Our company mostly runs in-person trainings, for which we use ILCs to calendar and assign instructors. However, these learners need to be evaluated by the instructor and sometimes take a quiz/test in order to get their certification. We use Online Courses to capture this information because the ILCs are limited to calendaring and attendance records. We in turn have to put all of these items into a Curriculum so that they are associated with each other and can be accessed by the learner together. Further, because there is no way to tie an online course to an ILC that is within the same curriculum, we lose the ability to run reports on anything the learner completes with that instructor, or in that venue, or to know the session dates they participated in.
If ILCs had the same capabiliies as Online Courses, this would greatly simplify how we have to build our trainings out in Absorb, and would also give us access to reporting tied to the actual session instance that we don't have now.
Are there any plans to make ILCs more robust?
We have somewhat of a workaround for this in Analyze, to view the online course surveys in relation to the ILT session a learner attended. But it involves coding, so we it is a long process and we're unable to meet certain data requests on-demand due to this.
This is also important for us when reporting in Absorb Analyze. Right now, we cannot connect ILT session enrollment data to online course assessment data, even when these are in the same curriculum. Updating Analyze to include this and having blended courses would solve this.
Increased functionality in the ILC would be appreciated, as assessments, or adding learning objects would enrich the experience to ensure that even if direct instruction is being given they can access dynamic content already housed as learning objects in the lms
This is especially frustrating since we also cannot create curriculums within curriculums. We have ILTs that also include course objects, requiring us to create a Curriculum for each of those instead of a single blended course. But if we have multiple blended courses to include in a curriculum, it is impossible to create a curriculum containing the other curriculums. Having a blended course option would allow us to create curriculums that include blended courses.
Hoping Admin's catch that there's multiple voted threads on this
https://ideas.absorblms.com/ideas/LMS-I-187
https://ideas.absorblms.com/ideas/LMS-I-864