CourseMill for IBM Websphere Portal

The most affordable and easy-to-use learning management system (LMS) now offers even more features and benefits to meet the critical online training needs of small and medium-sized organisations around the globe.

Whether you are an instructor, student or an administrator, you can now administer, manage, track and take online courses and curricula easily and effectively. CourseMill provides student self-enrolment, single-click course upload, shopping basket support, waiting list functionality and more.

You can create your own custom look and feel, and choose those features which are right for your organisation. CourseMill provides IBM DB2 database support, third-party content support, AICC and SCORM compliance, classroom-based training support for blended learning, and much more - to provide you with the flexibility you need for a range of uses.

The tracking and reporting of online courses is simple and hassle-free, enabling users to easily create an unlimited number of reports. You control who has access to data so others can track the status of students.

Interaction between users is fun and simple with beneficial features that you can control, such as real-time chat, internal and external email, instant messaging and mass emailing and document sharing.

New in CourseMill 6

• Customisable user interface to match your company's brand or course
• Automatic and fast registration, bulk registration and students can unregister themselves
• Categorise learners into 16 categories
• Find the answers to your CourseMill questions with the new online help tool
• Advanced quick search
• Create system-wide announcements for users to receive upon login; make changes to CourseMill without shutting it down
• Automatic calendar updates of courses and classes; schedule recurring course sessions
• Access courses while on the move through mobile devices

Key features

• Create curricula by bundling courses together to create learning tracks with multiple courses
• Students can conveniently preview self-registering courses in the course catalogue
• Set a maximum number of students allowed per course
• Collect personal contact information about students during registration
• Print a class roster
• Multi-language support for a small add-on fee
• Email within CourseMill or using your own email application; send bulk emails and reports to any or all individuals and create time-saving email templates
• Robust and convenient notification features such as a direct link to CourseMill along with the user's password
• Securely set email restrictions on courses, for instance, between students
• Students can track their course history and grades by viewing their report cards
• Create and run your own custom reports and conveniently export to Microsoft Excel
• Automatically run, archive or email status reports at selected intervals
• Run reports on the completion status of courses and export reports directly into Excel
• Quickly view each student's individual answers to specific questions and their scores for each course; toggle to student views to see courses from a learner's perspective
• Provide students with an easy-to-read scoring system
• Post comments and questions to share with students and instructors and have live, real-time discussion forums including one-on-one dialogue; post and share any course-related document
• Access external documents for grading or review by creating a link to documents within courses and curricula
• Track which students purchased each course, how much they spent, and more.
• Any number of instructors can now teach a course for added flexibility
• Easily disable courses without having to remove them from CourseMill
• Supports a wide range of databases and learning management standards such as SCORM, AICC, Disconnected SCORM, non-SCORM courses, and database integration; completely free of the requirement for client-side Java