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Whether you’re focused on compliance, professional development, sales or operations - “Big Data” is the current buzzword taking the eLearning industry by storm. Big Data goes beyond basic pass/fail reporting and provides eLearning professionals with insight into the learner’s behavior while consuming a particular module or training.  At VenU, we’ve always understood that the success of your learning initiative is contingent upon your ability to drive that success with information collected throughout the platform. Below are a list of ways we continue to make big data work for our clients in the latest release of our enhanced report system: Have training [...]

VenU Connect™'s robust suite of communication tools have been developed to streamline communication, increase engagement, and foster a sense of community. Read below to find out how to these features can be used within the Learning Management System to connect learners with training and with each other. Creating communities within your user base is only limited by your imagination... Drive traffic to your site, grow your user base, and increase engagement. Integrations with LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook enable LMS login with any of these sites. Combined with built-in knowledge sharing and communication tools, creating communities and social networks within your user-base [...]

VenU eLearning Solutions, a pioneer in the field of innovative eLearning solutions, released today a dynamic collection of gamification features as part of VenU Connect™ – the company’s latest version of its Learning Management System (LMS). Recent studies have shown that the addition of an incentive into the learning process increases knowledge retention, thus improving application. This update underpins the company’s commitment to deliver an enterprise-class learning solution that continues to evolve with the cutting edge of technology. “It was important for us to offer to our clients a gamification feature to make the training experience more interactive and engaging for [...]

VenU’s product development team is pleased to announce the addition of “eLearning in Your Inbox” to the VenU Connect™ LMS.  When our clients’ needs evolve, so do we.  With that in mind, VenU was asked by a major client to make it as simple as possible for users to access their assigned courses – we listened and innovated. “eLearning in Your Inbox” is a comprehensive new feature that consolidates processes and streamlines communication for both the administrator and the end user – with just a single click of the mouse, a user will be logged into the LMS and taken directly to [...]

The innovative new VenU Flex™ program allows VenU clients to host high volume learning events, such as an upcoming course deadline or mandatory company-wide training, with no loss of performance, speed or support. With 48 hours’ notice, VenU will reallocate cloud infrastructure to support an anticipated influx of user activity. Unlike many other LMS providers whose services tend to slow down when higher than normal usage is occurring – through network load balancing and our scalable architecture, we can dynamically expand necessary resources to ensure optimal performance throughout the entire event. But we take it one step further, we’ll also allot additional [...]

VenU’s Business Development Department stumbled across an alarming statistic this week. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 13% of employees world-wide are “actively engaged” at work – meaning 87% of employees are either “not engaged” or, worse, “actively disengaged”. According to the study, the term "not engaged," identifies employees who lack motivation and are less likely to invest discretionary effort in organizational goals or outcomes. "Actively disengaged," indicates those who are unhappy and unproductive at work and liable to spread negativity to coworkers. Unengaged employees at any level are toxic to an organization’s overall health, however, nowhere are they more [...]

VenU, LLC, is proud to announce that it has received the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 27001 Certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS) from American Global Standards. VenU is fully aware that the data contained within your learning management system is among your organization’s most vital assets. Ensuring the security of our clients’ information has been one of our primary focuses for over 11 years, and it is our hope that pursuing ISO/IEC 27001 Certification will demonstrate to you our commitment to ongoing development and maintenance of a robust ISMS- which will be regularly [...]

We are committed to providing our clients with an exceptional customer service and support experience. A key part of that initiative includes developing and maintaining a talented, dynamic team. For that reason, I am pleased to announce the addition of Cindy Keen and Tasha Mahurin to the VenU team.  Cindy joins VenU as a Project Manager. Highly experienced within the eLearning industry, she previously worked for both Framework Solutions and IBM. Prior to joining VenU, Cindy was the Director of Product Development for a media production firm- creating computer based training, websites, graphic packages, and hard copy elements for their clientele. [...]