Additional details on using each of the options below are available in the link at the end of each section.
From the LMS login page to pages like My Learning and What’s New, LatitudeLearning offers a number of standard HTML blocks and pages that are completely customizable by our customers’ portal administrators. Our customers are using this capability to provide readily-available support information to students and managers, present regular updates about training content and offerings, and give users directions or other information about their training programs.
Need even more flexibility? Administrators can also create new HTML pages and link them from other pages. Envision a student-facing My Learning page with links to an internal LMS Support page or a monthly online update about new courses, processes, and coming events. Just add a new LMS page and start creating.
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Customizing HTML Content
Add Custom HTML Pages
One of the most effective ways to brand your LMS as your own is to match color schemes and other page elements to your official corporate colors, including the page background, font and button colors, and more.
Stylesheets can vary through location and position-based branding options. This is particularly useful when an organization represents different customers and each customer’s learning environment can be given an experience that truly represents their own company.
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Manage Stylesheets
Unique, company- or industry-related images lend visual interest for your learners and make your portal look more inviting and professional. There are several places to use imagery in the LMS:
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Manage Images
One of the most important aspects of the LMS is the event-driven notification system that alerts students, managers, and administrators about training status, achievements, and the status of various actions, such as SCORM package upload or data import success or failure.
The LMS has a robust list of messages available for distribution by email and within the internal mailbox. Portal Administrators have broad control over the content of these messages, their active/inactive status, how they’re distributed, and to whom. They can also customize messages by organization level so they can be made relevant to the recipients under differing organizations. For instance, if a customer has business units (BU) in the U.S., Mexico, and France, the messages can be customized separately by BU to meet any language, process, or other requirements that vary between the units.
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Manage System Messages
The Announcements feature is an option that is always available for portal administrators and can be enabled for users who are managers by exposing it on the Navigation menu. Announcements allow those with access to send emails or internal messages to any users under their purview. Just enter a Subject and a Note, then select users with the same filters used for administrative User Search. Any formatting for this is tied to a specific message under the System Messages – General Announcement Made – but customizations there should only include greetings, signatures, and other branding because whatever appears in that message configuration will always appear in any Announcement made.
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Send Announcements from the LMS
LatitudeLearning provides a number of configurable options for determining how your portal works. The Portal Information page is the primary place to set these options. The key configurations a portal admin can manager under this page include:
Latitude’s support team is available to configure options that are not available to administrators on this page.
Learn more: The Portal Information Page
The ability to manage the Navigation menu means you can control the features available to your users. The navigation menu is dynamic and for many features, such as My Team, Reports, and Approvals, they will only appear to users who have certain roles and managerial status.
Learn more: Manage the Navigation Menu
The Learning Assistant is an AI Chatbot tool which allows portal administrators to select courses and resources from their portal, index them, and then let learners use the Learning Assistant to answer questions based on that indexed content. No outside the portal hallucinations. Just the content you want to include about your learning programs, courses, and resources. The actual Chatbot can be made available to users simply by adding it to the Navigation menu.
Configuring the Learning Assistant also means control over how it appears to your students and how it interacts with them – from renaming the assistant to whatever you prefer to adding custom prompts and instructions for the AI generator to always use when formulating answers. You can truly make it your own!
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Manage the Learning Assistant
These options … and more… are how LatitudeLearning is committed to giving you a lot of “latitude” to make your portal friendly and familiar to the people using it!