Tailored, Solution Based
Learning Platform
for Your Team

Our online learning platform takes the guesswork & pain out of choosing, administering and supporting an LMS.

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Our PaaS LMS Solution

There are literally hundreds of online learning platforms and you could spend a year researching them.  We know, because we did!!.

When we were looking at platforms we had a few criteria that we used to help us rank them.  Here's just a few of the things we wanted (in no particular order):

  • User friendly mobile phone app
  • User friendly for staff to pick up and learn
  • A really large install-base so we get the benefit of an international community all driving improvement of the platform.
  • Open platform supporting integration with lots of different learning, authoring tools (API, LTI)
  • Supports global standards such as Common Cartridge and SCORM.

The platform we found that had everything we wanted was Canvas

We can setup, support and administer your own custom branded learning experience platform based on Canvas with Australian based support, assistance and training.

Applications For Use

Engaged learners means better courses completion rates and learning is more likely to be applied. This means you can make important learning/training/development opportunities available anytime, anywhere on any device. The applications are endless, but here’s a few:

Inductions

Health and Safety Training

Contractor Inductions

Site inductions

Employee training

Technical & Skill training

Career Development

Leadership and Management Training

Ongoing Professional Development

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Fully Supported

No system administration
required

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Custom Branded

Your own branding, logo,
colours & styles

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User Friendly

Simple and straightforward
interface for learners, training
staff and managers to use.

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Integration Options

Connect with Office 365
or Google Docs

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App Access

For students and managers
to work "on the go"

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Flexible Pricing

Options for any size enterprise.
Get in touch to discuss your
particular needs.

Need to deliver remote, blended or online training?

The typical journey of many organisations looking to adopt an LMS commences with someone in an organisation being tasked to “…go find us an LMS!” At this point, someone goes out and starts to research LMS’s only to find out that there are about 1,000 to choose from, with new ones coming on to the market all the time.

A common theme we hear is that people choose an open source solution like Moodle because ‘it’s free!’ only to find out the hidden costs of trying to support and manage the ‘free’ system. Or, they go with an LMS that doesn’t have the functionality they actually need but it’s too late now as the company needs to get ROI on the platform investment before they even think about going out again to find another one to replace it.

Of course, finding an LMS is only the first challenge...

The next challenge is to get some courses on the platform for employees to use. Unless you have a team of experienced online course developers, often you end up with a working course that is functional but not engaging. You then spend most of your time trying to push, cajole, beg employees to complete the course developed. After a while, you give up and the LMS sits in the corner and is only used for compliance training or not used at all.

An LMS is only part of
the solution.

People don't necessarily want a mortgage... they want a house. Similarly, we are pretty sure that you don't necessarily want an LMS. What you are probably looking for is:

A cloud based system that your employees and contractors can easily access to find quality learning resources that are relevant, interesting and engaging.

A partner who can help you establish and maintain a range of courses (course catalogue) that are relevant for your industry and your particular business needs.

An environment that allows you (and your people) to develop your own resources to enable 'learning on demand' with simple, easy to use authoring tools plus access to some help and advice on how to build engaging online courses.

The ability to focus on the development needs of your employees and contractors not just on administering and supporting a system.

So if you are not just looking for an LMS and instead are looking for a full solution to help you build, maintain and support a positive, engaging online people and learning platform then get in touch with us to explore the options available to you.

Our Expert Team

Chris Bartlett

Chris is the Build Team Honcho at Optivly. Highly creative by nature, Chris is a singer & song writer, a qualified chef and a coffee aficionado. As if that wasn't enough, he's also the voice over guy for many of our videos.

Chris is very good at leveraging technology to assist the learning experience and manages the build process (a process which is akin to herding cats sometimes). He has a Degree in Creative Arts and combines business analysis, management, training & assessing,  audio & video production and IT support skills.

Chris also likes to flex his strength in managing our Platform as a Service and can set up your organisation quicker than you can say "what the heck is with that dinosaur thing?".

Ronzilla

Ron is our company mascot.  If we have the chance to work together, you can ask where the heck Ron came from.  Ron's name is a reference to Ron Burgundy from Anchorman and Godzilla from.... Tokyo in the 70's.

Ron doesn't know much about eLearning at all.  Ron thinks that eLearning is just a matter of taking a few student manuals and some PowerPoints and whacking them up online..... #don't be like Ron.

Len Rivera

Build Honcho.  Len has many years experience in eLearning design and has a real passion for creating engaging learning experiences.  Len has a degree in multimedia arts and a black-belt in putting up with Paul (having worked with him at more than one company). Len brings strong design and development capability to the team, producing everything with an eye for detail and quality to ensure the learning journey is as awesome as it should be.

You name an eLearning authoring tool and Len has been there, done that and got the t-shirt.  Apart from being familiar with loads of learning tools, Len has used and administered quite a range of Learning Management Systems. Classically training in eLearning authoring and development, Len brings some much needed discipline to our somewhat eclectic team.

Belinda Singh

When Belle is not feeding or looking after her alpacas, goats, horses, dogs and other assorted animals, she provides Operations Management to the Response Group which includes our merry band of miscreants and ne'er-do-wells. We also promised we would include a reference to unicorns in this prose.  So here it is Belle.... unicorns.

Belle puts the word detail to shame which is lucky really given her broad remit around trying to manage all of our systems whilst maintaining sanity. Belle has senior HR experience in the Australian meat industry and has a deep understanding of RTO operations, compliance and training. Belle excels at delivering projects on time, in scope and on budget.

Wayne Singh

Wayne is the IT Honcho and manages all the technical stuff.  If you were to describe your typical IT type guy, Wayne would probably tick a lot of the boxes you are thinking about.  Loves computer games, tick. Experimenting with Virtual Reality, check. Nerdy T Shirts and an exceedingly large brain, also tick. Bad jokes, tick.

Luckily Wayne is so good at tech as he manages all the infrastructure, systems, integration and hardware for the group. Between Wayne and Chris, they can setup your Learning environment, connect Single Sign On, have your branding and theming done and loaded up your users before you've signed the project plan.

Wayne has over 20 years experience in Information Technology, including developing in-house HR and Training systems for a large Australian meat processing company and has worked across Australia and New Zealand but we don't hold that against him.

Paul Eldridge

Paul is the Head Honcho and has close to 15 years of online and blended learning experience.  With many battle scars and war wounds over the years, he likes to help other organisations navigate the sometimes complex landscape of learning platforms and content development. Wayne and Paul like to occasionally get together to nerd out over new technology.

Paul has co-founded a number of businesses all based around professional learning and training. As an example, he worked with CBA to build an online induction course for mortgage brokers joining CBA; flew to Illocos Norte in far northern Phillipines to work on an training platform; shared some Pho with MLA and DFAT in Hanoi & Saigon while working on a QA training project and had to act all professional and disciplined whilst working with some very distinguished gents at AMP in Sydney.

On the platform side of things, Paul cofounded a Software company  to design and build a PaaS LXP and CPD solution for professionals. The platform developed was partnered with Thomson Reuters a Fortune 500 company and domestically counted CBA, AMP and LJ Hooker amongst its customer base

Jess Florent

Instructional Design Guru

Jess has a real passion for learning. Learning languages was her first focus and after living in Spain for 6 years her Spanish ability made for some interesting experiences. Just ask the Madrid bus drivers.

Jess understands adult learners and their need to see the relevance of the learning – they want to be able to apply it directly to their work. She understands how easy it is to be distracted in today’s world (probably because she has three kids) so capturing a learner’s attention relies on highly engaging materials and active learning processes delivered in a time-efficient manner. From teaching head honchos in top Spanish firms to industry leaders from South East Asia, Jess knows how to tailor learning to suit each individual or group.

Jess has a Master of Education, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts (Spanish) as well as certifications in TESOL and train the trainer and a word of caution, if you’re short on time DON’T ask her about ‘The Barefoot Investor’, Spanish food, camping at Cylinder or her favourite cheeses from Aldi.