Modules and Options Matrix
SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows may be purchased as a single product with all functions and modules, or as a core system with the option to buy additional modules as budget and need dictates. The core system will exceed any organisations needs for basic Training Administration.
All optional modules are fully integrated with the Core System. While keeping costs to a minimum, the modular route allows you to extend the system as your Business needs grow. |
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| Training Needs Analysis | Evaluation of Training and Learning |
The Training Needs Module enables you to maintain a record of Employee Training Needs however identified – from Needs Survey, Team Review, from Appraisals, Line Manager requests or CPD Plans - and use these to help you plan and organise appropriate training and learning to meet them. With its matching facility to course bookings identified needs can be matched to available learning events. Also track unsatisfied training needs!
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To what extent did the course meet your expectations? How highly would you rate the pre-course information? How highly would you rate the skills of the trainer? How highly would you rate the listening skills of the trainer? What mark out of 10 would you give the course materials? To what extent have you developed skills, which will help in your job? The Training Evaluation Module allows you to set up your own training evaluation questionnaires, with unlimited questions, and response types. Delegate response can be for named delegates, anonymous returns or summary only. OMR can also be used to reduce data capture costs. |
| Appraisal and Review Management | Administrator Line Manager Access |
Provide a list of all Appraisal Meetings that have happened so far this year? How is this looking for different types of staff or department or division? What training needs are being thrown up by the appraisals? These are just some of the questions that are readily answered with the use of the Appraisal Module. The Module allows the user to record a range of appraisal meetings from Initial Focus or Agenda Setting Meetings, Assessments, Task Observations through formal Appraisal Interviews to Follow Up Monitoring and Review Meetings as they happen. 360 Degree Review is available. Dates, Time, and those involved can all be logged and importantly agreed Appraisal, Training and CPD Targets and Outcomes can be recorded, and matched to available or planned training. SDMS Web e-Appraisal supports this with Employee and Manager Self Serve On Line. |
Do you want to devolve staff development management to Line Managers and Departments to create ownership of the organisations training processes? Perhaps you want to implement it corporately with different departments managing their own training but also sharing courses and resources without using the web. With SDMS V Training Administration Access Module, Team or Department. Administrators can be given different levels of access so that they can only see or amend information about the Staff they manage, while at the same time being able to enrol them on Courses and see what training is on offer across the whole Organisation. Click Here for more information |
| CPD Planner | IIP Training Planner |
For organisations that centre their staff development and learning on Continuous Professional Development; the CPD Planner provides a framework to hold a record of these plans and like the training needs module; match them against available course opportunities. |
The Training Planner Module allows you to develop and prepare overall training plans setting out what types of training, training courses, workshops, skills, qualifications and competencies will support the achievement of your business plan. Within the plan qualifications required or specific employee competencies can be described. In turn, each element of the training plan can be applied to departments, types of staff, particular posts or named individuals. Reports allow the training planned to be mapped against training delivered. |
| QCF Manager | Governor Record - LEAs and Children's Services |
SDMS V Staff Development has extensive features for recording and managing competencies and qualifications. The QCF Manager Module provides a simply easy to use tool to track QCF registrations, qualifications and candidate progress. It supports the key administration tasks for QCFs. Where more extensive QCF management is required a SDMS V QCF Learning and Skills for Windows offers even more features including Portfolio and Assessment Management and Laptop Assessor. |
The Governor Record is part of the standard LEA and Children’s Services Edition. It provides all main functions required by the typical Governor Services Unit, including the ability to record and manage the composition of the School governing body as part of its School record; comprehensive contact details and personal records together with skills, qualifications and responsibilities for each Governor; periods of tenure and type of Governor; and as a module of SDMS V Staff Development with comprehensive staff development and Governor training management. |
| HR Analytics Module | Fully Integrated Report Generator |
HR and Training Analytics is an optional module for SDMS V Staff Development for Windows. The need to analyse large sets of training and HR data in flexible ways without the need for traditional report writers is ever increasing. |
Reporting in SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows has been further extended by offering a fully integrated Report Generator for ad hoc report writing on data held in SDMS Software. With the Integrated Report Writer, users can access the data, design and write their own reports, in their style, when they want, in a format they need. This easy to use Report Writer enables the user as well as the IT professional, to design and produce high quality reports. |
| SMS Messaging | Training Revenues |
SDMS V Staff Development Software already has extensive emailing capabilities for sending booking confirmations, reminders and notifications of changes to dates, times and venues etc. We have now added SMS Messaging to its list of communication methods allowing you to send text messages when delegates are booked onto courses. Because the mobile phone is almost always nearby, SMS text messaging is a very effective method of reaching someone immediately. It is a preferred method for reaching someone when you know they aren’t sitting at a computer, or when the situation is urgent and you need to reach them now. |
SDMS V Revenue Manager allows the user, when enrolling delegates, to enter whether they are a fee payer or not and at what fee band they should be charged. Delegate name, the organisation the belong to if appropriate, whether they are accepted for the course and details of attendance can all be held. Banded fees can be defined and block bookings managed. Details entered during delegate enrolment automatically appear in the invoice management option. |
| Travel Expenses Manager | Training Payments |
Are travel expenses payable when staff go on external training? Is it a large part of your training budget? SDMS V Travel Manager is designed for those organisations spending a high percentage of the training budget on delegate travel costs and for which the administration of travel claims requires particular attention. SDMS V Travel Manager further extends the extensive financial and reporting functions of SDMS V Staff Development - allowing all training costs to be estimated and profiles of actual spending to be maintained. |
SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows provides the most comprehensive training and administration software available to the staff development professional. Its financial module provides Training Managers with full and flexible control of all aspects of training financials as standard. All budget periods and cost types are fully user definable to suit your financial and planning year. Estimated costs can be entered for activities, scheduled training events, training sessions and delegates. Actual costs with calculation of best estimates of spending outturn can also be recorded for activities, scheduled training events, training sessions and delegates. |
| e-Training for Web and Intranet Access | e-SD.Net Web Access |
Extend the reach of SDMS to the web or your intranet - Courses and learning planned, set up, scheduled and programmed with the “back office” features of SDMS V Staff Development are available seamlessly and dynamically to any authorised web user. Courses offered can be browsed by anyone with access to the site with On Line Registration. Administrator, Trainer, Line Manager self serve and Employee Self Serve are available in a fully user definable system. |
SDMS e-SD.Net Web Access is low cost web data driven access point for staff development and learning. It can be embedded in your existing website and learning portals. Web Tools available are: My Training Courses, My Training Course Applications, My Training Evaluatons, My CPD, My Training Needs, HR Task Review and Messaging. Click Here for more information |
| e-Learning Connect and Blended Learning | QCF Learning and Skills |
Where e-Learning is used alongside face to face training this provides integration with e- Learning Platforms. On Line Courses, Employees Record of use and assessments are imported into SDMS to provide a single data location for reporting regardless of mode of delivery. Multiple e-Learning platforms are supported. |
Fully integrated with SDMS V Staff Development QCF Learning and Skills for Windows provides a complete system for the management and administration of National Vocational Qualifications within the QCF framework. It allows you to manage every stage of the QCF learning process from initial registration, through achievement of each unit, to receipt of the award and certificate. Its portfolio management features allow you to operate “paperless” QCFs whether on the server product or the optional Laptop Assessor Module. |
| Adviser and School Support | Recruitment and Selection |
Advisory and School Support services can be more effectively managed with the software’s individual Adviser or Advisory School Visit Record. A simple and easy to use diary allows dates and times of Schools Visits to be logged. At-a-glance calendar views bring you immediately up-to-date on diary commitments. Simple reports of Schools’ Visits can be recorded – with optional School Assessments; with a full assessment and School Status History. Extensive details of service level agreements and contracts with schools are held and can be monitored against services provided. This product is fully integrated with SDMS V Staff Development. |
Similarly, this is fully integrated with SDMS V Staff Development for employee recruitment and selection. Covering all aspects of the recruitment process it reduces the administrative costs and delays often associated with recruitment, allowing you more time to ensure that the best recruitment decisions are made and the right employees stay with you longer! Recruitment Administration Checklists, Reminders and Alarms, Quick Administrators and Business Rules built into the software ensure that deadlines and tasks are never forgotten. |
| HESA Staff Record Module | National Minimum Data Set |
The HESA Staff Module is kept up to date with the changes introduced by Higher Education Statistics Agency and updates are included free of charge within the annual support contracts for the module of SDMS V HRPersonnel. It is supported by free On Line Briefings and remote Upgrade Installation. |
NMDS and Qualifications Framework Modules for Social Care provide a complete solution for assembling and managing the National Minimum Data Set. Employee and Organisational NMDS Requirements are met with integration tools to import data into the SDMS NMDS repository where it is held on other corporate systems such as payroll and HR. Data Export to Skills for Care Bulk Upload is supported. Click Here for more information |
| Sage 50 HR 2007 Easy Link | Integration with Corporate Systems, Payroll and HR |
A special module for SDMS Users who also use Sage 50 HR 2007 providing integration between the two systems. It is an easy link of Staff Details, Training Records, Qualifications and Appraisals managed within SDMS for use in Sage 50 HR. For More information on products and services
provided to support Sage ACT, Payroll and Personnel. |
More and more organisations are moving towards software that can integrate, link and communicate with corporate systems.When deciding to purchase or upgrading critical software applications SDMS provides a range of standard and bespoke services to ensure that a single data view of staff and training is maintained. Click Here for more information |
| Crystal Reports | |
Crystal Report™ Writer integrated with SDMS Software and supported by SDMS Staff. Users can produce a range of ad hoc reports - columnar, form style, drill down reports, simple lists with totals, labels, in a style and format to your needs. |
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