NetExam SCORM 1.2 Guide for Adobe Captivate 5

There is a new section in the course detail area called, “Additional Resources” where administrators can add one or more items from the Content Library.  When a student completes all of the course-completion requirements, the “Additional Resources” section will display to the student. This section, listed below the last lesson, will display only when the student completes the course. It will display a list of links for one or more of the Content Library items which the Admin has added to it.

Examiners provide assistance in the management of a learners training progress. A course may assign work on documents or tasks that are completed outside the LMS. In some cases, the work needs to be uploaded by the learner for review. This will require someone to examine the assigned work and assess knowledge and comprehension of the task and materials. Examiners are assigned by the Admin to review and grade the work, typically in the exam phase.

The attached document will guide you through the steps of assigning and managing the examiner.

Keywords: Examiner, Exam, Grade Exam, Manage Examiner, Assign Examiner

Captivate 5.x SCORM guidelines for both SCORM 2004 and SCORM 1.2

HTML5 Publishing Guidelines for Adobe Captivate 7.0

Here's the CSS to add a background to login page.

 

// sets login background to example-bg.png scaled to fit window.

.bgLoginLayout {

     background-image: url(example-bg.png) !important;

     background-repeat: no-repeat !important;

     background-size: 100% !important;

     filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='example-bg.png', sizingMethod='scale');

     -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='example-bg.png', sizingMethod='scale')";

     margin-top: -5px;

}

You can the make the changes via css in the style template in the Admin site - Communications - Content Templates section. Here is the related CSS for reference purposes:

From the Admin site go to : Communications – Content Templates – Style

Insert the following code. 

/* increase font size in widget header */

.ens-widget .x-panel-tl .x-panel-header {

     font: 22px Arial bold;

     padding: 7px 0px 0px 7px !important;

}

 

/* set widget heaader bg color */

.ens-widget .x-panel-tc {

     background-image: none;

     background-color: #882454;

     height: 40px !important;

}

.ens-widget .x-panel-tl, .ens-widget .x-panel-bl, .ens-widget .x-panel-br {

     background-image: none;

     background-color: #882454;

     border-bottom-color: #cccccc;

}

 

/* hide icons in widget headers */

.ens-widget .x-panel-icon {

     background-image: none !important;

     margin: 0px !important;

}

 

/* increase font size and set color to dark blue for all states on "links" in widgets like enrolled courseware */

.ens-widget .x-tree-node .x-tree-node-el a, .ens-widget .x-tree-node span, .ens-widget .customTree .x-tree-node-over a span {

     font: 14px Arial !important;

     color: #5E86B7 !important;

     text-decoration: none !important;

     padding: 0px;

}

.ens-widget .x-tree-node .x-tree-node-el {

     padding-top: 3px !important;

}

 

/* increase font size and set color to dark blue for all states on link in widgets like available courseware, also remove borders */

.ens-widget .x-grid3-cell-inner a {

     color: #5E86B7 !important;

     text-decoration: none;

     font: 14px Arial;

}

.ens-widget .x-grid3-row {

     border: 0;

}

 

The following method can be used to override specific widget icons.

Enter the following code to your CSS settings section. 

From the Admin site go to : Communications – Content Templates – Style

Insert the following code. 

.ens-widget .icon-certification {background-image: url(path_to_image) !important; }

 Eg: .ens-widget .icon-certification {

            background-image: url (http://images.netexam.com/images/10229/Learning_Portal_Icons-elearning1.png) !important; }

This would replace the icon for the widget that use the certification icon with the image specify in the  "path_to_image" section.

Note: Image size needs to be exactly 16x16.

The other icon classes that you could use to display custom images are:

.icon-news

.icon-welcome

.icon-course

.icon-messages

.icon-social-learning

.icon-learningplans

Checklists are a convenient way to manage and review a series of steps or content as part of a course. For example, a course on web design may have a checklist available for a student to ensure they have all the components required to successfully publish a website. The checklist can be made available for an examiner to review the individual website components and assess the learner's comprehension and application of the website elements. In both cases, a checklist provides assistance to the learner and examiner to ensure that all the elements have been addressed.

The attached document contains instructions and a workflow on how to set up and use Checklists.

Keywords: CheckList, Check List, Examiner, exam

The Content Widget will present content in the Content Library and will display by content type. This will allow students to see the content irrespective of the course they are taking.  Visibility of this widget can be controlled by NetExam Administrators. Note: Users will not get credit for the content they launch from the Content Widget. 

Admins can create the sharable content via Admin site – Courses – Content Library link

Admin can put a check mark to select the content to be visible in the Content widget.

How to enable Content Library Widget

In admin site; the Content Widget could be accessed in the following manner.

1) Click on Communication. Then Learner Portal Setting.

2) Click on the “Add Widget” drop down menu.

3) Select Content Library by clicking on “add”.

The selected content will be displayed in the Student site in the following manner.

Students now have the ability to add comments upon submitting their course rating. 

A text box is provided for students to submit feedback or comments about a course.

Once user has submitted a comment and/or the rating; it will be displayed upon access. 

The comments will also be displayed in the "User_Courses_Rating_Report''

Custom Text widget with HTML / WYSIWYG Editor Support

This Custom Text widget is available in the Student site: Training Tab. The Custom text widget provides the ability for Administrators to push instructions to their students, which guarantee a higher level of visibility.

This is made available only on a client request basis. Please submit a support ticket if you need this enabled for your company.

The image below shows a sample text widget.

How to format/input text?

LMS Administrators wants to use the new “Training Custom Text” template to format the text according to the Language and User Type. It can be access via NetExam Admin site – Communications – Content Templates 

Promo Codes can be used to provide discounts on courses. A promo code can be calculated as a Fixed value, i.e. $100 off the regular price or as a Percent value, i.e., 10% off the regular price.

1. To activate a promo code, go to Ecommerce: Promo Code 
2. Choose a PromoCode to edit or click Add New Promo Code - you will go to the Add/Edit page
3. Enter the Status as Active or Inactive (required)
   
4. Name the Promo Code and enter a Start Date and an End Date.
   
5. Provide a description for the Promo Code (optional)
   
6. Enter Promo Type: Fixed Value or Percent (required)
   
7. Enter the Promo Code Value. If it is a Fixed Value, enter the amount and currency. If it is percentage off, enter the percent discounted. (required)
8. Select the Course and Certification the Promo Code applies to

Click Submit.

When the student enrolls in a course or certification, there is an area on the payment screen to enter a promo code. The student enters the promo code and it is applied to the course.

This widget shows the enrolled courses for students. It provides a single place where students can access all of their enrolled courses from the home page. Certification Tab will display certifications and courses that belong to that certification. Courses tab will show only the independent courses.

Admin can go to Learner Portal settings from the Admin site – Select the Enrolled Courseware from the drop down widget selection – click add – Click Save to save your settings.

Student view of the enrolled courseware widget.

Examiner Workflow

This functionality in the NetExam LMS allows an Admin to use Examiners to evaluate a Students performance in training and grade them accordingly.

See attached document for more information.

The NetExam Content library now supports folders. You can now categorize content in a set of folders to better organize and also to make the content easier to find for learners. The folder structure can be created and managed via the Content Library configuration section of the Admin application. Download the article for more information.

NetExam now allows you to assign badges to learners. Learners can achieve these badges by reaching the number of points designated with the badge.
Recommended badge size: 40 x 40 and the file format (png)

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The Grade Book allows LMS Administrators to see enrolled user’s transcript within the Class schedule add/edit page. Administrators can mark the lesson(s) as completed from this module and are able to download the transcript as a CSV file.

Gradebook download as a CSV file.
1) Navigate to Course>> Class Schedule> Registered Users section in courseschedule-addedit.asp page
2) Click on the "Grade Book" button
3) Click on the "Download" button at the bottom of the Grade Book grid.

Expected: The Gradebook (with Student Names and their grades for respective Lessons) should be downloaded as a CSV file.

All available email templates come pre-filled with default content that can be edited. You can insert tags by clicking the Category dropdown and selecting the appropriate object. Once the proper tag is selected click on Insert to Email Body. In the email body, you can insert images, hyperlinks, and text together with the NetExam tags.

From Email Address: Do not change the From Email Address. This address has been created specifically for your company and must have the @netexam.com address in order to process through the system. 

Email From Name: The From email name.

Subject: The email subject

Body: The email template content. You can enter pre-set parameter tags in your email template for additional formatting.

CCAddress: The email address(es) you want to add in the CC field. Multiple emails are separable from commas and semi colons

CCName: The CC Email Name

BCCName: The email address(es) you want to add in the BCC field. Multiple emails are separable from commas and semi colons

BCCName: The BCC Email Name

HTML Option: You can either select the Plain Text Email format or HTML Email format.

Available Parameter Tags

The following is a list of pre-defined email parameter tags can be used in formatting Email Templates.

NetExam enables customers to have their company logo visible in the ILT Sign-in sheet.  Please submit a support ticket with your company logo attached if you need this enabled for your company.

Once the company logo enabled sign-in sheet appear as follows. NetExam Administrators can access the ILT sign-in sheet from the class schedule page. 

Vouchers represent an “authenticated” mode of payment for training. Before being given access to the training materials, the student will have to enter a voucher number that will be checked against the system for available allocations/ balance days in class / available credits.  Please see attached document to read how vouchers works in NetExam.

Custom Dashboard is a newly introduced feature with Netexam 6.9 release. It allows you build and customize a web based dashboard for data visualization as per the business needs.

Currently we support 5 categories of customize charts. We could always add more categories as per your business requirements and needs.

  I.  Partners

  II. User Certifications

 III. User Courses

 IV. Certifications

  V. Courses

How to add a customized chart to the Dashboard

Navigate to Dashboards – Beta under Reporting tab. There you will be directed to the Main View of the Dashboard. You could always customize the dashboard view as per your requirement.Navigate to Customize Charts sub tab. There you will have the option to select form 5 customized categories to create a chart.

Navigate to Customize Charts sub tab. There you will have the option to select form 5 customized categories to create a chart. Partners, User Certifications,  User Courses,  Certifications,  Courses

Select one category (i.e. Partners)

    Lot of features, each denoting in sub tabs to customize the chart data are presented under each category.

• Formula – Lets you add a new column to the main table through defined formulae.
• Layout – The Layout tab allows you to change the visibility of columns in the main table.
• Sort – This tab let you order data rows in each column by cell values.
• Filter – The Filter tab facilitate in filtering data rows in each column by cell values.
• Group - Organize data rows in each column with grouping and sub-grouping.
• Aggregate – Lets you calculate total, average like aggregate function for the top and grouped levels.
• Chart – Chart tab allows you to add charts and gauges to the dashboard.
• Crosstab - Add a crosstab/pivot table to display summarized information with groupings listed in both rows and columns.
• Paging - Lets you set the number of rows displayed per page.

Adding Charts and Gauges to Dashboard

1. Navigate to Chart sub tab under any custom category.
2. Select a Chart/Gauge as per your preference. (i.e. Pie)
3. Click on Add To Dashboard button next to the Chart/Gauge

The Learner Portal settings allow the NetExam admin to customize the student site as desired and/or according to the organization best practices.

The following are some of the widgets available at the disposal of the NetExam admin. Please refer the document for complete list.

• Welcome
• RSS Feed
• News and Information
• Available Training
• Enrolled Courseware
• Points Leaderboard
• Social Learning
• Certification Progress
• Messages
• New Courses
• Popular Courses
• Content Library
• Calendar

The Learner portal setting allows the admin to select any of the above mentioned widgets and drag/rearrange them to a desired position/location; thereby allowing them to customize their student site. 

The Learning Plan module in NetExam supports course and certification sequences. The latest version can visually display learning plan to students and also show where they currently are in the plan.

Before setting up a Learning Plan, required courses should be attached to a certification and include proper User Types and User Groups.

Administrators can access the Learning Plan under Certifications Tab in the Admin Site.  Certifications – Learning Plans. Click “Create new Learning Plan” to begin creating your plan. 

You can type the Learning Plan name, Learning Plan Description, Status (Active / Inactive) and select the User Type.  From the Add/edit Learning Plan Courses, select your curriculum name and click on the + sign to see the courses. By default all the courses are set to Not Applicable. Select “Required” for the course you are going to include in the Learning Plan. Click on the Submit button to save your plan. If you require the setup of Elective courses, please contact NetExam Support.

You should enable the “Learning Plan” tab in the Student site from the Roles section from the NetExam Admin site. To access the Learning Plan in the student site, login to the site with a user who is bearing the user type you used in your Learning plan.

Student site view of Learning Plan

Your learners can login to NetExam system using his/her LinkedIn account username and password. When the user clicks the Login with LinkedIn button on the Learner Portal login page, it directs the user to enter their LinkedIn username and password.

After submitting their username and password, the system will check if a user record exists in NetExam with a matching email address. If a matching record is found, the user will be logged in. If not, a new user record will be created for the user with information retrieved from LinkedIn.

This functionality can be turned on/off via the NetExam Admin Application by System Administrators.

To enable LinkedIn login:

1. Go to General: Self Registration Configuration.
2. Select Enable Linked In: Enable. Note: Login from LinkedIn is available when the Self Registration Siedget is enabled.

The Login with LinkedIn button will appear on the Learner Portal login page.

NetExam Administrators can manage SFDC Credentials from the NetExam admin site. Some of the fields they can modify are: User name, Password, Security Token etc. This option can be accessed by selecting the Communications tab, then SFDC Configuration option.

Microsoft CRM is a fully integrated customer relationship management system (CRM) designed to help organizations attract, keep and develop profitable customer relationships.

Centrify Integration

Centrify and NetExam have partnered to give NetExam users single sign-on and provide IT with centralized management and security using an existing infrastructure.

Centrify eliminates password sprawl with Active Directory- and/or cloud-based SSO for NetExam, making users happy while giving IT centralized control over access. As part of Centrify for SaaS, our single sign-on for NetExam decreases the cost of rolling out and managing NetExam and other cloud applications while at the same time improving user adoption, satisfaction and productivity.

What you get?

Active Directory Integration

A 5-minute install securely connects your Active Directory to NetExam via the Centrify Cloud Service without replicating sensitive data to the cloud or a 3rd-party — with no extra holes in the firewall. Don’t have AD or want 100% cloud based identity? No problem, Centrify supports that too.

Secure Browser Single Sign-on (SSO)

Simply use your Active Directory or Centrify cloud-based credentials to get one-click access to NetExam and all your favorite SaaS apps through the MyCentrify Portal.

Mobile Zero Sign-on (ZSO)

Users enroll mobile devices in the Centrify Cloud Service and use the MyCentrify App for easy access to all of their web apps and native mobile apps like NetExam.

User Self-Service with MyCentrify

Self-service features let users locate, lock or wipe their mobile devices and reset their Active Directory passwords.

Learn more: Datasheet for Centrify-NetExam integration

NetExam Basics - Terms and Definitions

This covers the following terms.

User, User Type, User Role, User Group, Course, Curriculum, Certification

eCommerce Guide

Additional Links:

eCommerce support with Authrize.Net

eCommerce support with Payment Options

Credit card processing integration with Payment Tech

Credit card processing integration with Payeezy

NetExam Learner API Guide

NetExam Learning Management System Support Services Guide

NetExam Product Reference Guide v1.0

This document describes the setup, daily use, and best practices of NetExam's Self-Registration feature.

NetExam Support Center Guide for Users

NetExam Training Credit Vouchers can be used to purchase Course and Classes. This document explains how to create a Training Credit Voucher, add Training credits to a Course and how to Purchase a course using Training credits.

The following document contains the guide for the NetExam v6 Student Portal.

Please see the attached guide for more information.

The Partner Goals widget shows the individual vs. group training goal achievements on the student site. NetExam Administrators are able to create Training Goal(s) for User groups. Each Training Goal is comprised of a target that students can achieve. For example, a user must complete a number of Certifications and/or Courses within a given time frame. The results are viewed from the student site Partner Goals widget, which includes the user's group goal versus the achievements in the Goals tab.

Students can click on the Goals tab to see all the achievement dashboards.

Related article: Partner Training Goal

NetExam Administrators can create Training Goals for User Groups. 

Each Training Goal has a target to achieve. To reach the target, a user must complete the number of Certifications and/or Courses within a given time frame.

From the student site, the user will be able to see their user group's goal vs achievements in the Goals tab.

Procedure to create and enable Partner Training Goals

From the NetExam Admin site click on Users tab and click the Partner Training Goals link. You will see the following screen:

Click Create a New Partner Training Goal. When completing the Certifications/Courses goals, please ensure the Required Completion field has a value before saving your goal. If you need to add more certifications or courses, you can click on the goal name to edit. 

Once you've created your goal, you can add the goal to your user groups.

Open your user group page – Users – User groups.

You will notice a new field called “Goals” is added into the User Group page, where you can select the goals you defined in the previous step.

Click Save to save your changes.

Enable Partner Training Goal Link in Admin site

Navigate to Users – Roles – Select the role - Under users click on Partner Training Goal

Enable Partner Training Goal Tab in student site

Navigate to Users – Roles – Under Student Portal Tabs select “View Partner Training Goal”

The student's Primary user group should be the one that you set up with the Partner Training Goal.

Once the student logs on to the student site, they are  able to see the Goal Tab and the relevant goal information within that tab.

NetExam allows users to purchase courses for other users in their primary user group. When purchasing a course they can click on the “Add Attendee” link and add other individuals to the purchase. Those additional attendees will get an email notification that they been enrolled in the course.

Download the attached KB article to read more.

NetExam includes a Registration End Time option in ILT Class room sessions. This allows administrators to prohibit users from enrolling into the classes a specified number of hours before the class start time.

Please see attached document for configuration.

This guide provides the basic steps of Salesforce to NetExam Data Integration.

NetExam has an integration with Salesforce.com that allows for NetExam training objects: Courses and Certifications to be transmitted to SFDC and stored in custom objects. This allows the flexibility of reporting on this data directly from within SFDC.

Also, please see the companion documents - Salesforce to NetExam Enhanced Course Data Integration and Salesforce to NetExam Setup and Integration Guide.

This guide will provide you the information regarding the most recent enhancements to Salesforce to NetExam Course Data Integration.

Also, for Other Salesforce to Netexam Integration info see Salesforce to NetExam Setup and Integration Guide and Salesforce to Netexam Basics of Data Integration

Salesforce.com / NetExam Course Data Integration Guide v1.0

The NetExam SCORM player can receive and store question ID and answer data from exams that are embedded in the SCORM course.

LMS admins can see the SCORM interaction data in Adhoc reports under UserResponsesToScormInteraction dataSource.

This will allow admin to specify weights for the questions at the time of creating. Weights are ranging from 1 to 5 and weight 5 carriers the maximum weight. When the exam is graded the score will depend on the weight of questions.

Setup

• From the Admin site - Go to Curriculum – Course – Lesson – Objective
• When you create your question, you can select the weight for that question. Default value set to 1.

Logic

When the exam is graded the score will depend on the weight of questions

example Assume Q1 - weight = 2 Q2 - weight = 3 Q3 - weight = 4 Q4 - weight = 1 Q5 - weight = 5 Let's assume student got these 5 questions in a exams got Q1, Q2, Q3 correct and Q4 and Q5 wrong So the score should be (sum of weights of all question the student got right) * 100 / (sum of weights of all question the student got in exam)

Ex (2+3+4)X100/(2+3+4+1+5) = 9 X 100 / 15 = 60%

In the Student view, the Available Training and Enrolled Training widgets display a tile image representation of the certification and individual courses by default. Students can switch between the Tile View and List View by selecting either in the dropdown selection button in the upper right corner of the widget.

Steps to upload a graphic in to your course/Certification

Administrators upload the image for their courses/certification through Course/Certification Add/Edit page in the NetExam Admin side. If there are not any images uploaded, the course will use the system default image. Recommended image formats: JPG, PNG and resolution @ 228px x 160px and Course Icon image size: 32 x 30 px

This document describes the new features in NetExam Spring 2015 version.

This document describes the new features in NetExam Summer 2014 version.

This document describes the new features in NetExam ver 6.4.

Whats New in NetExam v6.7

This document describes the new features in NetExam ver 6.8.

This document describes the new features in NetExam ver 6.9

This document describes the new features in NetExam Winter 2014 version.

The above new feature allows the LMS admins to apply various text styles descriptions by using a simple WYSIWYG editor rather than using the conventional HTML tags.

The HTML editor could be applied for the description text box's in Course, Curriculum, Certification, Lesson, Question and message template pages.

By using the above mentioned editor; a LMS admin can apply/change the text style, bullet, numbering, highlight, URL, images, text alignment without adding HTML tags.