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Post COVID 19 Technologies for RTOs

17/06/2020

Despite its devastating effects across the world, the COVID-19 experience has led us to form many good habits. Many will stay with us forever. Among these are the use of convenient technologies that help to integrate physical, virtual and online training. Many of our customers now schedule classrooms that support both physical and virtual attendance. More of their courses are now available face to face and online. Students can enrol, ...

Topics: Business Integration Web Technologies Training Management Systems Student Management Systems Power BI RTO Bluegem API Connector Microsoft 365 Learning and Development Learning Technologies

The Complete LMS for Fire and Emergency Training

13/01/2020

Bluegem ALERT is a complete, secure LMS for Fire and Emergency Training Management.

Topics: Corporate Enterprise Training Training Management Systems Emergency Services Firefighting FES ERDP Incident Reporting

5 Life-saving tips from the RTO Helpdesk

09/10/2019

After many years spent watching RTOs endure the same agonising frustrations of set-up and getting started, we thought it was time to put together this simple 5-point guide. These simple tips will help your RTO avoid the most common and painful mistakes when implementing a new student management system.

Topics: Training Management Systems SSL TLS Student Management Systems

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What is an ideal LMS for Fire & Emergency services?

19/09/2019

Topics: Training Management Systems Emergency Services Learning Management System Fire and Emergency Services

What is an AVETMISS Compliant Student Management System?

19/06/2019

Topics: Training Management Systems Reporting

Empowering your RTO With a Little Help From Microsoft

02/04/2019

We all know what 'streamlining' means. We all aspire to the principles. So my goal here is not to get on my soapbox and deliver the gospel according to Microsoft. For the purpose of this article I'm going to take it as 'read' that your RTO wants the benefits of an integrated solution with minimal duplication, minimal risk of data entry errors, accurate - fast - and reliable business processing, etc.... As we've come to learn from so ...

Topics: Corporate Enterprise Training Business Integration Compliance Web Technologies Training Management Systems

Foreign SMS Providers Bearing AVETMISS Gifts

28/03/2019

Now I cant say 100 percent that these SMS Vendors are incapable of supplying SMS solutions that fully comply with the VET sector reporting requirements, and I must preface this discussion by stating that it is an opinion based on theories and suppositions. At this point, there is no real evidence to support them. However, given the size, difficulty and potential returns of the Australian VET Sector I would doubt that any serious ...

Topics: Compliance Training Management Systems

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How to prepare your LMS for 2019

08/03/2019

Big lesson learned in 2018: "Prepare your LMS at the start of the year so all your learning and development processes just work as expected for the rest of the year".

Topics: Training Management Systems Reporting Workforce Planning and Development Learning Management System

What is a Student Management System (SMS)?

01/03/2019

When friends and family ask me what my business does I tell them “we develop and market online student management systems”. Over the years since we started in 2004 I’ve learned to anticipate the inevitable question “what’s a Student Management System?” Here’s how I’ve learned to reply without getting into the technical details about: the VET Sector, AQF, AVETMISS, VSL and CRICOS.

Topics: Compliance eLearning Solutions Training Management Systems