Introduction & Qstream Overview
Welcome to an inside look at Qstream, the leading end to end microlearning platform for knowledge critical industries.
Here’s what sets us apart from other learning platforms.
Developed at Harvard Medical School and leveraging the spacing and testing effects, Qstream is proven to increase learner engagement by up to 93% percent and knowledge retention by 170% in just minutes a day.
To put it simply, we give you only the functionality you need and none that you don’t. Qstream is easy to learn with higher adoption rates than other systems, and employees, managers and training teams love our easy to use yet highly effective platform.
We are repeatedly recognized for putting the data that matters most at your fingertips.
Our powerful proficiency metrics help you uncover knowledge gaps and assess training needs across the organization.
Qstream enhances the retention of information shared during longer training sessions in the LMS or a classroom setting by efficiently delivering the most important concepts to learners directly in the flow of work. This ensures necessary knowledge is retained long term and applied on the job. Qstream is a fraction of the price of most learning technology and easy to implement across the business.
We have extensive experience working with global organizations in industries such as healthcare, life sciences and financial services.
And finally, we pride ourselves on the level of support and strategic guidance we offer our customers. A true partner in your success, our client services team is dedicated to helping you get the most out of the platform and works with you to establish and achieve your unique goals.
This demonstration will walk you through AI content creation, the participant experience and our analytics and coaching capabilities.
Let’s dive in.
AI Microlearning Content Generation
We’ll start with building a Qstream question using our AI Microlearning Content Generator.
In this instance, I will use it to build a scenario-based multiple-choice question to reinforce situational leadership best practices for managers.
Other question types available in the platform include true-false, fill in the blank, video scenario, survey, matching and ordering and the first presentation of information.
Using a variety of challenges across your Qstreams creates learner engagement and encourages your employees to think in different ways.
I type in my prompt, Providing feedback using the delegation’s Situational Leadership style, but you can be as general or specific as you like here. Next, hit the generate button to create the question. As you can see, the tool has generated a question that puts managers in a situation and asks them to apply their knowledge. In addition to the question stem, AI has created the correct and incorrect answers and an explanation.
You can also see it has generated a topic tag, which is important to get those rich analytics. I will show you where these come in handy later on in the demo. Each of these fields is editable to meet your standards, and you have the option at the top to regenerate if you want to tweak the prompt or add more detail.
To make the experience more engaging, add some rich media. I will upload an image here and a supporting infographic on the different situational leadership styles in the explanation. You also have the option to include supplemental links to other resources in the explanation for further reading. At the very bottom here, we offer a checklist to help you create the most effective microlearning questions possible. Once I am happy with the question, I simply save it to add it to the library so that I can use it in my next qstream.
The Learner Experience
Next, let’s look at how a participant experiences Qstream.
Learners receive push notifications when a new challenge or material is available. They can select their delivery preference, either receiving notifications via email or from the mobile app. Here, a question has been sent via email. I get a quick preview of the content before clicking into the platform to answer it.
This Qstream is educating sales reps on a recently launched methodology.
We call this delivery format Qstream Comms. It shares important information without a question prompt.
I’ll read the message here, watch the video explanation and click continue to earn engagement points for participating.
Now I move on to a second knowledge reinforcement question that puts me in a scenario to practice the new sales skills. I go ahead and make my answer selection, and unfortunately, I have answered this question incorrectly. But that’s okay because I have the answer below to understand why, and I will be given another opportunity to get the question correct when it’s asked again.
I take note of the correct answer and then view the explanation.
I can see off to the left that this question will be repeated twice more to promote that knowledge retention.
I can also see how many points I’ve earned and other information about my performance in this Qstream challenge.
The beauty of Qstream is that these questions can be answered in just a few minutes directly in the flow of work. You don’t need to pull employees from their jobs to complete training.
Next, I will complete a video response question.
Powered by Zoom, this challenge format again poses a real job scenario similar to the last question, but takes it one step further by asking participants to record how they would respond.
Here, I am being asked to use my new sales skills to pitch a new migraine medication to a doctor.
I read the prompt and can see the key skills that will be assessed in my presentation.
I do have the option to skip this question for now and move on to others if, say, I’m in a public space and would like to wait until I have some privacy and can focus on delivering my pitch.
I am ready now, so I hit the record button and give it a go. I can record the video as many times as needed to really perfect my pitch.
When I’m satisfied taken to my main dashboard, which gives a summary of how how I am performing in all of my Qstreams and shows me how I stack up against other employees and teams.
Frontline Manager Dashboards & Coaching Capabilities
As a manager, I can see which Qstreams my direct reports are currently enrolled in, as well as upcoming and completed challenges.
I can dive into each individual queue stream to get more information.
Let’s look at this sales skills challenge. The stat tells me how engaged employees are, and this proficiency metric indicates how well they are performing in the Qstream, which is a direct measure of knowledge.
We typically see a 35% increase in proficiency across all Qstream customers. Completion simply shows me how far along my direct reports are in this challenge. I also get insight into how my team is doing compared to the rest of the cohort. When I drill down, I can see these numbers in more detail.
In terms of that proficiency metric, I can see how participants answered on their first question attempt versus where they are today. Again, ideally, you’ll see improvement in the latter. I can also see who is below average proficiency and who is above it. By clicking this little bell icon, I am able to send a direct message to those in each group.
You might want to congratulate those that are doing well and, conversely, encourage those who might be struggling.
The system uses pre-populated messages, but you can customize them to make them your own. I will add, let’s discuss this Qstream during our next one on one.
In terms of participation, I can nudge those who have yet to start the queue stream, sending a similar message to the one I just created. As a reminder, this completion metric shows you who has finished the Qstream and who still has more questions to answer. Our spacing algorithms deliver microlearning questions over time, so it looks like this group is still receiving challenges.
The heat maps are a key resource for managers and highlight proficiency by question and topic. I can clearly see how participants are improving in certain areas as the Qstream progresses.
This is where those topic tags tags that I showed when creating a q stream come into play, creating rich, actionable data. I noticed that they seem to be struggling with business value, so I might want to make it a point to discuss this at our next team meeting to hopefully close that knowledge gap and help them get the question right the next time it’s asked. This allows managers to become actively involved in employee learning and helps mitigate any risk to the business.
The direct report section offers a closer look at my team members. I can click into each individual to see their Qstream performance.
Take Eva. I see that her current proficiency is a bit low, so let’s see what’s going on.
She’s having trouble with sales negotiation and obstacles.
I can go back and take a closer look at the number of times I have sent her a coaching message. And let’s say that I go on to have a discussion with her during our next one on one on those challenging topics, I can also record that in the platform.
Reviewed the topics Ava is struggling with during our one on one. This should help get her back on track. Being able to add this information not only functions as a coaching record for myself, but gives the organization insight into how well I am supporting my direct reports. I will show you where you can access those analytics in the next section.
And finally, the video icon indicates that I have a video response question to review which you saw during the learner experience section. Hannah here has recorded herself acting out a real job scenario and I need to essentially grade her performance and offer constructive feedback.
The goal of these manager specific dashboards is, again, to help people leaders get involved in learning, but more importantly, to help them understand where to focus their coaching efforts to better develop their employees and make sure they’re adhering to current business practices.
The Insights tab in the platform gives you access to a holistic view of training across the organization.
Qstream Analytics
This data can be as simple or detailed as needed. You can slice and dice it based on what you are trying to examine or what you want to report to the executive team.
On this summary page, I get a high level view of Qstream performance across all participants and can drill down into individual qstreams. I can also filter by country if I’m a global organization, region, department and team. Essentially, these dashboards show key trends across engagement, participation and proficiency, and help me decide where to focus my future learning efforts based on training performance.
Down here, I can identify those areas of risk. These are the critical concepts that need to be addressed. I can also see where people are excelling in terms of training. So when I go to build more learning programs, I might consider taking these topics off the table and focusing on the challenging ones. If you scroll down further, you can see all the feedback that learners have provided in each Qstream. This is another helpful tool when building future training programs.
For example, Sydney says that some of the questions in this Qstream were confusing. I can reach out to her to better understand and then refine the content.
The content analysis tab gives you even more granular detail on how people are answering questions. Not just if they are getting them wrong, but how are they getting them wrong? Which incorrect answers do they think are correct? This helps you truly understand the learner’s thought process and how the content itself is performing.
Maybe the questions are confusing or unclear. If so, I can take steps to make adjustments or do some follow-up training to make sure these important concepts are being grasped.
The manager engagement tab tracks coaching activity through the frontline manager dashboards that were shown earlier.
Business leaders can ensure managers are actively working with their direct reports to improve training performance, and if they’re not, do a little coaching of their own. And finally, this end of Qstream report is a favorite resource for our customers, offering a comprehensive breakdown of individual microlearning challenge performance.
I can see where learners struggled and where they did well, and the breakdown of questions and topics, as well as these heat maps, give actionable data to inform my next set of training programs.
The insights at the bottom give me data points to pull for presentations and business meetings, as well as some recommendations for subsequent Qstreams.
This report is easily exportable as a PDF to share with relevant teams and prove the value of training programs.
This demonstration has only scratched the surface of Qstream’s capabilities.
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