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Letting users move beyond routine training into actual

personal development, Upside Learning offers a unique

social learning module equipped with various tools like

an internal micro-blogging module, friends concept,

content sharing – photos and videos – and rating,

integration with live twitter, an integrated blog engine,

RSS feeds and much more. The module provides a

unique way to capture various types of knowledge that

are prevalent in the enterprise. It goes beyond the

conventional view of courseware, assignments and

assessment, but is fundamental to an enterprise and itsemployees’ success.

Explore our social learning module and see how

learning can truly traverse place and time boundaries.

Social Learning Framework and Tools

LMSUPSIDE

Moving Beyond Boundaries...



Micro Blogging

Knowledge Center Driven by Wiki

Twitter Integration

The micro-blogging feature is a great

way to build a network that can be

used for varied types of learning.

Allowing users to create their own

workspace, this tool provides a quick

ability to post status updates,

customize the feed, search and follow

new individuals, block followers and a

lot more.

Status updates are shown chronologically and updates

from friends are highlighted. Direct access to this page is

also possible.

A knowledge center based on open

Wiki technology is now available as a

part of UpsideLMS. Available to users at

all times and easily accessed through a

single click, this tool has been

seamlessly integrated with the LMS

architecture, allowing for user tracking

and accountability for Wiki edits.

Users can look up terms in the Wiki for an elaborate search,

add, edit, preview and save information on the available

pages and even create new pages if they don’t find what

they are looking for. Typical text formatting features areavailable for users to create information rich pages that are

laid out well.

As with all Wikis, the system keeps track of all the changes

made to the pages, making it easier to revert if needed.

Thus UpsideLMS provides an environment where large

amounts of tacit knowledge residing in the enterprise can

be documented, tracked and leveraged for learning.

Twitter has undoubtedly been one of

the fastest growing and influentialsocial networking services that is being

leveraged as a great learning tool.

Letting users create their own network,

it makes information sharing across

domains easier and faster.

UpsideLMS harnesses this powerful network through a

Twitter widget that lets users access their Twitter streams

from within the LMS interface. All typical Twitter actions are

possible through the interface – tweet, re-tweet, and direct

replies. Information gleaned from Twitter can also be

shared through the LMS micro-blogging service. While the

homepage shows only a few tweets, an expanded view of the widget lets you see all tweets, replies and direct

messages. This integration with the Twitter web service will

make it easy to share information across domains.

Blogs

Polls

Communities

Blogs have emerged as an effective

tool for sharing information and

opinions, and garnering feedback. Thisability to broadcast information –

knowledge, ideas, methods – and get

feedback is very helpful in enhancing

learning, especially in a social and

informal context.

The blog module has been integrated into the LMS and

most actions required for the blog can be accomplished

through the interface itself – these include creating drafts,

publishing posts, feed subscription and others. The LMS

offers a view that lets users quickly access all blog

functions. Blog updates can also be sent through email. The

blog module is based on the popular WordPress engineand has all features required to provide a true blogging

experience.

Polls offer a quick way to feel the pulse

of the public, and take action on that

basis.

Based on this verity, UpsideLMS allows

administrators to create and administer

polls to the user population for a pre-

determined period of time. This quick

poll with a single question invites users to submit a

response or modify a response as long as the poll is active.

Users also have the ability to view results of past polls.

One of the key features of social

networks is the spontaneous forming

of communities around shared

interests and concerns. UpsideLMS

now gives users the ability to create

and participate in such communities,letting users share their knowledge

and expertise with others in their

community. This sense and place of community is a

powerful force that can drive learning in the enterprise. In

the organizational context, knowledge is no longer

contained in silos defined by geography, function or

domain, and can be shared and viewed transparently.

The communities tool allows the users can create their own

communities, define the access to the communities (public

or limited to invitees or approved users), start their own

discussions, join other discussions etc. Discussions and

comments are a great place for information exchange, andthus, the communities module effectively provides the

enterprise with a tool to seed and grow communities and

impact learning positively.


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Get RSS - Personal RSS Aggregator

Discussion Board

RSS is rapidly becoming a popular way

to access news and other information

without having to reach out for it

regularly. UpsideLMS now comes with a

feed aggregator built-in to retrieve

feeds from the Internet and display the

items within the LMS interface in an easy-to-read and easy-

to-manage manner.

Users get a status with read and unread item counts for

their feeds with the homepage widget showing recent 5

feed items and the main reader page showing detailed

information with up to 50 recent items. Feed discovery is

through a simple search and multiple feeds can be

subscribed to; the reader instantly retrieves the latest items

for the feeds. Various typical feed management features areavailable.

UpsideLMS offers the discussion board

service as a forum for all users to

interact, ask questions, post queries, get

responses, and generally share

information across the board. This

feature functions like all standard

bulletin board services, allowing users

to post topics or respond to existing ones. Users can also

set up completely new forums.

Internet

RSS Feeds

Social Media

WEB 2.0LMS

Technology

BloggingUser Generated Content

TwitterWiki

Forums

Friending and User Generated Content

Key to the social experience of using

UpsideLMS is the ability to add users as

friends and followers. Users can search

and befriend other users by sending an

approval request which, on approval,

connects the users as mutual friends

allowing them to see each others’

status messages on priority. Friends can

add pictures and videos which can be viewed by all their

friends, thereby facilitating knowledge sharing and

learning.

On another level, users can also follow individuals. This lets

them monitor status messages but doesn’t work mutually.


LMSUPSIDE

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by TrainingIndustry.com (‘10)

Listed as one of the‘Five Emerging LMSs to Watch’

in CLO Magazine (‘10)

Winner of 3 Brandon Hall Excellencein Technology Awards (‘09)



About UsEstablished in 2004, we are a globally recognized leader in training outsourcing. Our solutions & services portfolio

ranges from Custom eLearning to Catalog Courses, Mobile Learning to Blended Learning, Learning Management

Systems to Technical support services, tailor-made to an organization be it an Enterprise, a SMB or a Training Company.

With a collective experience of 600+ person-years, we have successfully completed more than 300 corporate and

academic projects for over 150 clients worldwide.

We offer a comprehensive

Custom eLearning Development

service that is driven to meet your

organization's specific learningneeds, business outcomes and

budgets.

We develop:

eLearning Courses

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We have tied-up with some of the world

leaders in catalog courses like MindLeaders,

50 Lessons, Skill-Pill and Kesdee to provide

you a range of over 4000 ready-to-use courses.

We provide courses on:

IT Skills Soft/ Business Skills

Business Management Certification

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Helath & Safety Banking & Finance

Other Languages Mobile Courses

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We provide effective mobile

learning solutions that can help

you manage learning for the

workforce that's constantly onthe move.

We develop:

Mobile Courses

Mobile Games

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