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Channel-Focused Learning

Management

Better Training Yields Better Selling

Zift’s Learning Management is delivered in a multi-format approach, enabling your

channel partners to learn in a way that works for them—whether it’s face-to-face

classroom training, webinars or accessing content on-demand to read later. Zift makes

all of the complexities involved in running your channel program training simple.

Upload training materials in an array of multimedia formats, create multi-level module

hierarchies and manage all of your training content from one central location.

Key Features

MULTIPLE TRAINING PROGRAMS WITH DISTINCT TRAINING PORTALS

With Zift Learning Management, you can run multiple concurrent training programs

and even use distinct training portals for different groups of partners, employees,

salespeople, service teams, etc. Each portal can have its own style and branding.

EASY ADMINISTRATION

Zift makes training management for online and classroom-based training easy by

enabling you to manage everything from invitations, registration and logistics. You

have everything for single courses or multi-day events in one place.

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SIMPLE REGISTRATION

Training begins with registration. With Zift, your partners sign up right in your partner portal. And

as they do, you see training availability and demand in real time.

SPECIALIZATION RULES

Zift allows you to structure your training by the partner type. For example, you can set up modules,

certication or specialization rules to be based on professional role, such as sales and technical,

or by product type or even geography. This personalized training helps your partners become

productive as quickly as possible.

MULTIFORMAT SUPPORT

Give your partners training in formats that work for them. Whether it’s online on-demand video,

structured courseware (from applications such as Articulate or Adobe Captivate), SCORM files,

PowerPoint or PDF, Zift supports your training content.

Partners can view their progress,

showing the modules or courses they

have taken. They can also see their

quiz status, quiz results and remaining

attempts available.

PERSONALIZED PROGRESS REPORTS

CONTENT VISIBILITY

With Zift, you can restrict specific training to a particular country, group, partner type, partner role

or partner tier. This provides a personal experience for your partners that keeps them coming back

for more, and makes it easy for every partner in your ecosystem to find content that’s relevant to

them.

COURSE CATALOGS

Partners can view your course catalog, which shows the modules available to them based on their

language, role and partner type.

RATINGS

Each partner can rate the courses, modules and documents that you provide, giving you important

feedback for further program enhancements.

NOTIFICATIONS

Your partners get email conrmations in addition to activity stream and push notications of their

training registration conrmations, reminders and joining instructions.

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Event & Webinar Manager/Classroom Training

Specify class or event sizes to restrict the registrants. Zift automatically creates a waitlist when a

class reaches its limits, so you can see demand.

DETERMINE CLASS SIZE

You indicate which countries or partner types are able to join, so the right partners get the right

training.

GOVERN WHO ATTENDS

Once registered, partners can also

unregister themselves if necessary,

freeing up spots for others.

PARTNER SELFMANAGEMENT

Your partners can view agendas and event details directly on your Zift partner portal.

AGENDA

Score for Training Attendance

Add scores and pass marks so

your training event contributes

to partners certications and

specializations.

Partners can see their progress for modules and courses they have taken. Partners can also look at

quiz statuses and pass/fail results along with scores and attempts remaining.

PERSONALIZED TRANSCRIPTS

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Testing, Exams and Quizzes

ONE SIZE FITS ONE

Dierent partners have dierent testing needs. With Zift, you design, deploy and deliver the right

tests to the right partners based on partner proles. Whether it’s a simple quiz at the end of a

course or module, or a more structured exam-like process, Zift meets your needs. Zift provides

administrators with full testing flexibility and offers partners intuitive, simple access to multi-

format assessments. Assign time, pass and re-test limits. Scores are shared with each partner

immediately upon last test completion.

Key Features

QUESTION POOLS

When building quizzes with Zift, you can set up question pools, dene a range of multiple choice

question types and build scoring rules and control parameters, such as random selections. You

can also segregate questions, such as easy, medium and hard-level questions, and then create a

quiz that includes questions from each of these segments.

You associate your quizzes with modules and/or courses, setting up what determines a passing

score, the time allowed and the number of attempts allowed.

DETERMINE WHAT MARKS A PASSING GRADE

Users will get email conrmations of pass/fail along with activity stream and push notications

of registration conrmation, reminders and joining instructions. Optionally, you decide if

certicates are emailed when they pass a module.

NOTIFICATIONS AND ALERTS

With Zift’s intuitive drag-and-drop tool, you can use templates to easily create new reports,

including training data from Zift or stored SCORM data. Example reports are provided to give you

a head start. You can also create custom reports on everything from the most common question

people get wrong to the highest rated modules or partner achievement.

REPORTING

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Partner Certications

Increase the eciency of your partner certication and accreditation by setting up requirements

and business rules, and dynamically issue certicates to partners who meet all your

requirements. Plus, enable your partners to track their accreditation and certication goals—

both at an individual and company level. Zift eliminates the need for manual management, so

your channel can get to work, faster.

YOUR CHANNEL, CERTIFIED

Key Features

Zift fully supports both person- and organization-level certications, and makes all of the

complexities involved in running these programs simple.

STRUCTURED LEARNING PATHS

CERTIFICATION REGISTRATION

It all starts with registration. Partners

approve a super user at each partner

organization to register their colleagues.

Notify partners about certication expiry and new training rules as well as email certications

when they pass a module.

NOTIFICATIONS

Your partners track their individual progress as they move toward full certication and the

modules they need to be fully certied. Inside the Zift partner portal, your partners click directly

into the modules they need to complete the certication.

CERTIFICATION PROGRESS REPORTS

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PERSONAL CERTIFICATES

Your partners can view and print their personal certicates, which are generated as read-only

PDFs, for eortless download and printing.

CERTIFICATION RULES

In Zift’s admin console, you create the rules for your partners’ certication. These may be simple

prerequisites for each individual module or for the entire certication. You specify which modules

need to be passed, in which order and over what time period. If needed, you can also apply more

complex rules, such as indicating that a partner must take module “101a classroom” or “101b

online” and any 3 modules from a set of 5 modules.

CERTIFICATION VALIDITY

Specify the time period in which your partners must complete their certification as well as the

rules for how long their certification is valid.

CERTIFICATION VISIBILITY

Within Zift, you can restrict the certication to country or country group or by partner type (e.g.,

reseller, distributor, etc.) or partner user group (e.g., Gold Tier partners, partner sales professional,

etc.).

SPECIALIZATION / ACCREDITATION

Create organization-level rules to ensure that your partner organizations are fullling their

training commitments to you. Zift will automatically monitor and report training compliance for

each partner organization, and you can use this information in business plans to dene program

tier membership rules.

Administrators at your channel partner organizations can view their colleagues’ training progress

as well as their own, enabling your partners to better manage the progress of their organization

towards the certications oered by your company.

TEAM TRAINING

STYLED CERTIFICATES

Create styled certificates that match your corporate branding

using Zift’s easy-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editor. Include your

brand images and signatures on the certificates as well as the

details of the certification achieved. Certifications are also fully

congurable through Zift’s simple CMS.