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Learning Management System

Learning Management System

Overview Revolutionizing Online Compliance Training with a Modern, Scalable, and Engaging Learning Management System Industry: Online compliance training and e-learning solutionsPartnership: Customer collaborated with Parallel Minds to build and manage LMS / later extended it as SaaS. Customer is a renowned provider of online compliance training and

Overview

Revolutionizing Online Compliance Training with a Modern, Scalable, and Engaging Learning Management System

Industry: Online compliance training and e-learning solutions
Partnership: Customer collaborated with Parallel Minds to build and manage LMS / later extended it as SaaS.

Customer is a renowned provider of online compliance training and e-learning solutions. With over two decades of experience, customer has been at the forefront of the industry, delivering high-quality training content to organizations across various sectors. To enhance the learning experience and cater to evolving client needs, customer embarked on building a cloud-first Learning Management System (LMS).

Challenge

The existing solution fell short of being a modern, scalable, and user-friendly LMS that could meet the unique requirements of Syntrio’s clients.

Key challenges included

  • Inefficient Training Program Management: The existing LMS lacked effective tools for clients to manage their training programs, making it challenging to track learner progress and generate comprehensive reports.
  • Lack of Mobile Responsiveness and Customizability: The outdated LMS was not mobile-responsive, accessible, and fully customizable, limiting its alignment with clients’ branding guidelines and hindering an optimal learning experience.

Solution

The introduction of the new LMS, developed in collaboration with Parallel Minds, revolutionized online compliance training for the customer and its clients.

  • Enhanced Learning Experience: The LMS delivers a superior learning experience through its modern, intuitive user interface, engaging content formats, and interactive features. Learners can easily navigate the platform and access training materials on any device, fostering an immersive and personalized learning journey.
  • Increased Engagement and Completion Rates: The LMS has witnessed a significant boost in learner engagement and completion rates. The incorporation of multimedia elements, a bit of gamification techniques, and social learning functionalities at enterprise level has captivated learners, resulting in higher participation and improved knowledge retention.
  • Efficient Training Program Management: Customers’ clients now have powerful tools at their disposal to effectively manage training programs. They can effortlessly assign courses, track learner progress in real-time, generate comprehensive reports, and monitor the overall effectiveness of their training initiatives.
  • Full Customizability and Branding: The LMS offers extensive customization options, allowing clients to tailor the platform to align seamlessly with their branding guidelines. From logo integration to color schemes and user interface customization, clients can create a fully branded and immersive learning environment for their employees.

Results

Business impact and growth

The LMS has been a game-changer for customer, driving remarkable business impact and growth: 

  • Market Leadership and Increased Revenue: The introduction of the LMS has reinforced customers’ position as a leading provider of online compliance training and e-learning solutions. Its cutting-edge features, scalability, and robust performance have attracted new clients, expanded the customer base, and boosted revenue generation.
  • Streamlined Operations and Cost Savings: The new LMS has significantly reduced the time and effort required to manage training programs. Automation features, streamlined workflows, and centralized data management have resulted in operational efficiencies and cost savings for the customer and its clients.

Tech Stack

The LMS is built on a robust technology stack, leveraging the following technologies:

  • Azure PaaS (Platform as a Service): The cloud-based infrastructure provided by Microsoft Azure ensures scalability, high availability, and seamless integration capabilities.
  • Microsoft .NET Core: The cross-platform framework powers the backend of the LMS, delivering optimal performance and enabling rapid development.
  • MVC.NET (Model-View-Controller): The MVC architectural pattern provides a structured approach to building the user interface, enabling modular development and easy maintenance.
  • Web API: The Web API framework facilitates seamless integration with external systems, enabling data exchange and enhancing the LMS’s interoperability.
  • The development team utilized Azure DevOps for build automation and deployment to various environments, ensuring efficient development processes and high-quality software delivery.

Conclusion

The customers’ Cloud & On-Premises LMS, developed in collaboration with Parallel Minds, has transformed online compliance training. By addressing the limitations of the previous LMS, the newly built LMS has significantly improved the learning experience, increased engagement and completion rates, and streamlined training program management. With its robust tech stack, mobile responsiveness, and customization capabilities, the new LMS has helped customer strengthen its market position, expand its client base, and drive revenue growth.

Customer and its clients now have a modern, scalable, and engaging LMS that empowers them to deliver effective and personalized compliance training in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

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eLearning Course Authoring Tool

eLearning Course Authoring Tool

Transforming Workplace Culture and Employee Engagement with a Comprehensive Communication and Analytics Suite

Overview

Our client is a leading provider of online compliance training and e-learning solutions. The company has been a pioneer in the industry for more than two decades, and it has built a reputation for delivering high-quality, engaging, and effective training content to organizations across various industries.

There is a continuous need to churn a lot of e-Courses which are SCORM or AICC compliant. Not only the new e-courses but there is a continuous need to manage existing courses and update them depending on changes in the law and context etc. Plus, there is a need to publish the e-Courses in different languages.

To overcome the challenges in content creation and management, customer collaborated with Parallel Minds to develop a cutting-edge Course Authoring Tool that revolutionized their content creation workflow.

This case study highlights the pre-state challenges faced by customer, the solutions offered by the course authoring tool, and the transformative post-state outcomes.

Challenge

In the pre-state, customer faced several challenges in their content creation and management processes. The limitations of their existing tools and workflows hindered efficiency and hindered their ability to deliver optimal e-Learning experiences.

The key pain points in the pre-state included:

  • Manual Content Management: Customers’ content and instructional designing team relied on manual processes, such as writing and reviewing storyboards and sharing documents through email. This approach was time-consuming, prone to errors, and lacked a centralized system for collaboration.
  • Outdated Software Tools: The content team faced limitations with their existing software tools. They used outdated technologies like ADOBE Flash to create animations in the e-Courses. This not only posed compatibility issues but also limited their ability to incorporate modern interactive elements.
  • Complex Localization Process: Maintaining different language files for the content in each course added complexity to the localization process. The team had to manage multiple versions of the same course to cater to different language requirements.
  • Manual Styling and Brand Customization: The content team had to manually put together HTML pages and individually style them for each course. This was time-consuming and made it difficult to maintain consistency and adhere to brand guidelines. Customizing the content styling based on each customer’s branding specifications was a tedious task.
  • Versioning and Variant Management Challenges: Syntrio struggled to maintain different versions of courses for each customer. This made it challenging to track and manage changes, leading to potential confusion and version control issues.
  • Limited Course Interactions: The existing tools and technologies restricted the content team’s ability to create engaging and interactive e-Courses. This limitation impacted the overall learning experience and reduced learner engagement.
  • Non-Responsive Course Packaging: The packaging of e-Courses was not responsive, requiring significant effort to support various device form factors. Ensuring a consistent and optimized learning experience across different devices was a challenge.

Solution

The development and implementation of the Course Authoring Tool, transformed customers’ content creation and delivery processes, resulting in numerous benefits:

  • Streamlined Content Production: The content team now generates and supports multiple courses in parallel, significantly improving the delivery turnaround time.
  • Efficient Version and Variant Management: The delivery team can easily manage versions and variants for each e-Course, reducing complexity and ensuring accurate customization.
  • Accelerated Review Process: The adoption of Course Authoring Tool led to a 90% reduction in the e-Course review process, enabling faster content iterations and approvals.
  • Enhanced Course Design: Course authors can effortlessly design themes based on customers’ branding guidelines and choose from a wide range of page design templates.
  • Visually Appealing and Responsive e-Courses: The output e-Courses created with tool are visually appealing, responsive, and support rich media, enhancing the overall learning experience.
  • Efficient Course Deployment: The size of each course has been reduced by 90%, leading to more efficient deployment and rendering. This optimization is achieved by eliminating the need to bundle audio, video, and other media assets within the course package.
  • 70% improvement in the delivery turnaround time of eCourses.

Results

Value proposition of Course Authoring Tool

The Course Authoring Tool, presents a compelling value proposition for the customer:

  • Efficiency and Productivity: Course Authoring Tool enables parallel content production, reduces review times, and streamlines version and variant management, resulting in significant time savings and increased productivity.
  • Enhanced Course Design: The tool offers a wide range of design templates and customization options, empowering course authors to create visually appealing and brand-aligned e-Courses.
  • Responsive and Engaging Learning Experience: Course Authoring Tool ensures that e-Courses are responsive across devices, supporting a seamless learning experience for learners accessing the content on different platforms.
  • Optimized Course Size: The efficient packaging of e-Courses reduces their size by 90%, resulting in faster deployment, reduced bandwidth usage, and improved performance.
  • Improved Collaboration and Communication: Course Authoring Tool centralizes content authoring and review processes, facilitating collaboration and communication between the content team, instructional designers, and stakeholders involved in the course development lifecycle.

Conclusion

Overall, the adoption of Course Authoring Tool has revolutionized customers’ content creation and delivery, enabling them to provide high-quality, visually engaging, and responsive e-Courses while improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction

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Work Culture & Employee Engagement Platform

Work Culture & Employee Engagement Platform

Transforming Workplace Culture and Employee Engagement with a Comprehensive Communication and Analytics Suite

Overview

Our customer is a leading provider of online compliance training and e-learning solutions. The company has been a pioneer in the industry for more than two decades, and it has built a reputation for delivering high-quality, engaging, and effective training content to organizations across various industries.

The platform is a suite of tools and resources designed to help organizations improve their workplace culture and employee engagement. The heart of this unique program is a suite of communication tools, resources, and real-time analytics. The platform provides complete visibility and actionable data points to improve, monitor, and promote your cultural imperatives. The platform becomes a window into your organization’s culture with leading indicators about areas that require your attention and unique growth opportunities.

Industry: Online compliance training and e-learning solutions
Partnership: Collaborated with Parallel Minds to build and maintain Engage platform.

Challenge

Manual and Email-Intensive Processes: Many critical business processes relied heavily on manual intervention and email communication, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors.
Subscription Management Complexity: Managing subscription packages for multiple products and services for clients was a cumbersome process, often prone to errors and inconsistencies.
Lack of Trial Mechanism: Clients had no means to preview and assess eCourses before making a purchase decision, hindering their ability to choose the right training content.
Tedious Subscription Renewals: The renewal process for subscriptions was laborious and time-consuming, causing delays and inconvenience for both the customer and its clients.
Limited Product Showcasing: There was no easy way to showcase the full catalog of eCourses and eLearning products to clients, resulting in missed sales opportunities.
Disconnected Stakeholders: Sales, administrative, and customer success teams operated on different platforms, leading to communication gaps and inefficiencies.
Lack of Visibility and Analytics: The customer lacked comprehensive visibility into its product catalog and customer engagement, making it challenging to promote courses effectively and track sales performance.
Struggle to set the right culture in an organization.

  • No tools for enabling learning and team culture.
  • No dashboard to track and assess sentiments of the staff.
  • No tool for hotline reporting
  • Misconduct incident
  • No tool for visibility on incident reporting and severity categorization

Solution

The implementation of the Engage platform, in collaboration with Parallel Minds, addressed these challenges comprehensively:

Unified Platform: Engage successfully brought all stakeholders onto a single platform, streamlining processes and enabling seamless collaboration between sales, administration, and customer success teams.
Automation and Streamlined Processes: The platform kind of automated marketing, sales, renewal, service delivery, and after-sales processes, reducing manual efforts and enhancing operational efficiency.
Enhanced Sales Focus: With licensing and subscription creation automated, the customer sales team could concentrate on sales activities, maximizing their productivity and revenue generation.
Customer Adoption Intelligence: The Engage platform provided the sales team with valuable insights into customer adoption patterns, enabling them to tailor their approach and upsell relevant eCourses based on hotline data analytics.
Improved Visibility and Actionable Insights: Customers’ customers gained complete visibility into their organization’s culture and actionable data points to drive improvement. Engage served as a window into cultural imperatives, offering leading indicators and growth opportunities.
Enriched Customer Experience: Customers could access a range of features and resources through the Engage platform, including culture awareness bursts, cultural insights, hotline reporting, a comprehensive course catalog, real-time insights, and the ability to load and bundle eCourses from the catalog.

Customers’ customers could load/view

  • Culture Awareness burst
  • See Cultural Insights
  • Hotline reporting
  • View course catalog interface having 1000+ eLearning course content.
  • Real-Time Insights
  • Use Learning Management System to load e-Courses they bundle from the catalog!

Results

Tech Stack and Devops

The implementation of the Cloud Platform has transformed workplace culture and employee engagement for organizations. By addressing the limitations of the pre-state, the customer achieved streamlined operations, automated processes, improved visibility, and enhanced customer experience.

The platform’s advanced analytics capabilities empowered both the customer and its customers to make data-driven decisions, promote cultural imperatives, and deliver personalized eLearning experiences. With its robust tech stack and adoption of DevOps practices, the Engage platform has solidified customers’ position as a leader in the online compliance training and e-learning industry, fostering growth and success for the company and its clients

Tech Stack

The Engage platform was built using modern technologies, including Microsoft Azure and Tech Stack, microservices architecture, and Web API. The development team utilized Azure DevOps for build automation and deployment to various environments, ensuring efficient development processes and high-quality software delivery.

Conclusion

The implementation of the Cloud Platform has transformed workplace culture and employee engagement for organizations. The customer achieved streamlined operations, automated processes, improved visibility, and enhanced customer experience. The platform’s advanced analytics capabilities empowered both customer and its customers to make data-driven decisions, promote cultural imperatives, and deliver personalized eLearning experiences.

With its robust tech stack and adoption of DevOps practices, the Engage platform has solidified customers position as a leader in the online compliance training and e-learning industry, fostering growth and success for the company and its clients.

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Online Learning Platform

Online Learning Platform

Find out how combining Low-Code No-Code platforms with standard software development has changed the way medical staff are trained. Discover how fast deployment, interactive learning, and smart analytics have changed the face of Learning Management Systems, making them more efficient and more satisfied with their customers than ever before.

Overview

The organization required an efficient solution to train its staff effectively. This case study focuses on the creation of an innovative Learning Management System (LMS) for medical assistants, aiming to combine the efficiency of Low-Code No-Code (LCNC) platforms with the robustness of standard software development.

Challenge

The challenge was to develop a dynamic LMS for medical assistants swiftly and efficiently, without the overheads of traditional software development. The objective was to ensure timely and proficient training for staff while minimizing costs and development efforts.

Solution

Rapid Development with Outsystems: Using the LCNC platform Outsystems, the LMS was swiftly developed, overcoming the limitations of traditional software development. This rapid deployment was achieved with a fraction of the time and effort typically required.

Configurable Learning Path: Administrative teams could easily configure unique training plans, adapting the platform to diverse equipment operation needs, ensuring flexibility and customization.

Interactive Learning with AR/VR: Learners experienced a rich, interactive environment with modes like “Try-me” and “Use-me”, combined with AR/VR simulations, enhancing engagement and understanding.

Efficient Performance Analytics: The LMS design facilitated quick capturing and evaluation of learner performance, aiding in continuous improvement and effectiveness.

Results

Accelerated Development: The use of Outsystems as an LCNC platform ensured the LMS was ready in record time, meeting tight deadlines and accelerating time-to-market.

Cost and Effort Efficiency: The LCNC approach drastically reduced development efforts, resulting in significant cost savings for the organization.

Enhanced User Experience: The blend of traditional software robustness with LCNC flexibility translated into an intuitive, user-friendly LMS, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement.

Customer Satisfaction: The rapid delivery and efficiency of the solution exceeded customer expectations, leading to overwhelming positive feedback and improved staff training outcomes.

Conclusion

The integration of the LCNC platform, Outsystems, into the healthcare training landscape exemplified the future of software development. By significantly reducing development timelines and efforts, while not compromising on quality and functionality, the project was a testament to the transformative power of LCNC platforms.

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