Skillable Training Management System (TMS) is our integrated LMS platform to deliver labs to your learners. You can manage learners and instructors, schedule classes and assign Self-Paced training. You can check Lab instances to see your learners’ progress, instructors can virtually view and interact with learners by monitoring their labs as they work on them. Have learners and instructors launch all the course content, labs, courseware and your virtual meeting from a single web page. You can add multiple choice Assessments, Surveys for students, instructors or Organizations and you have numerous options for automatically triggered notifications. Validate and recognize your learners’ Achievements with certificates and Badges.
Publish to our TMS
For those who are creating their own labs, after your lab is published to the Skillable TMS, you must add it into a course to be delivered to your learners. Those who are purchasing content from a provider will be given access to your contracted courses.
A course is then added to a class for instructor led delivery or to a Course Assignment, Training Key Pools, or Subscription for self-paced delivery. Once a class is set up, students are enrolled manually, through theAPI, or through Training Keys. When self-paced training is set up, a course assignment or subscription can be manually assigned or given access through a training key.
Create a Course
A Course can hold all the content to deliver to your learner; it is a container with many settings which holds labs and other Activities. After creating a course, you must add a publishing group to make it available to add to a Class, course assignment or subscription. Once the course and publishing group are set up, you can choose delivery methods.
Determine Delivery Mechanism
Labs are contained within a course then courses are added to delivery methods to place the labs into your learner’s hands. Delivery can be instructor led training through a class or self-paced training through a course assignment.
A class is a set date and time when the instructor and students meet. When scheduling a class, a course is added to give access to the content and labs. Instructors have access to the course and labs when they are assigned to teach a class. Learners can access labs once class starts.
Self-paced learners can be assigned a single course through a course assignment or a set of courses through a subscription; a subscription gives a learner access to multiple courses which can be taken and retaken for a limited amount of time. Each course launched within a subscription is opened as a course assignment.
Deliver your Training
You can choose to assign training manually, use the Skillable Connect TMS API, or use training keys for learners to self-register and access their training.
Instructor led learners can be enrolled manually one at a time or in groups. You can also use training keys to allow students to self-register and access their class. Learners have access to class labs from the start of the class through any post class lab access set for the course, normally 180 days. Students and instructors can connect directly to your virtual meeting host through the class. Instructors can monitor all student labs virtually during classes.
Self-paced learner’s access to a course assignment is normally 180 days from the time it is created but may be set to less. You can manually create a single course assignment, multiple course assignments or use Course Assignment Training Keys to allow students to self-register and open a course assignment. Subscriptions can also be assigned manually to a single learner, multiple learners or through training keys which allows students to self-register and open their subscription.
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application that manages learning processes. It handles administrative tasks, class and course management, tracks learner progress, delivers educational content, and automates processes like enrollment and reporting and more.
Self-Paced or On-demand training is associated with course assignments or subscriptions. Users are assigned training which can be accessed at any time by the learner at their leisure. Outside guidance or mentorship is often not provided with this type of training.
A lab instance is the individual occurrence of a lab profile launch. Each lab instance is unique for each lab launch, and all details related to the lab launch are displayed on the lab instance.
Assessments are used to determine the user's comprehension of materials. Assessments can be created in the TMS as a multiple choice test and then added to courses.
TMS entity that can be applied the organization, course, or class to gather feedback from their learners to create even better experiences.
An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.
Achievements are a feature to recognize an accomplishment with the TMS. An achievement is automatically triggered by an action being completed in the platform, such as, a user launched a lab, completed a lab, completed a course or a set of courses. An achievement can be associated with a badge so that the badge is automatically assigned when the task is completed.
Badges are digital credential for completing a class or a course which can be assigned manually on the class roster or course assignment. When paired with an Achievement the badge can be automatically triggered by a set of actions such as completing a course or launching a lab. Badges are provided through Credly/Acclaim and can be shared on social media or as email signatures.
Publishing a lab is the process of making a Lab Profile available to the customer’s Learning Management System (LMS). The LMS can then be configured to enable the end Learner to have access to the new Lab(s).
Skillable's Training Management System. A learning management system designed to streamline the delivery, tracking, and reporting of your training programs.
A course assignment delivers self-paced access to a course. A course is assigned to a student giving immediate access to the student. It can be accessed at any time for the duration of the assignment. The assignment duration begins and is billed when it is created.
Training keys pools are associated with course assignments in the TMS. A key pool is set up for a specific course to generate a group of keys, or pool, and then can be distributed to individuals to redeem the key for access to the course. If a Training Key Pool is unavailable, a Course Assignment Training Key should be used.
A subscription is an assignment to an individual for access to a set of courses for a set amount of time for self-paced access. Students can choose which courses to access from the subscription, which then open as a course assignment, and they can access the courses at any time for the duration of the subscription.
An API, also known as an Application Programming interface, consists of a defined set of rules and protocols that enable seamless communication between different software applications. A common language for software systems to collaborate effectively.
A training key is a code given to students to be admitted to training and can also be used for them to create their own user accounts. Training keys can be used to create class enrollments, course assignments or subscription assignments.
Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.
Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.
Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).
A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.
A batch of keys aligned with a single course used to give learners access to their course assignment.
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