About Instructor-Led Training
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WBT Manager™ provides integrated support for instructor-led training (ILT). This support opens the door to many creative combinations of classroom and online learning components.

If your organization has decided to adopt instructor-led training, the system administrator will designate certain courses and lessons as instructor-led and will assign instructor-led management tasks to Web-based administrators.

Instructor-led courses are scheduled as course sections. A section has a unique section identifier and a specific time frame. As many sections as desired can be created for a given course. When assigning an ILT course to students, you must specify a course section.

Like any other course, an ILT course consists of one or more lessons. ILT courses can consist of all ILT lessons or a mixture of ILT and self-paced online lessons. Each ILT lesson has its own section identifier and time frame.

WBT Manager™ supports three different variations on ILT lessons.

·Traditional instructor-led training is the typical format in which an instructor or instructors present content to the students in a classroom, workshop, or similar setting. When the instructor uses WBT Manager™ to take attendance, the students' lesson statuses are set to completed and they are credited with a standard lesson time. The instructor may use WBT Manager™ to launch a presentation file and may optionally make the presentation available for students to launch on their own.  

·Scheduled self-paced training is essentially a standard WBT Manager™ online session with some additional control and capabilities. Access to the lesson is limited to the scheduled time period. In addition to the normal AICC/SCORM lesson tracking, the student is marked "present" for ILT purposes upon entering the lesson. An instructor and location can be optionally associated with the lesson to facilitate a supervised environment or to include the online lesson as a component within a classroom presentation. However, in practice the student can access the lesson and receive credit from anywhere on the system.  

·Proctored exam ILT provides a secure system for verifying the identity of the students taking an online exam and requiring them to complete it in a proctored setting. The exam must be an AICC or SCORM-conformant lesson. It will be available to students only during the scheduled exam time and only after the instructor marks them present and provides them with a password for the lesson. This arrangement allows the instructor/proctor to check student IDs and ensure that the students actually in the room are the only ones who can access the lesson.