eLearning Blog

Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how to leverage Excel to help you dig into your learning data, clean up potential issues and discrepancies and summarize information. This webinar is designed for new LMS administrators who may not be comfortable with features available in Excel that can help keep an LMS organized.

Wednesday, 22 Apr 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will show the key components required in almost any implementation of the Accord LMS. This demonstration is targeted to any new Accord LMS client or any existing client bringing on a new administrator.

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis. OpenSesame, Accord LMS's content partner since 2015, has curated a list of online courses covering Coronavirus preparedness, Infection control and illness prevention, Ergonomics, Working remotely, managing remote teams, and anxiety & mental health during this challenging time. Accord and OpenSesame are offering these courses to our customers as a public service. This article demonstrates how you can access this important resource.

Extended Enterprise is a common term in the Learning Management Industry but may be unfamiliar to those simply looking for a Learning Management System which will work best for their organization. This article revisits this important topic and provides a few tips on how to identify an Extended Enterprise LMS.

Wednesday, 18 Mar 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how to control when content becomes available to a learner, when it must be completed and when the content is reassigned with a new deadline. In addition, he will show you how to use the Role Members functionality within the role to manually edit deadlines as exceptions and special circumstances occur within your organization.

The Accord LMS is built to support large complex learning environments. An important aspect of our LMS design is the hierarchical team structure available to LMS Admins. Large enterprise and extended enterprise Learning Management Systems require a flexible user management structure. Accord’s Teams support departmental control, multiple administrators, custom reporting, custom permissions and more. This article reviews some new features designed to simply the Team Administration experience.

Wednesday, 19 Feb 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate recent updates to the Accord LMS that allow administrators to more easily manage Team changes, so that when your organization reorganizes, you can easily update Accord to match. Also, Matt will show you how to take your own SCORM content, residing on the Accord LMS, and package it so that your customers can run that content within their own LMS, while still providing you the necessary activity tracking and control over the content's behavior.

Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate the Accord LMS Salesforce Connector, which allows customers using both Accord LMS and Salesforce to build an end to end learning cycle for customer education. Your sales and customer care staff can also benefit from the convenience of completing training assignments directly in Salesforce, allowing them to stay in their day to day Salesforce environment but still meet important training goals.

Check out this year in review top ten list to see if you've missed any of the new features that we've added in the past 12 months!

Accord will be launching a new lightning experience app in the Salesforce AppExchange. We are currently seeking a limited number of current Salesforce users to participate in and extended beta test for this exciting new product. This article briefly describes the Salesforce Connector and provides a link for those who would like to be considered for inclusion in our beta program.

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will discuss options that clients have for including off the shelf content from Open Sesame into their Accord LMS solution. This can be of great benefit to organizations who have course needs in areas such as compliance, safety and technology. He will also show how to find specialized content options in the OpenSesame marketplace.

This article explores how to use Learning Roles within the Accord LMS to ensure training consistency while reducing administrative efforts. We will discuss how to save time while executing your training plan when using the new Accord LMS Learning Role Management Feature.

Wednesday, 20 Nov 2019 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate improvements to the Administrator User Interface that will make using Accord LMS easier to use. We have focused our efforts on streamlining the Learning Role Management aspect of Accord LMS. This speeds up your setup time for new training programs and makes it easier for you to see who is assigned to what content.

For the first time Accord has partnered with industry leading content provider Open Sesame to release a product package designed specifically to support organizations with 200 to 2000 learners.  Accord Plus is a complete solution providing everything necessary to take your learning program to the next level.

Wednesday, 16 Oct 2019 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how an organization moving to Accord can speed up their implementation and save tedious data entry by leveraging new and improved import processes to define their content structure, organize learners, and upload completion history. This same functionality can also be beneficial to any client undergoing significant reorganization.