Ten Features That Your Learning & Talent Management Suite Does Not Provide

Ten Features That Your Learning & Talent Management Suite Does Not Provide
(unless you are already using KMx)

Jack E. Lee - President & CEO Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc.
28 February, 2008

Introduction:
When we founded KMSI, we had a vision of what could be done to reinvigorate the learning technology marketplace. Our founding team brought over 100 years of hands-on experience with nearly all of the "leading" learning technology platforms and e-learning development suites. Our plan was simple; interview organizations using learning management systems, identify the major areas for improvement in both technologies and processes, and use that information to create the most superior learning and talent management suite in the industry. Over the past six years, KMSI has become one of the largest learning technology providers in the industry and our KMx platform is providing service to millions of end-users. The key to our success has been our ability to listen to our clients and meet their needs with the unique capabilities of KMx. The following is a list of ten items not found in any of our competitors offerings that are used by nearly all of our clients. While not intended to be a comprehensive list of features that differentiate KMx from competitive offerings, it does provide the reader with a sense of the values and vision that KMSI has brought to the industry.

Fully automates the import and conversion of Microsoft Office ® files for use as eLearning.
1. Maintains all native animations, interactivity, branching, indexing and more.
2. Creates extremely bandwidth friendly runtime files that can include graphics, audio, video, flash and more.
3. Enables editing in Microsoft Office ® post conversion.
4. Provides Shareable Content Object Reference Module (SCORM) Run-Time Environment book marking, session time management, completion status management and more.
5. Provides fully SCORM conformant reusable learning objects that will export to a SCORM conformant LMS/LCMS.
6. Enables courseware developers to use MS PowerPoint ® to create SCORM conformant compelling eLearning that rivals the output of any eLearning authoring suite, without any programming or SCORM experience.
Provides a comprehensive testing and examination system suitable for high-stakes exams.
1. Extensive test item types including true/false, multiple choice 3-6 answer, fill-in, Lykert scale, matching and drop-down list.
2. Pool and specification based test item randomization.
3. Test item answer randomization.
4. Timed testing.
5. Proctored testing.
6. Scored, un-scored and weighted testing.
7. Complete test item and test reuse with fully independent weighting, retake, pre-requisite management and test item response analysis.
8. Use of supporting media including audio, video, flash, graphics, supporting documentation and more.
9. Enables authors to provide end-users with test item remediation, rationale, references and more.
10. Enables behavioral indexing of all test items and their use for organizational analysis, competency and talent management and more.
Automates the development of behaviorally specific course learning objectives.
1. Incorporates the Performance-Based objective construction model (behavior, condition & standard) that leverages customizable learning templates.
2. Automatically links objectives to learning content, testing materials and student performance information.
3. Enables Return On Investment (ROI) assessment, reporting and management at the learning objective level.
Automates the development of curriculum outlines.
1. Expert system technology that uses either client developed or system developed learning objectives to determine the most efficient course outline.
2. Provide “what if” capabilities to experiment with course outlines to determine learning outcome estimates.
Automates the development of task analysis data.
1. Leverages built in Knowledge and Skill behavioral templates for systems, equipment, policies, procedures and more.
2. Enables designers to create new templates that are organization or industry specific.
3. Provides tools to index and sequence task and supporting behaviors to create a comprehensive Knowledge and Skill inventory for indexing content, test items, objectives, performance criteria, personnel category requirements and certification requirements.
Provides unlimited use of a 30 seat Virtual Classroom with the capability of delivering virtual classroom training to 10,000 simultaneous end-users.
1. Streaming video/audio, interactivity, chat, polling, presentation materials and more.
2. Comprehensive testing and survey capabilities that provide graded events and SCORM element tracking.
3. Ability to deliver software application training to thousands of concurrent users directly from the instructor's workstation.
4. Events are automatically recorded for immediate playback and use as SCOs.
Provides the ability to generate an unlimited number of chat rooms, threaded discussion boards and other collaboration tools for an unlimited end-user population.
1. Threaded discussion boards respect administrative rights to provide a fully moderated environment.
2. Collaboration tools support development of blogs, subscriber notification and email feeds.
3. Chat rooms automatically record the transcript of activity for assignment and use as learning activities.
4. Complete email queuing, list-service and template management to provide notification, alerts and reminders.
Enables managers and administrator to dynamically create, modify and save reports and graphs from user, enrollment, course, class, SCORM and other data by simply selecting the columns or representative graphical elements from an easy to use menu.
1. Reports can be portrait or landscape, have up to five sort criteria and have five independent filters.
2. Provides the ability to delegate reports to managers and supervisors with automatic scope management.
3. Reports can be output to MS Excel ® and HTML for easy sharing and printing.
4. Dynamic graphs provide up to 50 elements with nearly unlimited data filtering and selection.
Provides the industry’s only fully integrated learning suite supporting all blends of training and education.
1. eLearning development suite capable of producing fully SCORM conformant Shareable Content Objects and courses that can incorporate any SCORM conformant third-party courseware.
2. Traditional learning development suite that supports design and development of instructor guides, student guides, self-study guides, eBooks and more.
3. Learning management environment that provides comprehensive catalog, search, schedule, personnel category qualification, certification profiles and more.
4. Learning delivery environment that will automatically adjust to the end-users language preference (with over 20 languages now available), brand affiliation, authority, and more.
5. SCORM conformant Learning Content Management System that provides shared and stand-alone workflow environment with the ability to promote unlimited reuse of SCOs, assets, test item, exams and more.
6. The only virtual classroom technology with the ability to deliver, manage and track SCORM conformant testing, surveys and content for up to 10,000 simultaneous students..
7. Complete performance and talent management system that provides qualification management, certification management, talent pool management, personnel and peer evaluations and more.
8. Built-in interface for easy integration with Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies, Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), eCommerce transaction processing technologies and more.
Supports a truly unlimited number of end-users with no per-user, maintenance, or upgrade fees.
1. Our KMxASP offering provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for unlimited end-users.
2. Our KMx Enterprise offering provides an unlimited end-user software license agreement for installation in the client’s data center.
3. All KMx offerings are provided with free software maintenance and upgrades.
4. Even though we have competitor’s that offer unlimited end-user agreements, most of these offerings lack the ability to scale to large audiences, which significantly reduces the value of their "unlimited use" offering. KMx is used by clients with millions of end-users on a single software installation.

Summary:
Our solution is a technology platform called KMx. This platform, our associated pricing model and implementation processes have forever solved the key pitfalls that have plagued the e-learning industry. KMx can be installed and integrated in a matter of days, not months or years like many of our competitors. KMx provides the tools required to develop e-learning materials without the need for programmers or complex development software. KMx realizes the vision of the SCORM standards through its' ability to produce truly shareable, highly granular, and reusable content. Our sales process is premised on one simple theme "try KMx and become a believer in learning technology, again".

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