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Course Provider Organizations, or Organizations, allow Course Providers within the same Organization to access and edit all courses associated with that Organization. Let's take a closer look.

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The Course Roster is used to view users who are registered for courses on TRAIN. This feature gives course providers and admins an easy way to view a learner's registration status along with details regarding their registration. Let's take a closer look.

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Announcements allow administrators the ability to provide additional information to users as they access their affiliate homepage. Let's take a closer look at how to set up an announcement.

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TRAIN depends on its Course Providers to post relevant content for its users. If you are a content creator or Course Provider and wish to post your content to TRAIN, this tutorial will walk you through the process of requesting to become a TRAIN Course Provider. For TRAIN administrators, this tutorial will also walk you through how to approve a Course Provider in TRAIN.

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This tutorials walks through adding content to TRAIN. It provides an overview of the process of creating content through the External Content course type. Lets take a closer look at how to add content to TRAIN.

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This tutorial walks through the details specific to the Live Event (In Person) course type.

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This tutorial walks through the details specific to the Live Event (Online) course type.

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This tutorial walks through the details specific to the Exercise course type.

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This tutorial walks through the details specific to the SCORM course type.

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This tutorial walks through the details specific to the Physical Media course type.

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Cloning a course can be useful in many situations. For example, if you had a live webinar course and now wish to post the recorded webinar to TRAIN. You can clone the original 'Live Event (Online)' course and create an 'External Content' course that links to the recorded webinar. Lets walk through the process.

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Instructors are added to sessions so that learners can see who will be instructing their course. Let's take a close look at how to add Instructors to TRAIN.

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Locations are added to sessions so that learners know where the session is taking place. Lets take a closer look at how to add Locations to TRAIN.

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The Certificate Management functionality allows you to create and edit certificates for use with courses. Certificates can be assigned to courses by themselves or can be assigned to specific credit types. Let's take a closer look.

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Hot Topics

The Hot Topics feature in TRAIN allows administrators to select specific hot topics that are relevant to their audience and display them only to that audience. The Hot Topics leverage the already existing “Announcements” functionality and work in a similar fashion. They also allow the administrator to provide Hot Topics on their affiliate page prior to login. Click on the document on the right to download the "How To" guide.

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Course Based Discussions

Course Based Discussions in TRAIN allow learners to interact with each other as well as the course provider. Learners or course providers are able to post comments/questions for others to view and respond. Click on the document on the right to download the "How To" guide.

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Group Based Discussions

Group Based Discussions in TRAIN allow learners within a group to interact with each other as the group discussion administrator. Learners or admins are able to post comments/questions for others to view and respond. Click on the document on the right to download the "How To" guide.

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Assign Users

The Assign Users functionality in TRAIN allows administrators and course providers to add existing users to a courses’ roster. Once added, administrators and course providers can adjust the registration record for those users as needed. Click on the document on the right to download the "How To" guide.

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Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-hoc Reporting in TRAIN allows administrators to create and run custom reports. Click on the document on the right to download the "How To" guide.

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Abbreviated Roster Report

The Abbreviated Course Roster Report in TRAIN provides a more concise view of Learner information and includes filtering and data selection options. It includes images to illustrate key points.

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Administrative Organizations

Administrative Organizations in TRAIN enables the granting of administrative privileges over individual courses to another organization. Administrators will be able to create a new Administrative Organization and assign either Course Report Manager or Course Provider role by managing the Organization's members. This Organization can be associated to course as desired.

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Percentage-Based Scoring with Weighted Questions

Percentage-based scoring in assessments provides an alternative to points scoring and also introduces weighted questions. If all questions are kept at the default value, every question will count equally in the grade calculation. If a different weight is chosen for one or more questions, those answers will receive a larger percentage of the overall possible score.

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Blended Learning Series

The Blended Learning Series in TRAIN allows the course provider to create a bundle of related courses for a variety of training needs. This document illustrates how to create a Blended Learning Series and also covers the functionality of its roster. Images are included to illustrate key points.

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Assessment Management

Assessment management allows course providers to create and assign a pre/post assessment to a course.

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Assessment Reporting

Learn how to retrieve reports for assessments that have been created.

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Evaluation Management

Evaluation management allows course providers to create and assign a pre/post/follow-up evaluation to a course.

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Evaluation Reporting

Learn how to retrieve reports for evaluations that have been created.

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Resources Management

This job aid introduces Resources in TRAIN 3.0. Resources is now a merged functionality of classic TRAIN’s Library and Resources modules.

Before developing Resources in TRAIN 3.0, administrators had to utilize the Library module to publish content for TRAIN administrators and the Resources module to publish content for TRAIN learners. After merging both in TRAIN 3.0, administrators will use one module to make resources available to only other administrators or visible to learners. This combines two workflows into one location and allows flexibility in creating resources while maintaining visibility needs and sharing links with those who do not have a TRAIN account.

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Training Plan Reporting

Training Plan Reporting has been revamped to provide better data in a faster and more efficient manner. Use this guide to learn how to use the Training Plan reports.

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Training Plan Management

Training Plans can meet workforce development needs in several ways. Use this guide to learn how to create and edit training plans, assign them to learners, and leverage the new Proof of Completion to provide a summary document of the learner's completed courses within the plan.

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User Management-Upload and Update Users

Upload and Update Users have been enhanced with two separate templates to provide a clear workflow for uploading new and updating existing users in TRAIN. Use this guide to add new users and update existing users in TRAIN.

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Course Publish Date

By using the Publish Date field during course creation, course providers can prepare and publish courses in advance of the date on which they will become visible to learners. Use this guide to learn how to utilize the Publish Date.

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Expired Registration Status

Expired registration status is a new course registration status added on TRAIN. Use this guide to learn how to set the expiration date during course creation and choose an option to expire learner registration upon the course expiration automatically.

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"Passed" and "Failed" course registration statuses

"Passed" and "Failed" course registration statuses added on TRAIN. Use this guide to learn how Passed and Failed status impacts learner's certificate availability and course registration flow in TRAIN.

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