Your OLMS will be themed to reflect your organization’s brand and look and feel. We can offer over 100 unique layout and style combinations for the ultimate in customization to match your requirements.

The organization's employees can access it by entering "yourorganization.riscinstitute.com" in their browser's address or you can set up your organization's own subdomain directed to its URL. For example, olms.yourorganization.com.
We can remove or add features according to your organization's specific needs. For example, we can enable forums for group discussions among your cohort of trainees which only they can access.

We understand the importance for strict privacy and confidentiality of your organization and the OLMS has built in safeguards to keep your employee information safe.

• Firstly, nobody outside your organization's L & D team will know who is enrolled in courses on the OLMS unless they choose to share such information. In addition, biometric authentication is required for all L & D users accessing sensitive information.
• Secondly, all trainee activity, forum posts, comments etc can only be shared among the trainees from your organization who are enrolled on the same course. This prevents accidental or intentional sharing of information among trainees from different companies.
• Thirdly, progress reports of the company trainees are accessible only by authenticated users who are on the L & D team.

The LMS is loaded with all RISC's Blended Learning or Self-Paced courses as they are rolled out. These include

• Professional qualifications from partner global awarding bodies such as the CII, the CISI The Institutes and LOMA
• RISC Competency Training Courses endorsed by KHDA;
• Leadership and management courses;
• Soft Skills courses;
• Continued professional Development modules;

A full list of courses and categories can be viewed by L & D managers and employees. However, users can only access courses once they are enrolled on instructions from the L & D team.

Bespoke Courses

RISC can also create, and deploy on the OLMS, bespoke courses engaging employees with all the resources and activities that the e-learning platform offers. Such courses would be designed to meet specific learning objectives agreed with the L & D team such as company onboarding courses, regulatory certification requirements, product training, and continued professional development.

Whilst online learning provides a range of benefits in convenience, flexibility, efficiency and cost effectiveness, it presents other challenges that are not inherent in face-to-face training. Some of these challenges include;

• misrepresenting identity;
• unauthorised sharing of enrollments in courses;
• pseudo attendance by logging into the virtual classroom and not actually being in front of the computer and particpating;
• completion of learning activities by persons other than the enrollee to obtain undeserved certificates of achievement;
• unauthorised downloading attempts and sharing of intellectual property;
• unauthorised sharing of live virtual classes;
• collecting personal data for ulterior motives;
• respecting the privacy of attending trainees;
• stalking and disrespecting fellow trainees and tutors in forum posts; and
• the risk of our system being used for money laundering.

At RISC Institute, we take privacy and confidentiality, the awarding of certificates of achievement and of attendance, and the protection of our intellectual property very seriously. On the other hand, whilst some may find the incognito of online learning comforting, and not having to spruce up one's appearance to attend classes convenient, we do not support such motivations as they do not add any value to the learning process.

We also want to increase stakeholders' confidence in our certificates of achievement, certificates of attendance, digital badges and trainees' progress reports from our online courses.

For the above reasons we have established a policy of identity verification and authentication. This means that all trainees' identity, attendance and achievements on our online courses must be verified in the same way as they are in face-to-face classes. To implement this policy as smoothly as possible, we have developed a biometric authentication process for all trainees taking any of our courses. This system uses facial recgnition provided by Amazon Web Services.

Before accessing a course for the first time, enrolles must verify their identity. This is done by a biometric copmparison using their device's camera against an identity document containing a full face picture. (Passport, ID card or Driver's licence)
Once this is done, the system uses their device's camera in the background to verify the presence of the enrollee at random intervals during the sessions that they are logged into. If their presence is not detected, another person or more than one person is detected, or the system detects a camera in the image, they will be logged out and the trainee must login again.
Repeated failures may suspend their enrolment until reactivated by our customer service team.

The OLMS includes a user role assigned to your Learning & Development team members. Such users will be able to perform the following functions on the OLMS.

• Create a learning path for each employee.
• Track the progress of each trainee across multiple courses.
• Extract progress reports by individual trainee including activity logs, grades for completion of learning activity, grades for quizzes and grades for assignment submissions from all relevant courses.
• Extract progress reports by cohort.
• Print digital certificates for completed courses.
• Receive automated email notifications based on “notification rules” on pre-selected criteria chosen by your L & D team. For example send email notification to L & D user to whom a trainee is assigned if the trainee has not logged in for 7 days and grade is less than 50%.

Knowledge management is the efficient handling and sharing of information and resources within a commercial organization. It boosts the efficiency of an organization's decision-making ability by ensuring that all employees have access to the overall expertise held within the organization.

The OLMS provides a Knowledge Management Module in which certain employees, typically those leading teams or having significant experience and expertise are designated as mentors. Mentors take charge of a domain module within the system in which they can create resources and activities to share knowledge with members of their teams or mentees who join the domain module. The organization's employees can be enrolled into one or more domain module where they will be mentored by the mentor. A mentor may have a mentoring assistant who assists with the administration of the module.

Employees  are organized in cohorts. A cohort is a group of students working together through the same curriculum. You can organize cohorts by division or department for example, Sales, Underwriting, Medical etc.

Each company can have as many cohort as it needs to order organize its online training.

We can even apply a different "look and feel" for each cohort.

The OLMS includes RISC’s competency framework that defines a combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities of an individual necessary for achieving results in a specific job or role in the organization.

The OLMS also includes learning path templates for each role that match competencies with courses offered on the OLMS. The learning plan templates can also be customized by your L & D team. .

our L & D team can then create learning plans for individual employees or cohorts.

Your L & D team decides who is to be enrolled in courses. Enrollments are handled by RISC Customer service team. The process is simple.

1. L & D team sends a purchase order and a spreadsheet with the list of the names and email addresses of employees who are to be enrolled in a course.
2. RISC Customer Service team issues an invoice.
3. On receipt of payment, or in accordance with credit terms, RISC customer service team uploads the list into the OLMS and enrols the trainees. Enrolments may be made individually or in bulk.
4. On first logon, trainees will be asked to complete their profile and to perform the identity verification process.

Once this is completed they can start the course if self-paced or attend the online classes if live virtual classes are to be delivered.

Digital Badges are a way for your organization to recognize achievement, reward participation and show progress. They are awarded automatically to trainees based on

• Completing whole courses.
• Completing activities within courses such as online lessons, quizzes, assignments etc.
• Achieving competencies.

Once an employee is awarded a badge, he or she may display it on his or her profile or push it to their social media profiles or on the intranet of the corporate customer.
RISC Institute uses the Open Badges standard and ecosystem to award and issue digital badges. Open Badges are the world's leading format for digital badges. Open Badges are verifiable and shareable, and they contain detailed information about the achievement and what the recipient did to earn the badge.

The client and users are supported by RISC institute's professional award winning customer service staff. The help desk can be contacted during normal office hours is included and participants and mentors can reach out to the help desk for any issue relating to enrollment, using the system as well as technical support.