EditsOTS Online Learning Features

Automatic saving of progress

Participants recieve an email containing a User ID and Password for returning to their course at any time. Progress is automatically saved to prevent risk of losing work.

Browsealoud text-to-speech enabled

Browsealoud is a text-to-speech screen reader. For more information please visit [http://www.browsealoud.com]. This link opens in a new window.

Free Certificates

At the end of the course the participant has the option of printing or saving a certificate with their name and score.

The certificate can also be retrieved via the employers Client Zone or the participant can choose to revisit their certificate later via the Candidate Review (details below).

Candidate Review

Once a participant has completed their course they can go back to review their wrong answers, print off key learning points, or for another copy of their certificate if required.

Login details for the Candidate Review section are automatically sent to the participant via email.

Client Zone

With access to a confidential Client Zone, employers can monitor progress and scores achieved with great ease. The Client Zone allows employers to:

• Print or save certificates for participants where necessary.
• View on-demand data on who has completed, their department, and their score.
• View self-assessment/staff-survey data.
• Export usage data to Microsoft Excel.

Staff survey option

Employers can also opt to include a staff survey as part of the course. The survey asks participants for personal information, such as ethnicity, gender and disability. This is a great asset to many employers, who use the aggregate data to see where they need to improve the diversity of their workforce. Sensitive personal information is encrypted on entry.

The staff survey option includes limited customisation as standard. Extensive customisation may involve a nominal fee.

Accessibility features

Our online learning courses are designed to be fully accessible to people with different learning styles and access requirements. Each course is:

• Interactive;
• written in plain English;
• offers variable text sizes and a high-contrast option;
• includes a text-to-speech option; and
• meets W3C and AA compliance standards.

Participants with access needs can also choose to allocate themselves extra time to complete a course.

Course structure

Each online course presents participants with short sets of information. Scenarios are used to illustrate both everyday and complex situations, and how equality law is applied. Questions are interspersed throughout each course, and these are designed to test and reinforce learning. At the end of each course, participants are told their score and can request a certificate.

Most of our online courses take around two hours to complete. The course time available can be greater, and many employers ask us to set the course time at four hours to allow for any interruptions.

So they can increase their knowledge and their score, and at no extra cost, each participant may be given up to three opportunities to take each course. Resuming a saved course does not count towards this limit.

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