Brainshark Rapid Learning

Deliver Learning Programs at the Speed of Business Needs.

Brainshark Rapid Learning™ enables you to quickly launch and manage by...on-demand eLearning initiatives and track the progress of learners and groups. Manage sales force proficiency, meet compliance training requirements, certify channel partners, and increase employee productivity - with rapidly-delivered learning programs.

Key Capabilities

Create and Manage Courses and Curriculums

Create new on-demand courses or turn existing Brainshark presentations into courses. Define completion and pass/fail criteria. Create curriculums as a set of courses that learners must take either in random or prescribed order with prerequisites.

Course Catalog

Enable learners to browse and select open-enrollment courses and curriculums

Enrollment Management

Invite learners to take courses or auto-enroll them based on group managers. Course creators can invite others to enroll, and managers can invite their direct reports to enroll in a course.

Self-Registration

Students may self-enroll by visiting a select URL. Ideal when reaching out to large audiences or delivering education to customers, partners, and others outside of your own organization.

Certification

Deliver certificates to course participants who have passed course-specific completion and passing criteria.

Instant Delivery and Easy Access

Make it easy for learners to access your course by delivering it directly to their email inbox. One click of a URL is all it takes for learners to begin. Deliver courses to learners as an email link, integrate with other sites and applications, or allow learners to search and browse the course catalog and view courses from their learning locker.

Questions, Polls & Surveys

Increase knowledge retention and measure proficiency by incorporating questions, polls, and surveys. Brainshark supports many question types. Key capabilities:

• Multiple question types
• Customizable feedback for correct/incorrect responses
• Randomized questions
• Branching based on question response
• Question scoring
• Background images
• Add voice to questions

Advanced Reporting

Run reports by course, learners, and groups. Exception reports provide valuable information about who requires additional learning or has not completed or passed a course. Scheduled reports sent via email to department and training managers provide convenient views into learner progress.

Integration with Salesforce.com

Enable your Salesforce.com users to access their Personal Learning Locker from a tab within Salesforce.com. Users can access eLearning courses without ever having to exit the applications where they spend their day.

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Brainshark Marketing Campaigns

Help every one of your sales representatives grow relationships by delivering more personal content on their behalf. Brainshark Marketing Campaigns by...allows you to mass-customize a presentation with an introductory and closing 'wrap' from each of your Sales reps or channel partners. Viewers are greeted by a familiar face introducing a core presentation - perhaps one from a product expert, executive, or your marketing team. You'll increase campaign response with high-value content that is both personal AND consistent. And what sales teams love the most is the instant notification directly to each rep that their presentation is being viewed so they always know the right time to follow up.

Key Capabilities

Presentation Wrap™

Increase response with presentations from a familiar source. Enable your salespeople to create a customized introduction and closing that is automatically merged and with a core presentation from another presenter.

Guest Voice™

Invite your main presenter and each sales rep to add their voice to their portion of a presentation. By following on-screen instructions and a telephone, anyone can create on demand presentations, with no software or hardware required.

Approval Tracking

Campaign managers can track the status of content that requires approval for marketing or compliance purposes.

Authoring Management

Track and manage the progress of contributing presenters across your organization and send reminders to those that have not yet completed presentations.

Automated Reporting

Individualized view reports are automatically delivered on a weekly or daily basis to individual sales representatives, and a summary reports are delivered to the campaign manager.

Instant Notification

Respond to prospects and customers when interest level is the highest - immediately after they have listened to your message. Each time a prospect or customer views a Brainshark presentation, the appropriate sales representative is instantly notified via email, and can take action.

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Brainshark Content Approval™

Manage the quality and consistency of your customer-facing presentations and other important messages by providing a workflow process to approve by...recorded presentations before they can be sent to others.

Key Capabilities

Content Lockdown

Content cannot be distributed until it has been approved, and once approved it cannot be changed without additional approval.

Approval Queue

Each type of content may require distinct approval processes. ...a prospecting pitch? Marketing approval. ...merger announcement? Legal. ...a client proposal? Sales Management. Authors can be allowed to create content into specific folders that route requests to the appropriate approving parties.

Support for Multiple Approvers

Authors must request approval of a presentation by a designated group or individual, which notifies the designated approvers and provides a way to approve or reject with feedback.

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Viewer Clickpath Tracking

Identify which parts of your messages are resonating with viewers, and which are not. Viewer Clickpath Tracking reveals the path that viewers take through your presentation, how much time they spend on each slide, and which attachments they download.

Gateway to Microsoft Office Live Meeting

In one click, turn any recorded archive from Microsoft Office Live Meeting into Brainshark on-demand format. Transform your 'traditional' archive into Brainshark content that is easy to navigate, view, send, track, and update anytime.

Connector to Salesforce.com

Provide better selling tools and training to sales in an application where sales and service representatives spend their day! From any Lead or Contact record in salesforce.com, send a link to a presentation from your content library and get immediate viewing activity back to salesforce.com.

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Unhooked

Make your Brainshark-delivered presentations available for download so users on-the-go can view offline, while disconnected from the Web.

Custom-branded Flash Preloader

Provide a fully branded experience to your audience. When viewers click on your presentation link, your flash movie appears in the window as your presentation is about to begin.

Archive Storage

Archive Storage is ideal for companies who need to keep content for regulatory compliance or want to archive inactive or seldom-used presentations.

Brainshark Content Portal

Easily self-publish presentations to a web portal and provide employees, customers, or partners an appealing Web 2.0 environment to access information and learning.

As a delivery option for your Brainshark on-demand content, the portal allows you to share best practices, communications, training, and enterprise knowledge in a collaborative, hosted environment; and develop communities around valued topics. Web 2.0 and social media conventions allow you to share feedback, promote discussion, and gain quantitative and qualitative insight into content value.

Key Capabilities

Content authors can instantly publish their Brainshark-delivered multimedia presentations to a portal environment.

Enterprise-class features like user permissions and optional content approval workflows enable organizations to manage quality and provide a review process for content before it “goes live” to your audience.

Portal content is dynamic – new content appears in highlighted sections, eliminating manual updates.

Web 2.0 feedback mechanisms such as audience ratings, reviews, and comments provide qualitative insight into content effectiveness.

Presentations are highlighted in a visual format with thumbnail images and summary information for easy scanning and browsing. Audiences can browse the portal by topic, tag, or author; or view recently created presentations, most popular, or most discussed.

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