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Playing with eFrontPro’s 4.3 Gamification Engine

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In this post we’ll have a look at the all new Gamification engine landing in the latest eFrontPro, and how you can use it to make your eLearning courses more fun and instill a sense of competitiveness and community to your learnes. Gamification Engine appeared first on eFront Blog. Ready to play?

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How programmers compare to everybody else?

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Programmers and engineers. Engineering is another obvious parallel for programming. In real life, though, the analogy breaks down, to the point that there’s a common lament in programming circles that programming is not more like engineering. That is, engineering is more like complex lego building ?

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2017 Retrospective: Previously on eFront

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With its new, modern design and advanced engineering, eFrontPro was aiming for the top. A Custom reports engine allows you to define, execute and schedule reports with the data and format of your choice. Cue flashback. It’s been 3 years since we rethought, redesigned and rebuilt eFront from scratch.

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How To Facilitate Technical Learning For Your Employees And Customers

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Both in-house staff, such as a company Customer Support team, and client personnel, such as an Engineering department that’s using a vendor-supplied software product, look for certain elements being present in their courses. Encourage customization.

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Open-source and the “security through obscurity” fallacy

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Security through obscurity has never achieved engineering acceptance as a good way to secure a system. In other words, good engineering practice is what makes a system secure and not whether or not the source code is open. [1] 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link].

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eFront: a usable LMS

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A search engine that really works. Four key, stand-out features are: A really clean user interface, which draws a lot on modern techniques like AJAX. A Facebook-like chat box, that sits at the bottom of your screen. eFront with chat box open. All the content you create across the site (except for SCORM packages of course!)

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A peak under eFront’s hood

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In either case, it might be interesting to take a look under the hood, and see what makes its engine tick: the technologies, APIs, programming libraries and tools we used in creating it. Like looking at the engine of a powerful sports car, you might not understand what everything is, or does, but you can sense the power.