LMS Legacy (v5.x): My learning
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Login page & Home screen
Welcome to LMS! Login page Accessing the link of your training in LMS you will find a simple login page. Entering your username and password in each field you will access the Home Screen. You have a password recovery function in case you have forgotten it, by clicking on the link "Can't access your account?", and entering your username or email. Home screen This is the welcome section where you can access the tools of the platform. You may not have access to this Home Screen, it is possible that loging in you will go directly to the LMS interface. Administrators of each platform can decide whether or not to activate this previous page. LMS This icon allows you to enter My Training, the platform where you can carry out your educational plan. There you will find the courses assigned to you, as well as other interesting content available to you. Announcements Access to the section of ads published on the platform. Here you can check the general communications sent to all students. Notifications This is a personal inbox, similar to an e-mail, where you can receive and consult the messages the trainers have sent to you in particular. User Profile On this page, and throughout the navigation of the platform, there are two icons at the top right of the screen. The first one is the User Profile, which shows our own name and profile picture, and displays a menu that gives access to: Profile picture First name, Last name and Username Your account: access to the profile page with your user details. Notifications: direct access to the same Notifications tool we mentioned before. Announcements: Direct access to the same Announcements tool we mentioned before. Access to user's manuals: direct link to this same Netex Community support page, where you can check tutorials about the platform, share doubts in forums or notify troubles with the platform. Logout LMS: Log out of your account and return to the Login page. Quick access The second icon, with the shape of a grid, is the Quick Access icon, which displays a new menu with direct access to all the tools on the Home Screen. Current Events Finally, there is also a side tab on the left of the screen, called Current Events. Clicking on it you have access to: Announcements: a preview of the latest posts published in the Announcements section mentioned before. Polls: administrators will sometimes publish small surveys to learn more about our experience with the training. Here you can access them and answer quick and easily.
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Overall interface
Here are your training contents! Once you enter the LMS platform, using your username and password, you will be able to access a dynamic and intuitive interface that will help you go through your contents and complete your training. Home When accessing My Training tool, you will come across the Home page. Here you can have an overview of the trainings you have been assigned, your progress in the courses and other content of interest, mainly through the thematic Carousels. Carousels In the central part of this Home page you will find the Carousels that gather the contents of your training. Carousels are LMS's way of organizing training content and facilitating their access. They are lists of thumbnails with horizontal scrolling, similar to those we are used to seeing in other content applications. Each of these lists represents a topic, and their thumbnails give access to the different related Sprints and Channels. Depending on the contents in which you are enrolled, one or the other will appear, always headed by the Featured in larger size. The Carousels that you can find are: Featured: it heads the list in larger size than the rest, because it shows the most important content for you, both those in which you are enrolled and those suggested by the trainers. My Learning: here you will see the trainings or courses you are currently taking. Both those in which you are enrolled but have not yet started, as well as those in which you have only completed a part. Each of these training contents is called Sprint. You will probably see a small banner on the Sprint thumbnail that says "Mandatory". This means that the training is not voluntary and therefore you must complete it within the time frame. My Events: Events are classes or private sessions scheduled to take place in person or online. If you have been enrolled in any of them, they will appear in this Carousel along with all the relative information (date, place or link, content...). Channels: same way as in My Learning with the Sprints, this Carousel shows the Channels in which you are enrolled. Channels are groupings of educational content that create more complex trainings. If the Sprints are a series of small activities, the Channels have stages that you must overcome, each of them consisting of several Sprints. Recommendations for you and Channels Recommended: these two Carousels have a similar function, to show training content in which you are not enrolled, but that the trainers think may be of interest to you and which you can sign up for. The first one shows the Sprints or recommended courses, and the second one shows the Channels. If you decide to enroll in these contents, they will disappear from the Recommendations Carousel and move to My Learning or Channels Carousel. Coming soon: in this Carousel you will be able to see the Planned trainings, that is, the courses you are enrolled in, or that have been recommended to you but have an upcoming start date, have not yet started. In the thumbnail you will see a small banner with the remaining days to start. As soon as these courses start, they will no longer appear in this Carousel and move on to My Learning or Recommended for You, depending on whether you are enrolled or just recommended content. Completed: this is a kind of history where all the courses you have already completed are displayed. All trainings that have reached their end date, but that you have not been able to complete on time, will also appear here. In case you have completed all the trainings assigned to you, including the recommended ones, this will be the only Carousel that will appear on your Home page. If you have any courses pending completion, they will always appear in the My Learning Carousel. Custom channels: finally,there may also be other specific Carousels, created by the trainers themselves on a particular topic, to facilitate access to certain content. Sections At the top of the screen you can see a bar with a series of accesses and tools that will help you navigate through the contents: Home: click on this access to return to the Home page at any time. Sprints: access to the section where you will find all the Sprints, or simple trainings with activities, both those you are enrolled in and those that have been recommended to you. In a second row at the top you will see a series of buttons with all the Carousels that contain these Sprints, the same ones that you have already seen on the Home page: Featured, My Learning, Recommendations for you, Coming Soon, Completed and Custom Carousels. Click on each of the buttons to see their content. Channels: this section gives you access to all the Channels, or more complex trainings composed of Stages and Sprints, in which you are enrolled or that have been recommended to you. You will also see another row of buttons, in this case with the Carousels that contain those channels, such as Channels or Channels Recommended. Events: as in the previous sections, here you will see all the Events or scheduled sessions in which you are enrolled, as well as the related Carousels. Achievement: this last section is different from the previous ones, it is used to check your progress in the training and consists of two sections, which you can access through the buttons at the top: Leaderboard: it collects the global ranking, with the scores of the best students, and your result in particular. My badges: here you can see all the badges or awards you have received during your training, with the description of each one . Search At the top right of the screen you will see another series of items that can be useful to navigate through the contents. The first is a Search bar, represented by a square with a magnifying glass, which allows you to filter by keywords. If you want to search for a specific training, type the title or part of it and press the Enter key. A list of all the contents that are related to your search will appear on the screen. Remember that the search is limited to the section of the platform you are currently in. If you are on the Sprints page, the search engine will be limited to the Sprints in which you are enrolled or recommended, Channels or Events will not be included. To do a global search on all content, go to the Home section. Order Next to the Search bar you will find an icon with three stripes that displays a menu to sort the content by the criteria you prefer: name, relevance, progress... You can also choose to sort in ascending or descending order, from highest to lowest or vice versa. By default the contents are sorted by descending start date, that is, from the most recent to the oldest. Next to the Search bar and the Order option, you will find the User Profile and Quick Access icons, present throughout the platform. If you want to know how they work, check out this article.
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How to complete the training
¡Start your learning! We have seen in other articles how to access the LMS platform and navigate through its interface. Finally we will see what is the structure of the courses and how to complete your training. The LMS interface is agile and intuitive, but if you have any doubts about the steps, you can take a look at this guide. What trainings do you have to complete The LMS platform organizes the access to the contents through thematic Carousels, you can access them from the same Home page as we saw in a previous article. They make easier to access the different blocks and keep your trainings organized. But if you want to know quickly and easily which courses you have yet to complete, just look for the My Learning carousel. It will show those in which you have been enrolled by the trainers (Mandatory) and those in which you have freely enrolled (Recommended). Whether you have completed only part of them or have not yet started them, but are enrolled. A quick glance at My Learning will let you know at a glance what courses you have to take. How to access the training Clicking on the thumbnail will display a new window where you can see the basic course information: Title: the heading with the title of the training, above which you will sometimes see a small banner with the word Mandatory, indicating that you have been enrolled in this course directly by a trainer, and therefore it is mandatory to complete it within the time limit indicated. Course dates: you may see only one date, which will be the start date of the training, and in this case you will not have a specific time limit to complete the course. But if two dates appear, the start date and the end date, you must consider the latter in order to complete your training within the time limit assigned to you. In this case you will see below a small reminder with the remaining time you have left. Description: a brief introduction to the subject and contents of the course, provided by the trainer. Rating: if the training has already been completed by other students who have given their rating, here you will see the average rating of the course on a scale of five. A star chart will show you the score, and the number below indicates how many students have rated it. More Info: the first button allows you to access a pop-up window with more details about the course. If you click on it you will be able to see, in addition to the above information: Assessment: you may see a new banner with this title, indicating that the training includes activities to evaluate your knowledge. Ranking and Score: next to the trophy icon you will see your position in the global ranking of students participating in this training, and the points you have achieved for that ranking. Labels: in capital letters and framed by a rectangle you will see the thematic labels that have been given to the course, depending on its theme or dynamics, which will help you to classify it quickly. Progress: here you will see the requirements you must pass in order to successfully complete the course. First you will see your current Grade, the result you have achieved over the total points of the course. And then the Days Remaining, the time you have left to complete the training. Additional Info: finally you will see a series of categories that characterize the course and expand its description. These may vary from course to course. Start: this button, also present in the More Information window, allows you to access the course and start your training. How to complete your training Once you access the inside of the course a new window will open with all the contents distributed in vertical scroll, you can scroll down with the mouse or click on the side scroll bar to navigate through them. Side buttons The first thing you will see is the Home page of the course, which contains much of the information about the course that we have already seen above. At the bottom center you will see a down arrow with the title Continue to access the contents. On the sides you will see a series of buttons that will be with you throughout all the course: Close: at the top left you will see an X in a circle. Click on it to exit the course and return to the LMS carousel page. Info: below you will see another button with an i framed in another circle. Click on it if you want to go back to the More Info pop-up window with all the course description. Results: on the right side you will see a tab with your progress in the course: percentage completed (circle) badges earned (star) position in the ranking (trophy) remaining days to finish (calendar) Back to top: in the bottom right corner you will see an arrow pointing upwards framed in a circle. Click on it to go back to the start to the Home page of the course. Mission Blocks The course content is divided by Mission Blocks. These are those large headings that occupy the entire screen, with an image, a title and a description. As their name indicates, they separate the training into different blocks according to the subject matter or stages. They help to organize the contents, they are simply orientative, and there can be several or just one. Activities After this short introduction of the Mission Blocks you will finally come across the main part of the training, the Activities. They are distributed in a series of drop-down blocks, and thanks to them you will be able to discover and learn all the contents that the training has for you. They will also serve to evaluate your progress and knowledge. Before starting each activity you will see: the header with the thumbnail. what type of activity it is. the title. a short description of its content. a trophy icon may appear, it means that completing the activity gives points or badges. Click on the icon to see a pop-up window with the requirements. if the trainers allow comments, at the bottom you will see a text box where you can share your impressions of the content with other students. You will probably see some shaded activities that do not allow you to click on, because they have blocked access. This just means that in order to do them, you must complete other activities first. To find out which ones, click on the padlock icon, and a pop-up window will show you the requirements. To start an activity click on it, and depending on how they are configured they will either show, launch a popup window or open a new tab in your browser, displaying the content. Some of them are for information only, and others will ask for your interaction to complete them. At the end you will see a banner overlay with the result, your score and the badges you have earned. Types of activities You may find different types of activities, depending on their form and content: Text Block and Image: these are the only static blocks, they do not require your interaction. They are texts and graphics that will provide you with more information and will help you to complete your learning. File: these are PDF format files that will also complement your formation. But in this case they are interactive, so remember to go through the entire file to complete the activity and receive your reward. External: here you will leave LMS for a while, because this type of activity takes you to an external resource, another web page or platform that will help you to continue with your training. Interactive: these are the most special and elaborated activities, specially designed by each trainer, where you will be able to face all kinds of challenges. Which ones? Click and find out! Video: visual activities based on video support. But it won't be just sitting and watching, pay attention because these videos can also challenge you with questions. Audio: the same dynamic, but in this case with a lesson in sound format. Course Presentation: here you will find the contents distributed in slides, as in a graphic presentation, through which you can navigate and complete the questions or interactions that are presented. Question Set: in all learning comes the time to demonstrate your knowledge, these quizzes will test you on what you already know about the subject or what you have learned in the course itself. Timeline: a special type of informative activity, which will present the contents distributed in an interactive timeline for you to progress through it. Once you have completed the activity a pop-up window will appear informing you of the result and the points or badges you have earned. You can make sure you have completed the activity by checking that there is a green tick above the activity title. Training completed! Once you have completed all the activities you will see a pop-up window saying you have completed the Sprint. Another window will also appear asking for your rating of the course and your opinion. You can comment on strong and weak points, what you found more difficult, things that you think should be improved... Any feedback you can give to the trainers will be helpfull. :-) In case you are not sure if you have completed the training, you have several ways to check it: If the Sprint has disappeared from the My Learning carousel, and moved to the Completed one. When clicking on the Sprint thumbnail, instead of the Start or Continue button, the Review button appears. As long as the training remains open, you can go back and review the content and your results in the activities. When entering the Sprint in the Results tab on the left, the circle symbol is full and the percentage is 100%. Assessment courses Be careful, just because you have finished a course does not mean that you have successfully completed it. If it is an assessment course (warning banner on the home page and information), you must also have passed the evaluation criteria. When you finish all the activities, a pop-up window will inform you of the result. If you are not sure whether or not you have passed anassessment course, it is very easy to check. Find the course in the Completed carousel, click on the thumbnail and click on the Review button to re-enter it. A green Passed or a red Not Passed label will appear on the cover page informing you of the result. When clicking on a course thumbnail, if the buttons do not appear, preventing access, and you see a small red banner that says Blocked, do not worry. The trainer has simply unpublished the course in order to make some changes, but that does not mean that your progress has been lost. Contact him to find out more.