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’ programs 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 at discounted rates (which are not available anywhere else) to all its Centres, and completely free of charge to high-volume centres.
This bespoke software will assist in the delivery of your content and help you manage your learners’ experience from the very start of their studies right through to completion.
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 you can edit and maintain effortlessly. The built-in capability to create feedback templates instantly for each of your courses ensures that all your tutors across each faculty and course adopt a standardised approach to fully comply with this key awarding body requirement. The option can also set predefined responses that tutors can use as a guide when commenting on student’s work. Automatically, the system fills in essential record fields like name, unique identifier, course title, tutor’s name, and signature.
The awarding body thus fully meets its authentication requirements without requiring user intervention. The framework builds time and cost savings into every part.
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.
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.
Keep track of assignment submissions and download them all for easy marking with just one click. I Learn It Easy significantly improves marking efficiency by enabling deadlines to be set and monitored. 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.
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 provides a receipt / payment plan.
Monitor course fee payments from a single page, where you can also view a list of students.
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 get their qualification.
Keep track of assignment submissions and download them all for easy marking with just one click. I Learn It Easy significantly improves marking efficiency by enabling deadlines to be set and monitored. 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
Select from a range of certificate templates which you can apply to the automatic certificates students receive when they complete their course.
Effortlessly keep a detailed history of all the assignments a student has submitted and the feedback they have received through individual student records. This helps you to really ‘get to know’ your students and enables you to quickly and easily monitor their progress throughout their studies, as well as improve your record keeping by ensuring work is efficiently and securely stored.
When a student is required to resubmit an assignment, tutors can view the student’s ‘last feedback’ alongside their resubmission to enable them to monitor the students’ progress more effectively.
Notes
The ‘Notes’ function enables tutors to keep additional confidential progress notes about a student, separate from their assignment feedback, making it easy to keep track of past difficulties, strengths, or areas of concern.
The ‘Notes’ function enables tutors to keep additional confidential progress notes about a student, separate from their assignment feedback, making it easy to keep track of past difficulties, strengths, or areas of concern.
Help students plan their study time effectively, while giving them a handy tool to structure their busy lives. The full featured diary is visible from the student’s personal dashboard.
Students can instantly access the tutor support email facility, live chat with student support advisers, and get information on materials, FAQs, and other useful information from here.
The system visually displays the student’s progress, detailing completed and remaining assignments, percentage progress, referral counts, dated assignments, and outstanding fees. This is also where the system administrator can get meaningful statistical data across the business. Student numbers, tutor marking times, numbers completing this week, last month, percentage uptake on offers, and much more.
The student forums enable students to talk, via message boards, to other students enrolled on their course. This function is extremely beneficial not only to students who can provide peer support but also enables you to pick up on any common queries or issues that may need addressing. These boards also provide tutors with a means of holding whole-group discussions or delivering support.
Do you have something to tell students on a particular course, or everyone? The ‘announcements’ feature displays a notification on the students’ dashboard when they login.
Add additional learning resources for all students or for those on specific courses.
Students can create their own blogs, which they can make visible to other students enrolled on their course, who can comment on them. Blogs can be a useful learning tool, enabling students to share ideas and discuss relevant topics / issues.
Administrators can moderate blogs and comments to enable the removal of inappropriate content.
Display useful hints, handy tips, and “breaking news” on a scrolling text banner at the top of the student’s dashboard.
Automatic emails help to encourage student progression and are a useful way to give and receive feedback on their courses. You can also set automated emails to remind students when they are nearing the end of their support time or when enrolment fees are due.
Students can instantly email their course tutor directly from their dashboard, helping to avoid issues with lost paperwork or computer problems.
This is where you upload your feedback and comments on each student’s submitted assignments. It is a very simple free-form box where you can simply type, dictate, or – if you prefer – paste your appraisal and feedback to the student.
Once you set up your students and courses, you can pre-populate the forms with customised templated feedback. You know that there are certain issues and common themes you address on almost every assignment; complete one such feedback and save it as a template. You can create multiple templates so that students on the same course don’t receive identical feedback.
For ease of use, the appropriate template is presented to you when you select a student for feedback. All you need to do is adapt it and personalise it, which takes just a few minutes. The really clever bit, which saves you a huge amount of time and mental effort, is…
Beneath the feedback, you can create a list of common comments that you use regularly. The list includes a tick box next to each response that you simply click to include, and it instantly appends to the feedback.
If you need to contact groups of students, you can use the ‘group mail sending’ facility. This allows you to contact students who are currently studying, have already completed their course, or by other defined user groups.
To manage what users can access. Administrators can access and control all aspects of the system across all courses and user groups. All enabled VLE users have their own username and password.
When necessary, administrators can temporarily restrict or permanently remove user access.
The system allows for easy customisation and branding, and you can incorporate your logo in many formats.
Do you have complementary courses that you can bundle with others? You can easily create bespoke packages here. It’s also great for putting together upsell or cross sell deals.
Do you have a Tesco Club card, or a Nectar Points card? They are a terrifically simple way to encourage customer loyalty.
This elegant little module lets you set up a points system to do the same thing. For example, if one of your clients recommends a friend and they buy a course, you could award points. You can also award points for giving positive feedback on rating websites. The student can also accumulate them to get faster marking, for example, discounts on tutor support extensions, a big discount on the next course, etc. This excellent facility is only limited by your imagination.
Select from a range of certificate templates you can apply 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 could not communicate with each other, which has meant you entering duplicate details on each. The integration means that you now only need to enter these details once.
Now, if you also use iLearnitEasy, the following admin operations will be picked up by Qualitas as well:
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 simple premise that we have twice as many ears as mouths…
