How to Create Education Courses Right in Confluence
June 20, 2024
#Learning Management#How To#Confluence
7 min
In this blog post, you will discover how to create training courses in a jiffy using the IZI for Confluence – LMS, Training Courses, Quizzes app, extending your favorite team collaboration platform to create training courses in Confluence.
Employee training helps you provide your new hires with a clear path to the goals you want them to achieve, improve the skill level and competency of your employees, and support them in advancing their careers. Regardless of the industry, effective onboarding and training processes are vital to remain successful in today’s market.
Moreover, learners can take courses in Confluence at their own pace from the comfort of their own desk using the UI they are familiar with. Just think of the time and effort course administrators and participants would spend to understand the basics of how to handle a third-party Learning Management System (LMS).
Build training courses with rich content
Today people have higher expectations of employee training programs. That is why they want learning materials that are easily accessible, up-to-date, and engaging.
If you are already using Confluence, you know that this powerful wiki software helps you create easy-to-access rich content pages. And with the help of izi – LMS for Confluence this team collaboration tool becomes a platform where you can create and store any content to train or educate your team members or participants who are not Confluence users.
To get the best results from your employee training, you need to engage your employees and make them want to learn more. Having LMS in Confluence, you can enrich your courses with YouTube videos, images, PDF files, and more to keep it interesting and hold everybody’s attention.
Let employees learn at their own pace
Unlike traditional learning with a teacher or instructor, with the izi – LMS for Confluence app your employees can learn at their own pace taking their time to thoroughly study all the materials before they jump to the next module.
You can break the program of your course down into smaller pieces with no need to produce huge modules. And this way, your staff will have a chance to recall the required information.
The best thing is that you can use the existing Confluence pagesand quizzes to create training modules for your courses. This app makes creating new courses and making use of old training material a simple and smooth process.
The izi LMS app allows you to customize your training content based on learner needs.
Your employees see an education course as a series of modules with training materials and quizzes. A course administrator can check participants’ progress to see the completed modules and find the ones where employees got stuck.
Gain сontrol over employees’ learning
Content creators should no longer wonder whether the staff actually read and comprehended the documents they write. They can gain control over employees’ learning activities and obtain verifiable proof of mandatory training or assessments. A course administrator can generate reports on course completion and quiz results, as well as track completed modules and identify areas where employees encountered difficulties
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The more skills your employees have, the more efficient the workforce becomes, getting more things done for your business. So to say, a win-win situation for both the company and the employees.
Improve your employee training with the help of izi – LMS for Confluence. Try this app for free and check how it can work for your training courses, and more!
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Here is your workplace, and here is a list of tasks for a trial period. Seems that these words are familiar to everyone.
As a rule, most people associate the first working day with stress and uncertainty. You need to delve into new programs, get acquainted with a bunch of people (and forget their names at once). And of course, you don’t want to seem ill-prepared and narrow-minded and ask too many questions.
A lot has changed over the past few years.
The pandemic forced drove us to the transition to distributed teams that work not only from home but from different countries and cities. We have an office in Estonia and employees who work from Poland, Georgia and Turkey. In these circumstances, it is no longer possible to provide the new staff member with just an office tour with a couple of phrases about our company.
Smooth remote onboarding and orientation become essential if you want to help newcomers adapt to their new workplace.
As a tech company, we want to share how our team benefits from using Confluence for onboarding and introduction of new people to the organization, its work processes, culture, and principles.
When your team is growing fast
For more than seven years, we have remained a small team that mostly consisted of developers. New people came to the team once or twice a year, and at this point it was enough for us to just talk with newbies about their tasks for a probationary period, show what and where was in the office, create an account in Confluence and Jira, and grant them access to the necessary pages.
As our business grows, the products evolve requiring new skills from the teams. In less than 5 years, we have tripled in size and realized that onboarding is a vital part of new employee’s adaptation. Especially, when it comes to onboarding from a distance.
Welcome on board at Stiltsoft
Everyone at Stiltsoft has a probationary period of two months and gets a list of tasks for this time. We will describe how onboarding goes for our new senior Java developer Alex.
During the first working day Alex communicates with four people:
HR manager provides him with all the required information about the people he needs to contact. She describes our processes on a company level during a Zoom call.
Our office manager sends him a laptop, monitor, keyboard, and all the required equipment. He also receives a welcome pack with the branded swag.
Our DevOps creates accounts in Crowd, grants Alex access, and creates him @stiltsoft.com email address.
And, finally, Alex’s team lead shares the link to the Onboarding space. There he can find a lot of information about how his team works and a list of introductory tasks.
How we use Confluence for onboarding
Earlier, our team leads spend a lot of time to tell new employees about how we work and what they need to do. They explained the same things to newbies. They could forget about something or add more details.
Today, we combine several onboarding practices. We have a separate space for newbies, use onboarding task checklists, and take advantage of training courses to help new employees learn the required information.
Studying general info about the company
We use Confluence to document all workflows and we think that a separate space for onboarding is a good idea. Alex finds his title on the home page of the space and clicks it to check everything related to the duties of senior Java developer.
Our company has five different teams that develop apps. The processes within our teams differ a bit and this also applies to onboarding. Since Alex is a part of the Awesome Graphs team he opens the list of tasks his team lead assigned to him. It has an intro that outlines task statutes their team uses and some general information.
The Stiltsoft Beginner’s Training is among the first links he finds in the task list. It’s a course that consists of seven modules and helps newbies find answers to any questions they may have at the beginning of their work at Stiltsoft. We maintain the relevance of this course and update it when newcomers share their feedback with us.
With the help of this course, Alex learns how to take a three-day vacation, what to do if he needs an IntelliJ IDEA license, or how to buy a book on Amazon. Of course, he reads about a variety of Slack channels we have, starting with important tech related ones ending with the ones where we share our pictures from around the world (we also included a bonus section with the description of our custom emojis).
Alex can open module by module to study the information. In this introductory course, he won’t find any tricky questions in the end, it simply collects the most useful content about different spheres of our work.
When Alex clicks the Complete button at the bottom of every page, he opens the next training module. He can take the course at his own pace with breaks and resume from where he left.
We have many spaces in Confluence with tons of useful information about our apps, marketing, software, training and education, R&D. It’s too challenging for new staff to navigate between all these spaces. Moreover, newbies usually get limited Confluence access on their probationary period. The training course that incorporates essential info from different Confluence pages can be a great start for a newbie. You can reuse existing Confluence pages as training modules or create new ones.
Our HR manager is a course administrator and can check Alex’s progress on this course. This way she can see if some of the modules take too much time to study and can split the information into smaller chunks.
Alex needs to study how the Awesome Graphs team works. His team lead created a list with the links to Confluence pages with the information about code review, releases, Jira workflows.
For example, he reads the guidelines for a new developer. At every stage of studying he can reach out to his team lead and ask any questions. He also has a buddy. It’s a colleague who is not connected with his tasks, but can simply support, listen, and advise something. In general, this practice helps adapt to a new reality in a friendly way.
He also studies the agreements of the Awesome Graphs team in relation to the general principles of coding and their work with tasks.
He finds the information on how the team assigns statuses to Jira tasks, uses filters and dashboards, creates pull requests.
Finally, Alex is ready for practical tasks for the two months of his probationary period.
When a probation period comes to an end
Everyone understands that feedback is important here. Of course, we live in a modern world and use a lot of different apps and services, however, a person still needs communication, approval, and exchange of opinions.
We don’t want newcomers to have bad experience when there was no feedback from their team lead and when they have no chance to tell us about their probationary experience. We check on the progress of our newcomer at the end of the first and second month of their probationary period. Usually, our co-CEOs, HR manager, and the team lead join this call with the newbie.
So Alex’s team lead collects feedback about his work from his colleagues after the first probation month and before the final performance review. Meanwhile, our HR-manager asks Alex to share his feedback about the two months of his trial period.
Key takeaways
We remember the times when hiring of two people simultaneously was super stressful for the company.
Today, our clear and transparent onboarding process allows us to hire as many people as we need at the moment. For example, now five people from two countries are on probationary period at Stiltsoft. The onboarding space in Confluence in combination with check lists and training courses saves us and new employees time and effort.
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind to organize employee onboarding in Confluence.
Make sure that new hires can find everything in one place
Create an onboarding space with useful information
Create child pages with the names of job titles you have in your company and add information/checklists relevant to different positions
Add links with the names of job titles to the home page of this space
Review the content in this space quarterly to make sure it’s up-to-date
Take advantage of training courses with the help of izi – LMS for Confluence
Atlassian Confluence helps people get work done faster and more efficiently. Teams of all sizes in various fields successfully rely on Confluence because it is flexible, scalable, and accessible anywhere:
Technical teams can easily create and store all their documentation in one place.
HR departments can effortlessly share their feedback about job candidates using Confluence as a knowledge-sharing tool.
Technical writers can regularly contribute to each other’s pages or blog posts with comments.
Project management groups can smoothly track project deadlines, key project stages, and people involved in multiple tasks.
Marketing teams can take advantage of Confluence templates creating meeting notes, marketing plans, and more from scratch.
In this blog post, we will take a closer look at how marketing teams can use Confluence to match their business processes keeping team members aligned on strategy, purpose, and objectives. You will get answers to the following questions:
How to level up knowledge sharing in marketing teams using Confluence
How to use custom Confluence templates to streamline work process and improve workflow
How to encourage marketing people to use Confluence capabilities for their work with the help of training courses
So whether you’re getting ready to introduce your product to the market for the first time, or you are a marketing pro in a well-known corporation, we’ve prepared some tips you can use to stay on the cutting edge and prove impact using Confluence.
Keep the team on the same (Confluence) page
The marketing industry moves fast. It is important to make sure that your team is working in a strategic way, using all available resources and tackling problems effectively to avoid burnout and wasted time. All members of your marketing department must have a clear understanding of your company’s overall vision and goals.
Whether you’re selling products, services, or information, your team needs a shared perception of your marketing strategy, marketing plan, positioning on the market, messaging, target audience. Moreover, marketing teams need easy-to-use tools to organize their work more efficiently.
And here comes Confluence!
1. Encourage knowledge sharing at work
It is important to create a shared understanding of what your team is building because if your strategy is not explicit enough, every team member will understand your marketing their own way. When experience people gain from their mistakes and some useful insights remain at the level of individual knowledge, colleagues don’t have an immense opportunity to learn from each other’s experience.
All this information can be easily organized and structured in a shared Confluence space of any marketing team. You can create multiple pages with useful information such as positioning, messaging, marketing plan, competitive analysis, editorial calendar, how-tos, and more.
The best thing is that your team can swiftly add their suggestions to the content or comment the entire page to share and discuss their ideas making live and real-time collaboration possible.
All members of the team get timely notifications about the changes made to the existing content or any new information in the space related to marketing. This way Confluence allows users to easily develop and update content keeping the team in sync.
If you only begin your Confluence journey and need some tips about how to wisely use this knowledge-sharing platform for marketing, check out the Marketing Guide created by Atlassian.
2. Take advantage of custom Confluence templates
Confluence templates can help you simplify formal workflows you deal with on a daily basis, so you can get your common tasks done faster. Editing a template takes far less time than creating something from scratch. All you need to do is to follow the directions on a Confluence page and, of course, add the information that is important for your team.
Templates help you maintain document consistency and make sure that you and your colleagues are less likely to leave out key information. When you open the marketing plan your teammate created with the help of templates, you know where you can find the information you are searching for because all marketing plans will have the same structure thanks to the blueprints. Whether you’re a marketing department of many or a team of two, you can design your custom blueprints that will better fit your specific needs.
You can also explore Atlassian blueprints for Confluence Cloud to use in your work or just get inspired and create your own templates together with your colleagues.
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3. Create courses from scratch
It is not enough to equip your team with the right tools and encourage knowledge sharing, it is important to ensure that people know how to work under new conditions and have no problems using Confluence. In this case, it can be useful to create a course in Confluence for the marketing department. You can populate it with the most informative pages from the Marketing space we created earlier.
Moreover, you can incorporate your learning content with a quiz to track the progress of course participants and check what they have learned and retained.
This way new hires can take this course to learn the basics during onboarding and experienced marketing managers can always use this course to refresh and structure their knowledge or learn new information about their sphere.
At the same time, marketing assets are also valuable for other teams. Sales and engineering teams need to know the key aspects of your marketing strategy, strategic plans, positioning, messaging, buyer persona descriptions, your customer’s jobs-to-be-done, the latest market researches, your target audience. This knowledge will help you have a team that not only has a shared vision, but also is focused on making that vision a reality.
You can create another marketing course for these teams and start it with a quiz that will help course participants identify their strong points and detect their knowledge gaps to focus on them. Or you can create a fun marketing quiz to engage your colleagues and heighten their interest to the topics you will highlight in the course.
This way you can motivate your team to attentively read the content of the course delving into the subject of each module.
Confluence for marketing teams: Things to keep in mind
Set the stage for open communication in your team and encourage knowledge sharing in Confluence
Create a separate space for all the information about marketing
Grant your team permissions to add pages, blogs, and comments
Try out ready-made templates to help your team collaborate more quickly
We hope that our tips will help marketing teams unleash the potential of Confluence. Feel free to share your ideas of how you connect all members of the team to create buzz-worthy marketing materials.
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Confluence is an incredibly powerful tool that enables teams to work together and store knowledge. Many companies worldwide use it as an intranet, employee handbook, or collaboration platform. In this article we’ll cover the best tips and tricks for using Confluence by the HR team, such as organizing HR info, creating docs that people will actually want to read, and enabling interactivity by adding courses and quizzes right in Confluence. These tips are gonna help you to create amazing employee experience for your team.
Creating Clear Structure of HR information
Before adding content to Confluence, it’s essential to have a clear structure of HR docs in place. With so much information available, employees and HR team can easily get lost and waste time searching for what they need. A well-organized structure can prevent this and create intuitive navigation.
Start by thinking about what structure makes sense for your company. What materials are helpful for everyone? What’s only needed by certain departments? What information should be available to all employees, and what belongs to sensitive content – and should be accessed only by a certain group of people?
Here’s an example of how you can organize HR information:
Organize content by the audience. Divide spaces for HR external and internal issues. Store all general policies and benefits that employees should have access to in a separate space, while internal issues like incidents, personnel file save for the HR team only in another space.
Consider separating information related to a department or function from content shared across the whole business. It will not only benefit search but also make permissions easier to manage.
Take security seriously. Restrict access to sensitive information. Refer to the guide on how to limit access to a page or a space.
Create a separate space to store and manage personnel files. Create a page for each employee to store personal info, as well as their performance records and achievements. Archive pages when an employee leaves the company.
Consider creating a separate space for onboarding to make navigation easier for newcomers.
Use space analytics to understand what content is popular and improve your structure accordingly.
HR Team often wonders whether it’s better to organize info by pages or spaces when dividing it up by departments or functions. Well, there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to organizing your information. The best one is that meets your organization’s needs and makes it easy for people to find what they need.
Creating HR Docs that Employees Will Love to Read
Now you have a well-organized info structure, it’s time to make your HR docs engaging and informative. Having a user-friendly content view is super important.
To create visual hierarchy and break up text in Confluence, use headings, subheadings, and bullet points. Our brains like things to be organized, so it’s much easier to understand info when it’s broken up into sections and easy to navigate.
Avoid using technical jargon and complex phrases that employees may not understand. Use simple, straightforward language that’s easy to read and comprehend. Try to write like you’re telling a story to a friend.
Create Templates for Commonly Used HR Documents
One way to save time and keep staff organized when producing HR documents is to develop templates for frequently used materials. These might include performance reviews, job descriptions, how-to guides, and reports. Templates also promote uniformity and establish a standard structure for documents.
Creating a template takes only a few minutes, but it can save you a lot of time later when it comes to editing and organizing your content. Here is a short instruction on how to create a template in Confluence.
Keep in mind that Confluence offers a range of helpful ready-to-use templates for various purposes. Below is a compilation of some of the most beneficial HR templates currently available in Confluence Cloud:
90-day plan: suitable for onboarding new employees, this template keeps goals, tasks, expectations, and important links in one place for the newbies.
Team homepage: designed for HR teams or any other team, this template highlights the team goal, progress, team members’ roles, the latest updates, and relevant links.
How-to article: a step-by-step guidance for solving problems or completing tasks.
Quarterly check-in: a useful framework for reflecting on progress, identifying areas for improvement, and setting goals at the end of each quarter.
HR knowledge base: a well-structured template for important HR information on corporate policies and practices that can be a starting point for the employees.
Employee handbook: similar to the HR knowledge base template – organized page for a brief understanding of company policies.
Use Macros to Create Visually Appealing Page Layouts
Macros are shortcuts that let you perform complex tasks in just a few clicks. They can be super handy when it comes to formatting your pages and making them more visually appealing. Some of the most useful macros are:
The Info, Tip, Note, and Warning Macro: highlight important information on your Confluence pages by creating colorful boxes around your text. It makes the info more noticeable and easier to find.
Divider: this macro lets you separate different sections of text with a horizontal line, making it easier to distinguish one part of the page from another.
Expand Macro: if you have a lot of optional or extended information that you want to include, the Expand Macro is your friend. It lets you hide the additional text behind a clickable button so that readers can choose whether to expand and read it now or come back later.
Table of Contents Macro: super useful for longer pages. It lets you add a clickable list of contents to the top of your page so that readers can jump directly to the information they’re looking for without having to scroll through everything.
User Profile Macro: saves you from the hassle of manually adding contacts and usernames. Instead, you can quickly pull up a summary of someone’s Confluence profile.
Adding Courses and Quizzes in Confluence to Learn Easily
When employees need to read and learn a lot of documents, it can be exhausting and inefficient. HR and learning experts are trying to create the best learning experience using interactive courses and quizzes. The good news is that you can also do this right in Confluence.
Although the basic functionality of Confluence does not offer creating courses and tests, one of the main advantages of Confluence is its flexibility. You can use hundreds of apps to expand its functionality and customize the system to your needs. One of the most useful apps for HR teams and learning is IZI for Confluence – LMS, Training Courses, Quizzes.
This app allows you to create courses and quizzes, enroll users or entire groups, and receive reports without leaving Confluence. After installing, it appears in Confluence header and natively fits its interface. Here is an article on quickly explaining how to create courses with izi LMS.
Now let’s go to practice. Here are a few cases when adding courses and quizzes in Confluence can not only help employees learn better but also save time and make life easier for the HR team:
Employee Onboarding
Instead of sending new hires a stack of policy links to read through and then hoping they’ve actually done it, you can create a course with all the necessary information and enroll them. The newbie gets a notification to take the course, and you’ll get a notification when they finish, along with a report.
Internal Learning
Your Confluence may already have tons of info – policies, product documentation, and best practices. Now it’s time to get your employees trained. Instead of moving employees from one working system to another for training or transferring content and documentation to a third-party LMS, you can create training courses and quizzes right inside Confluence.
Compliance and Assessments
Some positions require mandatory tests to confirm qualifications. You can create tests with different types of questions, set deadlines, and view reports right in Confluence. You can download reports for an auditor if needed.
Change Management
When significant changes happen in the organization, it’s not enough for the HR department to inform employees; they need to be sure that everyone understands and retains the information. You can create a course with the relevant information, enroll the users, and see which employees have passed it. The report, in that case, is verifiable proof that the employee has read the information.
Quick note
izi LMS is a Confluence app, which means you don’t need to learn a new system or go through any sign-up processes. Simply install it and open Confluence to access all the features. For installation send the app link to Confluence admin in your company. The app has a 30-day free trial period.
And last but not least…
Once your company uses Confluence, it’s important to train your team on how to use it. Teach them how to create and edit content, how to use templates, and how to collaborate with others. By providing training, you can ensure that your team uses Confluence to its fullest potential and your efforts have paid off.
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How to Ace Employee Certification in Atlassian Confluence
April 14, 2023
#How To#Confluence#Learning Management
10 min
Today companies that invest in employee training open the door to new business opportunities and are more attractive to their potential workforce. These organizations need a way to check the level of skills, experience and expertise of their employees on a continuous basis. Some choose professional certification for that. While it is required for certain professions (doctors, pilots, emergency medical technicians, for example), many employers turn to professional certification voluntary. Why? Here are some of the reasons:
Certified employees prove that they have what it takes to be effective making their employer feel more confident
Personal sense of achievement fuels individual’s drive to work even better and harder
Improved skills enable staff to undertake a greater variety of work
Credibility boost in the eyes of company’s clients when its workers stay up-to-date on the hottest trends in their industry
Successful certification may result in income and/or status increase both for the employee and the organization
Companies need a way to identify knowledge gaps reducing potential risks, especially in critical areas such as safety
We all love being rewarded, after all
There are plenty professional certifications provided by professional societies and associations, as well as companies (such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, Salesforce, etc.) interested in raising industry standards. In addition to going with third-party certifications, you can create your own internal ones. They are likely to have less credibility for clients compared to third-part certifications, but will be most relevant covering your unique processes, requirements and best practices.
In this blog, we will tell you more about internal certification with and without training and will also highlight a way to check if your employees are ready to take a third-party certification.
Employee certification in Confluence
To prepare for internal or third-party certification you can:
use a separate learning management system (LMS) to help employees engage with training content
If your company uses Atlassian Confluence, you can organize internal certification or set up preparation to a third-party professional certification using izi – LMS for Confluence– create certification training courses and/or certification quizzes (tests). You can make training and certification more appealing for your team because they will use the platform they already know. All you need to do is to populate your Confluence with the proper materials to train and educate your team.
The izi LMS app offers various options to choose from when it comes to certification.
Internal Certification with Prior Training
Having all of the required information to get certified on hand in Confluence LMS will make everyone’s life a lot easier. This means that you can provide your employees with training and education right in Confluence.
Your learning administrator can create a course with multiple modules divided by topics, time period, and more. The app also allows you to build self-check tests after each learning section to evaluate students’ knowledge. Or you can add only the final test every participant must take to complete the course and get certified. This way you can easily assess competences and skills of employees.
Your employees can train online at their own pace learning the information in each module.
The course administrator can easily check the results of all the participants.
Internal Certification Test
Regular internal certification tests help you confirm that the individual possesses the experience and skills to perform a specific job or uncovers the lack of knowledge about an organization’s products, services, policies, safety practices etc.
For internal certification tests that don’t require prior training, you can create quizzes (tests) using various types of questions. Moreover, you can reuse questions from other Confluence quizzes on related topics.
The izi LMS app allows you to easily enroll both Confluence users and people outside your system. This might be helpful when you need to certify people who are not working in your company.
You can track the certification progress of your employees checking how each participant did and the score each person got.
This way you can see the status of all their certifications and training requirements in one place.
Readiness Check for Third-Party Certification
As a manager, you need to keep an eye on anything that might impact the process of employee certification. So in case another company certifies your team members, it is better to check onsite if your employees are ready to get certified. This way you can save company’s time and money and certify only well-trained personnel.
You can create quizzes to assess knowledge, competences and skills of the people who are going to obtain certification off-site. So all quiz participants must complete the quiz successfully to get a certification permit. Just set the pass target, the number of attempts and the time limit and then track the results.
Take your employee certification to the next level
Certifications act as benchmarks for employee competency and performance. Whether you’re assessing knowledge of your team or aiming to increase their skills, staying on top of certifications is a key part of running an effective workplace.
Use izi – LMS for Confluence to make sure all of your employees are meeting industry standards. Constant certification in Confluence can help your team increase available skills, achieve their goals and tackle everyday challenges.
You can check the sample training courses and try them either as a participant or as an administrator. You can also use our demo site to try out this app and discover its features with no need to install it.
If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post.
Unlocking the Power of an LMS in Confluence for Efficient Employee Training
March 14, 2023
#Learning Management#Confluence
9 min
Employee training is an essential part of any business. It helps employees understand their roles, increase productivity, and stay current with industry trends.
We think that one of the best ways to do this is to provide training tailored to each employee’s needs. As such, you can use the software that your team is familiar with, like Confluence. By adopting this approach, companies can reduce the time and resources they spend on training while also providing their staff with the tools they need to succeed.
Confluence is a remote-friendly team workspace that allows users to create and share content, collaborate, and access various learning resources. You get a centralized platform for managing content, reducing the need for multiple third-party tools. Furthermore, Confluence allows users to easily structure content in a cohesive way, which helps accelerate the learning process.
We bet that you already have a lot of information in your Confluence that training administrators can use for employee education. So turning your Confluence into a fully-fledged learning management system is a great idea. And it is possible with the help of izi – LMS for Confluence. This app requires minimal setup and makes Confluence more powerful and user-friendly, allowing companies to quickly get their courses up and running. And employees, in turn, get an interactive environment to engage in.
Create courses in Confluence
Setting up an LMS in Confluence is quick and easy. After installation of the app, creators and learners get immediate access to the Learning portal in Confluence.
Learning administrators can create courses from the portal view or from anywhere in Confluence by clicking the Create button and using the Course template.
One of the main advantages is that izi LMS allows reusing the existing content and separate Confluence pages as training blocks of the course. Administrators can edit content if required to ensure each training module has a clear objective and the course is well-structured and easy to follow.
Populating training modules with images, videos, PDF files, and quizzes helps create engaging and interactive training materials. Moreover, administrators can update content for already enrolled course participants. In this case, employees receive the most up-to-date information when something has changed in the process covered in the course, or there is a new training module.
Confluence users can browse the Learning catalog of available courses and self-enroll in the ones they find interesting. Also, they see their progress in the courses they are taking.
Learners see every course as a set of training modules they need to study carefully and complete one by one. Courses can contain quizzes that help assess user knowledge and understanding. This allows course administrators to rapidly identify gaps in knowledge to pay attention to and adjust courses accordingly. Questions can be of four different types:
single choice
multiple choice
true/false
free text
Free text questions let participants share their thoughts on the question with the course creator, who then needs to review answers and mark them as correct or wrong.
Participants can self-enroll in quizzes with a link. This facilitates the task of inviting multiple users to a quiz without typing their names individually.
After course completion, participants get certificates they can download and share with their colleagues or on social media. It helps increase employees’ engagement and productivity.
One of the most common challenges is ensuring employees are motivated to complete courses. To overcome this challenge, it’s crucial to track their progress and guarantee they are meeting the necessary objectives, as well as gain insights into where additional training may be needed.
izi – LMS for Confluence lets course administrators track participants’ activity, assess their performance and generate reports both for courses and quizzes they take.
For example, every course report shows statuses such as Not started, Started, and Completed. Moreover, hovering over the status, you can see the status change history. This feature provides course administrators with a birds-eye view of course progress among all the participants.
When it comes to quizzes, course creators can view answers participants gave while taking a quiz vs. correct answers.
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Take advantage of an LMS in Confluence
With a suitable learning management system, businesses can ensure their employees receive the education and training they need to succeed. This approach benefits for both the company and its employees, as it allows them to manage their learning and development effectively.
Whether you’re looking for a way to master employee onboarding, level up compliance training, or improve self-directed employee education, izi – LMS for Confluence has got you covered. It allows you to set up courses, track employee progress, and measure their performance on the fly right in Confluence, the software you already know and enjoy using.
Try izi LMS for free and check how it can power up your training processes. The app is available for Confluence Cloud and Data Center.
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