Discover eLearning Insights with Watershed & Rustici Software

Did you know Rustici Software products—such as Engine, SCORM Cloud, and Content Controller—can convert learning data from SCORM and AICC packages into xAPI? And even better than that, you can send the learning data from all your courses to Watershed for in-depth analysis of learner completions, scores, time taken, and question responses in easy-to-understand reports.

Watershed empowers your people to make data-driven learning and development decisions by giving them the data they need in a format they can understand. Your employees, managers and L&D teams can make decisions based on insights that are easy to understand.

And once you have connected Watershed with Rustici, you can also add other data sources to build a comprehensive picture of learning performance across your entire ecosystem.

Rustici products support all of the popular eLearning standards, including:

So Rustici products can convert the data to xAPI and send it to Watershed with whichever standard your content follows.

What is cmi5?

cmi5 is a specification that defines how xAPI eLearning courses can be packaged and communicated with an LMS. Like all your other eLearning content, cmi5 packages played from Rustici products can be tracked and reported on in Watershed.

Watershed’s Activity report gives you all the visualizations you need to explore your eLearning course data in one rapid-configuration report. Simply select the course you want to report on, name the report, and save! The Activity report includes:

• An overview of completions, successes, and failures overall and by organizational unit.
• A leaderboard of first/last/best scores per learner with interaction history for each.
• A score distribution chart for analyzing learner performance.
• Charts showing score, completion, success, and duration over time so you can monitor trends in performance.
• Organizational unit comparison tables.
• Question-by-question results, including how many people chose each option and the average time taken per question (where the data is available). This report uses specially designed visualizations chosen for each interaction type (e.g. multiple choice, matching, sequence, etc.).
• Question analysis identifies the easy or hard questions compared to others, and questions with a high or low correlation of success with overall quiz success.You can use this analysis to identify questions that need to be reviewed and potentially rewritten to improve the assessment.

Use Watershed to combine your eLearning course data from Rustici Engine, SCORM Cloud, or Content Controller with organizational hierarchy data from your HRIS. The resulting information can be used:

• By managers to only report on their teams.
• For comparison of organizational units.
• For compliance tracking purposes to inform compliance requirements for different job roles or departments and generate per-department lists of people who are overdue on compliance training due to complete.
• To satisfy data protection requirements by restricting data based on organizational units (e.g. managers can only see data about their people).

The enhanced insights you get from connecting Watershed with Rustici Software products allow you to continuously improve your learning programs and the quality that learners experience.

However, we know that getting buy-in from stakeholders can be challenging. That’s why we’ve put this handy guide together to get you moving:

Rustici Software products and Watershed are integrated via xAPI and can be set up either with:

• Watershed pulling data from your Rustici product, or
• the Rustici product pushing data into Watershed.

Either way, the data flows into Watershed in near real-time, so your reports are always up to date. Your Watershed dashboards allow instant access to enhanced insights into your eLearning usage and effectiveness. We’ll handle this process for you from start to finish, so you can sit back and relax while our data experts do their thing.

All of the standard SCORM, AICC, and xAPI data recorded by your eLearning courses is sent to Watershed so you can present it in reports, which includes:

• Course completions and success status
• Time taken and scores
• Slide views
• Question responses

While our implementation team will take care of all of the details when importing your Rustici Software eLearning data into our learning record store, you may find these resources helpful:

• Blog Post: Data Requirements for eLearning Courses
• eGuide: How to Get Meaningful Insights from Your Learning Ecosystem: A complete guide to L&D data requirements

Follow this guide to connect your Rustici product to Watershed. Once connected, new and existing eLearning course data will flow into Watershed in real-time. You can then use Watershed’s Report Builder to easily create Activity reports for each course and Program reports to monitor completions of course collections (i.e. learning programs).

Not already a Watershed customer? Request a demo below to see how Watershed works with Rustici Software products.