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Birch Learning Platform Feature List
  • Self-service account creation
  • Update/edit personal profile
  • Upload profile image
  • View goals and elements and workflow status
  • View Netflix style catalogue
  • Search catalogue by title, tags and more
  • Self-register/withdraw from goals
  • Register for event wait list
  • Default language/time zone preferences based on location
  • Access resources
  • Renewal and reminder messages
  • Review/print a transcript
  • Launch and bookmark online courses
  • Enter external achievements
  • View/print CPD/CPE points
  • Review/print a completion certificate
  • Compliance graph with quick launch for non-compliant items
  • Access to Reporting if this has been assigned
  • Launch complimentary Birch eLearning catalogue
  • Team view shows who are not compliant or are awaiting action
  • Manage approval requests and document reviews
  • Manage on the job assessment reviews
  • View team member profiles – compliance %, goals progress, transcript
  • Contact all team or selected member/s instantly
  • Access calendar for element due dates and scheduled event dates and filter by team or member
  • Register/cancel team members in goals and events
  • Reporting for team members include:
    • Graphical and cross tab reports
    • Save as templates
    • View shared reports (graphical and cross tab) from admins that is outside their team
  • All reports have drilldown capabilities, with access to learner profile directly from reports
  • Cross tab reporting includes export to excel, pdf, csv and print
  • Tags allow for reporting based on your requirements, e.g. reporting by national standards, element owners
  • Filters on reports allow you to select using various combinations of connections, communities, job positions, statuses

Report Types

  • Completion reports, learners have completed the goals or elements regardless of due date requirements or in the required timeframe
  • Colour coded reports display completions and compliance
  • Percentage of compliance or completion
  • Displays number of completed with number of enrolled
  • Upcoming and overdue renewals for the selected element/s
  • External Achievement reporting including CPD points
  • SCORM / xAPI interactions report includes questions and answers predetermined and freeform by learner by attempt for each attempt
  • Create events
  • Register learners into events
  • Access calendar for assigned events to view registered learners
  • Manage document reviews and on the job assessment
  • Access to cross tab reporting, scorm interactions, renewal and event reporting, can save each report as a template
  • Create actionable reports (contact learners, access to learner profiles, access to event rosters)

Learning Event View includes:

  • register additional learners
  • send notifications to learners
  • print attendance sheet
  • update attendances (include did not attend and exemptions)
  • upload signed attendance sheet
  • reschedule learners from event
  • manage wait list queue
  • Everything in trainer experience
  • Create On the Job Assessment forms
  • Create elements
  • Maintain resources on elements
  • Access to registration management
  • Create graphical and cross tab reports (see Admin Experience for reporting)
  • Save reports as templates
  • Create shared reports (graphical and cross tab) for other users
  • Review management
    • Completed reviews
    • Pending reviews
    • Assigned reviews
  • Re-assign reviewers

Configuration

  • Create community/s
    • branding
    • signup form or not
    • define different URL/login screens
    • authentication method (SAML2 or OAuth2)
    • message configuration
    • CPD settings
    • external achievement settings
  • Create unlimited connections manually or via file import, API
  • Create tags for assignment to goals and elements for reporting and searching throughout the platform
  • Create job roles
  • Create certificate templates

Elements

  • Elements include:
    • Learning elements supports standards – SCORM, xAPI, cmi5, LTI and AICC
    • Events (face to face and virtual meetings)
    • On the job assessment
    • Document review – a designated reviewer validates document, license, permit etc
    • Media – view a document, watch a video, listen to audio or visit a link
    • Test
  • Registration rules for elements
    • Automatic, self or by a rule
    • Rules include passed, failed, number of completions or registration days on a specified element
  • Renewal settings
  • Due date set

Goals

  • Auto assign on catalogue with no restrictions or available on catalogue where audience matches

Streams

  • Streams on Goals allow you to configure completion requirements for different groups of learners and control a learner’s pathway to completion.
  • Streams can have different target audiences, registration rules, completion requirements as well as compliance settings which allow for a more granular approach to directing learning and development.
  • Report on compliance for a Goal across users who may have entirely different learning paths required to reach their achievement.
  • Renewals can be setup by stream
  • Streams can be:
    • Compulsory (complete all elements)
    • Elective (complete a specified number of elements)
    • Optional (all elements are optional)

Learner Management

  • Learners can be created:
    • Manually
    • Signup form
    • File upload
    • API
  • Designate/change a learner’s manager/s
  • Assign multiple managers and roles
  • Create, change and view learner information/profile
  • Set/change learner status
  • Start and end dates can update a learner’s status
  • View and print learner transcripts
  • CPD and CPE tracking
  • View goal progress for a learner

Registration Management

  • Auto assign registrations for goals and elements
  • Match connections on goals and learners
  • Set (and override) the max/min learners for a course at the session level
  • Enrol and cancel registrations for events
  • Manage a wait list queue
  • Manage a registration request queue (approve/deny)
  • Update registrations, mark as exempt, cancel
  • Audit logs for element registration and completions

Message management

  • Messaging with token availability
  • Default Message types (triggered by request) include
    • Document review pending
    • Registration confirmation via email with ICAL file attachment
    • Goal registered when manually registered
    • Manager approval requested
    • Manager request accepted
    • Manger request denied
    • Password reset requested
    • User created, approval and denied
  • Configurable Messages
    • based on days before or after
    • optionally cc manager, administrator
    • reminder for upcoming or past due dates
    • reminder for upcoming or past renewal date
  • Scheduled and event based messages may be global or community based

Data Imports include

  • Scheduled face to face events
  • Element registration and achievement
  • Goal registrations
  • External achievements
  • User imports

Review Management (Document Review and On the Job Assessments)

  • View all
    • Completed reviews
    • Pending reviews
    • Assigned reviews
  • Re-assign reviewers

Reporting

  • Create graphical and cross tab reports and share with other users
  • Save as templates
  • All reports have drilldown capabilities to access learner profile information directly
  • Export to excel, pdf, csv and print
  • Tags allow you to report based on your requirements, eg reporting by National Standards, element owners etc
  • User filters on reports allow you to select using various combinations of connections, communities, job positions, statuses
  • Types of reports:
    • Completion reports, learners have completed the goals or elements regardless of due date requirements
    • Compliance reports, learners completed in the required timeframe
    • Colour coded reports showing for completions and compliance
    • Percentage of compliance or completion
    • Displays number of completed with number of enrolled
    • Renewal reporting – upcoming and overdue renewals for the selected element/s
    • Event reporting – reporting on upcoming and past events, with drilldown to the class roster directly from the report.
    • External achievement reporting including CPD points
    • eLearning interactions report, e.g. questions and answers by learner by attempt for each attempt
    • Audit reporting exists on elements on who registered and completed elements.

Approval Requests

  • View all outstanding Manager and Admin approval requests.
  • On behalf of a manager, approve or deny Manager approval requests.
  • Create graphical and cross tab reports
  • Save as templates
  • Create shared reports (graphical and cross tab) for other users within Birch
  • All reports have drilldown capabilities to access learner profile directly
  • Cross tab reporting allows you to export to excel, pdf, csv and print
  • The use of tags allows reporting based on your requirements, eg Reporting by National standards, element owners etc
  • User Filters on reports allow you to select using various combinations of connections, communities, job positions, statuses

Types of Reporting

  • Completion reports, learners have completed the goals or elements regardless of due date requirements
  • Compliance reports, learners completed in the required timeframe
  • Colour coded reports showing for completions and compliance
  • Percentage of compliance or completion
  • Displays number of completed with number of enrolled
  • Renewal reporting – upcoming and overdue renewals for the selected element/s
  • Event Reporting – reporting on upcoming and past events, with drilldown to the class roster directly from the report.
  • External Achievement reporting including CPD points
  • eLearning interactions report, e.g. questions and answers by learner by attempt for each attempt
  • Audit reporting exists on elements on who registered and completed elements.

Data Imports

  • Scheduled face to face events
  • Element Registration and Achievement
  • Goal Registrations
  • External Achievements
  • User Imports

Data Exports

  • Use Birch API and/or webhook to integrate and sync data with the rest of your business systems
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