Important features

The LMS is the core of AcademyMaker and responsible for managing / controlling, evaluation and participant communication of your training projects.

One of the biggest advantages of AcademyMaker is the integration of LMS, Authoring System and Document Management System under one intuitively usable interface.

AcademyMaker provides a complete user administration including address and role management. It is of course also possible to create an interface to an external user management or contact database. You decide in which directions and in which intervals data synchronisation is conducted.

The user right management helps to determine the access rights of specific persons or groups. External authors, copy writers and translators (with the role 'Author') may create training structures and content, but cannot setup new users or view reports.

The target group management facilitates the administration of your learning units: Each participant can be permanently assigned to one or more target groups (e.g. sales team A or retail southern Germany). When you publish trainings, you may assign target groups just like single users.

Target groups and single users can be synchronised with existing systems in your IT environment.

AcademyMaker supports Communication with your participants with a variety of features. Based on templates you set up texts for invitations, possible reminders and other messages per training. AcademyMaker uses functionality similar to serial-letter technology to personalise email texts.

You define dates where the system automatically sends the emails (you may of course also do everything manually or on demand and send arbitrary emails to arbitrary addressees).

Participants may use the feedback forms to contact the respective training administrator.

The TrainingCenter (also referred to as 'Academy') is the central access and contact point for your training participants. It is a password protected Web site (appears in your design) for your participants which lists all active trainings. Thus the participants do not have to remember several passwords and URLs.

In addition to the standard setting as described above you have several options to define the login workflow. You may e.g. distribute an activation code for certain groups of participants (e.g. trade partners) which can be used for self-registration. This may be a good solution if you do not know your participants by name or email address.

You may further offer trainings without registration (public) or you may want to integrate a payment workflow.

Within one single client licence you have the possibility to book one or more additional online academies (TrainingCenter) to address different target groups individually (e.g. customers, employees, distribution partners get their own login page and Training Center).

The statistics module of AcademyMaker keeps you updated at any time on the progress of your participants. You can use a wide range of evaluations to monitor in real time which participants have worked through which content and the results they achieved (especially with regard to tests and surveys). This gives you a direct, genuine feedback on the success of the training. You may export all reports to Excel.

We can of course develop individual reports for you or also enhance or limit existing reports.

The integrated Authoring System helps you to setup and edit your online trainings. Each training can be designed independent of the layout of the Training Center (e.g. to focus on the branding of a product or product group).

You may freely define the page structure with different levels and edit the structure at all times - even when the training is actually finished or already running. Each page can be filled with content (based on templates for text /image combinations but also for PowerPoint files, videos, Flash files etc.)

An essential feature is the possibility of multiple use of content: You can copy or link entire trainings, lessons or single pages so that the respective content is mutually updated.

All trainings in AcademyMaker can be amended with intermediate tests or an overall exam. These exams are set up automatically - you simply have to activate the respective exam and assign questions. Questions are created based on templates and can be used multiple times (for different exams and / or trainings).

There are many possible settings for exams: you can for example decide whether exams are displayed as a questionnaire or one by one and define time limits for individual questions or the exam. You may chose to have questions be displayed randomly (e.g. for each participant 5 out of 10 available questions).

The number of possible attempts and the minimum result to pass the exam can also be defined differently per training.

The module 'Surveys' is similar to the module 'Exams', but some of the settings mentioned for exams do not apply for survey (e.g. number of possible attempts will always be 1). Also there is an additional question type for surveys (semantic differential).

The combination of survey and knowledge transfer is an interesting option for certain applications.

An easy-to-use editor enables you to design a personalised certificate which - if desired - can be automatically send (via email) to all participants who have passed the training.

AcademyMaker creates a high-resolution PDF (you may of course also print it and send it by mail).

The integrated Document Management System of AcademyMaker (Media Center) is the central file management of the system. You may upload all file types from any web compatible system. The uploaded files can then be used once or multiple times for your training projects.

The Media Center automatically lists the usage and thus enables you to find out where a certain file has been used at all times.

Further the Media Center provides all essential functionalities of a Document Management System such as search, folder/index management, multi-upload, replacing of files, etc.