Release Date: 9nd September 2024
We’re excited to announce the latest update to Omnitrack, which brings a range of improvements and new features designed to enhance your experience and streamline your workflows.
Export Submissions as a Zip File
Admins now have the ability to export submissions in a single zip file. This file will include the submission PDF and all related attachments as separate PDFs, making it easier than ever to organise and share important documentation.
In the fast-paced world of compliance, staying ahead requires not just meeting regulatory standards but also ensuring that training is engaging, relevant, and accessible. VinciWorks has been a leader in compliance training for over two decades, consistently innovating to meet evolving business needs. Powerful tools like the VinciWorks Portal enable companies to maintain compliance while customising training to specific organisational requirements.
As AI technology becomes more integrated into business operations, ethical concerns and potential biases have become prominent topics of discussion. While debates about AI’s use in art and writing persist, critical ethical and legal concerns revolve around GDPR and data protection legislation. Notably, AI-driven machine translation and narration are considered low-risk applications.
VinciWorks’ AI-powered machine translations and narrations enhance accessibility without introducing ethical dilemmas. These tools replicate content accurately across languages and formats, ensuring consistency and inclusivity. By leveraging AI, VinciWorks ensures that all teams receive high-quality training, regardless of their native language or visual needs. This commitment to inclusivity helps organisations maintain a fair and equitable training environment. AI-driven translations make training materials available in multiple languages, catering to diverse workforces without compromising quality or relevance. With AI, organisations can provide uniform training experiences, ensuring all employees understand compliance requirements.
Continue readingVinciWorks is proud to announce the release of Astute LXP Version 3.2.1! This release bring several important enhancements to existing features and performance improvements.
The activate/deactivate, edit and certificate buttons have been redesigned for usability.
We are thrilled to announce the release of Astute LXP Version 3.2.0! This update brings significant enhancements to our existing features alongside the introduction of our brand-new Videos feature.
Astute Premier now supports direct uploads of video content, allowing you to diversify the training formats available on your platform. With this new feature, you can:
An in-depth guide on creating and enrolling your learners on to videos can be found here.
Navigating the Ethics, Risks and Opportunities
Today, we are meeting the challenges of the AI revolution head-on with the launch of our new AI Compliance eLearning collection.
Amid the wave of AI transformation, businesses grapple with understanding both the potential advantages and risks it presents. A recent poll by VinciWorks revealed that 63% of respondents do not currently have internal AI policies implemented within their organisations. With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasting AI’s impact on nearly 40% of global jobs—either replacing or complementing them—there is a pressing need for companies to adapt proactively to the evolving AI landscape.
Designed to empower professionals across industries with essential insights into AI, the latest collection is a key addition to the Information Security and Data Protection suite, comprising seven comprehensive courses. As AI continues to reshape the way we work, this collection offers a thorough overview, beginning with foundational principles and clarifying the core aspects of AI. The courses delve into best practices for workplace AI usage, ethical challenges, and associated risks. The new courses include:
Understanding AI – Opportunities and Risks
This course addresses the surge in AI’s disruptive impact on the business world, providing insights into opportunities and clarifying misconceptions. It explores optimal uses of AI tools for office productivity and examines the legal and moral challenges and the risks associated with AI on a global scale.
This course focuses on businesses’ challenges in reconciling technological innovation with preserving personal privacy rights. It objectively explores fundamental concepts related to data privacy laws and AI technologies, offering insights into effectively managing associated complexities.
This course covers fundamental AI concepts and legal considerations for intellectual property rights, challenging users to navigate grey areas in IP ownership. It addresses legal and ethical dilemmas surrounding AI-generated works and guides organisations to mitigate intellectual property compliance risks.
This course tackles the rising dependence on AI models for crucial decisions affecting various aspects of life. It examines the potential consequences of poorly designed AI models, uncovering inherent biases that may result in unfair treatment. It focuses on recognising biases and discusses strategies for rectification, ensuring accuracy and fairness.
AI and Conducting an Effective Risk Assessment
This course addresses the rapid disruption caused by AI and emerging technologies, emphasising the critical need for companies to adapt swiftly. It focuses on AI-related risks, guiding users in crafting thorough risk assessments and exploring ways to leverage AI tools for enhanced risk-control strategies.
This course guides users through the changing landscape of AI and cybersecurity, providing a vision for what to expect as attacks get more complex and how to stay a step ahead. This video-based course provides insights from subject matter expert Richard Merrygold, Director and Infosec Lead Consultant at iStorm, on understanding and navigating this environment.
In academia, plagiarism concerns grow with AI usage. This course delves into higher education foundations, stressing the severe consequences of plagiarism. It explores how AI exacerbates this issue, navigating potential risks students face when resorting to copied content.
The new AI eLearning collection is available in various learning formats, including case studies, videos, and full and short courses, targeting a global audience. The VinciWorks in-browser editing tool enables HR and learning and development teams to tailor courses in real-time, with visible edits and easy sharing capabilities via a unique link.
Nick Henderson-Mayo, Director of Learning and Content at VinciWorks, commented, “Embracing the transformative power of AI in the workplace demands not only awareness but proactive education. Our AI Compliance eLearning Collection is not just about understanding the intricacies of artificial intelligence; it’s a navigational guide through the ethical considerations, potential risks, and untapped opportunities. In a landscape where adaptability is paramount, this new collection of AI compliance training courses empowers professionals to harness the full potential of AI responsibly.”
To support compliance professionals’ comprehension of AI, VinciWorks is offering a complimentary AI and Compliance guide. For more information on VinciWorks’ AI training collection, click here.
Tailoring courses has just become a whole lot easier. If you’ve ever wanted to customise your organisation’s online training, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced long forms to complete, having to scour long documents and mark up changes, or cumbersome editing tools that require hours of training. Our team has worked tirelessly to build an in-browser editing tool that allows you to make changes to your courses in real-time.
For the first time, you can now tailor your e-learning directly within the course. Edits are clearly visible as you make them and results can easily be shared with your colleagues via a unique link. Learn more here.
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The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) is aimed at prohibiting insider dealing and unlawful disclosure of inside information, and market manipulation. Train your employees to protect them and your organisation from costly mistakes which could result in fines or even imprisonment. This eLearning course on MAR is set in an immersive format enabling learners to explore real-life case studies and evaluate the conduct presented to reduce the risks of breaching FCA regulations.
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We are delighted to announce the general release of our new and improved Risk Assessment Version 3 tool to the Astute Platform.
This feature is designed to allow customers to develop risk assessments which enable users to manage low-level issues and escalate high-level concerns directly to administrators for further investigation.
Available to all subscription-based customers, there are two guides available with further information on building risk assessments and management of concerns:
Risk Assessment Building Assessment
Risk Assessment Review and Manage
New filters have been added to compliance reports, which will now default to exclude expired, archived and future events. Filters have been added to the report to include these events, along with filters by ‘job title’ and ‘additional field (s)’:
A new report in reporting and analytics is now live: KPI reporting. The KPI report is designed to give a simple, high-level overview of critical training and risk assessment data:
Additional filters have been added to enrolment activities, making it easier to search and filter activities when assigning to enrolment events:
Auto-enrolment has been updated such that all active users will be automatically enrolled on an event immediately upon selecting this option:
The workflow associated with archiving enrolment events has been updated. Upon achieving an enrolment event, no further enrolments and / or re-enrolment will occur (whether manual or rules-based). Current incomplete enrolments will remain in place with learners until such time as these are completed, or the learner is removed from the enrolment event:
Additional recipients can now be added as a cc to trigger email notifications:
Whilst university and higher education provide a uniquely enriching and formative experience for most students, it can also bring with it a wide range of challenges, from mental health issues to personal safety and well-being. These can be complicated by the fact that the vast majority of students may have not experienced living independently for the first time, away from their families and their support networks.
All universities and centres of higher education have a responsibility to safeguard their students so that they can take full advantage of the learning experience and development that universities offer in a safe and secure environment. Alongside the support services and structures that universities put in place, clear guidance needs to be offered, so that members of staff and contractors understand the key challenges that students may face, how to recognise warning signs, when and how to act, and the limits of their responsibilities. Failing to offer clear guidance on key considerations such as responsibility, disclosure and indeed appropriate behaviour, can lead staff to fail to act.
In addition, students themselves need similar guidance on these challenges, how to support their fellow students, how to recognise the signals of distress, and a clear understanding of what is appropriate behaviour in much the same way that an organisation would set out its policies on the expectations of the behaviour of its staff.
Our new video-led Safer Universities course explores the challenges that students face, dispels myths and gives clear guidance on the responsibilities of individuals, staff and students, to ensure they can act accordingly and responsibly.
Continue readingTailoring courses has just become a whole lot easier. If you’ve ever wanted to customise your organisation’s online training, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced long forms to complete, having to scour long documents and mark up changes, or cumbersome editing tools that require hours of training. Our team has worked tirelessly to build an in-browser editing tool that allows you to make changes to your courses in real-time.
For the first time, you can now tailor your e-learning directly within the course. Edits are clearly visible as you make them and results can easily be shared with your colleagues via a unique link.
This revolutionary feature is now available in beta as part of the new ESG and Sustainability collection of courses. Over the next few months, it will be added to more courses across the library and eventually become the simplest way to edit any VinciWorks course.
You can start using it today when you license any of these new courses.
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