Plan 1
100responses per month
$79 / month
$79 USD billed monthly
- Surveys, tasks, exams and polls
- Response analytics
- $0.99 per additional response
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STEP: Surveys, Tasks, Exams, and Polls for Virtual Training
Whether you're looking to build engaging surveys, intricate tasks, comprehensive exams, or interactive polls, STEP equips you with a complete set of tools to enhance the learning experience.
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Learners served99.9%
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Labs delivered30+
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Bring your training to life with dynamic content
STEP breathes life into stale training materials. Excellent training engages users in a variety of ways. Paging through endless PowerPoints and static PDFs doesn't cut it these days. With STEP, you can break up the monotony by adding engaging, dynamic content to your training.
Feedback
Surveys for feedback
You probably ask participants to complete a post-training evaluation.
- While collecting such feedback after a course is important, STEP allows you to collect feedback and gather opinions before, during, and after class.
- Before class, it's good practice to ask participants about their background and expectations for the training. You can use that information to provide a better training experience.
- During the course, collect and discuss feedback to create unified collaboration and participation.
- And, of course, collect the all-important post-course feedback using STEP's sophisticated survey features.
Survey
How confident are you with the new workflow?
★★★★☆
Very confident
Somewhat confident
Need more practice
Guided Practice
Tasks for guided practice
If your training includes hands-on labs, you are probably providing static instructions with PDF documents.
- Static instructions don't work well for a diverse audience. If you don't provide enough detail, some people struggle. If you provide too much detail, others will find it unnecessary and lose interest.
- STEP instructions allow each user to determine how much detail he or she sees.
- STEP also allows you to track when each step in a task is completed so you know exactly how well the instructions work. You can't do that with a PDF.
- You also have the option to include sounds, images, and videos to keep your instructions as engaging as possible.
Task
Connect to the lab environment
Configure the network interface
Deploy the application
Assessment
Exams for assessment
How do you currently evaluate participant understanding and retention during a course?
- With STEP, you can easily build interactive quizzes and tests to gauge how participants are learning.
- A short quiz at the end of a lecture can help to reinforce the concepts and create a sense of value in the course.
- Of course, with STEP, you aren't limited to boring fill-in-the-blank or multiple-choice questions.
- Adding audio, videos, and unique question types will help you create engaging questionnaires.
Exam
Which command lists active services?
ps aux
systemctl list-units
ls -al
Live Engagement
Polls for live engagement
STEP polls allow you to easily gauge group opinion on a specific topic.
- When users respond, they instantly see the cumulative results.
- Polls can be a great way to break up a long lecture and quickly check how participants are doing.
- Since only cumulative results are shown, you can ask questions about your student's experience and background without concern of embarrassing anyone.
- As with all STEP content, you aren't limited to a simple question. Include rich media elements like video and sound to make polls more fun and increase the likelihood that users will respond.
Live poll
Which topic should we cover next?
Accountability
Checklists for accountability
STEP checklists are useful in many ways.
- Use them to create a list of rules that a user must acknowledge before doing a certification exam.
- Or create a list of things that must be arranged before a customer on-site training.
- Improve accountability by creating a record of who did what and when.
- Checklists are completely configurable, so you can decide which items have to be individually acknowledged and can even require them to be initialed.
Checklist
Pre-certification checklist
Read and accept the exam rules
Verify your identity
Agree to the code of conduct
Confirm your workstation is ready
Features
Everything you need to build engaging content
Build your content
Rich Content
Create content that includes rich text, images, sound, and videos.
Templates
Build surveys quickly using a pre-defined template.
Themes and Layout
Customize content by applying themes and layout changes.
Sophisticated Logic
Create content that responds to user input.
Pools
Create reusable pools of questions that can be added to any type of content.
Translation
Translate content into multiple languages.
Publish and collaborate
Publication Types
Publish content in many different ways and formats.
Team Collaboration
Share and collaborate with multiple users in the same account.
Versioning
Maintain multiple versions of the content.
Content Reviews
Get content easily reviewed by peers using the Publish for Review feature.
Invites and Notifications
Invite people to use particular content and get notified whenever someone responds.
ReadyTech Integration
Benefit from a tight integration with ReadyTech's instructor-led and self-paced solutions.
Collect and analyze responses
Responder Information
Collect detailed, cross-content information about responders.
Response Analytics
Perform advanced analysis on the responses received.
Customized Reports
Create custom reports using response and responder information.
Work Flow
Create, publish, and analyze
01
Create
Creating content in STEP is easy. Import existing material or develop new ideas from scratch. In either case, take advantage of STEP's rich-content elements. Once you're finished, preview your content to see how it will appear once it's published.
02
Publish
When you publish, STEP supports different publication formats, including a standard web URL, a website button or popup window, an embedded object, and a publish-to-ReadyTech option. When you publish with STEP, you have full control over who gets to access the content, when, and how many times a person can respond, among other variables.
03
Analyze
View the details of each response, with access to detailed analytics such as how long a user took to respond and how many times they changed an answer. Generate statistics for arbitrary groups of responses, then turn that data into a customized report to send to interested parties.
Translation
Available in 14 languages
We can speak your students' language. Translate STEP content into multiple languages and reach every learner in the language they know best.
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Japanese
Chinese
Korean
Russian
Arabic
Polish
Turkish
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