eFront is designed to assist with the creation of online learning while offering various opportunities for collaboration and interaction through an icon-based user interface. The platform offers tools for content creation, tests building, assignments management, reporting, internal messaging, forum, chat, surveys, calendar and others.
Main Features
| User management | Lessons, courses, curriculum and categories management |
| Files management | Exam builders |
| Assignments builders | Communication tools (forum, chat, calendar, glossary) |
| Progress tracking | Enrollment methods |
| Certifications | Reports generators |
| Payments integration (through PayPal) | Customizable notification system through email |
Course Management
| Content Friendly Build courses by re-using presentations or videos you already have or by consuming content from web-sources. | Scorm & TinCan (xApi) Support for the latest industry standard on content interoperability. |
| Assessments Engine Support for multiple types of questions and a variety of test types. Extensive reporting on test results. | Surveys Engine Collect and analyze survey responses. |
| Courses Marketplace Buy and consume from thousands of premade courses on a vast variety of topics. | Learning Paths Restrict the way that courses can be completed or course content can be viewed. |
| Files repository Organize, reuse and share files with selected users. |
Learning Delivery
| Blended Learning Mix e-learning with instructor led-training. Deliver instructor led-training events either in the classroom or via videoconferencing. | Gamification Bring your courses to life with Badges, Points and Leaderboards. |
| Certifications Issue certifications with varying durations. Easily support various compliancy scenarios that require re-certifications on predefined intervals. | Curriculums Group courses into curriculums for additional flexibility on learning delivery. |
| Rich Communication tools With support for internal email, Calendar and Discussion forums, eFrontPro have you covered. | Videoconference Support Built-in support for Web-ex and BigBlueButton. |
| Ecommerce Extensive support for ecommerce. Sell your courses via Paypal or Stripe. Offer global discounts. Use Balance as a virtual coin. | Offline Learning Support for content downloading and offline reviewing within the browser. |
Enterprise Ready
| Reporting Extensive reporting about any object within your e-learning environment. A timeline of all system actions for access to what happened from whom and when. | Branching Segment your learning environment to branches. Each branch is like a separate installation with its own users, courses and theme. |
| Skills Comes with all the needed tools to develop Skills, not just training. | Audiences Dynamically segment your users and offer discounts or courses selections. |
| User Types Limit user's access to certain functionality via custom user types. | Strong Security An extensive set of security settings, from strong passwords to IPs restriction on access. |
| Single-Sign-On Comes with support for LDAP, SAML2 and Active directory. | Mass Actions Minimize your administrative overhead with mass actions on users or courses. |
| Extensible Profiles Add custom info fields to your user or course profiles. | Archive Support Don't delete, archive. This tool is like the recycle bin of your system. No way to lose a course or a user by mistake. |
| API An extensive Rest-API to communicate with your learning portal in a programmatically way. |
Customization
| Themeable Customize the look-and-feel of your portal in great detail. | Site-builder Build pages and arrange contents block. It is easy to build a modern public web-site on top of your learning portal. |
| Plugin Architecture eFront comes with a plugin architecture that let you extend in any way imaginable. | Access To Source Code With a no-vendor lock strategy, you are free to make the maximum use of your learning software. |
Technology
| User interface Responsive design that fits any device. Scalable visual elements that are retina-screen ready. | Web standards Built on top of the most modern web standards and technologies. |
| Scalability Scales up to hundreds of thousands of users on commodity hardware. | Accessibility Conforms to WCAG-2 accessibility requirements. |
| Compatibility Can be installed in most Linux and Windows distributions. Works over all modern browsers. | Multilingual Available in multiple languages. |