WebMentor LMS™

Features & Benefits

WebMentor LMS is a scalable browser-based Learning Management System designed to support a single course up to a complete online training operation.

New! Watch video tours of New Features for:
Students	Instructors	Administrators	Organizations (coming soon)	Providers (coming soon)

Modernized, streamlined user interface with collapsible inline help
Complete feature tailoring within organizations. An organization can display or hide any tab or menu for its user base to optimize the user's experience
New features for live training events, including resource scheduling and printable attendance sheets
Downloadable course handouts and uploadable student assignments
Improved reporting throughout, including sortable report columns, HTML and PDF printing, and CSV-format file downloads
Numerous performance improvements to support scalability for large eLearning operations
(> 1 million active registrations)

Flexible "facet"-based programmatic interface for adding custom functionality to a WebMentor LMS training server. A facet is a replaceable set of ColdFusion methods that provide a specific type of functionality. Release 5.2 contains built-in facets for user authentication (login) and e-commerce.
Full multilanguage support throughout the system, including complete localization in Spanish
Support for improved user interfaces
Numerous security and performance improvements

Full multilanguage support in the student course interface
Course Ratings: Courses can be rated on a scale of 1 to 5 by registered students if permitted by the Course Provider, their organization and the course itself. If course ratings are turned on for a course and student, the rating will show up in the Course Catalog. The student can click on the rating and get a more detailed description of what the ratings mean and any comments entered by other students about the course.

Support for SCORM, the emerging ADL standard for interoperability and reusability of courseware.
Full student records management for WebMentor courses as well as "foreign courses" from vendors such as MindLeaders, SmartForce, NETg, and SkillSoft.
Support for Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
Support for distribution of courses on CD-ROM to remote locations for installation and delivery on local computers. Tracking and performance data may be returned to the central server and synchronized in the student record database.
Scalability through administrative roles that can be assigned to one individual to centralize responsibility or to many individuals to distribute authority.
Support for ODBC-compliant database products (e.g., Access, Oracle, or SQL Server) to support all aspects of the training environment.
Checks completion criteria and print certificates of completion if requirements are met. If the required criteria are not met, the student can be advised of the steps necessary to fulfill remaining requirements.
Fully integrated e-commerce functions for secure online credit card transactions and automated validation.

Full run-time delivery system that requires only a browser on the student computer.
Upon completion of a course, WebMentor LMS can transfer student record information for a course to a transcript file for permanent retention.
Collaboration tools:

Chat rooms
Course and organization conferences that support threaded discussion and attachments, e-mail notification, and searching
Bulletin boards

A curriculum can include core (required) courses and/or elective (optional) courses or subscriptions.
Curricula may be assigned to groups.
Group members may be assigned to a curriculum by their group manager or automatically by virtue of their becoming a member of the group.
Students may be assigned to a curriculum individually.

A course may have a course wait list associated with it.
Individual sessions of a course may have a session wait list associated with them.
Students on a wait list are notified by e-mail when a seat becomes available.
A notified student will have a specified number of days – depending upon the wait list - to register for the course before being dropped from the wait list.

Organizations may create their own instructor-led courses.
Organizations may create their own course sessions.
Organizations may create their own curricula and assign groups and/or individual students to curricula.
Organizations may access and manage their financial transactions and display financial report