Visional Inc. Technology

 

Visional Inc utilizes myPlayerT, a 100% Flash services-based course player and testing engine that is completely modular. The flexibility of myPlayerT allows for a completely customizable, secure and reliable e-Learning solution.

 

Course Maker RTO

Visional Inc. is pleased to offer our clients the Course Maker RTO program. Course Maker RTO is an integrated course development tool that offers our customers the ability to create and upload custom e-learning programs in real-time.

 

Course Maker RTO offers unprecedented flexibility to convert existing training courses to high-level interactive Flash based e-learning. You can:

 

  • Select color schemes, backgrounds and styles
  • Create themes and apply them throughout the course
  • Add effects to images, text, or buttons
  • Layout course scenes, lessons, and chapters
  • Add high resolution imagery (background or foreground)
  • Upload audio, video, animation, files and multimedia clips
  • Add interactive buttons, actions and external URLs
  • Test the finished course and upload to your VLP

 

Course Maker RTO provides all the tools necessary to create and implement engaging, interactive e-courseware. To find out more about Course Maker RTO and how it can help you create cost-effective e-learning programs, contact your Visional Client Representative today.

 

Virtual Learning Portal

Visional Inc.'s unique approach to e-learning led to the development and implementation of our proprietary learning management system, Virtual Learning Portal (VLP). Each VLP system is completely modular, which allows unprecedented flexibility for our customers' e-learning initiatives.

 

VLPs offer a powerful array of tools and services that help streamline your organization's training processes. Some exciting features include:

 

  • No Software or Hardware
  • Modular Functionality
  • Scalability Availability
  • Compliance Management
  • Reporting
  • Multi-level User
  • E-Commerce
  • Secure User
  • White label branding
  • Intranet Functionality

 

LMS Hosting

LMS Hosting means on-demand e-learning without the added expense of purchasing software and hardware to be built and maintained in your own IT infrastructure. LMS hosting gives organizations an alternative to costly equipment and IT personnel. We commit our resources to providing a secure, scalable, and private solution for your organization built on our n+1 infrastructure allowing you to deliver training via the Internet with little to no setup on your part. Our systems enable you to decrease the total cost of ownership, reduce risk, increase ROI, and focus on training instead of technology.

 

Visional Inc's' Virtual Learning Portals are hosted exclusively in our n+1 data center in Austin, Texas. Our datacenter provides fully redundant Internet connectivity (connected to six of the world's largest Internet Backbones), which provides our customers the reliability, scalability and uptime they require. Further, our 24x7 Network Operations Center constantly monitors the datacenter to ensure utilization and throughput thresholds are not exceeded. Our network architecture eliminates single points of failure and results in our ability to guarantee 100% network uptime.

 

  • Data Security and Encryption

    Our systems utilize encryption products to protect customer data and the communications between their systems and ours. Our security systems prevent customers from viewing another customer's data. All information viewed or entered into our systems is encrypted via SSL while in transmission. Visional employees do not have direct access to your data, and we do not rent, sell, or lease your data to third parties. Limited access is provided to Visional employees only for support or when determined necessary by management.

  • Network Security

    Our networks are protected by the latest firewalls and intrusion protection systems sourced by leading security vendors. We maintain service contracts with all hardware and software vendors to ensure our systems maintain the latest service packs and updates available. In addition, we regularly deploy a comprehensive vulnerability assessment to ensure we adhere to the latest security standards. We maintain our own servers and equipment and do not rely on third parties to support our equipment. Our specially trained staff is skilled with the latest industry technologies, and we regularly train our employees to keep up with the ever changing technology environment.

  • Systems

    Visional employees do not have direct access to production equipment, except when necessary for system management, maintenance, monitoring, and backups. Visional does not utilize third parties or managed service providers to service or maintain our equipment. All systems are protected by strong passwords and master passwords are not shared. All upgrades, service packs, and firmware updates are maintained per each vendor's recommendations. When applicable, systems are hardened by removing unnecessary services and processes.

  • Physical

    Physical access to our systems is secured by 24-hour physical security, bio-metric access controls throughout, CCTV, personnel, and steel re-enforced barriers. Bi-grid power is backed up by parallel redundant UPSs and redundant CAT Diesel generators. Environmental concerns are addressed by ensuring constant temperature and humidity levels with four-phase fire prevention/suppression.

  • Redundancy and Disaster Recovery

    Our infrastructure is designed with redundantly configured routers, firewalls, load balancers, SSL accelerators, web servers, application servers, and database servers. All customer data is stored using RAID disk storage and is backed up with each transaction. Nightly backups of all data are stored to tape drives, which are subsequently verified for integrity and moved to a secure off-site storage facility. Visional is in agreement, in the event of a disaster, to provide access to a remote disaster recovery facility. In the event our main production facilities become unavailable, the necessary hardware and software are available at a remote location for quick recovery.

 

Assessments and Evaluations

The Visional Virtual Learning Portal offers a robust and highly flexible testing and assessment engine that helps you deliver effective knowledge assessments. Available as a stand-alone system, this hosted testing solution offers a variety of features including:

 

  • Pre- and post assessments

    Utilizing pre and post-assessments is a great way to chart and analyze the effectiveness of e-learning courses.

  • Question and answer randomization

    This is a powerful security feature that allows you to offer tests compiled from a random pool of exam questions. The system also allows for answer randomization for added test security and validity.

  • Instantaneous results and multiple feedback options

    Upon completing the online assessments, student results can be displayed immediately. Our VLP offers a variety of student feedback options, and allows for assessment content area reporting.

  • Student identity validation

    Visional has developed a unique personal validation model that is integrated into our testing systems. This validation process ensures student identity and eliminates the need for expensive assessment proctoring.

  • Variety of exam timing options

    Some assessments are designed for timed delivery. Our testing engine supports multiple timing features, including timing by question, timing by area, and timing by complete exam.

  • Exam reports and statistics

    Each VLP comes standard with a robust administration system that allows you to run a variety of training and testing results. These reports can be printed or exported in XML for uploading into your Human Resources system.

  • Skills/Topic assessments

    Assessment questions can be divided into content area topics. Each content area can be graded independently, allowing the student to focus on training weaknesses.

  • Proctored Examinations

    Many official certification examinations now allow online testing in a proctored setting. Our assessment engine allows the creation of unique proctor IDs and passwords that provide complete security and control over the testing environment.