More than 100 charities save precious time and money whilst addressing the essential skills of their staff through membership of The Charity Learning Consortium. Find out how they benefit, and why you should join them, in this interactive webinar.

Wendy Stanley, Head of Membership at The Charity Learning Consortium, is passionate about providing good quality, cost-effective learning solutions to charities and not for profit organisations.

In this webinar, she’ll explain why more than 100 charities are members of the Consortium and how they benefit by learning from each other – ultimately being able to do ‘more for less’ with their L&D budgets.

She’ll explain why we call membership a partnership, and why our members say such nice things about our customer service:

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of the team at CLC for your ongoing support and advice since we joined the Consortium which has been key in getting us to where we are in our elearning journey” Addaction

Wendy will also touch on our many eLearning success stories, including with Hanover Housing, whose Learning and Development Manager came in second place and was highly commended in the Training Journal Learning and Development Professional of the Year award last year; Addaction, recently shortlisted for an HR Excellence Award; and Barnardo’s, runner up in the Training Department of the Year in the Learning Awards 2012.

In this webinar you will learn:

• Why the Consortium is so unique, and why joining us makes for such a compelling business argument
• The many benefits of joining our group, which includes support to help you make the most of the learning on offer, workshops, online training and an annual conference
• How our members are reaping the benefits and seeing a real return on their investment

Register for this webinar

• Starting a charity
• Collaboration
• Commissioning
• Procurement

If you have anything that you think may be suitable, then please email Susie Finch sfinch@charitylearning.org for further details.

As well as what we have been able to develop for you, we have a couple of extra modules that specific members have asked for that we are currently unable to build for you. In the spirit of the consortium we wondered if any of you would like to benefit and share the development cost of these further enhancements. What I have done is to outline the enhancements and what they would do for you, in brief, so that you may contact us if you are interested.

Development One – Face to Face Reporting
Face to Face (Moodle’s Event Booking facility) has become a critical tool for our members and will be ported to Moodle 2 with you*. We currently have a request to add Face to Face reporting in to the main reporting module so that you may also see a student’s attendance at a glance. We have received a quote on this which is estimated to come in at around £2,200 + vat.
(*Face to Face for Moodle 2 is still in the process of being ported by the community. Although most functionality is there it is not complete. This means that with the best will, the development may need some adaptations even once it has been completed)

Development Two – CPD Tracking
CPD tracking is important to many of our members. We have scoped an advanced CPD quote that would track a user’s CPD points over the period of a year either automatically (should the course be on your Moodle) or manually (the user may enter details themselves). As well as this being useful for the user there will also be a reporting tool which will let you report on a particular users status, should you want to. This development is expected to cost between £12,000 and £14,000 at the moment.

In each case we already have one member interested so the cost is potentially already halved. This is your online learning platform, make it your own by helping to extend it and make it the best tool out there. Even corporate developments of Moodle don’t have some of these advanced tools!

Why Moodle 2?
This is the future of our learning platform. We think it would be a good idea to have any of your developments set along-side ours so that we can ensure a tight integration with our own developments inside of Moodle.

When is Moodle 2 coming?
Moodle 2 will be launching in August this year. We will be launching all new members on the Moodle 2 platform from this date and upgrade those who have these developments as a priority. Upgrades across other Moodle sites will be agreed with each member individually.

Please get in touch as soon as you can to let us know if you are interested in being involved in either of these advanced developments.

Thank you,

Ian

Ian Ross – CTP
Learning Technologies Manager
Charity Learning Consortium
08451 707705
+447584992039
iross@charitylearning.org

Places will cost £95 including VAT.

Places will be allocated on a first come-first served basis up to a maximum of 10 delegates.

Delegates will need to bring laptops with them with the Perform software installed and perhaps some examples of courses you might already be working on.

We will provide all attendees with a pre-course evaluation so that we can ensure the training is relevant for you.

To book your place, or for more information, please contact Melanie mwenban@charitylearning.org.

It is a fantastic achievement to get so far, especially as they are the only Charity to be short listed in this category so we really wish them the best of luck.

Other organisations in this category are:

• Addaction
• Birmingham City Council
• Deutsche Bank
• Hays
• KPMG
• Jaguar Land Rover
• Plymouth City Council
• Royal Bank of Scotland

The Awards take place on 25th June so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for them.

Charities are once again set to benefit from free access to the organisational-wide eLearning on offer from The Charity Learning Consortium, in support of Adult Learners’ Week (14-18 May) including National Learning at Work Day on 17 May.

Last year more than 80 charities and not-for-profits working in the voluntary sector made the most of the complimentary eLearning for their organisations – and this year the Consortium hopes to welcome even more.

The 180 courses in the Consortium’s suite include a wide range of health and safety training; desktop IT skills; courses to boost expertise in people management and soft skills like communication – so there really is something for everyone.

Martin Baker, founder and CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium commented: “It’s been a particularly tough time for charities, so I’m delighted to be able to throw open our eLearning suite for the week to support them, and the development of essential skills in the voluntary sector.”

Charities and not for profit organisations working in the voluntary sector interested in free access to the Charity Learning Consortium’s courses for Adult Learners’ Week can either register online or email their request to Melanie Wenban, Customer Care Co-ordinator: mwenban@charitylearning.org by 9 May latest. The Consortium will set up a charity pass, which will enable all staff within nominated Third Sector organisations to self register and log on.

About The Charity Learning Consortium: Efficiency through collaboration

The Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) enables cost effective eLearning in the Third Sector. We’re the largest group of UK based charities collaborating to make eLearning affordable, with more than 100 charity members. The CLC makes online learning available to countless volunteers and well over 100,000 Third Sector staff.

Charities join to save money, but also benefit from networking with others with similar goals, sharing resources, ideas and best practice. Members also enjoy special discounts and specialist workshops designed to help them make the most of eLearning.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Find out more at http://www.charitylearning.org/

We’ll be allocating these on a first out of the hat basis – so if you’d like to be in with a chance of a complimentary delegate place, please email mwenban@charitylearning.org by 9am this Friday 27 April.

TrainingZone Live is a great opportunity to network with others in L&D, with a fantastic line-up of workshop leaders, including evaluation ‘guru’ Jim Kirkpatrick.

NB. For those who would like to attend, and are unlucky in the draw, we also have a very generous discount for all charities and not for profits, so you’ll only pay £149 + VAT (instead of £499 + VAT). More details about this offer are here.

For more information about the event go to http://www.trainingzonelive.co.uk/

How would you feel about bringing along a laptop? This would mean you could install the tools prior to the event and would mean you won’t have to use trial versions/unfamiliar PCs etc.

Would you be prepared to pay a little bit more if we cannot get a member venue included in the cost? Ideally we would like to use member venues wherever possible to keep costs down for you but this isn’t always possible. If you are prepared to bring your own laptops then it means we can be more flexible with the spaces we use.

Does anyone have any classroom space available to use, with or without computers?

We realise that these training days are of real value to you and we want to tailor them specifically for your needs, whilst still keeping the costs as low as possible.

Any ideas or feedback on how to run these sessions better are greatly welcome!

Please email me at mwenban@charitylearning.org

Thanks,

Melanie

We are in the middle of a big change here at the CLC, moving our community across to a shared Moodle with single sign-on access. Although you will be able to access the community site, by clicking the icon, most of you will not be able to access content on it at the moment.

We have moved things ahead for those who are taking part in the Health and Safety 2012 project so that we may collaborate and work together to build this course. Those who are part of the project will find this button essential, as will the rest of you in due course.

Your users will NOT be able to see or use this button. Only those who have administrator level access can see it. If you have any issue with this button, please email the helpdesk@charitylearning.org