Juggling all the different subscription, banking, social network, email, learning management system, and other account passwords is overwhelming. And it seems like more and more websites are creating increasingly complicated password requirements.
Your old stand-by password is suddenly no good anymore. Some sites want a mix of numbers and letters in your password. Some require more than 5 or 6 characters. Others want a combination of lower-case and capital letters, others a mix of both plus numbers, while the most horrible sticklers require a more-than-six-character mix of both cases plus numbers.
Some very efficient, clever, and/or über-organized people have found tricks for remembering passwords. For example, I read about one trick where you take the first and last letters of the website name, and stick your usual password in the middle, adding perhaps a number or two that you always use. I read about another trick too, but I've forgotten it. Just as I've forgotten the passwords to oh-so-many subscriptions, networks, and other sites.
I know I'm not alone. And that's why universal login, that magical feature that learning management systems and other e-learning platforms are beginning to adopt on a wider scale, is so smart.
For organizations and schools delivering e-learning content to large numbers of students, accessibility and ease are essential. And universal login provides this in a simple and logical way.
To aid organizations and all users in their virtual learning environment access, Coggno has recently integrated RPX with its learning management system. Accessing your training or other e-learning content is now so, so simple.
Coggno no longer requires users to create a Coggno account, providing instead a smorgasbord of login options. Through the RPX app, users can now access Coggno using identities from major sites such as Google, AOL, Yahoo!, Twitter, WordPress, MySpace, and Facebook.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Learn the Universal E-Learning Content Tenets for Successful LMS Content
If your e-learning content is prepared and ready to migrate to a learning management system listen up.
To ensure its success on the marketplace and/or its effectiveness with your own organization, consider a few simple key concepts.
As I've written before, strong learning material is grounded on extensive research as well as your own personal experience, and because everyone has different strengths and interests, learning styles, teaching styles, and so on, not every piece of advice offered to you regarding your online course will apply.
But one crucial and fairly universally important element of a good e-learning course is early and detailed communication with students. So what kind of information is essential to provide early on in your e-learning course?
Mainly, you'll need to provide some pre-course basic training on how to use the learning management system, e-learning course, and/or other online tools. If collaborative tools like wikis or discussion boards are involved, you should clearly indicate how you'd like students to participate.
Teach students about course navigation with the use of videos, taking advantage of the simple-to-use video creation tools that LMSs like Coggno offer. Video tours are an easy and fun way to reach students quickly and effectively with important information. And presenting this information in a visually interesting way will help ensure that this important information is delivered successfully.
Of course, the three basic tenets of human communication are gesture, speech, and visuals. So the online fusion of these three elements recreates the natural ways we humans communicate in face-to-face communication. Using these three aspects--especially the emotional signals of tone and voice--helps you to create a sense of trust in the virtual learning environment.
Another guideline to successful communication with students--and something that will help ensure their comfort and ease working with your e-learning course--is developing a clear course outline or syllabus. A syllabus provides a space for courseware developers and educators to break down into simple bites the course expectations and goals for learners. This information must be presented before any actual learning begins, to ensure best communication with students.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
To ensure its success on the marketplace and/or its effectiveness with your own organization, consider a few simple key concepts.
As I've written before, strong learning material is grounded on extensive research as well as your own personal experience, and because everyone has different strengths and interests, learning styles, teaching styles, and so on, not every piece of advice offered to you regarding your online course will apply.
But one crucial and fairly universally important element of a good e-learning course is early and detailed communication with students. So what kind of information is essential to provide early on in your e-learning course?
Mainly, you'll need to provide some pre-course basic training on how to use the learning management system, e-learning course, and/or other online tools. If collaborative tools like wikis or discussion boards are involved, you should clearly indicate how you'd like students to participate.
Teach students about course navigation with the use of videos, taking advantage of the simple-to-use video creation tools that LMSs like Coggno offer. Video tours are an easy and fun way to reach students quickly and effectively with important information. And presenting this information in a visually interesting way will help ensure that this important information is delivered successfully.
Of course, the three basic tenets of human communication are gesture, speech, and visuals. So the online fusion of these three elements recreates the natural ways we humans communicate in face-to-face communication. Using these three aspects--especially the emotional signals of tone and voice--helps you to create a sense of trust in the virtual learning environment.
Another guideline to successful communication with students--and something that will help ensure their comfort and ease working with your e-learning course--is developing a clear course outline or syllabus. A syllabus provides a space for courseware developers and educators to break down into simple bites the course expectations and goals for learners. This information must be presented before any actual learning begins, to ensure best communication with students.
Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
E-Learning Tools and Learning Management Systems for an Evolving World
E-learning courses hosted on a learning management system need to overcome the danger of students copying, giving unoriginal responses to questions, or simply reiterating the responses of other students.
From online training and learning content to the use of discussion boards and other Web 2.0 tools for educational purposes, there is a real possibility in many contexts that students are simply looking up the answers, copying and pasting responses, and learning nothing. Depending on the content, it may have a profound impact on the course's effectiveness.
Education in its online form must undergo some critical growing pains. One of the most common complaints I hear from e-learning students is that courses are simply too easy. Peer originality becomes dubious. And for educators, student effort becomes harder to monitor. Or does it?
What we really need is smarter e-learning design and deployment. It's not enough to create good content, get it out there, and expect students to be engaged. The effective use of Web 2.0 programs, learning management systems, and online courseware in an online learning context requires strategy.
This strategy can be built into the course, developed and maintained by a course administrator or educator, and/or enforced in a face-to-face learning environment if one exists. Tools like Coggno's Activities feature allows LMS administrators to track student activity. Another strategy is to build exams that effectively test student knowledge, rather than asking them to solve problems and post them on a board.
If you're choosing a learning management system for e-learning training or a virtual classroom, choose one based on its built-in solutions to an evolving world.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
From online training and learning content to the use of discussion boards and other Web 2.0 tools for educational purposes, there is a real possibility in many contexts that students are simply looking up the answers, copying and pasting responses, and learning nothing. Depending on the content, it may have a profound impact on the course's effectiveness.
Education in its online form must undergo some critical growing pains. One of the most common complaints I hear from e-learning students is that courses are simply too easy. Peer originality becomes dubious. And for educators, student effort becomes harder to monitor. Or does it?
What we really need is smarter e-learning design and deployment. It's not enough to create good content, get it out there, and expect students to be engaged. The effective use of Web 2.0 programs, learning management systems, and online courseware in an online learning context requires strategy.
This strategy can be built into the course, developed and maintained by a course administrator or educator, and/or enforced in a face-to-face learning environment if one exists. Tools like Coggno's Activities feature allows LMS administrators to track student activity. Another strategy is to build exams that effectively test student knowledge, rather than asking them to solve problems and post them on a board.
If you're choosing a learning management system for e-learning training or a virtual classroom, choose one based on its built-in solutions to an evolving world.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
Monday, July 13, 2009
LMS Activities Feature Helps You Train and Protect Employees
It's something many LMS students often lament; depending on their position, they may need to undergo compliance training. However, greater complaints down the line can be prevented if compliance training is completed in a serious and effective way.
Compliance training may cover issues ranging from sexual harassment prevention, workplace safety, cultural sensitivity, or respect in the workplace. Oftentimes, to someone taking mandatory compliance training, a topic may feel like common sense, or not worth his or her time. This common attitude towards required training can lead to learning content skimming, skipping of entire sections, and ultimately, guessing on exams and retaking quizzes until the correct answers are guessed.
Students' lack of interest in a training topic is often due to a bland training course, as well as the sheer fact that the course is mandatory. This lack of interest can lead to students' failure to process the learning content, and to spend the time required to truly learn the material. But gaps in employee understanding on key issues (such as those listed above) which compliance training covers can end with trouble down the road. For this reason, supervisors are smart to ensure that trainees are completing course material correctly, and spending the appropriate amount of time on each section.
Coggno has responded to this problem with its addition of the Activities feature, which allows LMS administrators to track in real-time student activity on the LMS online course.
The Activities feature also helps educators integrate LMS courses and Web 2.0 into the classroom.
Unfortunately, online education tools for children and teenagers are sometimes avoided because of supervision issues. In some cases, mishandling and/or lack of supervision of online programs can even become a source of litigation against educators and schools. Because of the hazards involved with including Web 2.0 technologies in many LMS and classroom learning systems, educators who use them must take extra precautions, supervising the use of these technologies to ensure that students stay on track.
Coggno's Activities feature is one solution for the problems of supervision in LMS e-learning programs at school.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
Compliance training may cover issues ranging from sexual harassment prevention, workplace safety, cultural sensitivity, or respect in the workplace. Oftentimes, to someone taking mandatory compliance training, a topic may feel like common sense, or not worth his or her time. This common attitude towards required training can lead to learning content skimming, skipping of entire sections, and ultimately, guessing on exams and retaking quizzes until the correct answers are guessed.
Students' lack of interest in a training topic is often due to a bland training course, as well as the sheer fact that the course is mandatory. This lack of interest can lead to students' failure to process the learning content, and to spend the time required to truly learn the material. But gaps in employee understanding on key issues (such as those listed above) which compliance training covers can end with trouble down the road. For this reason, supervisors are smart to ensure that trainees are completing course material correctly, and spending the appropriate amount of time on each section.
Coggno has responded to this problem with its addition of the Activities feature, which allows LMS administrators to track in real-time student activity on the LMS online course.
The Activities feature also helps educators integrate LMS courses and Web 2.0 into the classroom.
Unfortunately, online education tools for children and teenagers are sometimes avoided because of supervision issues. In some cases, mishandling and/or lack of supervision of online programs can even become a source of litigation against educators and schools. Because of the hazards involved with including Web 2.0 technologies in many LMS and classroom learning systems, educators who use them must take extra precautions, supervising the use of these technologies to ensure that students stay on track.
Coggno's Activities feature is one solution for the problems of supervision in LMS e-learning programs at school.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Set Your Own Pace to Success with LMS Online Exam Prep
One advantage LMS online exam prep has over face-to-face study groups or prep classes is convenience. Students can study wherever they like, whenever they want. Online prep courses allow students to prepare for the test at their own pace.
For those who have already completed a program or degree in their fields, taking the big test--be it a board exam or other standardized test--can be an enormous cause of stress.
Oftentimes institutions offer preparation courses and set up group study sessions, but these aren't for everyone.
For many people, studying for an exam is something that is best done individually. With online exam prep, students can set a timeframe themselves, and access practice, review and refresher assignments, and supplementary learning material to get them prepared for the big test. Some courses also provide tutorial support online, and organize groups using Web 2.0 interactive technologies.
No matter your circumstances, you always hold the power to examine your life and reassess your professional goals. LMS online exam preparation classes are effective and serve a practical purpose: helping people start their path on a new career without interfering much with their lives.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable
For those who have already completed a program or degree in their fields, taking the big test--be it a board exam or other standardized test--can be an enormous cause of stress.
Oftentimes institutions offer preparation courses and set up group study sessions, but these aren't for everyone.
For many people, studying for an exam is something that is best done individually. With online exam prep, students can set a timeframe themselves, and access practice, review and refresher assignments, and supplementary learning material to get them prepared for the big test. Some courses also provide tutorial support online, and organize groups using Web 2.0 interactive technologies.
No matter your circumstances, you always hold the power to examine your life and reassess your professional goals. LMS online exam preparation classes are effective and serve a practical purpose: helping people start their path on a new career without interfering much with their lives.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Coggno LMS Now Offers Flash-Based Course Creation Tool
Have you been looking for robust, versatile and imaginative tools for your LMS online training or eLearning course? Coggno's feature-rich course creation toolkit just became even richer.
This week Coggno teamed up with Rapid Intake Unison, online software that allows course creators to build Flash-based eLearning courses.
Rapid Intake Unison's tools allow course developers and subject matter experts to capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based learning content.
But Rapid Intake Unison makes it exceedingly simple--users don't actually need to know Flash. All a user has to do is fill out form-based templates to create interactive Flash-based courses, tests, quizzes, learning games, demos and simulations.
Rapid Intake's tools compbined with the Coggno LMS platform will enable content creators to create richer learning with easy distribution and reporting.
Coggno's Applications Exchance partnerships reflect the consciousness within the eLearning industry that the parts combined are greater than one alone; joining forces provides the best solution. Working together works wonders.
The model of partnering and vending software solutions not only allows for fast and effective performance, but brings together the collective power of combined software skills and know-how. It's an LMS model that Coggno believes is the future.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
This week Coggno teamed up with Rapid Intake Unison, online software that allows course creators to build Flash-based eLearning courses.
Rapid Intake Unison's tools allow course developers and subject matter experts to capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based learning content.
But Rapid Intake Unison makes it exceedingly simple--users don't actually need to know Flash. All a user has to do is fill out form-based templates to create interactive Flash-based courses, tests, quizzes, learning games, demos and simulations.
Rapid Intake's tools compbined with the Coggno LMS platform will enable content creators to create richer learning with easy distribution and reporting.
Coggno's Applications Exchance partnerships reflect the consciousness within the eLearning industry that the parts combined are greater than one alone; joining forces provides the best solution. Working together works wonders.
The model of partnering and vending software solutions not only allows for fast and effective performance, but brings together the collective power of combined software skills and know-how. It's an LMS model that Coggno believes is the future.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Fresh New UI Offered to Coggno LMS Online Users
A easy-to-use, robust user interface isn't easy to come by in LMS online course creation.
A problem that continues to plague the software industry is that program designers are often masters of engineering and programming, but lacking in other areas, like human psychology. It's a sad truth that the industry is driven largely by profits and the ability to offer cutting-edge technology. Even if that technology isn't exactly easy to manage.
In times like this, even finding a user-friendly interface can be a challenge.
LMS online courses and course creation tools can likewise suffer from this quandary. Some LMSs are extremely well developed, created by people who understand how to design technology based on human behavior, and meeting high standards. But weak, unattractive, confusing courseware continues to prevent more effective and widespread online learning.
Luckily, some LMS online systems are perking their ears to the voices of consumers.
Coggno is an LMS online system and e-learning platform that serves as an intermediary for the transfer of knowledge. The goal is to facilitate the connection between trainers/courseware developers and learners.
Coggno's user-friendly, flexible, straightforward user interface is a breeze to navigate and you'll be walked through every step of your course creation.
Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.
A problem that continues to plague the software industry is that program designers are often masters of engineering and programming, but lacking in other areas, like human psychology. It's a sad truth that the industry is driven largely by profits and the ability to offer cutting-edge technology. Even if that technology isn't exactly easy to manage.
In times like this, even finding a user-friendly interface can be a challenge.
LMS online courses and course creation tools can likewise suffer from this quandary. Some LMSs are extremely well developed, created by people who understand how to design technology based on human behavior, and meeting high standards. But weak, unattractive, confusing courseware continues to prevent more effective and widespread online learning.
Luckily, some LMS online systems are perking their ears to the voices of consumers.
Coggno is an LMS online system and e-learning platform that serves as an intermediary for the transfer of knowledge. The goal is to facilitate the connection between trainers/courseware developers and learners.
Coggno's user-friendly, flexible, straightforward user interface is a breeze to navigate and you'll be walked through every step of your course creation.
Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.
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