How to optimize your blog posts for search engines

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optimize your blog posts for search enginesWriting is an amazing experience and no matter what form your prefer most you should do it! But when it comes to blogging or web content in general we must always have an issue in mind – and that’s traffic.

No matter if we need the traffic in order to sell our product/services, display ads, or as confirmation that people actually like our writing, traffic plays an important role in all of it. It would be amazing if we could write whatever came to our minds and just had the same effects in traffic but unfortunately that’s not the case. This is a small guide on how to write for search engine optimization.

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Assignments, Catalog Improvements, Zapier Integration and more

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Assignments, Catalog Improvements, Zapier Integration and moreThanks for your ongoing support!

With almost 4000 portals and more than 25000 courses we are becoming a sizeable community. We would like to use this opportunity to thank you for your continuous support and constructive feedback. In our ongoing quest to build the best training platform for growing organizations we have recently updated TalentLMS with new features and improvements you might find interesting.  Here is a short list of what’s new and noteworthy:

Assignments

The most prominent new addition is the Assignments. With Assignments you can ask your users to upload a file as a reply to complete a unit. As an Instructor you can see each reply, set its status and give it a grade.

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Integrating Talentlms with Zapier

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Integrating Talentlms with ZapierZapier is a service that can help you automate tasks between pairs of online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 190 more). In essence, zapier lets you integrate 2 systems through their API without writing even one line of code.

TalentLMS is the first lms that gets integrated with Zapier. You can use this integration to sychronize your users between TalentLMS and a variety of other services. For example, do you want to insert to your TalentLMS domain any new user form your Zendesk account? You can do so really easily. Do you want to synchronize users from your Highrise account with your talentlms domain? Again, this is pretty easy to do.

This post is a step-by-step guide on how to use TalentLMS services via Zapier. Starting, you need to create a zapier account - it is free to do so.

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Hitchhiker’s guide to the elearning galaxy

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Hitchhiker’s guide to the elearning galaxy We use a famous book title for our latest blogpost, which will hopefully become a good reference point for all eLearning “newcomers”. Our purpose is to put together elearning resources useful to anyone who wishes to enter the business or for people who are “just in…”. Of course, it is impossible to get all types and different kinds of resources in a single blogpost. We chose useful resources from 3 categories in order to provide you with a useful starting reference point

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Introducing Unlimited Plans for TalentLMS

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Unlimited user Plans for TalentLMSGreat news again for TalentLMS users!

We are excited to introduce a number of new TalentLMS plans that come with unlimited registered users and pricing based on the unique users that login each month. The older plans are still valid.

The problem
Our previous plans are a nice fit whenever you have a predicted number of users. They also allow you to deactivate users to free positions whenever you want. However, they are not suited for highly dynamic environments where the total number of users is unknown or whenever an end-user would login only sporadically. If you sell courses online this may be your case.

The solution…

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13 Ways to Personalize your TalentLMS Training Portal

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13 Ways to Personalize your TalentLMS Training Portal

1. TalentLMS gives you a unique domain upon registration. You can send your people there right away!

2. Add your own logo/favicon and set your portal name

3. Create your own theme – we’ve got a few premade themes but it is really easy to create your own themes as well. Customize your portal’s look and feel item-by-item (Let the video roll. Theme customization comes after 2:20 minute).

4. Do you want more power than the simplified theme generator? You can control your theme’s CSS directly.

5. Build and assign your own certifications (Let this video roll also! Certification is close to the end. You will find plenty of interesting suggestions for certifying).

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Using Articulate Storyline with TalentLMS

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Using Articulate Storyline with TalentLMSIn order to build an intriguing experience for your learners you can use a special content authoring tool. One of our suggestions is Articulate Storyline.

It is a user friendly tool that takes you all the way from nothing to…a course with a great “story” and engaging content, serving both educational and entertaining purposes for your learners. With just a few clicks your content from Articulate Storyline can be published at TalentLMS platform in order for you to start running your course.

 

What you can do with Articulate Storyline

Your content at Articulate Storyline can be divided with slides which include questions for your learners. Read more »

Test additions, Sections, Gravatars, SCORM reports and more…

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Test additions, Sections, Gravatars, SCORM reports and more...Tests engine

We have plenty of love for the Tests engine in this update. Actually, so much that we decided to create a short video  to discuss many of the new additions.
This update brings two new types of questions (Drag-&-drop and Ordering) together with a Feedback mode for tests. We have crafted Drag-&-drop and Ordering questions to work on mobile devices. Give them a try on your IOS or Android device!
In Feedback mode you need to answer a question correctly in order to move on. TalentLMS will show the question feedback whenever a wrong answer is chosen to help the end-user complete the task.

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Branches help you expand your educational purposes

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Branches help you expand your educational purposesWorking with different Groups and learners with diverse needs and expectations can be a challenging task. With respect to this you will find how useful Branches at TalentLMS can be.

They are separate entities with their own courses, theme, users and domain. They allow you to host a large number of learners within a single account, enabling them to access their own unique content fully customized according to their needs.As a whole, you can arrange for different groups of users to follow individual courses, follow their activity and progress both individually and also as groups and make relevant reports.

Let’s see how Branches at TalentLMS work: Read more »

Certification made easy + Other forms of engagement

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Certification made easy + Other forms of engagementThere is a long talk on online student engagement. Carefully designed certification is one of the most important ways to do so. People love to get something quantitative back from their learning.

When designing a course it is a good idea to pre-arrange certification types for your learners in order not to waste time when the course is completed.

With TalentLMS you can keep things simple and your learners happy to receive certifications.
There are four default templates: Classic design, Fancy design, Modern Design or Simple design you can select upon a course completion.

If you want to create your custom template simply use the tool “Certification” on the Account & Settings Tab. Choose any of the available templates and modify the details to fit your needs.

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