GEOTALENT ACADEMY

Every class.Every trainer.Every requirement.One academy.

The training operation behind every qualified person: classes, trainers, requirements and the record that proves it. Refined by GeoMetrix since 1992 for Fortune 500 companies and governments in almost every industry, from defence and aerospace to semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

Designed by
GeoMetrix Data Systems, Victoria, Canada
In service
Since 1992
Where it runs
In the cloud or on your own servers
+THE REAL ACADEMY

This is the product. Not a mock-up.

The GeoTalent Academy home screen in a demo organisation
Every morningWhat needs deciding, counted live.

Classes starting, applications waiting, requirements due: read straight from one model of the operation.

AskSay what you need.

Book a class, find who is due, build a view. Every plan is checked against your rules and waits for you.

The pulseThe whole academy in one row.

Classes starting, learners, seats to confirm and overdue requirements, each opening the records behind it.

Needs attentionNothing slips through.

Work that needs a person, queued with the next step beside it.

CustomiseShaped around your team.

Add cards, rearrange tabs and change the layout without a developer.

An expired ticket stops a crew. A double-booked trainer cancels a class. A missing record fails an audit. In regulated work, no training gap is small. GeoTalent Academy checks every booking against your rules, tracks every requirement to its due date, keeps the record that proves it and asks a person before anything changes.

01Oil and gas

Nobody goes offshore on an expired ticket.

Every requirement for every person is tracked to its due date, most urgent first, so who is due is known before the rota is set, not at the gate.

Compliance · what falls due in 30, 60 and 90 days
+40+ INDUSTRIES. ONE RECORD.

Built for the audit. Kept for the people it protects.

Chosen first by defence and government, where training records are audited and cannot be wrong. Every industry since trains to its own rules; the record works the same way in all of them: who needs what, who holds it, when it runs out, and the class that renews it.

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Make

  • SemiconductorsCleanroom gowning · tool qualifications · ESD control
  • ElectronicsSoldering standards · ESD · rework sign-off
  • AutomotiveLine authorisations · high-voltage EV work · quality standards
  • ManufacturingLockout-tagout · machine guarding · operator sign-off
  • ChemicalsProcess safety · chemical handling · permit to work
  • Food and beverageHACCP · food hygiene · allergen control
  • Consumer goodsGood manufacturing practice · line changeover · quality checks
  • ConstructionWorking at height · site inductions · plant tickets
  • Metals and materialsHot work · furnace safety · crane operation
06

Move

  • AerospaceTool qualifications · NDT certification · FOD awareness
  • AviationType ratings · recurrent simulator checks · dangerous goods
  • RailTrack safety · signalling competence · route knowledge
  • MaritimeSea survival · ship security · watchkeeping
  • Logistics and warehousingForklift licences · manual handling · dangerous goods
  • TransportDriver certification · vehicle checks · hours rules
06

Power

  • Oil and gasOffshore survival · H2S · permit to work
  • Energy and utilitiesElectrical authorisation · switching · confined space
  • NuclearRadiation protection · authorised persons · site access
  • RenewablesWorking at height · rescue · turbine access
  • MiningGround control · mobile plant · mine rescue
  • WaterWater hygiene · confined space · treatment competence
06

Care

  • PharmaceuticalsGMP · SOP read-and-understood · aseptic gowning
  • BiotechnologyBiosafety · lab safety · equipment competence
  • Medical devicesDesign controls · quality system · complaint handling
  • HealthcareLife support · medication competencies · manual handling
  • LaboratoriesGood laboratory practice · method competence · sample handling
  • Social careSafeguarding · moving and handling · medication
06

Protect

  • DefenceSecurity clearances · equipment qualifications · range safety
  • GovernmentStatutory training · information security · procurement
  • Emergency servicesBreathing apparatus · response driving · incident command
  • Public safetyFirst response · conflict management · safeguarding
  • SecurityLicensing · access control · conflict management
  • EducationSafeguarding · first aid · trip leadership
07

Serve

  • Financial servicesRegulatory certifications · anti-money laundering · conduct
  • InsuranceProduct competence · conduct rules · claims handling
  • TelecommunicationsTower climbing · fibre splicing · electrical safety
  • TechnologySecurity awareness · privacy · product certification
  • RetailAge-restricted sales · food safety · store safety
  • HospitalityLicensing · food hygiene · allergen awareness
  • Professional servicesContinuing development · ethics · client data
+HOW PEOPLE LEARN AT WORK

Four ways people learn. One record for all of them.

Some training is taken on screen, some in a room with a trainer, some in a live class online, and most skills are still learned on the job. The Academy keeps all four on the same courses, people and requirements.

01

eLearning

Self-paced, on screen

Built in the Studio from your own library, published to the catalogue and tracked on each person's record.

02

Classroom

With a trainer, in the room

Rooms, trainers and seats checked against your rules before anything is booked, with attendance and results on the class roster.

03

Virtual class

Live, with a trainer, online

Scheduled like any other class, with its online details, roster and attendance in the same place.

04

On the job

At the work itself

A supervisor shows, then checks. The requirement, the result and the date it runs out sit on the same record as every course.

+BUILT-IN AUTHORING

One brief in. A course in your learners' hands. Signed off by you.

The Studio is part of the Academy, so the course you build is the course you schedule, assign and report on. Give the assistant a brief and the files you already have. It plans the course and writes each lesson with something for the learner to do. Every page stays marked as not signed off until a person has reviewed it, and learners take the course in a portal you design, on a laptop, a tablet or a phone.

Say who the course is for, what they must be able to do afterwards and how long it should run. Add the Word, PowerPoint, PDF or Excel files you already have, or paste your notes.

A 45-minute course on hot work permits, briefed with a Word procedure, a PowerPoint toolbox talk, an Excel permit register and pasted handover notes.

Recorded in the Academy in a demo organisation. The assistant's replies were prepared for the recording, the recordings are shortened, and the outlines round the tablet and phone screens are added.

  • The courses you already ownImport the SCORM and xAPI packages you already have into the Studio library.
  • One playerSCORM 1.2 and 2004, AICC, xAPI, cmi5 and H5P content runs beside the courses built here.
  • A record store built inThe Academy has its own xAPI learning record store, so xAPI and cmi5 courses report to it.
  • Credentials that travelOpen Badges 3.0 credentials, which a learner can add to a LinkedIn profile.
+IN ACTION

Ask it. Plan it. Run it. Prove it.

From a typed request to a signed-off record: the Academy doing the work, in a demo organisation.

Plan · 01 / 08

Ask for the class. Approve the plan.

Type what you need in your own words, then plan it: the soonest free dates, a free room and a trainer cleared to teach it, each checked against your rules. Nothing is booked until you press Schedule.

Plan
Run
Reach
+THE LEARNER'S SIDE

Take the course. Know what comes next.

Each person has one place for their learning: what is due, what they have started, their classes, their requirements and their record. A lesson stops where they stop and opens at the same step on the next device.

The learner's home shows what is due, the course under way, their classes and their requirements. Resume opens the lesson at the step where they stopped.

One demo learner on a tablet: the home page, then Resume, which opens lesson 1 at step 2 of 4 with the earlier answer still in place.

Recorded in the Academy in a demo organisation, with a member of staff viewing a fictional learner's page. The recordings are shortened, and the outlines round the tablet and phone screens are added.

+ASK, AND IT CHECKS

Say what you need. Your rules check it first.

Ask sits beside every page of the Academy. Say what you need in a sentence and the assistant sets the change out. Your own rules are checked before anything is saved: a rule set to Stop holds the change and tells you which rule it was. What passes is made, kept in the trail and there on every device.

Open Ask on any page and type what you need. Here it is a class: a one-day course, a date and a room. The assistant sets the class out, and the Academy checks it against your rules before anything is saved.

The Schedule board. The request names Room 1, which already has a class that day, so the Academy's own rules card stops it.

Recorded in the Academy in a demo organisation. The assistant's replies were prepared for the recording, the recordings are shortened, and the outlines round the tablet and phone screens are added.

+THE SCALE OF IT

Put in your numbers.
See what the Academy checks for you.

Every session is checked against eight scheduling rules before it is booked, and every requirement is tracked to its due date. Move the sliders to see what that means for an operation your size.

5,760rule checks a year, each made before a session is booked

Each dot is a session this month, checked against 8 rules.

720
sessions a year, each checked for room, trainer and capacity clashes
5,040
learner seats a year, held to capacity with the overflow on a waiting list
12,500
requirements tracked to their due date, with a seat proposed for a person to approve

Simple arithmetic on your numbers: it shows how much checking the Academy takes on, not a promised saving. The eight rules are the planner's own: room and trainer clashes, trainer clearance, capacity, lead time, teaching load, holidays and weekends.

+HERITAGE

Three decades where training
has to stand up to an audit.

  1. 1992GeoTalent begins.

    GeoMetrix Data Systems starts building training software in Victoria, British Columbia.

  2. Three decadesWhere the stakes are highest.

    Fortune 500 companies and governments across almost every industry: defence, aerospace, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, energy, food, finance, transport and more.

  3. Every recordTraining that has to stand up.

    Records tied to flight simulators, tool qualifications and audits, where a lapsed qualification stops work.

  4. TodayGeoTalent Academy.

    Three decades of know-how on one connected model, with agents and customisation built in.

34
years running training where a lapsed qualification stops the work
Fortune 500
companies and governments have trusted GeoTalent with their training record
40+
industries, from defence, aerospace and semiconductors to food, finance and the public sector
0
changes made without a person approving them first. Every proposal waits for a yes.
+CLIENT PORTALS

A portal for every client. Designed by you, without code.

Each organisation you train can have its own portal, with its own look, the courses it shows and the people who can come in. In the designer, learners, instructors, supervisors and client contacts each get their own menu and pages, built from a list of ready-made components.

Every portal is listed with who it is for, how many clients it serves, the courses it shows and how bookings are paid. Open one for its settings: audience, courses, prices, payment, look and languages.

Four demo client portals, then one opened and its designer.

Recorded in the Academy's portal designer in a demo organisation. The pages show sample content, the recording is shortened and nothing was saved.

  • Its own lookA theme, a brand preset and an accent colour, saved with the portal.
  • A page for each audienceLearners, instructors, supervisors and client contacts each get their own menu.
  • Its own coursesEach portal sets which courses it shows and whether prices appear.
  • Its own peopleAccess is given to named people, portal by portal.
+CONNECT AND BUILD

Connect what you already run.
Build whatever you imagine.

Bring in HR, finance, calendars, mail and the systems your training already depends on. When a system has no connector, one can be built from its API documentation. And you can add your own screens, agents and workflows around the Academy.

+YOUR NEXT STEP

Bring us your training operation.
We will show you the Academy.

See GeoTalent Academy running on your courses, your people and your systems.

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