How it works
Learnbubble is a feature rich Learning and Content Management System. Below is an outline of some of these features.
Creating the learning content
Building good content is critical, no matter what medium you use to deliver it. A course succeeds if it has good, interesting content, combined with consistent and appropriate style and flow. The very best training delivery methods do not remove the need for quality content.
Our team can work with you to create varied content using a variety of media, links, glossaries, video, or plain text, whatever is appropriate to your particular requirements.
Courses in Learnbubble can contain just learning material, just assessments, or both (usually) - it depends what you are trying to achieve.
Our course builder has a comprehensive set of features, including the following:
- 'Building Blocks' - course sections which can be re-used many times in different courses.
- 'Auto marked' - assessment templates and feedback areas speed up the creation of assessments that don't need manual marking.
- Full manual assessment marking process for courses that involve submission of written work and any kind of files.
- A clone course feature that copies a course ready for modification to a similar but different course.
- A word processor style (WYSIWIG) content editor.
- Predefined templates, helping you to provide a consistent layout for your course.
- Chapter and page course structure.
- Ability to embed content, such as audio and video, or hyperlinks.
- Version control, allowing reviewers to check any modifications before releasing a new version of a course.
The screen samples included here show a sample course structure and an individual course page.
Taking a course or assessment
Once a course has been built you can give access to learners.
There are two main ways to get access:
- In a standard set-up, the administrator sets up details relating to the person(s) wanting to do a course and assigns the course to them. For larger organisations there are quick methods for assigning a course to many people at once.
- The second method, where courses are offered for sale on the owner's website, allows a purchaser to enter their details themselves and to make payment online. Once the payment has been cleared the course is released for study and the password issued to the purchaser.
Auto assessments are marked as the course progresses. Results are fed back to learners together with the correct answer and any other comments that the course creator may have set up to help guide the learner.
There is a tutor interface on each page (can be switched off if you prefer). It can be used for:
- An ongoing dialogue between the learner and the designated tutor or Subject matter expert (SME)
- For upload and download of files to supplement learning and clarification;
- As part of an ongoing assessment.
The administrator controls various aspects relating to delivery of the course, such as how long it will remain available to that person.
The person taking the course can do it in multiple visits - they will be returned to the point they had got to.
Completing the course
When somebody completes a course, what happens next will depend on how the course was set up. Basically, short e-learning courses tend to have auto-assessments embedded, and no further intervention is required. Longer courses and accredited courses, that are using Learnbubble, direct learners to carry out activities and find information outside the course as well as within it. This is usually submission of written or other creative work and then goes through a structured process:
- If all assessments are computer marked no intervention is necessary, and the final assessment result is released directly to the person taking the course.
- Courses requiring manual assessment are reviewed by the 'tutor' then assessed.
- Depending on how the course was set up, the work may go for verification where the mark awarded might be adjusted.
- Additional external verification can be carried out for accredited courses - verifiers have full access to all course materials (other than the delegate's personal notes) and again may make adjustments to marks awarded.
- A release date can be set in the future for manually assessed work, if desired.
- A management interface provides access to information about courses taken for proving compliance, planning future training etc.