Course Features and Benefits

MangoLearn courses offer unique benefits unavailable from other self-paced training vendors.

Each course is developed using a rigorous set of criteria. Our criteria include quality content, interaction, graphics, and interspersed questions, making learning fun, interesting, and effective.  Courses carrying the Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide and the Microsoft Office User Specialist logos have been reviewed and approved by Microsoft, ensuring their quality. Our comprehensive curriculum is developed entirely in-house, and our courses provide the following features and benefits:

Skill Assessment:

• Generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test of your skills before taking a course. The pre-test identifies individual strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to take only the units you haven’t mastered.
• Allows testing at any time and is available from within each course.
• Tracks your scores by unit. Initial, current, and best scores are tracked. Scores are available to view on screen or for administrators to print immediately.
• Provides a post-test. You'll know how well you've mastered the material once this test is completed.
• Allows any of our courses to be taken and your best score to be compared with our Mastery Level Score.

Questions:

• Challenge you with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false,multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• Some of our courses are in the “Think About It” format. After answering these questions, you receive a green check mark for a correct response, a red “x” if the answer is incorrect, or a purple exclamation point indicating you are on the right track. The course then gives a hint and the option to re-answer the question correctly.

Simulations:

Use the free Macromedia Authorware Web Player plug-in, enabling you to run the optional simulations found in MindLeaders courses.

• Are multiple-step, with realistic screen representations, so you can see how the application really works.
• Include hints and step-by-step instructions to assist you through the simulation.
• May be replayed multiple times for a better understanding of the illustrated concepts.

Exercises:

• Give you valuable hands-on experience.
• Can be combined with the supplied sample files, allowing your new skills to be tested by completing an exercise within the actual application.
• Include pre-bundled sample applets to run in Visual Basic (for our Visual Basic courses).

Supplied Sample Files:

• Include sample documents, application files, programs, and programming code.
• Can be copied into a document or compiler, enabling you to practice with these files and save
  time by using them in a document or program of your own.
• Use a split screen approach (the ability to see both exercise instructions and live application
  on one screen) to ensure full understanding.
• Allow code analysis and provide sample output, enhancing your learning experience.

Course Topics and Index:

• Provide a quick reference tool allowing each course to remain useful to you. Each item in the Course Topic list and Index is an active hyperlink, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Include a Master “Course Topics and Index” permitting quick access to the tables of content and indices for our entire course library. This makes it easy to locate specific information to study or reference.
• Complement the course glossary, a great reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.

Search:

• Allows you to research a topic of interest in any or all of the courses you can access.
• Enables you to rapidly search all text, including text within coding examples, to easily retrieve the information you require.

Tip of the Day:

•  Helps you to gain insight into course-wide features, enabling you to more effectively use our courses.
• Feature is modifiable by you. View a tip every time you sign on to take a course, scroll through multiple tips, or elect not to show tips upon startup.

Accessibility:

• Allows vision-impaired students to use a text reader program to read the text-only version of a course.
• Enables students to access the various MindLeaders course features by using command keys to navigate, search the glossary, answer course questions, and more.
• Fully compatible with JAWS 3.7 and 4.5.
• Complies with all Federal 508 regulations and W3C’c WCAG guidelines.

Global Bookmarking:

• Tracks your progress in a course. The next time you access the course, you will return to the same location within the course. You don’t need to remember either where you stopped or how to return to where you stopped.
• Can be bypassed if you are only using the course for reference and do not need to bookmark.

Delivery:

• No downloading of course files is required before, during, or after a course is taken by an online user. This keeps local hard drives free of unnecessary files.
• Each course page is a separate HTML file, making it easy on network bandwidth, and making it possible to navigate within a course one page at a time on demand.
• Small page size (average of only 16k) ensures fast response time through the Internet, intranets, and local area networks without negatively impacting production network performance.

Navigation:

• Each course provides students with the same easy-to-use and intuitive course presentation through a web browser (i.e. Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer).

Flexible Timing:

• Means our courses are ready when you are - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Allows you to control the pace. Learn quickly or take your time.
• Allows you to focus on what you need. Skip what you know or don’t need, or take courses repeatedly. It’s your choice.

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