UpsideLMS Features

GUI/ Interface

1. Stunning aesthetics
2. Number of pre-designed themes to reflect your working style
3. Easily customizable login screen and dashboard
4. User-friendly navigation schemes
5. Eye pleasing color palettes

User Management

1. Various user roles (Instructor, Learner, Line Manager, LMS administrator) and profiles can be customized
2. Users can be imported/exported
3. Self-enrollment for users
4. New roles can be created
5. Users can be approved and enrolled manually by administrator

Enrollment

1. Bulk upload of learners
2. Configure training to
   • Individuals
   • Learning group
   • Department
3. Self enrollment
4. Import from CSV or Excel
5. Manual learner addition/enrollment
6. Email notification for enrollment key instructions, course enrollment, and course completion
7. Learner can cancel and re-enroll

Scalability

1. Multiple portals or licenses on one system
2. Nested departments or groups
3. Customizable roles and levels of access
4. Supports clustered servers

Communication

1. Ask an expert facility
2. Integrated message system
3. In-built helpdesk
4. System announcements at multiple levels – Line Manager, Client Administrator or LMS Super Administrator
5. Automated system notifications on course allocation, modification and completion
6. Email notification on course enrollment and course expiry

Instructor/ Expert Workflow

1. Assignments and evaluation of assessments
   • Instructors can create and upload assignments
   • Assessments can also be evaluated by the instructors
2. Contact Sessions
   • Ask an Expert feature
   • Chat and discussion forums

Online Content Management

1. Online content management by Super Admin which helps in assigning curriculum/s to multiple portals at one go
2. Content Supported
   • Online Courses
   • HTML / Flash / PDF / Word / PPT
   • Online Assessments
   • Online Surveys
   • Assignments / Case Studies
3. Seamless exporting/ publishing of authored courses to the LMS
4. Separation of content from presentation
5. Templates for content repurposing
6. Flexible workflow definitions
7. Versioning/site rollback

Classroom Training Management

1. Vendor, venue, speaker, inventory management
2. Session planning and scheduling
3. Nomination workflow for users and supervisors
4. Waitlist concept
5. Ability for users to download event to outlook calendar
6. Blended Learning
7. Resources
8. Prerequisites
9. Forums
10. Evaluation
11. Course activation date
12. Self enrollment start and end dates
13. Multiple sections
14. Repeating classes
15. Classroom training management by Super Admin which helps in assigning curriculum/s to multiple portals at one go

Customizability

1. Configurable learner login screen (by Admin)
2. Configurable learner dashboard (by Learner)
3. Customizable user registration and information pages
4. Fully configurable course catalog with numerous levels of public and private categories possible
5. US or European date formats and "timezone-aware" scheduling
6. Active Directory integration
7. Brandable masthead, footer, home page, and style sheets

Mobile Learning

1. Learner dashboard available on mobile through web browser
2. Announcements broadcast to mobile phones
3. Access courses setup for mobile delivery
4. Author and administer assessments specially for mobile phones
5. Progress data auto-synchronized
6. Learners have complete access to Helpdesk, Ask an Expert and FAQs

eCommerce

1. In-built eCommerce module
2. Option to define free courses
3. For the paid courses, ability to define the cost in multiple currencies
4. Accept payments from PayPal, Credit/Debit cards and Netbanking services
5. Configurable to use third party payment gateways, Paypal, Eway or other such services
6. Shopping cart

Miscellaneous

1. Completely web-based
2. Same experience in IE, Mozilla and Google Chrome including Safari on MAC

Learner

1. Easy-to-use learner interface
2. In-built helpdesk
3. Comprehensive search feature
4. Automated e-mail notifications and reminders
5. Print certificates and records of completion
6. Peer rating of content
7. Learner support tools
8. Frequently Asked Questions
9. System announcements at multiple levels – Line Manager, Client Administrator, or LMS Super Administrator
10. Comprehensive calendar

Reporting

1. Over 42 standard reports
2. Export reports to PDF, Excel formats
3. Print reports
4. Send report by email
5. Complete system level audit reports
6. Course summary report
7. Department or group report
8. Employee report
9. Task activity report
10. Training history report
11. Detailed question level reports
12. Course evaluation report
13. Course organization report
14. Course activity report
15. Department or group admin report
16. Employee course access and performance report
17. Graphical representation for easy analysis
18. Administrators can set reports as Favorites and schedule them

Assessment

1. Multiple Question Types supported
   • True/ False, Multiple Choice and Multiple Response
   • Drag ‘n’ Drop, Match the Following
   • Short Answer
   • Image-based questions
2. Crash proof assessment interface
3. Randomization at various levels
   • Questions from Question Bank
   • Shuffling of choices
   • Sequencing of questions
4. Preview and print question papers prior to administration
5. Detailed question level reports
6. Flexible navigation options for users
7. Feedback per question/ for entire test
8. Secure interface with timers for test-takers
9. Author and administer a number of surveys
10. Graphical depiction of surveys
11. Multiple exam templates
12. Time limit
13. Attempt limit
14. Mandatory questions
15. Difficulty rating

Conformance

1. SCORM 1.2
2. SCORM 2004 – Basic compliance
3. AICC
4. Proven compatibility with external systems, such as -
   • SAP
   • People Soft
   • Custom HRMS applications
   • Employee database
   • LDAP, ADS/ custom directory
   • Skills Dictionary

Virtual Classroom Management

1. Creation and scheduling of any number of virtual meetings
2. Reports on participants’ details
3. Text chat with the Instructor or Line Manager or other learner(s)– private or broadcast
4. Whiteboard sharing
5. Integration with any other third party virtual classroom software/services

Qualifications Management

1. Complete certificate management for a learner, may it be from previous organizations or external examination body
2. Maintenance of training history

Social Learning

1. Blog module
2. Curriculum-linked synchronous tools
3. Curriculum-linked Discussions Forums
4. Internal Microblogging module
5. Friends concept
6. Content sharing – photos and videos – and rating
7. Integration with Live Twitter
8. My RSS Feeds
9. Learning Groups concept
10. Peer rating of content

Knowledge Collaboration

1. Integrated, internal Wiki module as Knowledge Center
2. Communities Module
3. Global Discussion Board

Content Authoring

1. Template-based Rapid Authoring
2. 24 different types of templates
3. Unique Flash-based WYSIWYG editing
4. Intuitive and easy-to-use interface for managing course menu
5. Easy configuration of mastery score, questions randomization, course player tools, etc.
6. Default adherence to SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC compliance
7. Seamless exporting/publishing of authored courses to the LMS

Client/ User License Management

1. Centralized user license management
2. Site Admin can manage user licenses for multiple clients

Multi-lingual Support

1. Support at application interface and database level
2. Supports following languages - English, Arabic