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e-learning is the way to go to prepare for the basic information technology engineer exam! Spring is here! However, the mornings and evenings are still chilly, and I wish it would get warmer. This is Kadota from the Development Department. At our company, it is recommended to take the Information Technology Engineer Examination, and our development members and others are working hard to acquire the certification. This time, I would like to discuss countermeasures for the "Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination," which is one of the information processing engineer examinations. Everyone is busy every day, and it is difficult to find time to study, isn't it? Many of you may be wondering if there is a way to study as efficiently as possible. That's where our e-learning system, learningBOX, comes in. This time, we would like to consider how to prepare for the "Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination" with learningBOX. Click here for the table of contents What is the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination? 2. let's take a look at the contents of the exam questions 3. prepare for the exam with learningBOX! 4. summary What is the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination? The Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination is one of the categories of the National Examination for Information Technology Engineers conducted by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in accordance with Article 29, Paragraph 1 of the Act on Promotion of Information Processing. The examination is designed for those who "possess the basic knowledge and skills necessary to become an advanced IT personnel and have acquired practical application skills," as stated in the IPA's examination outline. There are no specific qualifications, and anyone can take the exam. The average age of examinees is 25.8 years old, which is lower than other information processing engineer examinations. The exam consists of a morning exam and an afternoon exam. The morning exam tests knowledge and the afternoon exam tests skills. The pass rate is a whopping 25.71 TP2T. This number suggests that it is not an easy exam for anyone to pass. (Reference: Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination - Information Processing Engineer Examination - IPA) To summarize briefly... The exam will test the basic knowledge and skills you need to know if you work in the IT or web industry. You can take the exam twice a year, in spring and fall. The spring examination in 2020 has been cancelled in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Reference: Due to the new corona virus, the April 2020 exam for information processing engineers has been canceled, and an alternative exam is "undecided.) Let's take a look at the contents of the examination questions. Let's check the scope of the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination. The Basic Information Technology Engineer exam has morning and afternoon sessions. Here are the questions for the morning session. Basic theory (basic theory, algorithms and programming) Computer systems (computer components, system components, software, hardware) Technical elements (human interface, multimedia, database, network, etc.) Development technology (system development technology, software development management technology) Project management (project management) Service management (service management, system auditing) System strategy (system strategy, system planning) Business strategy (business strategy management, technology strategy management, business industry) Corporate and legal affairs (corporate activities, legal affairs) The following is a list of the topics to be covered. (Reference: From the IPA exam outline) Let's take a look at the past questions. The Basic Information Technology Engineer exam includes a question like this one. Q2 Which operation inverts all bits of an 8-bit value? A: Exclusive or with a bitstring of hexadecimal notation 00. B: Logical disjunction with a bitstring of hexadecimal notation 00. C: Exclusive or with the bit sequence of hexadecimal notation FF. D: Obtains logical OR with the bit sequence of hexadecimal notation FF. What do you think? Can you find the answer immediately? This problem is a bit manipulation problem using logical operations. →The correct answer is c. If you are looking at this question for the first time, you are likely to say, "I don't understand the question being asked," or "I have no idea what you are talking about. As you can see, the scope of the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination is very broad and requires a wide range of knowledge. Prepare for the exam with learningBOX! Most people study using textbooks for exam preparation and solve past exam questions. However, as you study, you may encounter various obstacles, such as technical terms that are difficult to remember or areas of weakness that take time to understand. In such cases, please take advantage of learningBOX! learningBOX has a lot of contents to support your learning. We would like to introduce you to learningBOX's content functions. In this issue, among the content functions, we will introduce selected functions that we recommend for preparing for national examinations. ▼Easily create learning materials specialized for memorization! If you have difficulty seeing the images, please click on each image. It will be enlarged! Memorization cards can be easily created and studied on the web. CardGenerator is a system that allows anyone to easily create memorization cards on the web from text files. You can easily create them from text files. You can check which you have memorized and the degree of achievement. For more information on how to use CardGenerator, please refer to this How to Create Memorization Cards page. It is explained in detail with images. Easy creation and study of insect-eaten notebooks on the web. MUSHIBUKI Notebook allows you to easily create memorization questions in sentence form. By checking off the bug-eaten items that you have memorized, the percentage of success will be displayed. Please use it as a memorization material before the exam. If the sentences are long, Mushiken Note is recommended. For more information on Mushiken Note, please refer to this page on how to use Mushiken Note. ▼Once you have studied with the study materials, create a test to confirm the knowledge you have memorized. ↓Click the image to actually solve the problems. Using the quiz function of learningBOX, you can create questions from more than 12 types of question types, such as "Fill-in-the-blank," "Combination," "Pulldown," and "Multiple Choice" questions. The list of optional features that can be set in learningBOX can be found here. For more information on learningBOX's content creation features, please refer to the learningBOX content management page. Conclusion With learningBOX, it is possible to prepare for the national examinations, which have a wide range of examinations and are difficult with low pass rates. There are many contents available to memorize and review the knowledge required for the national exam. It takes a lot of time to create questions for all the questions, but if you focus only on your weak areas, you can create them quickly. Repeatedly solving the questions you create will help you overcome your weak points. LearningBOX can also be used and applied to other examinations besides the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination. You can use learningBOX for free for up to 10 accounts, including the administrator's account. Please feel free to try the free plan. Please try to make your own original problem collection to overcome your weak points by referring to the article introduced in this issue.

The 0th Singularity Battle Quest 2019 ～The Birth of an AI Athlete! Through our e-learning system, learningBOX, we have contributed to the discovery and development of "AI Athletes"! We are pleased to announce that the preliminary round and certification competition of the "0th U18 Singularity Battle Quest 2019" will be nationally broadcast on BS Fuji on Sunday, March 15, 2020, from 5:30pm to 6:00pm. In this article, we would like to introduce our project planning with Singularity Battle Quest. Click here for Table of Contents What is Singularity Battle Quest? 2. the outline of the competition 3. the preliminary round before the certification competition 4. a glimpse of the certification competition! 5. summary What is Singularity Battle Quest? Singularity Battle Quest is a special program for all high school and technical college students under the age of 18. Currently under 18 years old and "interested in blockchain and cyber security", "want to become a data scientist and AI engineer! and AI beginners such as "I like games" and "Robots and drones sound fun. This is a special program to train expert "AI athletes" in the field of Artificial Intelligence/AI. Top-class AI technology-related companies have developed competitions for the development of future talent! About the competition outline If you have difficulty seeing, please click on the screen. It will be enlarged and easier to see. Click here for the official website】⇒ https://entry.singularitybattlequest.club The first round of the competition before the certification competition. Here's what the first round of the competition is all about! Answer 4 questions from each of the 5 quests, for a total of 20 questions. Question format: Multiple-choice (four-choice, fill-in-the-blank, etc.) Writing format: CBT (online test format answered on a computer) Time: 60 minutes ▼What are the 5 quests? DQ] Data Quest: Data Science related CQ] Cyber Quest: Cyber Security RQ] Robo Quest: Robotics XQ] UX Quest: UI/UX, design thinking related AQ] AI Quest: General Artificial Intelligence Contents of each category in the certification competition DQ]: Analyze historical data of Tokyo's 23 wards and have AI predict statistics for a specified date. CQ]: Compete to see how many practical information security questions you can answer. RQ]: A time trial race in which participants assemble an AI robot car and drive it independently. XQ]: VR lecture by virtual YouTuber Mizuna *Not a competition. AQ]: A human plays rock-paper-scissors with a machine-learned AI to compete in terms of winning percentage and processing speed. ▼Sample problems are here A glimpse of the certification competition! Before the broadcast, a glimpse of the certification competition... These images are from the certification competition! Please enjoy the heated battles on-air! Summary Singularity Battle Quest" is a special program to discover and nurture future "AI athletes" for U-18. Currently, we are looking for people under the age of 18 who "want to become a data scientist or AI engineer! or "I am interested in blockchain or cyber security," to AI beginners such as "I like games" or "Robots and drones sound fun. This is a special program to train AI athletes using the latest teaching materials specially developed for this project by one of Japan's top companies in the field of artificial intelligence. Our e-learning system learningBOX and Tokyo staff also played a major role in this competition in terms of system and support. We look forward to the TV broadcast, scheduled for Sunday, March 15, 2020, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on BS Fuji! Don't miss it!

Why not use e-learning as an alternative to group training for new employees? Hello. My name is Motoki. As soon as possible, I would like to express my deepest sympathies to all those who have suffered and are spending anxious days due to the infectious disease related to the new type of coronavirus. As you know, there have been daily news reports about the new coronavirus. This has also caused school closings and the cancellation of various events. Many companies have introduced or are considering telework and staggered working hours as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, and many business meetings and discussions are being handled via video conferencing. These factors have also had an impact on our company, and recently we have been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from companies considering the introduction of e-learning as a method of providing training. Therefore, we would like to discuss the introduction of e-learning as an alternative to new employee training. If you are wondering how you should implement new employee training, we hope this will be helpful. Click here for the table of contents Some companies are reviewing their new employee training programs 2. how to conduct new employee training without gathering together 3. more and more companies are actually considering e-learning 4. our e-learning system is "inexpensive" and "easy to use 5. summary Some companies are rethinking their new employee training programs Due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, many companies have begun to rethink their plans for new employee training and initiation ceremonies scheduled for March and April. The survey results have actually emerged, with "As of late February, 17.11 TP2T of respondents were considering changing their plans from the original plan, an increase of 7.7 points from the February 13 survey." The results are out as follows. *Source: Survey on the Impact of the New Coronavirus on New Employee Induction Training (Second Report) from If new employee training cannot be conducted, it will be impossible to provide appropriate education and support to new employees who are already feeling anxious. In addition, if companies are unable to provide training, they will not be able to nurture the human resources that will become the company's workforce, resulting in a significant loss of business. In order to implement new employee training without gathering In response to this situation, "e-learning" is a method that allows each new employee to realize an environment similar to the content and quality of group training while at home or in a remote location. With e-learning, new employee training can be conducted without gathering together. Let us reiterate the advantages of e-Learning. Advantages of e-Learning E-learning can be conducted at any time and any place. Progress and results can be checked immediately. All materials that can be made available on the web (PDFs, videos, etc.) can be distributed online as educational materials. ...etc... Of course, there are some training courses that are difficult to implement online, such as practical skills training, but I think there are many things that can be converted to e-learning as teaching materials. Thus, e-learning is a great alternative to new employee training, as long as you have an Internet connection and a device such as a smartphone, you can start learning immediately. More and more companies are actually considering e-learning. In fact, according to the results of a survey of companies that are considering taking a different approach to new employee training than originally planned, the second most popular response was "considering methods other than group training (remote, e-learning, etc.)," indicating that more companies are considering e-learning as a method for new employee training. Source: "Survey on the Impact of the New Coronavirus on New Employee Induction Training (Second Report)" (Japanese only) Our e-learning system is "inexpensive" and "easy to use Our e-learning system learningBOX is "cheap" and "easy to use". The price starts at 30,000 yen per year (excluding tax) even if 100 students use the system. You can use the free plan for an unlimited period of time for up to 10 users. The system can be operated intuitively, without the need to read manuals. You can also create training programs like this. As we introduced the other day, this LMS (Learning Management System) not only provides education, but also provides the "information" and "communication" necessary for the training of new employees. LMS (Learning Management System). This is an article that describes in detail the use of e-learning for newcomer training. We hope you will find it useful as well. How to Successfully Use e-Learning for Employee Education and Training? Newcomer Training (Part 1) How to use e-learning for successful employee training and education? Newcomer training (Part 1) How to use e-learning for successful employee training and education? Newcomer training (Part 2) How to use e-learning for successful employee education and training? Newcomer training (Part 2) Summary If you are wondering how you should conduct your new employee training, please consider our learningBOX e-learning program. You can try our free plan to see how easy it is to use. You can start using it right away after registration. Start your free trial now! E-learning can of course be used not only for new employee training, but also for company-wide training. Originally, the Tokyo Olympics were scheduled to be held this year, and telework (telecommuting) itself has been attracting attention, but now, due in part to the impact of the new coronavirus countermeasures, telework is rapidly advancing. We hope that you will consider using e-learning as part of the introduction of telework and remote working.

learningBOX is an e-learning system born from "customer feedback. We can hear the footsteps of spring in the cold weather. Hello! This is Kuroda from the Quality Control Department. Thank you for using our e-learning system, learningBOX. The subject of this issue is "learningBOX is made of 'customer's voices'"! It's a catchphrase you may have heard somewhere before. It may sound like a catchphrase you've heard somewhere before, but it's the truth. We thank you for having found your way to our page and for reading this article, even if you have not used our service yet. In this article, I would like to share with you the history of learningBOX and the story of its future development. We hope you will enjoy this paper as well. Click here for the Table of Contents 1. learningBOX will soon celebrate its 4th anniversary! 2. learningBOX's history and future development plans 3. learningBOX's quality control 4. summary We will soon celebrate the 4th anniversary of the release of learningBOX! April marks the fourth anniversary of the release of learningBOX. As you can see on the "Case Studies" page, we have received compliments from customers in various industries. Thank you very much for using our e-learning system. I am now in the Quality Control Department, but when the system was first released, I was responding to phone calls and e-mails from our customers, and I received so many "thank you" e-mails and phone calls from so many people. After all, it makes me happy when they express their gratitude directly to me, and I can confidently recommend the "learningBOX" product to those who have not yet adopted it. History of learningBOX and future development plans To explain the history of learningBOX, it was originally released as an e-learning web system that added the ability to save grades to QuizGenerator, a free quiz creation tool. It was released on April 13, 2016 as learningBOX 0.7.0 and was released as QuizGenerator (beta) at the time. When it was first released, it had a fairly simple structure with "Materials", "Members", "Learning", and "Grades". Since then, many months have passed and learningBOX now incorporates various functions such as various settings and solving methods. ▼ Customers who have never heard of learningBOX before reading this article! Here are the features of our e-learning system ☑POINT More than 12 types of quiz and question creation system! From practice questions to certification tests. Easy-to-use design for both administrators and learners. The system is designed to be easy to use for both administrators and learners. Smartphones and tablets are supported, and various customizations are available. E-learning content can be sold (EC function). The system can be used free of charge for an unlimited period of time for up to 10 accounts. For more detailed information on how to use and set up the service, please visit the learningBOX service introduction site for a detailed introduction with images. learningBOX has received a great number of requests for new features! Many of the new features have been realized based on "customer feedback." Among them, the "medical record function," which was added as a new feature at the time of the 2.7 release, was requested by schools, companies, and other organizations, and was even developed. We were very happy when we received such comments as "We are using the medical record function/thank you. What is the medical record function? The chart function allows you to check how much each user is learning each day and how far they have progressed. It is possible to check the number of times a user has studied and the time required over a specified period of time on a graph. What kind of requests have been raised about the new feature? Here are some of the requests we have received from our customers. I would like to be notified automatically when the material becomes available for study. I would like to display the order in the member management screen in alphabetical order. I want to display "New! I want to delete contents at once on the contents management screen. Are there any items that you have thought of that you would like to see added to the system? As with the medical record function, the more requests we receive, the more likely it is to be realized, so please do not hesitate to send us your opinions. Contact form is here → https://learningbox.online/お問い合わせ/ Bug report form is here → https://learningbox.online/defectreport/ About the quality control of learningBOX The Quality Control Department checks for bugs in learningBOX once a week for each browser. We also check the operation of new functions that have not yet been released on a daily basis, and ask the development department to identify and correct any problems before releasing them as new functions. When we receive inquiries from customers via e-mail or phone about how to operate a function, there is actually a pattern of "it is not working due to a glitch. I can only express my gratitude to the customers who contact us to inform us of the glitches. We, too, want to provide a better product, so we are always looking for ways to improve our products, whether it is "Is it a glitch? Is it a defect? If you feel that there is a problem with the product, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try our best to respond to your request with sincerity. Conclusion We feel that learningBOX is constantly advancing and evolving because of the "customer feedback" that we receive from our customers through daily inquiries. And we will continue to sincerely respond to "customer feedback" in the future as we have in the past, so that learningBOX will continue to evolve and be loved by everyone. We invite you to try learningBOX for online learning. There are many features included, and you can use learningBOX for free indefinitely for up to 10 accounts. Try it for yourself! Registration is easy and can be done here. Thank you for taking the time to read this article.

The first in-house learningBOX case study page is now available! Hello! This is Fukumoto🍞 from Marketing. Thank you very much for visiting our blog. This time, we would like to introduce the latest article on the case studies that we have released for the first time recently, which shows how learningBOX is used in our company, Tatsuno Information System, the developer of learningBOX, as well as examples of how other companies that have introduced learningBOX have used the system. Our e-learning system, learningBOX, is rich in functions and has been developed so that anyone can use it intuitively. That's why it has been used in a wide variety of industries and business sectors! Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation. Table of Contents 1. first time! Introducing a case study of an in-house implementation -CS implementation support 2. introduction of companies that have introduced CS 3. request for case study interview 4. summary What is CS introduction support? CS introduction support is the follow-up service we provide from our head office in Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture, to our customers nationwide who are using learningBOX. From the left, Mr. Kinoshita, Mr. Ueda, and Mr. Sakamoto of our CS introduction support. First time! Introducing a case study of in-house introduction -CS introduction support We are pleased to announce that we have created a new page for learningBOX case studies within our company, Tatsuno Information System, the developer of learningBOX. We believe that "If we can't master the system, we can't make proposals that will satisfy our customers! This is the reason why we have started training programs using learningBOX. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, each client has a different type of business, and the content of their work differs from one client to another. In order to solve problems smoothly and without making customers wait, it is essential to fully grasp the functions of the learningBOX! Our website is very comprehensive, with explanations of each function, price plans, and blog posts on how to use each function. learningBOX can do a lot, so there is a lot to learn. Therefore, we use our homepage as a manual for quick understanding and report training. ▼learningBOX CS training screen "Inquiry Email Response" contents The contents range from basic materials on replying to e-mails, to videos on how to write sentences, to report materials on responding to e-mails with inquiries. Please visit the Case Studies page for more details. Click here to see the LearningBOX case studies page. Introduction of companies that have introduced learningBOX How are companies using learningBOX, not only our company but also other companies? This page introduces case studies of companies and schools that have actually used learningBOX, detailing the background to the introduction of learningBOX, their problems, and the effects after the introduction. LearningBOX is used for in-house training at Monogatari Corporation Introducing e-learning for promotional examinations at directly managed stores to develop human resources that will make each individual shine even more brightly. The main issue was the cost and time required for the paper-based examinations, which require participants to travel to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and other locations from all over Japan for a one- to two-hour exam. Our main goal was to address the transportation costs and time required. .........➡Check out the case study here for more details. Motivation Switch Group, Inc. uses learningBOX for training exams The ability to take the examinations multiple times with learningBOX has been very well received by the participants. The training exams we conduct are not designed to fail, but rather to quickly understand and consolidate knowledge, so by using learningBOX, we can build up and reach understanding on our own. Also, the time it takes for students to take the exam has become very short. 8 months was the average before the introduction of learningBOX, but now, it's a whopping 2.1 months. ......... ➡Check out the case study here for more information. Nippon Kotsu Corporation uses learningBOX for new employee training Since the introduction of learningBOX, I feel that the overall understanding has deepened when I talk with the new recruits. Then, every time they have a question, they call us and we go over it in detail and explain it to them. Then we would lightly spend 30 minutes on the phone. This process has been replaced by a conversation that begins with "I looked at the Web" or "I checked the e-learning program," which has considerably shortened the time spent on the phone. Even if we exchange e-mails, we can communicate with each other with some prior knowledge, so it saves time and effort for both parties. .........➡Continue reading this case study Request for Case Study Interview Tatsuno Information System, Inc. is looking for case studies of our products and services. We welcome not only business cases, but also individual study environments and shared study techniques among circle of friends. We hope that your case study will be a new form of education in the future and give us some hints. We are currently planning to introduce how one of our staff members, Kitaoka🍎, who loves our system, uses learningBOX. He is a QuizGenerator expert and a QuizGenerator Doctor🍎. I'm sure this will be an informative article for all of you! We'll keep you posted, so stay tuned here! Case Study Application Form Conclusion How was your experience? We would like to take this opportunity to inform you about some of the examples of learningBOX installations. Thankfully, learningBOX is currently being used by a wide variety of customers. We will continue to strive to meet your expectations and requests! We look forward to your continued support of learningBOX.

I am Nishimura, the creator of QuizGenerator, and the creator of QuizGenerator. Actually, I did not participate in the initial development of learningBOX, but started full-fledged participation around the release of version 2.0. I have just received a pull request regarding the handling of character encoding, and I thought I should talk a little more about character encoding, so I put it together in an article. In this article, I will introduce "How to unify the character encoding of text files with utf-8 in PHP". We hope you enjoy this article as well. Table of Contents 1. shift-JIS is unavoidable 2. how to avoid garbled characters 3. how to determine character encoding 4. summary Shift-JIS is unavoidable. Systems like learningBOX and QuizGenerator sometimes receive text files such as CSV. In modern Web systems, the character encoding of text files should be utf-8, and we do not want to accept any other character encoding, but in reality, Shift_JIS files are often uploaded on rare occasions and reported as a problem. Therefore, when QuizGenerator receives a Shift_JIS file, it converts it to utf-8 and continues processing. What is Shift-JIS? Shift-JIS is one of the character codes that contain various characters including Japanese, standardized as JIS standard. It is used as the standard character code for Japanese in many personal computers. it is an improvement of the JIS code defined in the JIS standard. while the JIS code uses 7 bits to represent a character, the Shift-JIS code uses 2 bytes (16 bits) to represent all characters. mb_convert_encoding is not reliable. PHP has a function called mb_convert_encoding to perform character encoding conversion. At first glance, this function seems to be able to determine the character encoding and convert to utf-8, but in fact, this function is not reliable. mb_convert_encoding("aaa", "utf-8", "utf-8, sjis-win") will convert "aaa" to utf-8 if it is utf-8 and to Shift_JIS If it is Shift_JIS, it should convert it to utf-8 (at least that's what I've read in the official documentation), but in fact, it does something ridiculous. It forcefully interprets a string passed in as utf-8 as Shift_JIS, breaks it, and converts it to utf-8, returning a value that is incomprehensible. How to avoid character corruption ▼ "mb_convert_encoding works properly if you specify the character encoding of the conversion source. mb_convert_encoding works properly as long as you specify the character encoding of the conversion source. In other words, the strategy of converting from Shift_JIS to utf-8 only if it is Shift_JIS, and doing nothing if it is utf-8, basically works. mb_convert_encoding("aaaa", "utf-8", "sjis-win") The above code works fine if "aaaa" is Shift_JIS. If it is originally utf-8, it is OK as is. How do we determine the character encoding? There is a function called mb_detect_encoding, but to begin with, if this works correctly, it can be solved simply by using mb_convert_encoding. If the standard functions don't work, you're on your own. It is not that difficult to determine whether or not the utf-8 specification is met, so just do it. What if it is not utf-8? If it's not utf-8, we'll treat it as Shift_JIS at ・・・・. We can't support people who submit euc-jp or utf-16 files, at least not if they know about encoding. At least, people who do that should know about encoding, so please self-serve. In the first place, they are specified to use utf-8. Another trap I have used the term Shift_JIS many times in this article, but what is currently referred to as Shift_JIS is often Windows-31J (MS932), which is an extension of Shift_JIS. However, if you specify Shift_JIS in PHP, characters other than those specified in the original Shift_JIS specification will be corrupted. Unless you have a special reason, use Windows-31J or sjis-win instead of Shift_JIS. The official documentation says to use Windows-31J, but only sjis-win is listed, which is a strange state of affairs, but at least with PHP 7.3.13, either specification worked fine. Will a unified future ever come? About 20 years ago. When I first started web programming, UTF-8 was not the standard and garbled characters were a common occurrence. In the Web world, it seems safe to say that the unification to utf-8 has been completed. Smartphones were created based on the assumption of utf-8, since they were born in a world after utf-8 became widely used. （On the other hand, files exchanged on Windows are often in Shift_JIS. Conclusion In this article, we introduced "How to unify the character encoding of text files with utf-8 in PHP. As a company from Japan, we would like to keep the usability for Japanese people in mind, so we will continue to develop without forgetting about Shift_JIS for a while longer. (We really want to forget about IE11...)

Hello. I am Mukai, a member of the Introduction Support team. In this article, I would like to explain how to check the usage status of our customers who use learningBOX. learningBOX allows you to easily check the total number of logins and courses per date based on the user history. Click here to see the table of contents. 1. you are wondering if your users are using our service? 2. click here to see how to check user history 3. about login information 4. how to extract login information by conditional search 5. summary Are you wondering if your users are using your site? Let me ask you this question right away: After you start offering e-learning courses through your LMS, don't you wonder how your learners are using the course materials? Are the materials you have prepared being used? And who are the most frequent users? Or, who are the users who are not using the materials? In addition, you may want to know the overall usage status. In this issue, we would like to introduce the "usage status check" function, one of the functions of learningBOX, to help you understand these questions. Here is how to check your user history Please log in with the administrator account and move the mouse cursor over the [Administrative Functions] item on the left menu bar. Click [>]. ▼ Select "Check Usage Status". You will be redirected to the ▼Usage Status screen. ▼You can also check the usage status by day and month. About login information ▼ Number of Logins You can see the number of logins by date. You can see the details of your login history from "Number of Logins>>". The access log list is displayed. ▼Number of users This item is the total number of accounts that have answered the question. ▼Total number of studies This is the total number of contents studied. You can check your grade management from "Total number of lessons". How to extract login information by conditional search Go to Administration → Check Usage Status and click on [Date]. The screen will move to the list of logged-in members. Enter the start date to end date, select login/study status, and click the Search button. POINT By checking your learningBOX usage status, you can ☑"Who has checked which contents?" ☑ "At what time did they log in? ☑ "How much data space is left in the learningBOX? If you are using learningBOX and have any of these problems or questions, please check the usage status. You can check the usage status and access time within the company, log-in history by day, and the time at which users logged in. Please use this data when analyzing data such as learning status, course applicants, course completers, and correlation between average monthly logins and completion rate. Conclusion In this article, we have introduced how to check the usage of learningBOX. learningBOX also allows you to check the login status and the total number of courses taken during a specified period of time. Thank you very much for your patience with this article.

About this Version Upgrade Thank you for using learningBOX, our e-learning creation system. Today, learningBOX has been upgraded from Ver. 2.8 to Ver. 2.9. In this article, we will provide details about Ver. 2.9.10 (released on February 13, 2020), which adds various new features. List of New Functions and Functional Improvements ☑ "Integration with LDAP / ActiveDirectory SAML Authentication Settings Badge Settings" ☑ "Badge Settings" ☑ "Resume Suspension Suspend and Resume" ☑ "Suspend and Resume Function ☑ "Notification of Specified Course Materials" ☑ "Notification of Course Materials In this version upgrade, we have added the "LDAP / ActiveDirectory integration function" which has been requested by many users. In addition, many features have been added, including improvements to existing functions. We will now introduce the details of the 2.9 series upgrade. LDAP / ActiveDirectory Integration With the learningBOX 2.9 version upgrade, we have added support for integration with LDAP servers. LDAP v3 compatible directory services (OpenLDAP, Active Directory, etc.) can be used as a user authentication method. LDAP authentication can be used not only for user authentication, but also for user management in conjunction with directory services. LDAP authentication requires a dedicated server contract. SAML Authentication Settings SAML authentication settings have been added since Ver. 2.8. To make it easier to use, the corresponding Identity Provider (IdP) and authentication setting screen have been added. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based international standard authentication method for authenticating users across different Internet domains, and is a protocol for achieving single sign-on (SSO). Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism that allows users to log in to multiple services simultaneously with a single ID and password. SAML authentication requires design customization or a dedicated server contract. SAML Authentication Settings for Trust Login Trust Login" is a single sign-on service for enterprises with basic functions such as "single sign-on" that enables login to multiple services with a single ID and password, "ID management" and "log and report functions. SAML Authentication Settings in Google G Suite LearningBOX can be registered as a SAML application for G Suite. SAML Authentication Settings with OneLogin You can register learningBOX as a SAML application for OneLogin. Badge setting function A new feature has been added that also serves as a gamification element. With the badge function, learners are given badges based on their learning achievements, which can be expected to increase their motivation. Learners can also check their course status at a glance. The badge display function can be set for each material or folder. Please note that badge acquisition conditions differ for each material. Interruption Resume Function The "Suspend and Resume" function, which is useful when conducting tests and examinations, has been further improved. We understand that in many cases you may use the one-time-only limit when conducting a test, but with this improved feature, you can interrupt and resume the quiz even if you leave the system screen during the test. This is an option that allows users to suspend and resume the quiz when taking the quiz/test. You can interrupt your answers in the middle of the quiz, and resume from the middle of the quiz. A new mode "Resume from Interruption" has been added for this time. When "Enable" is specified, you can choose to "Resume from the beginning" or "Start over from the beginning" when resuming. If you specify "Enable only from the continuation", you can only select "Resume from the continuation". Notification function for specified course materials The "Notify me when a learner has completed certain material" function has been added to meet the request of "automatically notifying the administrator when a learner has completed certain material". This function allows you to set up email notifications to be sent to the administrator when there is a change in a learner's grade status. By using this function, you can set up an e-mail notification to be sent to the administrator only for the specified course materials. You can set this function to send email notifications to the administrator only for the specified course materials. Miscellaneous Please contact our CS sales team if you have any questions or need more information. Inquiry Form We will continue to listen to our customers' voices and improve our functions to make your use of our products even more comfortable. Thank you for your continued support of LearningBOX/QuizGenerator.

How to set up a report assignment using learningBOX This is Kitaoka 🍎, our marketing manager. In this article, I would like to introduce how to set up a report assignment using our e-learning system, learningBOX. In addition to the quiz creation function and the memorization-focused "Mushi-Eating Notebooks and Memorization Cards," learningBOX has a content function that allows learners to set up report assignments. This function is very effective in helping students understand what they have learned and in providing feedback for in-house training! It is easy to set up, so please take advantage of it. Click here for the Table of Contents 1. what is the report submission function of learningBOX? 2. create a report assignment. 3. 3. when the report is submitted, it is graded. 4. the learner can check the grading results. The learner can check the grading results. 5. 5. summary What is the report submission function of learningBOX? The "Report Submission" function allows learners to submit reports. Reports can be submitted as a file or as an input form. Please note that there is no automatic grading function for reports. Create a report assignment. ▼STEP 1. Log in to learningBOX Please login to learningBOX and click [Contents Management] on the menu bar. ▼STEP2. Click on the ⊕ symbol. Move to the contents management screen, click the operation menu (+ mark) in the upper left corner, and select 【Report Assignment】. ▼STEP3. Select the method of report assignment submission. You can choose either "Web Entry", "File Upload", or both. Next, enter the title and notes for the report assignment. *If you do not need to write any notes, you do not need to enter any notes. Finally, click the Save button to complete the process. Submission Method Web Entry File Upload *・・・You can choose to have the file submitted in one of two formats. *The extensions that can be selected can be changed if you are using a dedicated server plan. Please contact us if you have any requests. Grading when reports are submitted. The administrator sets the report assignment and proceeds as if the learner had submitted the report. Please go to [View Grades] on the menu bar > Report Grading Management. The date of submission, report name, student name, pass/fail, score, submitted file, and grade will be displayed. ▼How to grade the report function Click on "Download Submitted Files. → Click on "Download Submitted Files" to download files submitted by learners. Click on the "Grade" button Click "Score" button → You can grade the submitted reports. Enter the score and select pass/fail. Enter optional feedback and click "Save" to complete. Learners can check the grading results. The learner can check the pass/fail status of the report assignment from the Grading Manager of his/her account. Click on the ▼Details button to see the details. Conclusion In this article, we have introduced the report function of learningBOX. Reports can be submitted as a file or as an input form. It is easy to set up, so please try this report function. Thank you for taking the time to read this article.

How to Successfully Use E-Learning for Employee Training and Education? Newcomer Training (Part 2) In this issue, we will discuss how to successfully use e-learning for employee education and training. This is the second part of a series of articles on how to use e-learning to follow up with new hires before they join your company. This is the second part of the story. If you are in charge of training and are currently conducting a new employee training program, we hope you will take a look at this article and make use of e-learning for your new employee training program. Click here to see the table of contents 1. review of the previous article 2. what LMS features do you want to use? 3. real-life learningBOX case studies 4. summary Review of the previous article In the previous article, we first noted that before joining the company, the candidate has concerns about the future, such as whether or not he/she will be able to do the job well and integrate into the company, and that this concern can be resolved with "information" and "communication To resolve this anxiety, "information" and "communication" are necessary. And how do we provide this "information" and "communication"? E-learning" is the best way to do this. In this article, we will introduce how to provide "information" and "communication" for follow-up of informal job offers through e-learning. What LMS functions should be utilized? In this section, we will introduce the use of e-learning for job offer follow-up along with the actual learningBOX screen. Learning Management Functions This is the learning management function, the main function of the LMS. We have already introduced many of these functions on this site. We recommend that training materials that do not require group training or paper-based learning materials, which can be web-based, be distributed as e-learning materials to employees. This will allow managers to check learning progress and other information before the new employee joins the company, such as where they are stumbling. This allows the manager to check the learning progress before the new employee joins the company. Learn more about content management Notice Management Notice Management can be used like a bulletin board for posting information that you want to keep informed, so you can inform inform informants of communications and company information that you need to convey to them. It can also be used as a tool to inform people when new study materials are distributed. Since e-mail notifications can also be sent out, there is no need to create a separate e-mail for everyone. ➡ Learn more about Notification Management News Management Message Box Message boxes are ideal when you want to develop communication with a large number of people, like an online bulletin board or chat. For example, you may receive a question about a particular training or study and want to respond on the spot. You can share information with the people involved in real time and keep a history of it. It is recommended for cases where it is not necessary to gather in the same place to conduct the training, but it is necessary to communicate and talk about the training. ➡ Learn more about the message box Contact us by email This may seem like a basic function, but we recommend using it in combination with grade management. For example, if you would like to send an e-mail to all the members who have not yet taken a class, you can send an e-mail to all the members who have not yet taken the class. ➡ See more details about the function to send a targeted email from the grade management screen. Actual LearningBOX Case Studies Here are some examples of actual customers who have used our learningBOX to implement e-learning for new employee training and internal training. Nippon Kotsu Co. In order to become a cab driver, a new graduate must obtain a type 2 driver's license and pass a geography test. The company is using the learningBOX to provide the knowledge to the new graduates before they join the company, without the need for group training. Click here to continue Conclusion How was the LMS? We hope that you will use e-learning as a tool for information dissemination and knowledge acquisition to provide "information" and "communication" for follow-up of informal job offers.