Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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E-learning Curriculum Located in Carrollton, Texas, RealPage is a leader and pio- neer in multi-family property management software develop- ing comprehensive industry leading property management systems for performance con- scious owners and managers. Today, more than 20,000 apartment communities across the U.S. use RealPage products and services. THE CHALLENGE RealPage had a large instruc- tor-led classroom-based training program. A few e- learning courses were built in Flash, and they were offered online primarily as pre- or post-classroom training or as training for those who were unable to travel to classroom sites. RealPage recognized that the number of employ- ees and client personnel attending instructor-led classes was decreasing due to economic cost constraints. This resulted in a significant increase in the need for com- prehensive online curricu- lums. RealPage sought to deploy a learning manage- ment solution to provide its customers with tools to man- age their own student popu- lations. More importantly, they needed a comprehensive e-learning development tool that would allow them to quickly create a large number of lessons and curriculums that target each customer's essential processes and their employees' job roles. THE SOLUTION Before deciding upon an e- learning tool, RealPage eval- uated and used a number of different content develop- ment programs but ultimate- ly selected Atlantic Link soft- ware as the complete, turnkey solution. Atlantic Link Content Point soft- ware's unique "show me/try me/test me" functionality was the feature that most Case StudyE-learning Development Creating a Large there were more than 75,000 launches of online courseware. Content Point is our primary development tool while Atlantic Link Knowledge Point gives our developers, reviewers and subject matter experts' con- venient access to learning con- tent as it is being devel- oped. Additionally, the Issue tent and materials and use them within Content Point- created courseware." "I'm very pleased to be able to retain many of our pre-existing content and materials and use them within Content Point created courseware." —Bob Wilcox, RealPage impressed the RealPage training team. "Atlantic Link's ability to create three different modes of learning with a single record- ing effort proved to be a great time saver," comments Bob Wilcox. "Beyond that, I'm very pleased to be able to retain many of our pre-existing con- LONG-TERM BENEFITS He continues: "Our training enterprise is unique in that it is not only our own employ- ees who need training, but primarily the employees of our customers. Last year, sev- eral thousand client person- nel attended instructor-led classes at our facilities, and Management feature will be especially useful for facilitat- ing communication between team members." RealPage is making great use of Content Point's unique fea- tures, so much so that it has started to create its own Flash assets. Taking this approach allows RealPage to create any number of additional Flash interactions on top of the 180 supplied with the product. Wilcox comments: "The API and Flash Movie Element Programming documents pro- vided by Atlantic Link have been very helpful, and the sup- port team has been responsive to my forum posts." —To learn more about Content Point, visit: www.atlanticlink global.com. Kaplan IT Learning Atlantic Link software Atlanta, GA 30350 1-888-91-RAPID Annual 2010 31 Government Elearning!