1. Quick Overview

2. What is eFront?  A new generation, all-in-one learning management system (LMS /LCMS)  A tool for creating effective distant online learning communities  It can be used as:  A training tool  A communication tool  An evaluation tool  A certification tool  A file management and sharing tool  It can be used as an autonomous tool but it can also be combined with:  Traditional education in classroom (blended learning)  Tools for synchronous learning (video-conference and virtual class)

3. What’s inside eFront An environment to build lessons, to create tests, to organize content and the learning process (LCMS) The end user learning environment (LMS) A lot of tools to enrich the communication between users Tools to assess learner improvement Advanced administration and system customization tools

4. Basic Functions Learning Delivery – including content management and assessment utilities Learning Delivery Communication tools – basic communication tools Communication tools Reporting – basic reports Reporting Administration – Everything needed to cover the core functions Administration User interface – same across all edition platforms, making it easy and simple to use. User interface Click here for commercial editionsClick here for commercial editions (more functions)

5. eFront is offered as… Software – The end-user buys the system and installs it on their infrastructure – Fixed cost and yearly updates Service – The end-user rents a virtual efront server – No need to have his own infrastructure – Automatic system updates and backups – Monthly payments

6. eFront editions Tailored for particular segments of distant learning market, eFront is available in 3 editions. Each edition builds on the previous in an incremental manner creating solutions with additional functionality.

7. Core functionality

8. eFront / Community edition eFront Community is the open-source edition of eFront. It is a fully flexible eLearning 2.0 system capable of fulfilling a wide range of learning needs. eFront Community provides the basis of all eFront editions.

9. Learning Delivery / SCORM Support CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront community and community++ are SCORM 1.2 compliant and certified platforms. You can import SCORM packages or export the content you created in SCORM format and use it in any other SCORM compliant platform.

10. Learning Delivery / Lessons, courses,categories CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes Course management is done through the administration's interface. It involves the management of lessons, the logical organisation of lessons to categories, the bundling of several lessons as a course and the enrolment of users to lessons and courses.

11. Learning Delivery / Content Editor CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront includes an easy to use WYSISWYG (what-you-see-is- what-you-get) content editor, to add images, videos, sounds, java applets and mathematical types in a visual way. Experienced users can further format content using html.

12. Learning Delivery / File manager & Digital Library CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront includes an advanced file manager that allows you to upload, preview, share, zip, rename and delete files. Multiple files can be uploaded in zip format and eFront will unzip them automatically. All files uploaded to the special Digital Library folder are shared and can be downloaded by every lesson user.

13. Learning Delivery / Test Builders CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront has an advanced internal test builder that supports several types of tests and a wide range of question types (shown above). All questions are stored to a central pull and can be used in different tests.

14. Learning Delivery / Projects CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes You can create projects with deadlines and assign them to users. Users must upload their answer to the project, and the tutor can access it and provide a grade.

15. Learning Delivery / Access Rules CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes You can control which lessons each user has access to and the order of lesson completion. This way you can channel users through specific learning paths.

16. Learning Delivery / Progress Tracking CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront informs and guides users regarding their progress inside a lesson and what remains in order to complete it.

17. Learning Delivery / Glossary Each lesson has its own glossary section. When a definition is entered into the glossary, the referred word will be highlighted in its original context within the particular lesson, as shown above, indicating the definition entered. CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes

18. Communication tools / Basic Tools CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront includes several communication tools. The list includes calendar, personal messages, forum, chat and collaborative content building. The last two are shown above.

19. Reporting / Basic Reports CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront produces extensive reports on system access, generic system characteristics, users progress and lesson information (shown above).

20. Administration / User Management eFront supports three basic types of users: Student, Professor and Administrator. Users must have a basic role, but they can also have different roles per lesson, allowing a user to be student in one lesson and a professor in another. Except the three basic roles, eFront can create descendant roles with fewer permissions, permitting the creation of "guest" users, that cannot send messages to forum or see the lesson's content. CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes

21. Administration / Technology CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront uses current web technologies and standards to ensure an excellent user-experience. Amongst others we follow AJAX, LDAP, UNICODE, SCORM, n-tier-architecture, MODULAR extensions, CSS and strict DTD.

22. Administration / Multilingual CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront has full administrative support for adding or modifying languages. Internally all content and function is unicode (UTF-8) enabled. The only thing needed to add a new language is to translate a language file.

23. Administration / the Administrator CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes The administrator can control any aspect of the system through an easy to use interface. New modules support allow him to extend the functionality of the system.

24. Administration / Modular CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes Modules allows you to extend the basic system functionality as needed. Modules are installed and activated through the administrator interface.

25. Administration / Themes Examples from a plethora of themes available. Themes can adjust color, layout and blocks position according to the user’s preferences. CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes

26. Interface / Customization and Usability CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes eFront can be adapted according to your needs. E.g. you can re- arrange the main page components via simple drag-and-drop (shown above), you can select the active components for your lesson, or you can change the visual theme of your installation.

27. Interface / Search CommunityYes Commercial Editions Yes Search functionality is always available. You can effectively search inside lesson content, personal messages or forum messages, to obtain exactly what you are looking for.

28. eFront commercial editions The commercial editions of eFront build on the functionalities of the community edition in an incremental manner, to offer more complete and powerful solutions for segments of our customers.  Educational – Suitable for educational organizations Educational  Enterprise – Encompassing advanced Human Capital Development functionality. Enterprise

29. eFront commercial editions / eFront Educational eFront Educational is a flexible solution, combining the functionalities explored below to those offered in the Community edition. Tailored for educational organizations and colleges, it brings support for the latest eLearning standards together with advanced reporting capabilities.

30. Learning Delivery / Smart Content Import Compatible with a variety of file types, eFront makes it easy to convert existing data directly into the database, e.g. Zip and PDF files can be imported and eFront will transform them directly into the working content tree, using folder names as unit names within the lesson. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

31. Learning Delivery / Certifications Certificates are awarded depending on a predetermined set of objectives being satisfied e.g. the course certificate above was awarded once the user passed all three course lessons in the order of completion, within the deadline date set and with a score above the set threshold. User’s homepage indicating the achievement of a certificate in the course. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

32. Communication Tools / Surveys Creating a survey is made simple and flexible, with many options available to the creators, e.g. respondents can remain anonymous and there is a wide variety of question types to choose from. Once the survey is published, the invited users will see a notification on their homepage and until when they should complete it. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

33. Communication Tools / Notifications This feature allows for customised automated emails to be created for any event. These can be restricted to certain users and activated/deactivated, as above in black/red, accordingly. Very easy to manage, an efficient and reliable way to inform users automatically. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

34. Ecommerce / Shopping Cart Shows users which courses they have chosen to enroll into, indicating individual as well as total prices and any discounts available, as shown above. The voucher feature allows users to enter a discount voucher code, which accordingly will adjust the balance automatically. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

35. Vouchers and discounts can be entered by administrators, with the option of setting voucher codes, discount percentages and start dates. This gives administrators full control over which users are eligible for the discounts. Ecommerce / Voucher and Discount Support EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

36. Ecommerce / Balance Support A very user friendly feature, permitting users to prepay an amount towards their future purchases whilst simplifying the associated administrative process. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

37. Social Extensions / Facebook Integration Facebook integration allows users to login to their eLearning facility and facebook simultaneously, to view their facebook profile on their eLearning homepage. Once connection with facebook has been established, there will be no need to login separately, as shown above. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

38. Social Extensions / System Timelines Users can see their own history of actions whilst yielding administrators with an overview of what users are actually doing on the learning facility. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

39. Social Extensions / Lesson Timelines Each lesson has its own specific timeline, providing transparency of everyone’s actions for all parties associated with the lesson. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

40. Social Extensions / User Wall & Status Users with common lessons can write on each other’s walls, in an attempt to effectively utilize tacit knowledge within the organization. Users can also update their status, to keep anyone connected up to date EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

41. Reporting / Test Reports Administrators and supervisors can check to see how many users have completed a specific test, how many times they tried and their average score, allowing instant access to any user’s performance. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

42. Reporting / Test Reports Test analysis, a feature of test reporting, allows for a quick and accurate comparison between all completed test scores, providing supervisors with valuable insights of individual performances. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

43. Administration / Groups Consolidation of users into groups allows administrators to auto-assign a variety of common content and settings, to all group users. A necessary feature for larger organizations, allowing administrators to efficiently, accurately and effortlessly register new users and manage existing ones. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

44. Administration / Extended User Profiles Administrators can customize the details required when users register, to contain more fields of information, which can be set as mandatory or optional. Above are some examples of fields that can be added, although the standard details required from any registering user are set as default. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

45. Administration / Auto-update support With paid editions, customers are able to auto-update their version of eFront, whilst maintaining their database intact, as long as their license is still valid. Customers can compare their installed version to the latest available, to make sure they are up-to-date. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

46. Learning Delivery / SCORM 2004 4 th edition SCORM 2004 4 th edition is the latest and most technologically advanced collection of standards and specifications for web-based eLearning. Based on new standards for API and content object-to-runtime environment communication with many ambiguities of previous versions resolved, has helped create a more robust test suite which helps ensure good interoperability. Combines the ability to specify adaptive sequencing of activities that use the content objects while allowing the sharing and use of information for multiple learning objectives or competencies across content and courses for the same learner within the same LMS. All this gives users a faster and more complete experience and allows providers to set more stringent learning paths that users must comply to. eFront is one of the first systems to offer this level of support for SCORM. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

47. Learning Delivery / Lesson Capacity The administrator is able to set a maximum number of users per lesson and the access period after registration, ensuring lesson capacity is maintained. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

48. Learning Delivery / Linked Lessons A very useful and ergonomic feature for creating lessons, which permits the sharing of specific data between lessons e.g. a video in one lesson can be used in other lessons. This saves time and space, as the data is only stored once. As you can see above, such a link is easily achieved by sharing a folder with existing lessons. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

49. Reporting / Time Constraint Reports The administrator has access to a plethora of time constraint reports, from users on a course to most active users, instantly yielding valuable information, which prior to eLearning, was too time-consuming to compile. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

50. Reporting / Event Reports Adjustable to a specific user, lesson or course, these reports summarize all events related to the variable selected e.g. certificates issued for and historical job positions of the selected user, plus many more… EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

51. Reporting / Group Reports A report on a group of users, to yield various information including, registration and last login per user, lessons related to the group, group user traffic and access time. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

52. Reporting / Certificate Reports Generates a report showing users who obtained a certificate of a particular course, within a specified time frame, with certificates about to expire and of a specific certificate key. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

53. Reporting / Participation Reports Offers a high level overview of user’s participation in the various eLearning mediums e.g. content viewing, tests, projects, forums. These can be time constrained per user, group, specific lesson or course. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

54. Reporting / User reports generator Build your own reports through an easy to use user interface, the user reports generator. The generator is based on a number of conditions and reporting columns. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

55. Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis Examines the capability of users in pursuing a role according to predetermined criteria (reflected in the questions created and chosen, as shown), ensuring that the organization efficiently allocates its human resources. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

56. Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis Invited users will receive a link on their homepage to access and complete the test. The results will indicate which users are most suitable for the role, thus maximizing productivity. A valuable tool for organizations, which has the potential to take workforce productivity to new levels. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

57. Enterprise extension / Certification paths management Certificates can be further managed to include an expiry date e.g. the above certificate will be valid for twelve months and users must repeat the course upon certificate expiry. This is particularly useful with courses covering evolving topics, in an attempt to keep course users as up-to-date as possible. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

58. Administration / Archive support When you delete a user, lesson or course, it is automatically moved to an archive folder in order to avoid loss of valuable data. The administrator then has the option to fully restore or permanently delete the data and free up storage space, as shown above. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

59. Administration / LDAP support LDAP support and an extensive XML API, provide the means to communicate with other systems. In conjunction with other administrative features, allows for the creation of a secure environment e.g. where you can restrict the IP addresses that have access to the system. EducationalYes EnterpriseYes

60. eFront commercial editions / eFront Enterprise eFront Enterprise combines the functionalities explored below to those offered in the Educational edition. Tailored with larger organizations and companies in mind, it offers solutions for the management of their most valued asset – their employees. Based on a coherent approach to human capital management which keeps the workforce actively engaged, the eFront Enterprise platform offers the means of aligning learning programs with business goals to cultivate employee skills and knowledge associated with business performance.

61. Enterprise Suite / Track job placements Allows for job specific searches and/or in conjunction with branch location i.e. specific job roles in specific branch locations. It also allows for skill specific searches or a search of employees within a specific job role across all branches. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

62. Enterprise Suite / Branch management Provides a quick overview of all branches, their location details, number of employees at each branch and where each branch reports to. By selecting a particular branch, further information such as employee details and job positions can be viewed, thus yielding conclusive information in an effective manner. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

63. Enterprise / Branch Theme and Url You can define a different theme and access url for each one of your branches. Users will see a different interface as well as different course catalog according to their branch. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

64. Enterprise Suite / Branch Reports Shows users within a particular branch, indicating last login and jobs assigned, lessons enrolled in and total access time per user, similar to group reports. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

65. Enterprise Suite / Branch Supervisor Role Supervisors are considered as the administrators of their branch, with privileged access to features and control of users, within that branch. Branch supervisors have access to the categories shown above, and each category has numerous options e.g. add/delete users, assign users to job roles or courses, add/delete job positions, create groups of users, plus many more. Branch Supervisors are able to access these options from their homepage via an organization link. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

66. Enterprise Suite / Skills management Skills are easily created and categorised, and assigned to users once they have fulfilled certain criteria, e.g. pass a specific test associated with a skill, or can be assigned by the administrator directly if a user already possesses the skill. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

67. Enterprise / Competency management This allows for a search of various skills, simultaneously required to perform certain tasks e.g the three skills searched above matched only two user’s skill-sets and thus their competency in performing desired task. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

68. Enterprise / Employee transcripts An example of an employee transcript showing evaluation remarks by supervisors on their performance and achievements. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

69. Enterprise / Employee transcripts An example of an employee transcript showing overall and individual test scores (and date test was taken) plus lessons and courses the user has already completed. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

70. Enterprise Suite / Managing users Users can be managed by branch or job position, as shown above, but also by location and department. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

71. Enterprise / Assign courses base on job role This ensures users are automatically enrolled into courses and lessons depending on their job role e.g. Business Development Managers will automatically be enrolled into the courses shown above. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

72. Enterprise Suite / Skill based search Allows for skill based searches across the whole organization, a particular branch or within a specific job position i.e. in the above example, 3 people within the whole organization have the experience in managing people skill. EducationalNo EnterpriseYes

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