838 Course Completions but some seats empty

We're up to 838 course completions! However, there could be some folks out there who have not even logged in for the first time yet, so now may be a good time to run your own Custom Report to see if all of the people who signed up are using SkillSoft. Anyways, truly, we are doing great so keep going!

Desktop - 336 completions, 128 users logged in out of 179 seats provided
Business - 449 completions, 176 users logged in out of 245 seats provided
IT Pro - 53 completions, 24 users logged in out of 34 seats provided
TOTAL - 838 completions, 328 users, 458 seats

Of course, this has been a very busy year for public libraries and there is always attrition. It would still be helpful if you can run your report and check, though.

No SkillSoft Access on March 14

This maintenance has been scheduled for your hosting instance on Saturday, March 14, 2009, starting at 6:00 AM EST and will be completed no later than 6:00 PM EST. During this time the SkillPort will not be available.

455 course completions and it's still cold

Okay, we're up to 455 course completions. It's still cold - and winter is often a great time to do online learning. So don't forget your SkillSoft!

329 course completions so far

We have had 329 course completions so far! SkillSoft Liaisons report that everything is going really well. Here's the breakdown:

27 course completions - IT Professional
106 course completions - IT Desktop
196 course completions - Business

There are some folks who have not logged in yet. Now is a great time to remind people about this project. Winter is often the best time to work on these courses.

Since this project is grant funded, there are certain expectations that everyone must meet:

• IT users (Professional and Desktop) must complete at least 6 hours of content. They must complete at least one course, or can complete multiple courses that add up to at least the 6 hours.
• Business users must complete at least 2 courses. It doesn't matter how long the courses are as long as they complete 2.
• To complete a course, they must pass all assessments with an average total score of at least 75%.

New Project Began on September 1

September 1 marked the beginning of our next year of SkillSoft. Here's where we are:

• The FY2008 project ended with over 673 course completions from 233 users. 529 of these were computer courses, the rest were business courses used for the online supervisors curriculum review. 393 different courses were accessed during this past year.
• This new FY2009 project begins with 458 participants (245 business, 179 IT desktop, 34 IT professional). Liaisons are running kickoff sessions and offering blended classroom training using the newly developed course guides.
• Courses are available until August 30, 2009.

Liaison conference calls will be scheduled soon so we can share what we're learning about the rollout including best practices. Meanwhile, here's a quick glimpse of our statistics to date:

Total Course Accesses: 338
Distinct Courses Accessed: 135
Total Users: 185
Total Completions: 93

Summary of Evaluations

Thank you to those who completed course evaluations. Your feedback is crucial for grant reporting and greatly helps to make future procurement decisions. Overall, feedback about the courses was better than expected considering these are basically web tutorials with no instructor feedback (except for the SkillSoft online mentoring available to those taking some of the MS Office courses). Most everybody reported "Agree" or "Strongly Agree" on the questions with very few (as in like 2) reporting "Disagree" or "Strongly Disagree" on anything! Even with our 2 disatisfactions, I can come to no conclusion because other people reported these courses as A OK.

We've had two people report that they took the courses and then did not remember what to do on the job. That's another whole level of evaluation that we have not asked you about and it's where "the rubber hits the road". My response is to please consider doing some kind of work-related project (like volunteer to type the minutes from a meeting using your newly acquired MS Word skills) or you will forget what you have learned. Also, count on forgetting some things, but plan on what you will do when you are asked to remember - like checking the Help menu, referencing a book or using notes. The idea here is that now you should at least feel more comfortable with the topic and can find out what you need to do to get the job done. Please feel free to comment here on any other thoughts or ideas you have about this.

Final Statistics - GREAT JOB!!

We had 529 course completions and if you include those evaluating the Business Courses, the total is 673! Here's what we did:

Summary:
Total Course Accesses: 1223
Distinct Courses Accessed: 393
Total Users: 223
Total Completions: 673
Total Training Time: 86 days, 23:54:49

Breakdowns by Group:
Desktop:
163 seats assigned
133 users logged in
497 completions (that's an average of 3 courses completed per user - wow!)

IT Professional:
75 seats assigned
61 users logged in73 distinct courses used
100 completions (remember most of these courses are longer than Desktop courses)

Business Curriculum ("online supervisors") project where people reviewed courses:
64 seats assigned
55 users logged in 88 distinct courses used
144 completions (lots of curriculum review happened here)