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After more than a year of development and countless hours of consultation with existing clients and design experts, Accord is prepared to release the newest version of it’s powerful Learning Management System. Version 2021.02 offers a completely new Learner View as well as a refactored administrative experience. Early reports from clients confirm that 2021.02 offers the same great feature set with an easier, faster, and more intuitive user interface.

The Accord LMS will soon release an updated version that makes it even easier to create attractive course displays. This article explores various free and affordable ways to obtain graphical and audio assets for your learning projects, including course Thumbnail images for an attractive learner course library.

Accord designers and software developers have been quietly working on a significant update to the Accord LMS. This article will briefly introduce readers to aspects of the new design while providing a timeline for this upcoming release. Our existing Accord LMS clients will receive instructions for scheduling a more in-depth preview session with our Director of Product Development.

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, 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, 18 Sep 2019 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will show you some of the new features released in 2019.04 that will allow you to better customize ILT rosters and notifications, as well as find the answers to enrollment questions quickly.

The Accord Learning Management System supports a wide range of virtual training technologies. In particular, Accord offers tight integration with LogMeIn’s popular GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTraining online meeting solutions. This article highlights some new integration features which will benefit those organizations who provide online training for staff, partners or customers.

Wednesday, 20 Mar 2019 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how Accord LMS Administrators can use the new Quick Report in Accord to easily track enrollment and progress on any learning that has been set up in the Catalog.

In 2018, Accord LMS introduced a new suite of features designed to facilitate further interaction between instructors, learners and peers, as well as providing a platform for providing answers to the most common questions. This article will examine the four modules in the Accord Knowledge Solutions.

Wednesday, 15 Aug 2018 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will demonstrate how to create LMS Admins Types that can only access limited parts of the content catalog and specific Learners.

Wednesday, 25 Jul 2018 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will show you how to use the advanced actions found on the enrollment tab so that you are prepared when the need arises.

Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will show you how to use all of the new features provided in Accord LMS 5.9.

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 11 AM Pacific, 2 PM Eastern
In this demo, Matt will show you how to use Accord LMS reports to keep informed on training progress, effectiveness and overall compliance.