DigitalChalk offers great value with no nonsense implementation and administration
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started using Digital Chalk for the training of our 2000 national leader volunteers in our Volunteer Relations department. We were delivering a leadership development program with over 30 online courses. The interface was so easy to use for both our administrators and learners, plus the level of personalized customer service was so good, it led to us using it for both staff and the rest of our 9000 volunteers for all our online training needs. It has also been adopted by other departments within the organization as their Learning Management System to sell training and deliver training.
Pros
- Digital Chalk has a great video integration feature, which allows you to add pauses and questions to your video training to check user comprehension.
- Our learners are typically older and not very tech-savvy. The user interface of Digital chalk is very clean, simple, and functional. It was very easy for our learners to find their way around and take the training they needed.
Cons
- The administration of Digital Chalk is very easy. The function I think may be missing is an easy way to add revisions and assign them to the students who need them. For example, when you update a piece of a course it would have an indication that it is version xxx and would ask who would like to assign it to - everyone who has taken it before or just new students.
- It would nice to have the system recognize when a student has already completed an element of a course that may be used in another course. For example, if video A is part of courses 1 and 2, and the student already watched it in course 1, it would ask the administrator if they should get automated credit for it in course 2, as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
Digital Chalk is perfect for organizations who are looking for an easy to use Learning Management System and don't need all the bells, whistles, and bulk of the LMS giants, like Cornerstone or SuccessFactors. Digital Chalk doesn't require an administrative specialist to learn a whole new language and environment with endless options and settings. It's very easy to use for both learners and administrators, and yet at the same time provides the exact functions you need.
