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The Knowledge Management System is the only Learning Management System in South Africa that has been endorsed by the SA Board FOR People Practices (SABPP) – for a third time in a row! As a leading learning platform, the Skypiom Knowledge Management System has again been endorsed by the SABPP, South Africa’s autonomous body for
“Proctoring” is the method of validating a learner’s identity with technology, which may include monitoring the learner through a particular phase of the course, typically during assessments. Proctoring, however, enjoys a degree of infamy that Sustainable Upskilling Solutions successfully mitigate. What is Proctoring? Proctoring is in essence a validation and monitoring service whereby the monitoring
Assessments or quizzes deployed via LMSs are topline and superficial in nature. This Sustainable Upskilling Solutions (SUSs) resolve by incorporating a comprehensive assessment suite within their technology stack. “No eLearning course – in fact, no course that aims at transferring knowledge to learners, is truly complete until it is accompanied by provisions to assess the
Traditional LMSs, principally, make provision for “container-based” formats, such as SCORM, AICC, xAPI, and CMI5. Sustainable Upskilling Solutions on the other hand also make provision for common file formats over and above “container-based” or SCORM formats. With SUSs all of this happens natively on a single system thereby extending flexibility and control to the course
The Skypiom Knowledge Management System has been certified as a Sage 300 People solution as part of Sage’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. This means that Sage, the market leader in accounting, payroll and payments, has verified inter alia that the KMS integrates seamlessly into Sage 300 People. An Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program generally
Traditional LMSs predominantly allow the dissemination of SCORM content formats only, such as SCORM, xAPI and CMI5, whereby Sustainable Upskilling Solutions make provision for SCORM as well as Common File Formats, thereby significantly expanding the learning envelope. There are many avenues to choose from when creating and deploying eLearning content and each avenue differs greatly
Caution: potential hard to swallow realities ahead! If 2020 taught organisations one thing then it was the fundamental importance of adapting to disruption. COVID-19 effectively halted the world overnight, after which organisations had to speedily find creative solutions to many problems, including learning and development. In light of the above, one of the challenges of
Skypiom’s Knowledge Management System (KMS) allows for video lessons to managed directly from the system. As with all modules on the KMS the video lesson capability extends significantly beyond “basic” video conferencing. Rather than having only a few hosts within an organisation that are permitted to schedule Zoom meetings that extend beyond the 40 free
Skypiom’s Knowledge Management System now includes a robust and granular Knowledge Base, which is directly integrated into the platform. The Knowledge Base module “Doctrina”, latin for “Knowledge”, allows authors to upload PDF documents as well as videos into the knowledge repository either directly from a local drive or alternatively via Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox. In
Skypiom sets it sights on United Kingdom & Ireland. In November 2020 Skypiom committed to opening an office in central London from which it will beachhead the United Kingdom and Ireland markets. Given that Skypiom successfully deploys the Knowledge Management System in one of the most challenging, stringent and regulated training environments globally, in South