Online Employee Training Software

Employee Training Software

Employee Training and Education Without Travel

Put the focus of employee training back into education.

Are you tired of employee's spending more time travelling instead of receiving employee training?

What if you could improve employee job skills for major applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OutLook.  What if you could boost productivity company wide, by focusing employee training meetings on software skills that all of your employees use at all of your offices?

What if you could provide employee training without having to pay for travel costs for your employees?  And what if you could do all this and not lose a single minute of productivity to travel?  Without interrupting everyone's day?

All of this is possible with WebTrain--because a THREE HOUR training meeting shouldn't cost you THREE DAYS of time.  Use WebTrain Communicator™ and turn days back into hours and dollars back into cents.

With WebTrain, you can train employees at multiple branch offices at the same time.  Employees receive online training from the comfort of their desk, travel is not required, even for the instructor.  This enables you to save large sums of money that would have been spent on travel, accommodation and lost work time.  How much will you save?

Online Employee Training Features and Benefits:

Improve Employee Productivity via Online Training

Boost employee productivity throughout your entire organization.

Every day, we use software applications like Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel or Lotus.  We also use web based applications such as CRM applications, Web 2.0 tools and corporate websites.  Yet many of us are not aware of software features within these products that could simplify tasks that are performed many times each day.  By sharing knowledge of commonly used applications, employees and management can immediately become more efficient.

With the WebTrain software, employee training is no longer a challenge.  Even if you do not have a qualified instructor or formalized training content, knowledge that impacts performance can easily be shared with each and every person within your organization.

WebTrain takes the physical aspect out of providing employee training.  Regardless of a person's physical location, they can participate in online employee training and knowledge sessions from the comfort of their desk.  By eliminating the physical challenges and by providing all the tools required to organize and deliver live hands-on training online, productivity gains can be realized with very little effort.

The above knowledge session would drastically reduce the probability of encountering a catastrophic problem with Outlook.  The knowledge was delivered simply by showing how, the process was not interruptive and employees did not need to leave their desk.

Imagine providing short weekly online sessions hosted by individuals who are most familiar with commonly used applications.  By providing time saving tips and pointers, the benefits and productivity gains will be immediate.

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Put the focus back into Employee Training, not Travel

An afternoon of training should not consume three entire days.

Traffic jams.  Rain, snow and fog.  Flight delays.  Expensive flights and accommodation costs.  Wouldn't you like to say goodbye to all the hassles and expenses relating to the trip and put the focus back into training?

Using WebTrain, training can be delivered online to each employee's desktop anywhere an Internet connection is available.  No longer do employees need to waste time, money and effort on the trip, because getting to the training session is simply no longer a factor.

In today's world, employees are recognized as valuable assets, It's a broadly accepted fact that providing employees with more education on key products and processes will help them become more productive.  But an afternoon of employee training should not cost the organization three days of employee time, travel and accommodation expenses.

By delivering online training to employee desktops, the focus will stay on the training and never the trip.  Since time previously wasted on travel never occurs, productivity gains are instantly realized--even before the training session starts.  And since flights, accommodation, meals and other expenses are eliminated, cost savings will be significant.

WebTrain's virtualized training software is similar to traditional training.  It is live, visual and interactive.  It can be ad-hoc and on demand, with the general rule that anyone, if you allow them, can be the presenter or trainer anytime.  Verbal group discussions can also occur (telephone not required), conversations will feel normal, just like traditional employee training where everyone is in the same physical room.  But unlike traditional training, the trainer has complete control over the environment, from forcing "View Only" mode to allowing a full blown free-for-all discussion, it's all under the trainer's control.

Participants do not require any training to participate, as they will become comfortable within minutes of joining their first online training meeting.  Trainers will find the product intuitively simple and comfortable to use.  Especially since online employee training can be as simple as showing how.

Formalized training content can also be presented.  For example, when presenting a PowerPoint slide show, a remote mouse pointer can help engage the audience as to which point is being discussed and a full compliment of mark-up tools such as dropping a check-mark or circling an important point are at your fingertips.  As well, when performing any type of presentation, the trainer can appear on the web cam simultaneously.

Delivering highly interactive, effective virtualized training to employee desktops is easy using WebTrain's online employee training software.

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Employee Teaching and Training Software Tools

Instantly demonstrate, present, review and confirm.

WebTrain provides a wide variety of teaching tools.  Here's just a small sampling of the tools our software provides:

A webcam can be used to broadcast the trainer.  A digital writing tablet can be used with our whiteboard tool, with a full compliment of markup features.  A remote mouse pointer can be used to hi-light points to engage and focus participants.  Use a podium or desktop microphone to broadcast audio to the entire classroom of virtual participants.  Use our PowerPoint slide show tool to send any slide to the group in seconds, with receipt confirmation and without requiring participants to have PowerPoint installed.  Use our Web Board tool to conduct web tours or push multi-media content.  Use our application sharing and screencasting tools to place employees right into a classroom from their own PC--anywhere in the world.

Employees can interact via text chat or verbally ask questions.  If you let them, even the entire class can engage in a full-blown group discussion.  There's even a private audio chat feature that allows the trainer to talk privately with each employee.  Participants can also raise their hand, respond to polls, vote Yes or No, use the mark-up tools or be passed the podium for presentation or review purposes.  And if you just want participants to simply watch and listen, you can restrict their interactivity anytime.

PowerPoint slide shows.  Web Tours.  Screencasting and application sharing..  Whiteboard.  Mark-up tools.  Remote control.  Writing tablets.  Webcams.  Rest assured, we provide all the software tools you will ever need; and perhaps even more importantly, it is the manner in which provide them that makes using our product easy.

Multi-media, web applications, spreadsheets, documents and other content is presented in its native format, there is no need to convert or upload files.  Using WebTrain, ad-hoc and on demand is the standard, anyone can present anytime.  The presentation process is natural and intuitive since content is presented in a normalized manner.  And since we've designed our product to be interactive without disturbing the presentation flow, interacting with employees while you present is easy and non-interruptive.

In summary, we provide all the tools you need to professionally deliver employee training in a manner that is visually and interactively appealing.  This is a professional, hosted software solution you will enjoy using.

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VoIP Audio makes Employee Training Easier

Save even more money by using our VoIP audio.

WebTrain's VoIP audio is included in all of our offerings.  It is the undisputed best, no one can match the speed, quality or versatility of our VoIP audio.

When using our built in VoIP audio feature, a telephone is no longer required because audio is played on each participant's PC speakers or headset.

This feature eliminates long distance charges, expensive teleconferencing costs and telephone juggling.  It also means that for dial-up participants, they can talk and listen without being forced to use an additional telephone line which might not be available.

WebTrain's VoIP audio is crystal clear, better than a cell phone.  It is crystal clear for all participants, even for participants that are using a dial-up connection.  And audio delivery is fast, with delivery within 200 ms, conversations feel normal just as if everyone was in the same room.

Since WebTrain has optimized audio transport and delivery, when presenting slides, using the webcam or transferring files to participants, audio never lags or gets choppy because audio packets are mixed within the single SSL (secure) data stream.

A single microphone can be used, or each and every participant can be passed a headset which enables them to talk to the entire group at anytime.  There is no need to wait for "queuing" or buttons to press, simply talk when desired because our full-duplex VoIP audio has built-in voice activation.

Our solution allows you to control all aspects of the audio, from muting participants, changing participant microphone volumes on their behalf, changing room playback delay, changing a setting to eliminate echo, we've made it easy for anyone to tweak settings to compensate for real world situations such as background noise or an over-taxed Internet connection.  For the best VoIP audio, WebTrain is the undisputed champion.

Private 1:1 conversations are also supported.  WebTrain is the only provider to offer private verbal conversations while group conversations are occurring.  This enables the trainer or cohost to talk to an employee privately, even during a group conversation or when someone else is performing a presentation.  You can also talk and be heard when participants are playing music or multi-media with sound because our VoIP audio utilizes the mixer, allowing for multiple streams of audio to be played simultaneously.

Included at no extra cost - Use our VoIP audio today.

Manage the Complete Employee Training Cycle

The complete solution, all included free.

At WebTrain, we realize that providing employee training is more than just delivery.  Much effort is expended organizing the course, informing people of the offering, performing and managing the enrollment process, collecting feedback and more.

Providing online employee training is easier than a traditional offering because there is less to do.  Since a physical room is no longer required, it does not need to be reserved or rented, location instructions do not need to be provided, there are no desks or PC's to setup, no meals to provide, no coffee break goodies to arrange, no overhead projectors to rent, etc.

However, the class still needs to be organized.  People need to be informed about the training meeting session and you probably want utilize an enrollment process.  You may want to send reminders or notifications when the class starts.  And when the training has been delivered, collecting feedback to better improve the next class is a good idea as well.

In addition to delivering training, WebTrain provides all of the functions you need to organize, inform and manage the complete training cycle.  By automating these tasks, your work load is reduced and the entire process is professionally managed.

Here's just a few of features we provide to manage the employee training cycle:

• Course Definition and Scheduling - Define your training course offering, pre-requisites, summary information, agenda, class dates, enrollment limits, scheduled date/time and more.  And if the date/time of the class is changed, all it takes is one click to blast out a notice.
• Employee Invitations - Blast out custom invitations of your offering to everyone within the company using reusable e-mail contact groups.
• Enrollment Process - Use our optional enrollment module to allow people to sign-up and ready to join the class.  Receive notifications of each enrollment.  You can also manually add enrollees (or import a list of enrollees).
• Training Class Reminders - Participants can be reminded of the class in numerous ways: Pop-Up iCal reminders within Outlook or Lotus, SMS text message reminders (sent to cell phones) and e-mail reminders as well.
• Joining the Class - Links within enrollment confirmations or invitations enable the person to join with one click.
• Perform the Training - Deliver highly effective training to employee desktops.
• Collect Feedback - Create an custom evaluation form which is presented to participants when the class ends.  Or blast it out after the class has concluded.  Or collect feedback using a Q&A session on the chat-board, with or without anonymous disclosure.

Can you envision how much easier organizing, managing and delivering online employee training will be?  And you can accomplish all of this directly from your existing website.  With just a single line of HTML code, you can instantly integrate your website with our complete customizable training portal.  It's all included, even custom branding, at no extra cost.

Let's get started - Use WebTrain's software to manage the complete training cycle.

Publish your own Online Employee Knowledge Base Forums

Threaded topics, training content distribution, it's all included free.

As part of our complete employee training software solution, WebTrain provides member based threaded message forums.  They provide the means to distribute training material, product knowledge hint's and tips, company polices and more.

Forums can be training topic focused, or a single forum can contain multiple training topics.  Each topic thread can have sub-topics, and each posting can support a separate file attachment.

Members can be limited to read only access, or they can post public or private replies; replies can also contain an optional attachment.  Notifications of all posting activity can be sent automatically to the forum administrators, and multiple administrators are supported.

Attachments are automatically server side virus scanned, if a virus or script or trojan is found, the attachment is removed and notice of the infected posting is e-mailed to forum administrators.

When employees enroll in a training course, if the course has been assigned a default forum, the employee is automatically granted membership to the forum.  This enables the employee to review pre-requisite training content before the training class starts.

Knowledge base forums are directly accessible 24x7, 365 days per year.  They are independent of the live classroom schedule, they are convenient, secure and help keep messaging and knowledge organized.  Knowledge base and course message boards are also more reliable than e-mail (which might not be delivered or have attachment restrictions).

Distribute knowledge easier than ever before - Knowledge base forums enhance employee training.

Collect Online Employee Training Feedback

Improve your online employee training by reviewing feedback.

As part of the normal training cycle--and after the employee training has been provided--feedback should be collected from the participants.  By collecting user evaluations of the training meeting session(s), improvements can be made to course material; this means that you will know which parts of the training session should be improved upon, expanded or reduced in scope.  You may also find that people want additional training on subjects that were not discussed

WebTrain's software provides two methods to collect user feedback.  At the end of the training meeting session, the chat board can be used for a Question and Answer period.  Chat board settings allow you to choose an anonymous setting which allows participants to voice opinions of the training without worry of identification.  This setting helps them overcome the worry about voicing critical concerns.  Additionally, you can also set an option which prevents other people from seeing their remarks.

WebTrain also provides custom evaluation forms that are presented to participants when they exit the virtual training room.  You can design a form with multiple choice questions, true/false questions, open text comments and more.  When participants complete the form, the trainer is automatically e-mailed the response.  Evaluation forms can be reused, and you can define as many forms as you like.  When hosting the employee training meeting, simply select the preferred evaluation form to be used and it will be displayed to participants when they exit the online employee training session.

You can also blast out (via e-mail) a selected evaluation form to all enrolled students as well.  With just a few clicks, your evaluation form will be e-mailed to all enrolled participants.

WebTrain understands the training cycle, we provide a complete software solution, and all features are included at no extra cost.  Professionals prefer the WebTrain solution.

Collect employee training feedback - Ensure the training provided meets expectations.

Measure Employee Training Knowledge Retention

Are employees applying their new skills?

The final cycle of providing training is measurement.  Did employees retain the knowledge?  Are employees applying what they learned?  By asking these two questions, the degree of success can be measured and gains in productivity can be numerically determined.

With WebTrain, you can schedule a training review meeting with the group or a specific participant.  If you are not sure who to invite, simply review the attendance records.  By scheduling a review session, the participant can be asked to show (using screencasting) specially how they are applying what they have learned.  By asking them how often they use their new knowledge and how much time is saved each time they do, gains in productivity, based upon their salary rate, can be calculated.

By measuring the degree of success of the training in this manner, the training effort becomes cost justifiable with realization that your training sessions are critical to increasing productivity.  You can even make recordings of the review sessions to further document the success of the training program and present your findings to upper management (in a virtual meeting of course!)

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