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An e-Learning Platform that Performs

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Teaching online can feel daunting at first, but it offers several advantages over in-person seminars. You can keep using educational materials instead of hiring an instructor every time a learner needs training, saving a lot of money. Likewise, e-learning software solutions are safer than bringing K-12 or Higher Ed students to in-person classes or asking corporate or government employees to travel off-site for compliance training. Online training can even promote learner engagement since it gives learners more flexibility to choose what they want to study and how to study it.

Of course, you’ll need a fantastic e-learning platform to realize those benefits. Luckily, the educational experts at Echo360 and Echo360 have teamed up to develop EchoPoll, a learning engagement platform built for everyone, everywhere. EchoPoll’s suite of products offer all of the functionality you and your instructors need to help learners unleash their true potential. It’s predicated on our e³ philosophy of equity, evidence, and engagement and seamlessly integrates with the rest of our products to bring online and hybrid learning to the next level!

What Are the Most Important Features to Look for in an e-Learning Platform?

We know that there are a ton of e-learning solutions on the market and researching them all at once can feel overwhelming. Therefore, we are proud to provide five features that every great e-learning platform should have:

    1. Accessibility

Your learners may have different needs but everybody deserves equity in their access to educational opportunities. EchoPoll supports single-source hybrid learning, meaning that your instructors can use its course authoring tools to design both synchronous and asynchronous lessons. Live classes are recorded automatically, ensuring that remote learners can play them back and receive the same info as attendees did. It teams flawlessly with Echo360, which uses ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) to accurately close-caption and index all video content to make it more accessible. You won’t find another e-learning platform with an integrated transcription window that accompanies every video.

    1. Reporting

Instructors sometimes struggle to monitor remote learner progress, but that’s not a problem with EchoPoll. Your instructors will be able to add in-line quizzes to break up large blocks of information, ensuring that learners have grasped one concept before moving to the next. Our platform also facilitates two-way feedback, allowing instructors to ask learners how they could improve a course just as easily as they grade student work. If you want to ensure that no biases affect the evidence you’re using to make decisions, try EchoExam. This test generator allows instructors to design fair tests with multiple question types to stimulate learners.

    1. Flexibility

One of the best ways to engage remote learners is to treat them as individuals, and EchoPoll supports personalized learning paths to help each learner take the courses that most benefit them. You can automate enrollment in your onboarding program for fresh hires or copy and paste email addresses to ensure that students who didn’t do well on the last English test get the remediation they need. EchoPoll offers a great admin dashboard as well, so you’ll easily be able to keep track of all of the different courses you are offering. Best of all, content on EchoPoll is mobile-friendly so that learners and instructors can choose how they’d like to engage with it.

    1. Engagement Tools

Your learners won’t get anything out of their coursework if their minds start wandering, so EchoPoll includes a variety of engagement tools to maintain their attention. For instance, gamification elements such as badges and social learning foster friendly competition between learners, encouraging everybody to do their best. Likewise, instructors can access the Dojo library of graphical assets to create presentations that pop. If you want to take engagement one step further, our suite of Point Solutions products offers polling capabilities where learners can use their cell phones to respond in real-time. There is no better way to collect real-time evidence on student engagement.

    1. Compatibility

If your organization already has educational materials that you trust, EchoPoll lets you keep using them. Our e-learning platform integrates with popular learning management systems such as Moodle and Google Classroom so you can easily use and edit existing content. Furthermore, you can export Microsoft Powerpoint presentations directly to EchoPoll to expand their functionality. Adding a video from a platform such as YouTube is also as easy as bringing it into the Echo360 ecosystem.

How Can I Learn More About Your e-Learning Software Solutions?

The best way to see what EchoPoll and the rest of our e-Learning software solutions could do for your organization is to see them in action for yourself. Book a demo today!