The document describes the additional functionality available in commercial editions of eFront 3.6. Key features include: 1) Administrators can set user capacity limits and access periods for lessons to control course capacity. 2) Lessons can link to shared content like videos to save storage space and allow content reuse. 3) Certificates are awarded automatically when users complete lessons in order and meet scoring thresholds. 4) The system supports robust SCORM standards for adaptive learning paths and sharing learner data across courses. 5) Advanced reporting provides insights into user performance, group activity, and certificate issuance.

1. eFront 3.6
Additional Functionality on Commercial editions

2. Educational Yes
Learning / Lesson Capacity Enterprise Yes
The administrator is able to set (i) a maximum number of
users per lesson and (ii) the access period after registration -
ensuring course capacity is maintained.

3. Learning / Linked Lessons Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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 reused in other lessons. This saves time and
space as the data is only stored once. Such a link is easily achieved
by sharing a folder with existing lessons.

4. Learning / Certifications Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Certificates are awarded depending on a predetermined set of
objectives being satisfied e.g. the course certificate below 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.

5. Learning Delivery / Smart Content Import Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

6. SCORM 2004 4th edition Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
SCORM 2004 4th 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 of the 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.

7. Communication / Surveys Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

8. Communication / Notifications Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
This feature allows for customized automated emails to be
created for any event. These can be restricted to certain users
and activated/deactivated, as shown below, in black/red
accordingly. Very easy to manage - an efficient and reliable way
to inform users automatically.

9. Ecommerce / Shopping Cart Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Shows users which courses they have chosen to purchase
and enroll in, indicating individual as well as total prices
and any discounts available, as shown above. Offering a
discount feature also allows users to enter a discount
voucher code, which will adjust the balance
automatically.

10. Ecommerce / Voucher and Discount Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

11. Ecommerce / Balance Support Educational
Enterprise
Yes
Yes
A very user friendly feature, permitting users to prepay an
amount towards their future purchases whilst simplifying the
associated administrative process.

12. Social / Facebook Integration Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Facebook integration allows users to login to their eLearning
facility and Facebook simultaneously in order to view their
Facebook profile on their eLearning homepage. Once
connection with Facebook has been established there is no
need to login separately, as shown below.

13. Social / System Timelines Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Users can see their own history of actions whilst administrators
will have an overview of what users are actually doing.

14. Social / Lesson Timelines Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Each lesson has its own specific timeline, providing
transparency of everyone’s actions for all parties associated
with the lesson.

15. Social Extensions / User Wall & Educational Yes
Status Enterprise Yes
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 e.g. the below user has written
“Happy Twenty-Ten to all!!!”.

16. Administration / Groups Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Consolidation of users into groups allows administrators to
auto-assign a variety of common content and settings to all
group users. This is necessary feature for larger organizations,
allowing administrators to efficiently, accurately and
effortlessly register new users and manage existing ones.

17. Administration / Extended User Educational Yes
Profiles Enterprise Yes
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.

18. Administration / Themes Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Examples from a plethora of themes available. Themes can
adjust not only color but also layout, by adding or eliminating
blocks according to the user’s preferences.

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

20. Administration / Archive support Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Depending on the edition, 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.

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

22. Reporting / Test Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

23. Reporting / Test Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

24. Reporting / Time Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
The administrator has access to a plethora of time constraint
reports from users on a course to most active users, instantly
giving valuable information which prior to eLearning was too
time-consuming to compile!

25. Reporting / Event Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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…

26. Reporting / Group Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
A report on a group of users that gives varied information
including registration and last login per user, lessons related to
the group, group user traffic and access time.

27. Reporting / Certificate Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
Generates a report showing users who obtained a particular
course’s certificate, within which specified time frame, with
certificates about to expire and of a specific certificate key.

28. Reporting / Branch Reports Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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.

29. Reporting / Participation Reports Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

30. Reporting / User reports generator Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

31. Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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.

32. Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis Educational Yes
Enterprise Yes
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
revolutionize resource management systems and take
workforce productivity to new levels.

33. Enterprise / Track job placements Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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.

34. Enterprise / Branch management Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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 providing conclusive information more effectively.

35. Enterprise / Branch Theme and Url Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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.

36. Enterprise / Branch Supervisor Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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 below, 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
much more. Branch Supervisors are able to access these
options from their homepage via an organization link.

37. Enterprise / Skills management Educational No
Enterprise Yes
Skills are easily created, categorized and assigned to users once
they have fulfilled certain criteria, e.g. pass a specific test
associated with a skill, or be assigned by the administrator
directly if a user already possesses the skill.

38. Enterprise / Competency Educational No
management Enterprise Yes
This allows for a search of various skills simultaneously required
to perform certain tasks e.g. the three skills searched below
matched only two user’s skill-sets and thus their competency in
performing desired task.

39. Enterprise / Employee transcripts Educational No
Enterprise Yes
An example of an employee transcript showing evaluation
remarks by supervisors on their performance and
achievements.

40. Enterprise / Employee transcripts Educational No
Enterprise Yes
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.

41. Enterprise Suite / Managing users Educational No
Enterprise Yes
Users can be managed by branch or job position, as
shown below, and also by location and department.

42. Enterprise Suite / Assign courses Educational No
based on job role Enterprise Yes
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 below.

43. Enterprise / Skill based search Educational No
Enterprise Yes
Allows for skill based searches across the whole organization, a
particular branch or within a specific job position i.e. in the
below example, 3 people within the whole organization have
the ‘experience in managing people’ skill.

44. Enterprise / Certification paths Educational No
management Enterprise Yes
Depending on the version, certificates can be further managed
to include an expiry date e.g. the below 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 as it keeps course users as up-to-date
as possible.

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