1. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace Manage Your Learners for Free with ALISON Manager Ivan Morrin Head of Training, ALISON Free Webinar – February 2010

2. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace 1 Introduction to ALISON

3. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace The World has a Problem with Basic Skills Training…

4. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON is a Powerful Solution - High Quality Courses in a Variety of Subjects - Interactive Streamed Multimedia - Always Available and Self-Paced - FREE! - Speedily and Conveniently Up- Skill and Manage Learning

5. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace FREE MANAGE LEARN PUBLISH ALISON - Educate Yourself, for Free

6. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace How ALISON Makes Money Types of Revenue B2C - Content - Hosting - Testing - Support - Merchandise - Training (Webinars) - Advertising B2B INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZATIONS Attracts individuals and organizations to one central free access and free virtual classrooms service. Charge for premium services (hosting, training etc).

7. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Flash Testing Types of Revenue Step One: Learner presents Certificate of Completion which states the student has achieved 80% in online assessments. Step Two: Learner can be challenged any time, anywhere by being asked to sit an ALISON FLASH-TEST. Achieve > 80% Certification Verified!!! Achieve < 80%(i) Did not study as stated (ii) Forgot what they learned! E.G. - Typing Test

8. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace www.alison.com 300,000 Learners spread across 235 Countries & Territories Progress to Date - Registrations

9. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace IT Literacy English Language Distribution Progress to Date – Alliances/Publishing Partners Health & Safety

10. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace Click a link to get a list of course offerings.  Click a link to get a list of course offerings.  Read About or Contact ALISON  Join a discussion forum.  Download a record of your courses.  View the number of certificates you’ve earned for course completions Learning on ALISON – My Account

11. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace Click on Courses to get a list of course categories. If improving your IT skills is a priority, click on Digital Literacy and IT Skills. Learning on ALISON – Courses and Categories

12. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace 2 ALISON Manager

13. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (1) Click the link to “Manage a group of learners” on the course home page, in this case that of ALISON ABC IT.

14. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (2) The Free ALISON Manager - Order Form page loads. Scroll down to enter your order details.

15. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (3) A very short and simple form to complete.

16. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (4) Click the “Course:” drop-down menu to select any ALISON course to create the Group for, in this case, ALISON ABC IT.

17. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (5) Then create a Group Name, an enrolment key (or accept the auto-generated suggested key), choose the size for the Group, and finally, click NEXT.

18. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (6) The Free ALISON Manager – Confirmation page loads, check the details are correct, and then click CONFIRM.

19. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (7) The Thank You page loads confirming the Group has been created. Then scroll down to see your options from here.

20. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (8) Click “Create another GROUP” if you wish to repeat the process, or “Go to ALISON Manager” to see your new Learning Group.

21. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Creating a Group (9) The ALISON Manager “Organizer” screen loads, with your new and any existing groups displayed on the page to the right.

22. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Inviting Learners (1) Use the panel provided under each of your groups to add the e- mail addresses of all those you’d like to invite to your group. Once you have added each address, click the “Invite” button to send the invitations.

23. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Inviting Learners (2) Confirmation of which e- mail addresses have been sent an invite is indicated on the page to the left.

24. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Inviting Learners (3) The e-mail sent by ALISON to each invitee contains a direct link to the course on ALISON containing the correct group and enrolment key information. It also contains a link to register with ALISON should the learner need to do so, as well as a clear record of the course, group name and enrolment key should that information be needed by the learner at another time.

25. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Inviting Learners (4) Simply clicking on that link will bring the learner (if already registered with ALISON) to the Enrolment page for the course and the group, as well as populate the enrolment key field on the learner’s behalf. They then click the “Enrol in Group” button to proceed and start the course as part of your ALISON Manager Group!

26. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Inviting Learners (5) Once Group enrolment has taken place (or rejected in favour of independent study) the course module/lesson outline pages load, the learner chooses a topic, and the learning content is loaded within their Web browser.

27. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace ALISON Manager – Functionality Immediately upon completion of any learner activity, the progress data is available to you within the various screens and functional areas of ALISON Manager.

28. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace Live Demonstration of Data Retrieval and Reporting in an ALISON Manager Group ALISON Manager - Functionality

29. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace 3 Question and Answer Session

30. www.alison.com Free Learning for the Workplace For further information please contact: Ivan Morrin Head of Training, ALISON imorrin@alison.com Thank You