E-learning and LMSs for charities and third sector organisations

E-learning platforms come with all the flexibility and functionality to deal with any training challenges you can throw at them. Addressing the skill gaps in your charity organisation, as well as onboarding new staff and meeting compliance regulations is made simple. New learning content can be added at any time to adapt to any new requirements.

The tightening of belts when it comes to funding and the subsequent need to cut costs is something e-learning can help with too. Open-source options like Totara Learn and Moodle in particular are incredibly cost-effective and can massively reduce training costs permanently.

As many charities are understaffed or have staff facing huge workloads, minimising disruption to their day-to-day schedules is key. E-learning can offer small, easy to digest content that staff can access whenever suits them.

The sheer flexibility of e-learning platforms allows them to meet even the most complex training requirements, including healthcare competency and compliance for new and existing staff. New courses and content can be added quickly and easily to adapt to new procedures and technologies.

Training staff can be a great way of helping them grow in your organisation and charities looking to retain key staff should use training to their advantage. Engaging training is easy to provide with e-learning platforms, whether with quizzes, live video sessions or other forms of content. The reporting functionality allows L&D decision-makers to see which content works best.

Charities with staff spread out across large geographical regions will know the challenges this can bring to training. With e-learning, however, there is no need to gather staff all in one place at the same time as powerful automation tools allow you to train charity staff and volunteers in different topics and different times, regardless of location.

• Totara Learn’s drag and drop functionality enables you to upload resources including documents, images, audio and video files.
• Allow users to create and develop their own wikis, blogs and forums.
• Web pages, links and course instructions can be quickly and easily added using the fully featured editing tool.
• Trainers can create adapting and branching lesson activities and build searchable glossaries and databases.
• Quizzes, polls and assignments can be added to a course for assessment of existing knowledge or evaluation of new skills.

  With Hubken Group, you’ll get access to a wide range of rich and interactive HTML5 content tools such as interactive video, presentations, games, image hotspots, branching video and 360 virtual tours.