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When a person educates themselves they strive to become "a better person of me". We have the drive to move further. To learn more for the sake of being curious and loving of knowledge itself for sure, but also to fill our own CV with certified knowledge in order to get a better life. You go courses onsite or online to reach somewhere. For the purpose of a future position within the company that you currently work for or for a future employer.
The KLMS system offers a range of online courses that you can take. Depending on the Company and the admin on this organization who has the license to use the commercial system that KlikcData sells, the KLMS (Abbrovation for Klick Learning Management System) gives you access to Courses and the possibility to take Certifications. What is available to take is personal in the settings provided to you.
Some Admin of a KLMS license sets the limit to a few Courses that are needed for you to do your work and to get the validation you know how to handle things within the Company. The Courses and Course Plan sent is defined by the Admin in Settings.
Other Companies see the KLMS as an Employer Branding tool and encourage the staff members to take as many Courses possible. They have a budget for Education that the staff members take both on the work time but also invest in the future of an employee since they will leave one day and become an ambassador for the Company bringing clients and services to business after leaving the payroll.
Course versus Course Plan
In KLMS the definition of terminology is straightforward. The concept is set to Courses. (C)
Courses are divided into Material (M), Tests, (T), and Surveys (S). Material, Test, Survey as parts of a Course or Tasks are defined as Course Items (CI)
A Course can have multiple parts in different orders.
Attending certificate
A Course can consist of only a Material to take part in. Like a Terms of Use you click on by scroll fast to the OK button, the Material is presented to you and you are expected to read it. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. The point is, when you click OK, you have read it and accepted it as learned and the management now can have the confirmation that you have been alerted, informed, and in one sense "educated".
If you break any rules, instructions and do not follow any of the information in the Material you had taken, the middle management can inform the higher management that "you were informed" and that no blame shall be given to him or her. "Cover the back of boss" - Course is sometimes used. The member of the staff has "Taken part. Might have understood. ". You have taken part, which is the point.
Some governmental requirements like GDPR or sitting next to the emergency seat by telling the flight attendee that you have read and understood the procedure. Despite that you, in fact, might have a lot of questions and do not completely feel really sure you have is an example of this Participation "oral attending certificate".
The stewardess could have spoken to you to fast and was given you instructions you did not understand fully, but your mindset and focus could have been somewhere else. The Stewardess has followed her mandatory instructions before take-off be instruct you and she is, therefore "Covered" if you indeed do not know how to open the emergency door in case of an emergency. There is no Test to make sure you now know and if you failed you need to move to another seat in the plane. As soon as you say "OK" to the Stewardess; the Emergency Seat Course is over and you "passed the test".
The result of a Course with only a Material can be an attending certificate. A note of Participation Note or a Diploma.
Diploma Certificate.
In KLMS you can have Material to learn, followed by a Test. This test can consist of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with one alternative being correct and the other incorrect or MCQs with more than one answer correct. Each question can have different points depending on the answer alternative given. The test can have a grading system set by the creator or the HR Department admin. Depending on the difficulty of the questions, your skill of knowledge at the time of taking the test, and the grading system.
A diploma can be given with zero correct answers correct given if the creator has decided to set the grading system at this level. The KLMS system is established to create a certificate for people who run nuclear power stations and need to know a subject to 100% before passing the test to 180 degrees on the other side of demand with people who take yoga class instruction tutorials. Freedom of the admin and course creator to set its own standard is a choice.
Certification
When you have a grading system in a test and users have taken the test and pass the test within the limits, you can have a Certification Diploma of different levels. You will receive a Diploma with a Grade. The Certificate publisher who created the Course and made the test decides what you will get in terms of Certificate. And at what levels. If you have a skill to learn and lots of followers on YouTube, you can certify the crowd that follows you by adding tests and give them certifications with you as the Publisher of the Certificate using the system. If your company has its own Academy, you can have certifications from this Company.
This certification is to be added to your LinkedIn profile.
Master certificate
If you add certifications in the plural in a subject, admin can set a Master Certifications with many Courses completed. So if Course A, Course B, and Course C is passed with a Certificate: You will receive a Master Certificate. So a Master's degree can be set with Certifications from many Courses. It can be given with or without any extra afford. Admin can set the bar of a Master Certificate by adding a Final Exam Test with questions from previous Courses. The system allows picking random questions from a pool of questions previously used in courses. Or add new.
Online training is in 2020 and in the decade of 2020 to follow a center of learning and with KLMS the Knowledge Network is our vision. As a customer using the KLMS, either as a student in an educational institution using the KLMS or within a Company having established its own Academy with the KLMS platform or being a freelancer using the possibilities to teach online and give your pupils or followers a possibility to certify their knowledge after taking part of your skills you provide; The KLMS offer you a solution for the ever ongoing learning process.
Open Courses versus closed
Open Courses is Courses created for the Public to take when he or she logs in to KLMS. Open Courses can have a price to take or be free. Limited courses or closed Courses are courses that are set to specific companies, groups, or individuals. Admin of the KLMS account decides which courses are available to you.
You can log in to a company account of KLMS with a certain amount of Courses accessible to you and you can log in to a different account like the Klick Data account and have a different set of courses, tests, surveys, course plans, and materials available.
Summarize
To summarize the different level of certifications and Diploma possible to acquire within the KLMS from a technical standpoint:
In this FAQ article, we have described the difference and finalize the terminology of what we actually mean and make a clear distinction between
A. Attendances certificate/ Participation (no demand of knowledge required, the test can be absent)
B. Diploma (Passed test with a set limit. Limit to pass can be zero, but test in the Course is involved)
C. Certification (Passed a limit that can be different depending on the grading system. If diploma has a pass/no pass limit, certifications have technically 3, like fail, ok and good.
D. Master certification. Multiple passed Course can give a Master Certification (with or without a final test/ Exam test)
Update: May 14, 2020