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What applications are required to run the training? Can this be run/maintained from our own intranet? How do I integrate Essential Skillz Courses with my organisation's existing LMS? Can I integrate Essential Skillz Risk Assessments with my organisation's existing LMS? Installation – Hosted v Local installation What can you tell me about your technical infrastructure? Do you have systems for monitoring incidents/response times? What client IT involvement if any is required at implementation and on an ongoing basis? How many dedicated staff do you have on support? What applications are required to run the training? Can this be run/maintained from our own intranet? How do I integrate Essential Skillz Courses with my organisation's existing LMS? Why integrate? It simply does not make sense for an organisation to have more than one LMS. An LMS not only delivers e-learning content across an organisation, it also maintains a training history for every user on the system. It is essentially a training database for all online (and sometimes classroom) delivered training. It would not make much sense to have Health & Safety training records in one LMS, IT training in another and management training in yet another database. Besides most of the administration required with an LMS is the constant updating of employee details such as changes of department or location plus the addition of new starters and removal of leavers. Benefits There are three main benefits to having one primary LMS and integrating all content, including Health & Safety training into one system:
Integrating EssentialSkillz e-learning content EssentialSkillz e-learning courses are SCORM 1.2 compliant, so lend themselves to fast and easy integration with SCORM 1.2 compliant LMS. Examples of where our training content has been integrated into other LMS include:
Can I integrate Essential Skillz Risk Assessments with my organisation's existing LMS? The reason for the complications surrounding the integration of the risk assessment is that standard LMS are built to deliver and track training courses and do not contain the specialist functionality built in to create, deliver, track, report and manage the resolution of risk assessment concerns. Our specialist LMS, O-LAS, will be required to deliver this functionality. For O-LAS to work seamlessly with an organisation's primary LMS, a certain amount of integration work needs to be undertaken. EssentialSkillz proprietary Online Learning & Assessment System (O-LAS) can best be described as a four-in-one system, providing the following functionality:
Our best selling Display Screen Equipment (DSE) solution, ErgoWize, is a two part solution comprising:
To deliver this solution, we utilise the first two parts of O-LAS, namely the LMS and the Risk Assessment software. When a customer already has an LMS, then this LMS can act as the primary LMS and replace the existing LMS functionality within O-LAS. However, the primary LMS will not be able to deliver the second part of the solution, the self risk assessment. Therefore, we need to integrate O-LAS with the customer's primary LMS to provide the a viable solution to their DSE compliance needs. Why a SCORM Integration? Without a full SCORM integration, Health & Safety departments would have to maintin a separate employee database on a separate LMS. Employees would need a separate username and password to a separate LMS/Risk Assessment system and training data would have to periodically downloaded from one system and uploaded to another, with all the issues of trying to match data from one database to another. Installation – Hosted v Local installation
Data always remains your property and we endeavour to take every reasonable precaution to protect and secure your data against malicious use and attack. Please see our Privacy Policy. What can you tell me about your technical infrastructure? Our courses are written using Macromedia Flash. This enables us to deliver interactive content with cutting edge graphics and exceptional streaming ability. However, we also have non Flash versions, which are compliant with Level 3 accessibility standards and can be fully customised by each organisation using our Content Management System. Each client PC needs a browser (IE or Firefox preferred) with JavaScript and Flash enabled. Security settings also need to allow for a session cookie to be created so that course progress can be tracked by the LMS. Access to the internet, usually through trusted site/white list designation on an organisation's firewall, is also required for hosted solutions which account for 95% of what we deploy. Do you have systems for monitoring incidents/response times? Under the terms of this contract they provide all the basic server and firewall management functions such as:
What client IT involvement if any is required at implementation and on an ongoing basis? How many dedicated staff do you have on support? Issues regarding server availability are dealt with on a 24/7 basis by our partners, Novarra.ie who have personnel based on site at the data centre, ServeCentric. Data centre staff are also available 24/7 to provide "intelligent hands" support if required. Have we answered all of your questions? |
