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It was incredible to see so many of the aXcelerate community at our inaugural aXcelerate Day! We loved sharing our new, upcoming and upgraded products and features, as well as hearing from our valued partners.
Pioneering the education technology landscape for over a decade, the aXcelerate platform has enabled virtual, blended, and traditional learning environments across many industries in the VET sector. At aXcelerate Day 2023, we announced new and improved product features and capabilities that empower you to manage every aspect of the student journey. Our commitment remains steadfast in enhancing the capabilities and fundamental experiences of our system, focusing on several key areas:
Launched a little over five years ago, our LMS has played a pivotal role in the aXcelerate ecosystem to enable the delivery of a diverse range of training. Improving the core experience of our LMS has been and will continue to be a key focus for aXcelerate. In particular, we’re committed to:
Our first big product update we announced was Question Banks. Question Banks allow you to:
aXcelerate Turbo users can access Question Banks early now. This feature will be released in early 2024, with more information to come soon. Let us know if you're interested in using Question Banks here.
We’re moving our Trainer/Assessor App into our modern app framework to vastly elevate the app’s user experience, with an initial focus on high-use features to support the core experience. Improvements to our feature set will grow over time, expanding its functionality and versatility.
Key features of the revamped Trainer App include:
The new app will initially be available in the current aXcelerate Supervisor app. The feature release will be in early 2024.
We’re planning continuous LMS improvements for employee training in aXcelerate. This will involve:
aXcelerate is uniquely positioned between training organisations and content providers. We have the opportunity to solve friction and ensure content is tuned to the aXcelerate platform – unlocking flexibility for you and broadening your appeal.
In the future, we’ll be partnering with content providers to resell high-quality material, as well as creating ways for Lessons and Assessments to be imported into your aXcelerate account.
Stay tuned for more information in 2024. Let us know if you're interested in using this feature here.
Central to our ecosystem is our Student Management System. Acknowledging the diverse needs of our users, we’re dedicated to refining and enriching the user experience within high-traffic areas, enabling smoother administrative workflows and streamlined course management. Our imminent focus lies in enhancing the workshop management experience to optimise course delivery and empower educators to concentrate on providing superior training to their students.
As part of our larger strategy over the coming year for improving core aspects of our system, we’re overhauling the Workshops interface while streamlining everything related to Workshops to vastly improve the experience for Admins, Trainers and Third Parties.
Areas of focus within Workshops include search, booking statuses and attendance.
We’re also making significant improvements to the way Sessions, Locations, Timezones and Trainers are managed for Workshops:
Sessions
Locations
Timezones
Trainer Management
These improvements are currently accessible in your aXcelerate Staging account. We’d appreciate your feedback on the changes to help us inform our feature release.
We’re implementing a new Media Library aimed at improving the content authoring experience across the system.
More upcoming improvements include:
Check out our Release Notes and What’s New videos to stay up-to-date.
A positive enrolment experience is vitally important to attracting and retaining learners. We have a renewed focus on improving the current Online Enrolments process and supporting the future state of Online Enrolments.
We know that accredited enrolments require a lot of information to be provided by learners, which can lead to a drop in conversions. We’re making changes to help reduce enrolment friction with low up-front information, and follow-up of more detailed information.
We want to give you more ways of retaining your learners and delivering more value. To do this, we’re planning to add the ability to display a course catalogue within the Learner Portal to allow learners to enrol into more courses.
Exciting developments with integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into aXcelerate are on the horizon. Anticipate a transformation in the way you’ll be able to manage your training.
AI presents a new way to migrate your content. With Assessment Question Generation, you’ll be able to prompt the aXcelerate LMS with text and uploaded files, such as a PDF, and automatically create questions directly in the system.
Generative Templates can style, format and add dynamic fields automatically, while Generative Content Editors can help streamline content writing, including authoring assessments or creating contact notes.
AI can be helpful in providing greater information accessibility. We’re investigating how AI could assist us in delivering a Contextual Learning Assistant. A feature like this would empower learners to engage with a personalised digital tutor, facilitating contextual information based on course materials.
We understand that marking assessments is a crucial aspect to get right for training organisations. However, assessment marking can be incredibly time-consuming for assessors. There is an opportunity for AI to help with marking subjective assessment responses based on a rubric or marking criteria.
The possibilities for integrating AI with aXcelerate’s feature development are endless. The integration of advanced AI features represents an exciting leap forward in our student and learning management system. With an unwavering commitment to upholding data integrity, privacy, ethical standards, and quality, the aXcelerate team is excited to deliver a host of innovative features and an ongoing commitment to exploring further enhancements in the future.
On-the-job training is an important part of modern training for many organisations. Our native WBL solution transforms a predominantly manual process into a complete digital solution for apprenticeships, traineeships and placements. This aims to give a better solution for everyone involved, reduce costs, save time and give learners a digital portfolio to capture meaningful evidence.
Our areas of focus for WBL include:
Improved Learner & Supervisor experience
Improved Admin experience
The aXcelerate team extends our heartfelt gratitude to each and every aXcelerate Day attendee. Your enthusiastic participation and valuable contributions truly made the event a resounding success. We've answered some of the great questions we received on the day here.
We deeply appreciate your time, engagement and active involvement, which helped create an atmosphere of collaboration and shared learning. We strongly appreciate your feedback on the event.
Thank you once again for your continued support. We look forward to seeing how you continue to positively impact your industry through providing world-class training.
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