Corporate training and onboarding sessions have come a long way from photocopied handouts and boring PowerPoint presentations (we hope!).
Back in the day, in-house training could be uninspiring to say the least. But by introducing instruction and communication technology, businesses have helped to transform how employees receive their initial guidance into how the company works or the foundation training they need to do their jobs.
Technology for impactful training
Training with a dedicated instruction solution can make learning much more interactive, collaborative and, well, just more interesting! It’s in step with how many people have learned at school and it’s better for trainers too, saving them time by offering the automatic hand-out and collection of coursework from trainees’ computers, and supporting pre-created lesson plans and content for delivery to trainees.
Trainers can immediately see how well trainees have understood the content of a session with the real-time surveys and testing features – and can make their sessions interactive by employing multi-user/group collaborative chat or survey features.
NetSupport School – the perfect tool
NetSupport School has all these benefits and even takes things a step further, offering a ‘group leader’ mode that allows one trainee to take on a leadership role in group activity – and a dedicated gamified Q&A mode to test knowledge in a variety of ways (teamwork, individuals, random questioning, bouncing questions between trainees and more).
One thing that trainees find especially useful is the inclusion of a Student Journal where they and the tutor can record all the useful content from the session for them to refer to once the training has ended.
What do customers think?
Emerson PSS uses NetSupport School to train its students in countries across the globe. The monitoring features are used for trainers to see whether anyone is struggling with the content or have finished the activity and are ready to continue – and it especially enjoys the convenience of the Technicians’ Console tools. It says:
“NetSupport School is flawless…It is a solid product that works well with Teams, Webex, Adobe Connect and GoToMyPC, as well as Splashtop.”
Next Level Solutions uses NetSupport School to train small groups of students in different locations, too. The tutors use screen sharing for their training and enjoy being able to check on multiple students’ progress simultaneously. One of its tutors says:
“I use NetSupport…to watch everyone’s screens and make sure they’re all keeping up. It’s given MUCH better results than either giving an allotted amount of time or asking everyone to let me know when they’re done, since I can see how they’re doing, and also hop in with comments if I see someone stuck on something!”