Manage Your Distance Education Program Students With E-Learning Compliance

Distance education has provided a great opportunity for students who are not able to attend a regular course due to some financial or personal reasons. It helps students to learn at their own pace and gain knowledge. Distance education has helped students to gain a degree and career of their choice. In distance education, students can also contact their respective teaching faculty to clarify their subject doubts. Besides these benefits, institutions need to manage their distance education programs and know the exact enrollment of students in their distance education programs.

The U.S. Department of Education requires an institution that offers distance education in the state in which it is not physically located or in which it is otherwise subject to state jurisdiction as determined by the state, to obtain approval for their online program in each state. The requirements as to which activities require authorization, the application processes, and the costs to comply vary greatly from state-to-state.

Beside this many states in the United States have become NC-SARA states. National Council State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (NC-SARA) is an agreement among member states that establishes comparable national standards for interstate offering of postsecondary distance education courses and programs. NC-SARA benefits institutions by enabling more efficient provision of distance education to a broader market reduce the number of other state regulations to continually monitor and track and reduces the number of applications and individual state requirements.

But institutions have to not only obtain and maintain state authorization for their programs but also, in the absence of any organized electronic solution, have to deal with the following problems:

1. Tracking approval and renewal status of authorization for various online programs in various states.

2. Keeping track of all communication and documents exchanged with these agencies for the approval and/or renewal process.

3. Maintaining a database of faculty profiles and student experience associated with their online programs.

4. Keeping track of all financial expenses incurred in the authorization process.

5. Generating and providing reports to university administration.

6. Keeping their online education or distance learning websites up-to-date.

E-Learning Compliance Application By Inknowledge

E-Learning Compliance application assists an institution in the management of their state authorization process. The application helps the institution to analyze student enrolment numbers with your licensure and authorization status. This helps the institution to know the students that need to be contacted.

Features of E-Learning Compliance:

1. E-Learning Compliance provides a ready to use and comprehensive database of state agencies and professional licensure board covering over 35 different professions. These state agencies database consist of important contacts and their links, which is important in the process of state authorization.

2. The physical presence tracker in E-Learning Compliance helps to record and track all business, employment, advertisement, instruction and recruitment activities by the program.

3. E-Learning Compliance provides direct integration with the institution's student information system. This helps to analyze student enrolment number with licensure and authorization status. It also helps the institution to know the students that need to be contacted.

4. E-Learning Compliance helps to track expenses for each authorization and licensure by category. You can maintain remarks and use expense reports for budget reporting or planning.

5. In E-Learning Compliance, you can maintain notes related to your research on licensure requirements, employee files, internal discussions and call logs. This notes can be edited and shared with the entire team and thus allows you to build a usable knowledge base.

6. You can create a centralized repository of all your related documents. You can drag and drop multiple files to upload or reuse previously uploaded files.

7. E-Learning Compliance provides a repository of all your program related information that can also be maintained by your program coordinators.

8. It helps to manage the licensure requirements with actual hours specification as per the states and programs.

9. E-Learning Compliance provides the number of prebuilt analytical reports which helps to gather analytical information and derive insights from it. You can use rules to filter these reports for visualization or reporting. You can also export the data to work offline or directly grab a snapshot for including in your business reports.

10. The tools and services in E-Learning Compliance like auto-reminders, to-dos and automatic website publishing help to save your time. The pre-built, customizable, public-facing explore portal will automatically update your disclosure for you.

Note: The author of this article is working with Inknowledge Inc.

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