learningCloud (FAQ): Upgrades related to FUNDAE

FUNDAE stands for the Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo, a state foundation in charge of promoting and coordinating the implementation of policies on vocational training in the field of employment. This formation has the mission of training people for work and updating their skills throughout their professional career, and is financed with resources coming from the vocational training contribution to Seguridad Social.

FUNDAE manages the Formación Bonificada, a tool that allows workers in a company to develop their professional career with training that can be subsidized up to 100% of its totality. This is given thanks to a credit granted to companies to invest in training for their workers. The Formación Bonificada is a key factor in learning programs within the company, so learningCloud is constantly developing and implementing improvements and new features to ease the integration with FUNDAE. All of them are listed in this article, which will be updated.

Accessibility level AA

The WCAG 2.1 standard, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), consists of a set of technology guidelines and success criteria to help create accessible web content for people with disabilities, ensuring that resources are sufficiently accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of any disabilities they have. This regulation sets a series of levels that determine the degree of accessibility of a portal. Regarding FUNDAE, the public administrations determine that it is mandatory to comply with at least an AA level.

The learningCloud interface complies with the AA accessibility regulations thanks to different features and tools, such as the Accessibility Options in the Learner Portal, detailed in this article.

Integration with Microsoft Teams

learningCloud also has a direct integration of the training with the Microsoft Teams messaging application. It is possible to create and associate a chat room to a Sprint training, and the summouned students will be automatically added. This way everyone can use it to communicate directly with each other and raise their contributions, doubts, suggestions...

In addition to improving the dynamics of the training, this integration allows the retrieval of data from Microsoft Teams to create the attendance report required by FUNDAE. You can check this article to learn more about the integration with Microsoft Teams.

New Reports

In the Learner Manager portal, the Reports feature improves its functionality incorporating new types of reports, providing more information about the outcome of the training and the behavior of the students. Among them, the Survey Report provides student feedback on the course through a satisfaction quizz. And the Activity and Connections Report tells us exactly how much time each student spent on the training, and when he was logged on.

In addition to check the results through the platform, these reports can be downloaded in XML format through the History Reports for data exchange with FUNDAE. Find more information on how to generate and download these reports in this article.

Certificates

The Certificate feature allows you to certify the student's progress in the formation. It is possible to assign a certificate template to any Training, and once the student successfully completes it, he can download his certificate at any time, with the course data and the date he completed it, from their own profile in the portal.

The templates can have a customized design for each training, including the information related to the participation with FUNDAE. In addition, a new field in the Progress Report allows the administrator to know which students have downloaded the Certificate and when they have done so. You can check this article to learn more about this functionality.