Launching TrainerCentral: A powerful new training platform
Hello ShowTime users, We're thrilled to introduce a new and more advanced platform called TrainerCentral to make your training experience better than ever. TrainerCentral is designed with all of ShowTime's capabilities but also offers a plethora of
Video tip 02: Customize your feedback and evaluation forms in Zoho ShowTime
Hello everyone, Here's a new video tip for all our ShowTime users. Today we will learn few quick, effective ways to evaluate your participants and assess your trainings conducted on Showtime, like MCQs (multiple choice questions), text-boxes, and ratings scale. Watch the below video to learn how these assessment systems help you effectively evaluate course-related knowledge and skills of your trainees on a regular basis. Follow this page to learn more such tips and stay updated on all the
Tips and Tricks 08: Smarter ways to manage your training content
With the recent advancements of cloud-based training systems, instructors today can create courses that are more cost-efficient and distribute them to a larger audience. Similarly, offering cloud storage and online content collaboration within an e-learning solution eliminates the need for additional course development tools. In this tips and tricks post, learn how efficient content management helps trainers with added flexibility, fine-tuned controls, and affordability in the online training environment.
Spotlight 07: How your learners can access On Demand sessions from ShowTime's Viewer App.
Many of the best training systems allow trainees to choose the modality most suited to their educational needs, learning style, and personal schedules. With the growing need for on-demand learning, the use of mobile and tablet software to access these sessions is also quickly becoming the most convenient way to share knowledge between educators and students. Considering these trends, we now introduce our next community spotlight series focusing on how your trainees can connect to an On Demand session
Spotlight 06: How ShowTime's polls help trainers with real-time evaluation
ShowTime’s polls help you gauge your audience's opinions by asking them questions at preferred intervals so they stay engaged during your live online trainings. You can now stop wondering what your learners are thinking and make your session interactive by getting quick replies to your questions through polls. Welcome to another spotlight series post in ShowTime's Community Learning series. In this post, we will focus on the polls feature and how the multiple question types it provides help you
Video tip 6: How to use Zoho ShowTime's Screenshare feature in a virtual training session.
Hello everyone, We are excited to launch our video tip of the month series within our ShowTime's community, aimed to help our trainers and educators with brief and practical tips on delivering more effective and comprehensive training. In this month's video tip, we will show you how to use screenshare in ShowTime and how this feature is ideal for demonstrating software usage, explaining complex workflows, checking bugs, and customer hand-holding. We hope this tip was useful. Feel free to share
Video tip 6: How assessments improve learning in a digital training environment
In any kind of training course, assessments are an integral part of the instruction process and in helping your audience learn more. ShowTime offers customizable test forms to display to your learners once a video ends in on-demand sessions. These assessments, using question formats, such as multiple choice, true or false, short answer, and fill in the blank types, are best suited to guide improvement in student learning. These question formats help trainers administer quizzes to effectively evaluate
Tips and Tricks 07: How ShowTime's unique chat experience enhances real-time discussions.
Online discussion boards and chat applications are often used in traditional courses, hybrid sessions, and virtual classrooms. While traditional courses, and even some hybrid courses, generally have the benefit of in-class discussions, fully online courses often use the discussion board or chat functions as a means of class interaction, to give learners the opportunity to connect with each other and share ideas in an open forum. Zoho ShowTime offers various types of chat functions where all enrolled learners can
Spotlight Series 05: Spotlight on ShowTime's Organization Dashboard
Analytics can play a vital role in the online education industry by giving organizations and institutes the data they need to make informed decisions. Analyzing training performance and operational data helps identify specific patterns and trends so you can make any necessary adjustments to the path and goals of your training organization. In this spotlight post, we will be highlighting ShowTime's Organization Dashboard where we give detailed analytics on the overall performance of your training
Video tip 05: Host training courses under your own personalized domain and white-label your email communications.
Hello everyone, As a trainer, having your own domain name increases your brand's positioning and reach through search results on top search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Prospective customers will more readily pay for courses from an organization with a professional, established online presence. A custom domain establishes you as a leader in your area of subject expertise, helping you promote your courses and build brand recognition with your global audience. In today's video tip, we at
Tips and Tricks 06: Enrich your on-demand sessions with a wide variety of training content
Self-paced learning, with access to easily-digestible and effective content any time, anywhere, is key to empowering your learners. So, when you have your training session ready to go, and you’re eager to get out there and start sharing your expertise, the next question is: how? What can I use to deliver all that information? Zoho ShowTime supports a variety of content types, such as PDFs, videos, and more,., so you can choose the medium that best suits the learning needs of your students. From lecture-based
Video tip 04: Do you want to set up repeated training sessions at regular intervals? Learn how.
Hello everyone, Sometimes it is difficult to organize and manage your everyday work and training sessions. Scheduling recurring or repeated sessions can be even more time-consuming as you need to create and maintain the training content, schedule multiple time slots for the training, manage registrants across each session, and more. Zoho ShowTime offers a smarter option for these cases that only takes a few clicks. Play the video below to learn how to use the same presentation content and set
Tips & Tricks 05: Boost the credibility of your training organization by branding your email communication.
Learners tend to look for indicators of legitimacy before enrolling in a training organization. Whether they intend to hire them to teach a course, to care for their learning needs, provide a teaching service, or to give them advice, they need to see that the trainer is trustworthy. In an effort to provide opportunities for training organizations to put their best foot forward, we're working on adding some great new features to ShowTime. The ShowTime team is currently working on helping you customize
Spotlight 04: ShowTime's Presenter app - Smarter trainings right from your smartphone
Why take your laptop to the podium when you can deliver your trainings right from your mobile device? Shifting the spotlight on ShowTime's Presenter app for mobile, we'll be highlighting various interesting and useful features of the app that can make your training experience much more exciting! ShowTime's Presenter app has been specifically designed to create a seamless training experience for a live audience seated inside an auditorium or a classroom. The online training app enables you to deliver
Spotlight 03: Connect and deliver more effective trainings with ShowTimes' Viewer app
With the growing need for virtual classroom learning, the use of mobile and tablet software is quickly becoming the most convenient way to share knowledge between educators and students. According to a 2018 study, nearly 67% of digital learners now use mobile devices to complete their online coursework. Additionally, smartphone learners complete course material 45% faster than those using a computer. Considering these facts, we now introduce our next community spotlight series that will focus on Zoho
Ask the experts 02: A 12-hour live Q&A session to help you understand Zoho ShowTime better!
Hi all, We are excited to host the second edition of ShowTime's "Ask the experts" for you on Thursday, 6th June 2019 from 6.30 am to 6.30pm GMT. The ''Ask the Experts" is a live brainstorming session, which helps you learn in detail about using various exciting features of Zoho Showtime, such as: Conducting audience surveys and polls, Managing training leads with the CRM integration, Utilizing co-trainers' knowledge and skills to convert all your well organized training sessions into a revenue.
Video tip 03: How to invite people from your custom CRM modules to a ShowTime session.
Hello everyone, Today, we'll learn how to ensure high attendee turnover by using Zoho ShowTime's integration with CRM. Integrating your ShowTime account with CRM helps you invite the entire list of your participants to your session instantly, better manage all your training leads from one dedicated space, and export your registrant data back to the CRM portal. By default, the integration allows you to access your customer contacts from pre-listed modules in CRM. In some cases, these modules
Co-trainer Spotlight 03: Let your co-trainers take complete control over a session in Zoho ShowTime.
Hello everyone, Here is our final post on the 'Co-trainers' spotlight sub-series. Today's post focuses on how you (the Trainer or Super Admin) can allow your Co-trainers to take complete control while delivering live sessions. Allow your Co-trainers to plan better agendas using private chat rooms while having personalized one-on-one interactions with individual trainees during a live session. Conducting successful trainings together with your co-trainers One of the challenges faced by online
Video tip 1: Record and share trainings on Zoho ShowTime.
Hello everyone, We are excited to launch our video tip of the month series within our ShowTime's community, aimed to help our trainers and educators with brief and practical tips on delivering more effective and comprehensive training. In this month's video tip, we will show you how to record your training sessions quickly and share them with your attendees and other prospective learners externally. We hope this tip was useful. ShowTime also allows you to automatically record your live trainings
Tips and Tricks 04: Effortless cloning for repeated trainings.
In today's tip, we're going to show you how to make a copy of your existing session settings and reuse them for upcoming sessions. To read through our previous tip, click here. While setting up your trainings, you can customize various session parameters like email reminders, registration pages, promotions, and more. It's easy to keep these preferences for upcoming sessions to avoid the hassle of re-entering these same details all over again. ShowTime's 'Clone' feature makes this simple. If you
Co-trainer Spotlight 02: Ensure continuous learner interaction along with your Co-trainers.
Welcome back to the next post in the Co-trainer spotlight series. In our previous posts, we saw the different ways that a Trainer can aid their co-trainers with pre-session collaboration. In today's post, we will explore the various features that you (the Trainer or Super Admin) can utilize to help co-trainers achieve better audience engagement throughout a live session. #01: Using open-mic to foster real-time communication Co-trainers can act as subject matter experts and add significant value
Co-trianer Spotlight 01: 3 ways a co-trainer can assist you even before a training begins
Hello everyone, To enhance your experience of collaborating with co-trainers, we've launched a new community sub-series in our 'Spotlight' forums. This sub-series is divided into three consecutive posts and focuses on detailed features within ShowTime. Through this sub-series, we intend to better explain how your co-trainers can assist you, the trainer before, after, and during a session. Pre-session collaboration is vital to a well-managed and impressive training session. Before a session
Tips and Tricks 03: 3 tips to attract more audience to your training sessions
Welcome back to ShowTime's Tips and Tricks. In our previous posts, we saw how notes can boost virtual learning and how you can select participants for your trainings. Today we'll learn how to promote your sessions effectively from ShowTime. A lot of time and work goes into contacting potential trainees, setting up logistics, and creating the content for your training sessions. However, even a beautiful and well-delivered session will fall flat if no one attends your training. Promotion is the
Tips and Tricks 02: Using Notes to Enhance Virtual Learning
Welcome back to ShowTime's Tips and Tricks. In our previous post, we learned how to select participants for training sessions. Today we'll learn how to take notes during an online session in ShowTime. Note taking always improves learning. It keeps students engaged and helps them understand information faster and in greater detail. Even in virtual classrooms, note taking is an effective learning tool. This is why we created the Notes feature in Zoho ShowTime. ShowTime's Notes feature lets students write
Ask the experts: A 12-hour live Q&A session to learn and know everything about ShowTime!
Hello everyone, Zoho ShowTime, is happy to host, its first "Ask the experts" session, one of our community learning activity series, this Wednesday, 28th November 2018! The 'Ask the Experts' is a live knowledge-sharing session where you can type in your product queries about using ShowTime and all its functionalities directly in the comment box (at the bottom of this page) and our product experts will answer them for you . During the session, we'll also share some good training practices, promotion
Spotlight Series 2: Understanding Analytics in Zoho ShowTime
A trainer's learning curve depends heavily on the feedback they get from a completed training session. This feedback helps a trainer reflect on attendee engagement, the quality of brainstorming sessions, and the overall reputation of their training organization. Welcome to the next post under the Spotlight series "Understanding Analytics in ShowTime." Once you complete a training session, it's important to focus on its performance analytics. ShowTime's analytics feature offers extensive information
Spotlight series 01: Understanding User Roles in ShowTime
Hello everyone! The ShowTime team believes that empowering our users, with better resources and techniques to use our product, helps them achieve greater productivity. With this in mind, So, here's our Spotlight feature post on "Understanding User Roles". Zoho ShowTime is designed for your entire team. You can manage them from ShowTime's Admin Console and assign specific roles to each member. Understanding how each account privilege works helps users efficiently organize their trainers and
Tips and Tricks 01: Pick your participants
A simple interface with exciting features always contributes to a great experience. We at Zoho feel that our users should always encounter smooth and clear workflows when they use our software. And so, to help you utilize ShowTime to its full potential, we're introducing a brand new "Tips & Tricks" series! Tip #1: Pick your participants. With ShowTime, you can now pick and choose your participants. You may want to invite specific trainees directly or avoid competitors from accessing your training