congratulations to Latitude's Bracket Winner; Andrew Lindquist of Links Systems, Inc.

Latitude is happy to announce the winner of the NCAA basketball bracket challenge. Andrew Lindquist of Links Systems, Inc. placed first in the challenge which wins him a Keurig Coffee Brewing Machine. Links Systems, Inc. is a consultant company that helps online delivery and live training seminars to its clients. There were many participants, but only one lucky winner. Congrats, Mr. Lindquist!!! 

The Latitude Learning Team announces the latest release of the Latitude Learning LMS. This release Version 2.5.1.67465 was promoted to production on Friday, April 17, 2015...

Latitude Consulting Group, an industry leader in partner performance, is proud to connect with the Michigan Humane Society (MHS) to help them achieve their goals through their Learning Management System. 

After much internet research to find the right LMS, the Michigan Humane Society aligned with Latitude. Subsequently they implemented Latitude’s LMS platform.

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.  

Franchise business is directly related to the quality of your employees’ behaviors and attitudes. How an employee acts and what they do leaves a big impression on the customer – creating satisfaction and loyalty at the franchised group level, or driving them to a competing brand.

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.  

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.

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.