eLearning Blog

Online learning has been growing steadily for decades. As a result of the global pandemic, this steady increase has grown exponentially in the past year. Despite unprecedented economic difficulties eCommerce sales in 2020 have seen a healthy 32.4% year over year increase while brick and mortar retail sales are expected to have dropped more than 3% YoY. This article examines a number of options available for Accord LMS clients who would like to monetize their content and take advantage of the profitable intersection between eCommerce and Online learning.

Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this session, Rick will demonstrate how to use the Accord LMS to sell B2C training content. We'll review what types of content can be sold as well as discussing best practices for preparing your content and storefront to work seamlessly together. At the conclusion of this session, participants should have a general understanding of the essential features of the Accord LMS Storefront and how to apply them.

Wednesday, 18 Nov 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will cover how the Accord LMS tracks learner activity in the form of an "Attempt". He will cover various attempt types, such as Folder, LE, Completed, Best, etc. and show you how to focus your Accord site to the types of attempt data that are most important for your specific needs. This is an advanced Accord LMS topic and targeted towards LMS Admins who are comfortable with the primary Catalog, Teams, Roles and Reporting features, but everyone is welcome to attend.

Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how to use Teams and/or Roles in the Accord LMS to set up your learners and assign content so that you can optimize your Accord LMS site, make the best use of report data and help keep your management team informed of learning activities.

Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how to use different types of learning materials to deliver content to your learners using Accord LMS

Wednesday, 19 Aug 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how Badges are awarded by the completion of learning content. He will also show you how to create badges and upload and manage badge images.

The Accord LMS offers a great deal of flexibility in both configuration and execution.  This allows the system to be readily adapted for a wide-range of operations.  One such example of it’s flexibility, is the ease at which Learning Content can be assigned to Learners.  Most users have a preferred way of assigning learning content to Learners, what about efficient methods for unassigning learning content? This article reviews four main approaches for dropping learning content from Learners, while discussing the merits of each approach.

Wednesday, 17 Jun 2020 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate feature updates and enhancements made to the Accord LMS during the first half of 2020. These updates bring added flexibility and ease of use for both administrators and learners.

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.

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.

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.