Create Customized Online Courses with CourseBuilder
CourseBuilder is a powerful tool that lets you completely customize MediaLab courses or build your own courses quickly and easily. Build unlimited, customized courses that suit your laboratory's exact needs.
"Easy to register and assign courses, easy to read reports."
Quickly build custom courses with CourseBuilder,
an easy-to-use online tool
Illustrate your courses with professional images
from our CLS image library
Just-in-time help is available throughout the system
Create content pages and graded or ungraded questions,
and upload Word, PDF, PowerPoint, images, video, and audio
Included with your MediaLab subscription
As a MediaLab subscriber, you have full access to CourseBuilder for the duration of your subscription. Customize and create as many courses as you like for no additional charge.
Easy-to-use
If you have experience with Word or PowerPoint can quickly create a custom, professional course. You don't need to be an experienced instructional designer in order to create quality, informative courses with CourseBuilder. There are no complicated menus or interaction specifications, and no coding is required. You can even convert your existing PowerPoint files into online courses.
Replace instructor-led and paper-based training with customized online courses
Quickly replace your current instructor-led and paper-based courses with customized online courses using CourseBuilder. You can easily update your customized online courses, monitor employee progress, and generate detailed reports with the MediaLab learning management system. Hundreds of laboratories across the country use CourseBuilder to deliver:
- Safety / policy training courses. Document that students have reviewed and answered questions on your safety procedures and policies. Add content pages about your safety and policy manual, or include the manual as a download at the beginning of the course. Then, add graded exam questions covering key elements in your safety procedures and policies. You can view question by question results to see an employee's strengths and weaknesses on procedure and determine if additional training is necessary.
- Instrument proficency checklists. Document instrument competency for your employees. Add checklist tasks for laboratory and point-of-care instruments. These tasks can address specific skills that a student needs to demonstrate in order to safely and accurately use the instrument You and designated supervisors and department heads can then mark these checklist tasks as "meets standard," "does not meet standard," or "not applicable" for each employee, on a task-by-task basis. Quickly determine which tasks an employee has not performed satisfactorily and where the employee needs individual attention and retraining.
- Customized MediaLab courses with site-specific information. No two labs are exactly the same. With CourseBuilder, you can add, edit, or delete information from a MediaLab course to customize it to your specific needs. Add key contact persons and telephone numbers, and edit questions about billing procedures to exactly match your company's policies.
- Courses adapted to different audiences. Create a single course, make copies, and then modify it for specific audiences. Customize our Medicare Compliance course for managers, billing staff, or couriers. Modify the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens courses for laboratorians, nursing staff, and custodial workers.
Convert your organization's PowerPoint files into online courses
Many organizations already have a wealth of training materials created in Microsoft PowerPoint, but no way to deliver this training to students or track its completion. With CourseBuilder, you can upload your organization's PowerPoints and convert them to online courses in less than a minute. Now, you can deliver all of your training in one system, see reports for all training activity, and provide a convenient "one-stop-shop" for all of your organization's training needs. Learn more about converting your PowerPoints into online training courses »
Add rich, informative content, questions, and multimedia
CourseBuilder lets you build courses with any or all of the following:
- Content and question pages with images and downloadable files
- Pretest questions (with the ability to customize content based on pretest responses)
- Post-test exam questions
- Graded and ungraded questions
- Multple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and essay-style questions
- Video and audio content
- Flash animation files
- Links to your intranet
- PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files
- Tables and charts
- HTML support for designers
Extensive CLS image library
Illustrate your custom courses with images from our clincal laboratory science image library, including hundreds of photos and illustrations pertaining to the laboratory and clinical laboratory science.
Distribute custom courses just like MediaLab courses
Customized course can be assigned just like any other MediaLab course. Employees complete them online, in conjunction with other MediaLab courses or independently. Generate reports for these custom courses just as you would for any other MediaLab course, including employees performance for individual questions and end-of-course survey results.
Use SCORM and AICC compliant courses from other vendors
MediaLab's learning management system imports SCORM 1.2 and AICC compliant courses, so you can deliver them alongside MediaLab's online courses. You'll be able to see course activity for both MediaLab courses and imported SCORM and AICC courses in a single report, and users will be able to access both MediaLab courses and other assigned courses with a single username and password.