The Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs has an affiliation with Network of Care to provide practitioners and organizations with an outstanding on line learning environment. Network of Care eLearning management system uses web based technologies to facilitate "anytime, anywhere" access to learning content and administration.
Some of the highlights of the Network of Care Learning Management System (LMS) are:
This easy-to-use web-based interface was designed as an electronic "place" where behavioral professionals can check their Training Inbox for new messages about their course assignments and add information about licensure and education degrees and other demographic information. The student can also view a personal course report that gives them a real-time status of courses-active, passed, and not passed, expired and overdue. A personal etranscript gives the student the ability to access and retrieve records of course completion and to print certificates of completion for use with CEU license renewal purposes.
Designed to be easy-to-use, the Training Inbox has evolved over the life of the web-based LMS product since 1998 to reflect user preferences and the organization's requirements that technology usage be rewarding and easy to support. Behavioral professionals return frequently to the course center to start and pause and complete courses as time permits. The interface is consistent and intuitive; full course instructions accompany each course.
With increasing organizational and licensure demands for accountability for professional training and demonstration of personal and clinical competency, the Training Inbox provides the employee an easy way to keep track of training requirements and authentication of training completion.
The course management function gives the organization's staff development administrators the ability to manage Network of Care's courses by easily adding documents, references and other modifications that customize the pre-produced courses with the organization's own content.
The administrator can also create three types of their own courses:
New courses-
The administrator can use the course wizard without knowing complex HTML language. Following a standardized format, the administrator can create chapter, pages, pre-tests, chapter tests and post tests and course surveys. The attributes of the course are easy to select including number of time to take a course, passing percentages, by-pass and testing out functions, randomized testing capabilities and user-defined post course surveys.
Classroom courses-
The administrator can use the same functions designed for online courses to setup records and rosters for classroom training. The student received a message that they need to schedule or register themselves for a specific classroom date and time. The system sends the student an email alert and posts the alert in their Training Inbox. The student's supervisor is also alerted to the occurrence so they can plan for the absence. Once the employee attends the class, the administrator can post attendance with an optional score and date of attendance. The system also creates certificates of attendance for classroom attendance eliminating the need to create manual certificates. The student/employee can retrieve these certificates as required and on demand.
Other course records-
Upon presenting appropriate documentation of external training, the administrator can enter a training record in the student's record to complete the training profile of the student. This completed profile serves both the professional as well as the organization by compiling the records in one place for competency and curricula completion purposes.
In a behavioral industry state of the art process, the Network of Care LMS gives an organization unprecedented ability to develop and implement curricula and competency profiles for positions in the organization. Network of Care provides pre-defined libraries of competencies for mental health positions, addictions positions, medical records positions and other clinical care providers.
By defining skills and skills competency attainment levels, the organization can build a Staff Development Plan that details competency attainment levels for an individual. By assigning training that fulfills these development criteria, the system automatically calculates a GAP analysis between the assignment and the level of completion. Thus, the employee and the organization always know in a real-time basis what the "performance score" is for the employee. Tied to performance evaluations and corporate goals for overall competence, this unique tool supplies an exceptional industry tool for management in employee development.
The curricula development tool allows the administrator to group training in whatever meaningful assemblage that fulfills compliance or skill set requirements. For example, all new employees can be assigned a standard group of courses automatically or all child care staff can be assigned course required by state mandates for billing purposes or all licensed social workers can be assigned necessary curricula for CEU purposes.
Complete with a library of standard reports that give real-time information about student, courses, tests, surveys and graphs, all reports are exportable to a "print" view as well as to a data export format for use by other tools and importing into external human resource systems, payroll systems and CEU tracking systems.
Standard Reports include:
Course Reports filtered by date, department, student status and course status with drill-downs to specific course details. Classroom course reports show attendance and provide rosters for the instructor.
Student Reports filtered by department, course status, student status with drill-downs to detailed student records.
Test Reports with details to the test answer levels and graphs depicting correct answers for quick analysis of performance specific content areas. Automatic test graphs indicate learning problems by department, position or employee.
Expiration Reports filtered by date and by projected expire date gives the administrator or supervisor the ability to alert students to pending expiration dates or delinquent training.
Curricula and competency reporting provides a real-time view of development plan attainment. On the spot adjustments can be made where students are delinquent or deficient.
Supervisors and other users with assigned privileges can have access to only the students/employees assigned to them. With administrator assigned privileges, users can have access to other system administrative capabilities such as assigning courses, building curricula and sending alerts.
