FusedLearning, in partnership with eFront Learning has provided an informative presentation on the benefits of the eFront LMS. eFront enables functions such as community learning, supports the principle of collective knowledge and provides functionality towards personalized learning. eFront bridges the gap between Enterprise, Educational, Open-Source and Proprietary learning combining the best from all of them. Our experience in providing successful launches of the eFront Learning platform educational and enterprise solutions helps us create an outstanding product. FusedLearning guarantees quality, competent and rapid execution of any projects from small business educational programs to enterprise level education integrations.

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

3. Educational Yes
Learning Delivery / Linked Lessons 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 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.

4. Educational Yes
Learning Delivery / Certifications Enterprise Yes
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.

5. Educational Yes
Learning Delivery / Smart Content Import 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. Educational Yes
Learning Delivery / SCORM 2004 4th edition 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 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. Educational Yes
Communication Tools / Surveys 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. Educational Yes
Communication Tools / Notifications Enterprise Yes
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.

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

10. Educational Yes
Ecommerce / Voucher and Discount Support 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. Educational Yes
Social Extensions / Facebook Integration Enterprise Yes
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.

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

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

15. Educational Yes
Social Extensions / User Wall & 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 above user has written
“Happy Twenty-Ten to all!!!”.

16. Educational Yes
Administration / Groups Enterprise Yes
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.

17. Educational Yes
Administration / Extended User 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. Educational Yes
Administration / Themes Enterprise Yes
Examples from a plethora of themes available. Themes
can adjust colour but also layout, by adding or eliminating
blocks according to the user’s preferences.

19. Educational Yes
Administration / Auto-update support 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. Educational Yes
Administration / Archive support 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. Educational Yes
Administration / LDAP support Enterprise Yes
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.

22. Educational Yes
Reporting / Test Reports 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. Educational Yes
Reporting / Test Reports 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. Educational Yes
Reporting / Time Constraint Reports Enterprise Yes
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.

25. Educational Yes
Reporting / Event Reports 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. Educational Yes
Reporting / Group Reports Enterprise Yes
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.

27. Educational Yes
Reporting / Certificate Reports Enterprise Yes
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.

28. Educational Yes
Reporting / Branch Reports 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. Educational Yes
Reporting / Participation Reports 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. Educational Yes
Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis 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.

31. Educational Yes
Skill Gap / Tests & Analysis 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.

32. Educational Yes
Enterprise Suite / Track job placements 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.

33. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Branch management 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 yielding conclusive
information in an effective manner.

34. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Branch Supervisor Role 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 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.

35. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Skills management Enterprise Yes
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.

36. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Competency management Enterprise Yes
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.

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

38. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Employee transcripts 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.

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

40. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Assign courses based Enterprise Yes
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.

41. Educational No
Enterprise Suite / Skill based search Enterprise Yes
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.

42. Educational Yes
Enterprise Suite / Certification paths management Enterprise Yes
Depending on the version, 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.