We recently ran the inaugural Go1 eLearning Assist and had a lot of fun sharing some of our knowledge with our attendees.

We are very excited to let you know that the eLearning Assist podcast is now available through iTunes – making it even easier for you to keep up-to-date with our episodes.

We know that it's not always convenient to enroll in webinars, especially during business hours, but with our iTunes podcast you can simply tune in and catch up at a time that suits you.

What’s the Go1 eLearning Assist all About?

Go1 eLearning Assist is a new monthly webinar covering trending industry information, a demonstration of a Go1 Platform feature, and an open Q&A session.

We know that you want to learn more about how to deliver an effective training program and get the most out of your team. The eLearning Assist is your chance to ask questions around anything to do with online learning, content, training, or the Go1 Platform.

Each episode of the Go1 eLearning Assist is run by a different member of the Go1 team, allowing you to tap into the knowledge and expertise of our whole team. Through the sessions, we’ll cover all aspects of eLearning from:

Go1 eLearning Assist – A Recap of Episode 1

Our inaugural host was learning design expert and account executive in the Go1 Brisbane office, Eduardo Gomes.

In Episode 1, we took a closer look at how to get started with blended learning in your organisation. Eduardo provided some great tips that can help you to plan and execute a successful blended learning program, and well as tapping into the informal learning elements that exist amongst your team.

Our live demo in this episode covered course creation within the Go1 Platform. Eduardo walked us through how to set up a course, add learning items, include in-person events as a part of a course, and some best practices when it comes to how you should work through the course creation process.

Subscribing to Go1 eLearning Assist is easy.

Simply go to the iTunes store on your device and enter ‘Go1’ in the search toolbar. When you see this image, you’ll know you’re onto the right one!

Press 'Play' to start listening to Episode 1. And don’t forget to click the ‘Subscribe’ button, to stay up-to-date with new podcasts as they're released.

If you have any questions about any of the items covered in Episode 1 please let us know as we’d love to help you out!

Also, feel free to contact us if there are any topics that you would like to see covered in future episodes. That way, we can make sure we include a demo to walk you through everything.

Our eLearning Assist podcast will feature regular interviews with industry experts. If you think you'd be a good fit to be a guest, get in touch!

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The Go1 eLearning Assist Podcast is now available on iTunes!

Being able to quickly and easily brand your learning content to match your business is high on the priority list for organizations across the world. At Go1 we allow our Administrators to control how their portal will look providing options to customize login screens and images, portal banner images, color schemes and more.

Our latest update takes this a step as you can now add your company logo to the Menu Bar in your Go1 Portal.

Adding your logo to the Menu Bar in your Go1 portal allows you to having your branding throughout the portal while your users are accessing their learning content, and also acts as the home button, returning the user to their dashboard when clicked.

To add a logo to your Go1 Portal Menu Bar follow the steps below:

Head to the top right hand corner of your screen and click on your name, then select Portal Settings in the dropdown menu. On the right hand side of the screen select the Themes tab, this is where you can update any of the images, and color theme associated with your portal.

Scroll down to the Dashboard Icon section of the page, and click to upload your image. For best results your image should be a, minimum for 50 x 50 pixels, and all files must be less than 5MB. Once you have uploaded your image, click Save changes at the bottom of the screen, and you’re done!

You can also watch the walk-through below to view the entire process:

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If you have any questions or are having problems setting up your Dashboard Icon, please let us know and we’d be happy to help you get everything set up!

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We understand that managing a learning portal can be tough work, so we want to make it as easy as possible for you!In our August update we have some exciting new tools that will streamline the way that you import and assign users to their managers, improve the way you track in person events, make updates on our social learning tools, and more.

Learn more about all of the updates below.

Administrators can now bulk assign users to a manager

When importing your learners into the Go1 Platform, you can now save time by setting up the import to include assigning users to a manager. Simply navigate to your User dashboard, click Add User, and select CSV file. Here you can download a template if you don’t already have one - this will ensure your data is in the correct format, or upload your CSV file. You can then preview your data prior to clicking Import.

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Groups are a great social learning tool in Go1, and now you can further customise the display of your Groups by including a course image. When you are creating a new group, or editing an existing group, you will now see the Group Image option where you can add the image of your choice to represent your group.

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Manually record a learning event or course completion

With the introduction of in-person or live learning events to courses, we have now made it easy for an individuals to record having attended a live event or having passed a course. This provides the user with more flexibility in how they manage their learning. This can be done by going into a users profile, selecting Learning Records, and completing the form as shown below.

Bulk actions added for Assigning assessors

Administrator can edit or delete a learning record

Improvements to Discussion areas for iPad users

User can now upload more than one file in their assessment submissions

Weblink LI's show warnings for site that set 'X-Frame-Option' rather than iFrame

Image and description fields have been removed from the LI popup in edit course

If an Admin clicks add new course, you are taken straight to the edit course page

Sign up for a free trial today and try it out for yourself!

If you have any questions about any of the updates and improvements listed above, please let us know and our Customer Success Team can help you out!

Try our new administrator tools in the Go1 mid August update

Want to make your course stand out in the Go1 Course Marketplace? Try this cool new feature that allows you to set a GIF as your course card image.

Animating your course card means that as learners are browsing through courses in the marketplace your courses will stand out from the pack and generate more interest than a regular image, and below we’ll show you how to create your own GIF files.

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If you want to use a GIF as a course card image, the first thing you need is a GIF. There are 2 options here, you can either create your own GIF, or use an existing file.

For those using pre made GIF’s the best place to start your search is on Giffy. It’s important to ensure that you have the rights to be able to use the GIF though, so please do your research to avoid trouble later on.

Creating your own GIF’s is a simple process and can be used to highlight some of the information that is included in your course. There are only 2 steps involved that anyone can complete:

Step 1: Use screen recording software to capture a video of the action on your screen. There are a stack of free programs out there to help with this, our favorite is Quicktime. Simply click, File, New Screen Recording, and start creating your GIF. This will generate a video file of your recording.

If you wanted to use a series of images, there are many programs online that allow you to compile images into video or GIF format too.

Step 2: head to EZGIF and upload your video to convert to GIF. You can also edit your file here, and speed up the animation if desired. Click Save, and you have your GIF ready to go.

Following the sequence in the GIF shown earlier in this post, navigate to the My Learning tab in your Go1 Portal, click on courses, and then select the course that you’d like to update.

Once the course is open, click on the Edit Course button to open up all of the editing options. From here we can click on the Manage Images button in the middle of the header image. At this point you will be give the option to update both the header image, and the course image.

You can choose to update one or both options; you can have a GIF as a header image if you like, but in this case we click on the course card image, and then select our GIF file, and then click Update.

Now if we navigate back to our My Learning page and look at our courses, we can see that the GIF has now been added as the course card, and stands out from our other courses.

If you have any trouble setting GIF’s as course cards, please click on our live chat in the bottom right hand corner of your screen, and a member of our customer success team will be able to walk you through the process.

If you want to try out Go1 for free, sign up for a portal today!

Make your course stand out with a GIF as a course card

Improving learner engagement is the theme of our Go1 update for August. Proving learning or training material is great, but unless your users are engaged and learning from what they are reading or watching, you can find yourself at risk. Tracking in person events, forced video watching and control over content variables headline our August updates, along with a stack of other improvements.

Force learners to watch a video to the end

You can now select an option that forces your users to watch a full video before being able to mark as completed and move to the next learning item. This is a great tool for boosting your learner engagement and now available on youtube and uploaded videos.

Administrators can change default content variables

Being able to control what your users see after they enter their portal can help to get your learners moving through their content much quicker. Some Go1 content now comes with the ability to customise for your own company by setting variables.

Other updates and improvements include: 

Filter notes by Enrollment status on course Discussion page

Enrollment completion can be download as a PDF

Improve learner engagement with the Go1 August update

When it comes to the top features that users want in their Learning Management System, there is one thing that is at the top of the list every single time. That’s right, we are talking about reporting, because what good is having an awesome learning platform if you can’t track how your learners are progressing, or how they interact with your learning content.

With the introduction of Go1 2017 we wanted to make it quick and easy for users to be able to display information about their learners and content, in the format that works best for them. As a result, the advanced reporting capabilities for Administrators in Go1 have been simplified, and anyone can create a custom report in a matter of seconds.

Here’s a quick guide on how to use our new reporting tools

Within the Administrator section of your portal, you can jump between different types of information using the tabs at the top of the reporting field. The main area of interest when it comes to reporting lies within Users, Courses, and Enrollments tabs.

Under each tab there are a unique set of options that you can adjust to generate reports showing the data in your portal based on the information held within that tab. This data can also be displayed in a range of formats including a table, histogram, bar chart, pie chart and more.

We’ll now take a deeper look at some of the more common reports you may use:

Display users who have completed or passed courses

One of the most common reports run is to view students who have, or have not complete their assigned courses. In this example we will show you how to display all of your students that have completed courses.

Head across to the Enrollments tab in your Administrator dashboard. Click the Filters button, and then click on the Status option, followed by Completed. This will now display all of the students that have completed courses.

Another option to try out here is to search by users that have passed a course. This can be done by selecting Pass, and then Passed in the filter settings. You can also run this for Not Passed if you want to see who is yet to complete their assigned courses.

To refine this even further you can also add an additional filter to this process to display results by course too.

If you’ve like to try out a more visual representation of how many of your users have passed their assigned courses, you can also display the information as a pie chart.

Simply click on the Table button next to the Filter button, and select Pie Chart, here you can choose the information to display, and we want to show Pass, then click Apply.

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This report allows the Administrator to filter out their users by their role. This could highlight all learners, Administrators, Managers, or in this case we are wanting to see which of our users are course Assessors in the system.

Start by clicking the Users tab, then selecting the Filters button, from here we can select the types of filters to apply, in this case, Role, and then we select the type of role to display.

Our final example will allow you to see how many users you have currently enrolled in each course that you have in the system.

While still on the Enrollments tab, once again click the Table button next to the Filters button. This time we will display course enrollments using the Histogram option. After selecting Histogram, we can then choose how we would like to display the information on the chart. We will select an interval of Year to show our all time results in this example, but this can be broken down to show enrollments over a set time period.

Secondly, we want to select how to group the results and in this case we want to use the Title option to display by course title. We can now see the number of enrollments per course in the last year.

As you can see in the examples above, creating your own custom reports is a very simple process and there is a very wide range of options available to ensure that you can view the data that is important to you.

These are just a few examples of how to create reports, but if you are trying to create something and get stuck, our Customer Success Team is always on hand via the live chat in the bottom right corner of your screen to walk you through the process.


Learner reporting simplified: try the latest Go1 reporting tools

With the release of the end of July Go1 update we have several improvements to the platform that will help to improve managing both users and content for Administrators. Updates to the way learning items are displayed, tool to allow Administrators to mark attendance in events, region based tags and the introduction of coupons headline our improvements, as well as a stack of other updates to improve the way you train your team.

Assessors can mark attendance for events in courses

After introducing the ability to include events within courses earlier this year, we have now added a new tool to make tracking in-person events even easier. You can now open a list of all event attendees and simply click the button in the ‘Attended’ column to track the user.

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Administrators can now generate their own coupons within Go1 which can then be applied by users to redeem courses in a portal, or specific courses as specified by the Administrator. These can be created for a percentage or monetary value, with the ability to cater for partial or full purchase of content on behalf of the user.

We understand that one of the most important aspects of engagement when it comes to learning content is how it looks to the end user. In this updated the way that learning items will appear both individually and within modules, to allow for a more visually friendly experience.

Add tags and regions to individual Learning Items

If you are creating content that is available across a range of topics and specific locations, our update to tags will help you to get your content seen. You can now specify tags and regions for individual learning items making it easier to create material across a range of locations where the content is relevant only to a local audience.

Show next available event on card for course with multiple events

Transaction history page available for course credits/purchases

Improvements to reporting for assigned courses

Administrator can bulk import enrollments

Course Authors can change assessors after course has been active

Admins can generate multiple LTI’s for a course

Improve your training with our end of July update

What better way to kick off July than with some updates to the Go1 Platform. As we pass by the midpoint of the year, we have made more updates to improve your learning experience and to ensure that you are getting the most out of the Go1 System. In this update, you will find improvements to several Administrator functions, including assigning courses,  managing you learning items, as well and being able bulk delete items and much more.

If you have any questions or comments about any of the updates below, please let us know and we’d be happy to help you out.

Want to assign a particular team or department certain courses? Now you can. Within the ‘Discussion’ in the menu bar you can select a group on the right hand side and then click on the ‘Learning’ header on the left hand side of the screen. From here you can add courses that will be included as assigned learning for all members of that group.

Courses can be arranged in user specified order for Awards

We recently introduced you to the Awards feature within the Go1 Platform. We have made an update that allows you to control how the courses in awards are displayed by enabling Administrators to define the display order of all courses within an Award. This means you can position the courses you would prefer your learners enroll into as the top courses.

Updated Welcome message to suit new interface

Enrollment bulk delete enabled, with ability to select all items to delete

Force user to watch entire video before completing

Ability to hide prices of courses in explore tab

Admin can generate multiple LTI for courses

All currencies supported by Stripe are now enabled

What you need to know about the Go1 July update

Learning and Development departments have always been the gatekeepers of online learning content, not only distributing but also creating the content for their organisations.

What if we told you that it doesn’t have to be this way?

One of our latest updates to the Go1 Platform puts the creative power back into the hands of your learners themselves, and we are excited to announce our Collaborative Course Creation Tools.

Traditionally when it comes to course and content creation most organisations will have a team dedicated to creating their learning material, or have contracts in place with external contractors who are tasked with the job of preparing material.

For smaller businesses this can also fall back onto human resource managers, who already have very limited time to spend on creating learning material as they are generally juggling a multitude of tasks at any one time.

So why not start tapping into the knowledge within your team

There is no one that can create better learning content for your organisation than your team itself. They understand all aspects of your business, how you operate, and the processes behind the scenes. While providing training in areas such as compliance and workplace safety may need to be created by a specialist team, when it comes to onboarding, up-skilling, process improvement and training for systems knowledge, tapping into your team knowledge will allow for a much more accurate and tailored program.

In larger companies this can be a huge advantage. You have a range of subject matter experts at your fingertips, and sharing their knowledge with employees across other departments within the organisation can be a great way to develop a culture of collaboration and learning.

How to get started with Collaborative Course Creation Tools in Go1

Normally when you set up your Go1 portal, only Administrators have access to be able to create new content within the portal. The only problem with this in the past has been that you need to make a user an Administrator to starting building out content for your team, but that may expose them to elements of your platform that contain sensitive information.

To combat this problem we have added a new setting to your portal which allows to have all users within a portal creating content regardless of whether they are a student or an administrator.

To get started, click on your name in the top right corner of the screen and then select Portal Settings. From here head to the menu on the right hand side of the page and select the Configuration option.

Scroll to the bottom of the Configuration page and you will find 2 tick boxes under the Course Authors section. Tick the box labelled Allow all users to create content, then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. That’s it, you’re ready to go!

Your portal is now set up to have all users creating content and helping by sharing their knowledge to train your team.

Don’t forget to tell your users about their new creative powers, and it also helps to set up an incentive program that rewards your creators, because after all their content is going to be able to take your organisation to the next level!

If you don’t yet have a Go1 Portal, don’t worry - It’s free to sign up and get started

If you have any questions about collaborative course creation, or want to know more about Go1, feel free to contact us and we would love to help you out!

Try Go1’s Collaborative Course Creation Tools

Following on from our June update we have just completed another round of updates to the Go1 Platform to improve the way that you learn. In this update you will find updates to the way you track your learners progress, sharing your courses externally to Go1, reports for transactions within your portal, improvements to learners management, and more!

If you have have any questions or comment about any of the updates below, please let us know and we’d be happy to help you out.

Publish your course as an LTI, to be used in another LMS

Your courses are no longer limited for use only in the Go1 Platform. With our LTI updates, you can now generate a code for your courses which then enables them to be used in other learning management systems.

Existing users can signup/request to join to another portal as a learner

Update to My Learning to show Course and Award progress on same page

Assessor can see Activities report in My Teaching

Portal admins can set searchable custom tags for shared courses

Portal admins can trigger one-time login email for users in their portal

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