VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (VLE)
To support your learners as they study the non-regulated qualifications listed on the FQP sub-page above, our talented publishing team has produced very high-quality resources and materials for them. They enhance your own course delivery and are available at very competitive prices.
The materials, written by relevant subject matter experts, closely resemble those produced commercially for similar subject areas on the regulated framework.
To make your and your learners’ lives simpler and hassle-free, we have incorporated those resources into the newly-developed and innovative Focus Awards VLE (branded and known as “iLearnitEasy”). This bespoke online learning delivery system leaves ‘off-the-shelf’ programmes such as Moodle and Blackboard Learn behind in so many ways.
The screenshots and usable ‘tabs’ below give you a feel for
and brief introduction to iLearnitEasy’s functionality. Try it out!
Focus Awards is pleased to offer this resource completely free of charge to high volume centres, with discounted rates for everyone else. This software will assist in the delivery of your content and help with the management of your learners experience with you from the very start of their studies until the completion.
Manage Courses
Whether you run one course or 100, you can quickly and easily assign tutors to the study programmes, instantly creating a full suite of customisable management records that can be edited and maintained effortlessly. The built in capability to instantly create feedback templates for each of your courses ensures that a standardised approach is adopted by all of your tutors across each faculty and course, in order to fully comply with this key requirement of any awarding body. The option can also be used to set predefined responses that tutors can use as a guide when commenting on student’s work. Core record fields such as name, unique identifier, course title, tutor’s name and signature are automatically populated.
The awarding body’s authentication requirements are thus fully met with no intervention required from the user. Time and cost savings are built into every part of the framework.Manage Assignment Submission
Keep track of assignment submissions and download them all for marking easily with just one click. I Learn It Easy significantly improves marking efficiency by enabling the setting and monitoring of deadlines. Assignments that are not marked within these timescales appear in an ‘overdue’ list which is only visible to staff users. Complaints about late feedback become a thing of the past. There is also a facility to fast track students who need to complete their course quickly, enabling prioritisation by assigning them to a specialist user group.
Manage Assignment Submission
Whether you run one course or 100, you can quickly and easily assign tutors to the study programmes, instantly creating a full suite of customisable management records that can be edited and maintained effortlessly. The built in capability to instantly create feedback templates for each of your courses ensures that a standardised approach is adopted by all of your tutors across each faculty and course, in order to fully comply with this key requirement of any awarding body. The option can also be used to set predefined responses that tutors can use as a guide when commenting on student’s work. Core record fields such as name, unique identifier, course title, tutor’s name and signature are automatically populated.
The awarding body’s authentication requirements are thus fully met with no intervention required from the user. Time and cost savings are built into every part of the framework.
Manage Student Enrolments
Quickly enrol new students by completing a single enrolment form – once. This form not only assigns students to a course, but also generates an email with their login details for the learning management system, sends them a welcome letter and receipt / payment plan.
Course fee payments can be monitored from a single page and you can also view a list of students
Course Materials
Add the complete course materials for your students to access anywhere, anytime online. Your students can work from a distance, with everything they need to obtain their qualification.
Manage Pages
Keep track of assignment submissions and download them all for marking easily with just one click. I Learn It Easy significantly improves marking efficiency by enabling the setting and monitoring of deadlines. Assignments that are not marked within these timescales appear in an ‘overdue’ list which is only visible to staff users. Complaints about late feedback become a thing of the past. There is also a facility to fast track students who need to complete their course quickly, enabling prioritisation by assigning them to a specialist user group.
Certificate Template
Select from a range of certificate templates that will be applied to the automatic certificates students receive when they complete their course.
Select from a range of certificate templates that will be applied to the automatic certificates students receive when they complete their course.
We have just completed the long-awaited integration of Qualitas with our market leading VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) system, iLearnitEasy.
“So what?”, we hear you ask.
Well, in a nutshell, it’s a massive benefit and timesaver for our Centres, and helps reduce much of the tedious administration we’ve all come to love and cherish (not).
As you know, all our Centres use Qualitas, and some have also been using our innovative VLE to run and administrate their training courses.
Until now, the two standalone systems have been unable to communicate with each other, which has meant you entering duplicate details on each in many cases. The integration means that you only have to enter these details once.
Now, if you also use iLearnitEasy, the following admin operations will be picked up by Qualitas as well:
- If you register a learner on the VLE, that learner is also automatically registered on Qualitas.
- When you assign an Assessor/IQA to qualifications on the VLE those qualifications on Qualitas also pick up their details.
- When you mark a learner as “completed” on the VLE, it generates an automatic request for sampling/certification.
- If you withdraw (delete) a learner on the VLE, Qualitas automatically withdraws them too and, where applicable, issues a credit.
- If an FQP course is created on iLearnitEasy, the details are automatically sent through to Qualitas for approval.
In accordance with the Japanese principle of kaizen, our continuous improvement process ensures that as the integrated system evolves, new adjustments and simplifications steadily reduce administration.
We relentlessly pursue our drive to deliver better and higher value operations for you, our commercial partners.
If you have a pet “niggle” we can alleviate for you, or you have any new ideas to improve our service, let us know! We always operate on the premise that we have twice as many ears as mouths…