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News and Press Releases about Genius SIS
October 7, 2019
Genius SIS Announces General Availability of Release 2.0 for Corporate, Government, and Higher Education Markets
New release adds a major user interface update to provide a more responsive, intuitive experience.
PLANTATION, Fla. (PRWEB) October 07, 2019 -- Genius SIS announced today the general availability of release 2.0 for Corporate, Government, and Higher Education markets. Genius 2.0 builds upon the success of previous releases, enhancing the user experience and expanding features available to its users. A completely new navigation and layout aligns Genius with current design trends, providing a clean, responsive user interface while still keeping its unique ease-of-use and intuitiveness.

Genius 2.0 gives organizations the ability to bring together their silo-ed course development and delivery tools into one training catalog, simplifying registration and providing powerful reporting and management tools through an integration with more than 25 LMS platforms. Organizations are able to track the entire enrollment lifecycle, including approval workflows, learning paths and recurring enrollments for compliance. Genius 2.0 also provides extensive communication tools, supporting the automation of processes and management oversight.

In addition to the fresh user interface with branded themes by user affiliation, new features and enhancements in Genius 2.0 were driven by a rapidly expanding client base and include:
- the ability to map one learner to multiple affiliations
- real-time grade downloads
- manager nominations for employee training
- redesigned HTML email templates
- and button-level access control by role.

"One of the things we love the most about our clients is their engagement, and their willingness to help us drive Genius product development forward. This release is a result of the close partnership with our clients to solve their unique professional training requirements across many different use-cases. We are looking forward to continuing to work with our clients and partners on the evolution of our platform," said Beny Lederman, CEO of Genius.
September 3, 2019
Genius SIS Partners With D2L's Brightspace LMS
Seamless integration will provide additional registration, e-commerce, management, and reporting for K-12, Higher Education, and Corporate users of Brightspace LMS
Genius SIS, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a partnership with D2L Corporation, makers of the Brightspace learning management system (LMS). The partnership will help bring the management and reporting functionality provided by Genius’ student information system (SIS) to many clients currently using D2L’s Brightspace LMS.

Genius SIS is known in the eLearning industry for its student information system designed specifically for online schools, as well as its corporate learning management tool used by companies and government throughout the US and abroad for tracking the learning of employees. The newly established partnership will allow Genius' products to be offered to K-12, Higher Education, and Corporate markets through the existing integration with Brightspace. With this partnership, D2L’s Brightspace customers will have expanded options for: registration, e-commerce, management of training, and reporting across multiple education modalities.

"Genius SIS is very excited about our partnership with D2L and its potential. We have several clients successfully using D2L products integrated with Genius, and this partnership will allow us to not only increase the number of customers but also add value to our shared base", said Beny Lederman, CEO at Genius SIS.

“Our aim is to empower clients with powerful data to help them make smart decisions about their learning programs,” said D2L SVP of Product Management David Koehn. “As a global leader in learning platforms for K-12, Higher Education and Enterprise, partnering with Genius will enhance our platform and will continue to strengthen our leadership in these markets.”
May 2, 2019
Genius SIS Announces General Availability of Release 1.12 for Corporate, Government, and Higher Education Markets
New release adds features for registration, tracking, and reporting of training compliance and professional development.
Genius SIS announced today the general availability of release 1.12 for Corporate, Government, and Higher Education markets. Genius SIS has long been a leader in next generation web-based Student Information Systems (SIS) for online and virtual schools. For the last few years, Genius SIS has seen significant growth in clients who require simplified registration, tracking and reporting for their professional training, regardless of the way training is delivered.

New features and enhancements were driven by our rapidly expanding client base to fill gaps and bring together siloed delivery solutions in their training eco-systems.
New features include registration and catalog improvements; course recommendations; tracking external training; learner dashboard improvements; custom login pages and branding by affiliation; support for additional payment gateways; support for new learning delivery tools; new automated email templates and communication options; tracking training expirations and learning paths; improved out-of-the-box reporting for compliance tracking; prescriptive rules for automated enrollments; and enhanced administrator configuration options.

"We love listening to our clients and providing solutions to their needs. This release is a result of the close partnership with our clients to solve their unique professional training requirements. We have also enhanced many existing features, creating a stable release to build upon in the future. We have gotten very positive feedback from the clients who have recently migrated to the latest release, and we are already excited to be working on the next one.", said Beny Lederman, CEO of Genius.
November 3, 2018
Genius SIS and eThink Education Partner to Offer Seamless SIS-LMS Integration
Expanded E-learning Delivery Options for Online Schools, Continuing Education, and Corporate Training
PLANTATION, Fla. (PRWEB) November 03, 2018 -- Genius SIS, a leader in next generation web-based Student Information System (SIS) for online and virtual schools, announces its partnership with eThink Education, a fully-managed eLearning solution for open-source Learning Management Systems (LMS) Moodle and Totara.

The partnership provides schools, organizations and corporations unprecedented flexibility when creating e- Learning opportunities, and opens an extremely wide spectrum of possibilities around registration, reporting, user management and course delivery through a seamless and bi-directional SIS-LMS integration. Beny Lederman, CEO of Genius SIS asserts, “Today’s eLearning administrators and educators want more choices in how they deliver learning opportunities to their students. Instead of progress, performance and engagement data being siloed away in specialized systems, administrators want the ability to register, manage, and track training outcomes – regardless of how learning is delivered. By integrating Genius SIS with the eThink LMS, programs now have access to a proven platform to better manage their e-Learning initiatives as they begin to scale”.

Genius SIS adds valuable registration, user management and back-end capabilities, while eThink addresses all LMS system benchmarks including hosting, implementation, integration, consultation, and management. Through Genius SIS, clients can now have access to self-registration functionality, e-Commerce, enrollment approval workflows (including enrollment caps and waiting lists), tracking of course pre-requisites, support for learning paths and the generation of completion certificates and transcripts – key functionality to manage complex e-Learning initiatives that complement the content delivery features of the LMS.

“We’re excited to partner with Genius SIS to provide increased adaptability and delivery options for eLearning,” said Brian Carlson, CEO of eThink Education. “With real-time SIS integration, school administrators can take advantage of improved efficiencies that are only possible when an institution’s two most important systems are configured to communicate and share data.”

Inquiries for web-based demo appointments as well as the terms and conditions for the partnership’s SIS-LMS integration solutions may be made by contacting Genius SIS (charles(at)geniussis.com) or eThink Education (info(at)ethinkeducation.com).
February 14, 2018
Genius SIS Adds Student Registration, eCommerce, and Certifications to the SCORM Cloud
Training can be delivered anywhere, anytime, using a variety of learning delivery formats, the most popular e-learning content standard being SCORM.
PLANTATION, Fla. (PRWEB) February 14, 2018 -- Genius SIS announced today the addition of SCORM Cloud as the latest e-learning delivery platform that it seamlessly integrates with, adding to more than 20 elearning platforms it currently supports including: Blackboard Learn, Moodlerooms, Moodle, Canvas, BrightSpace, and Buzz.

Clients with a SCORM Cloud account can easily upload their SCORM packages when managing their training courses in Genius SIS. Once that is done, learners are able to self-register and pay for training, gaining immediate access to e-learning content. Grades, completions, and activity flow back into Genius SIS to be used in dashboards and reports across e-learning delivery silos. The SCORM results data can also be fed into a thirdparty Learning Record Store.

In addition to student registration, Genius SIS adds valuable capabilities to SCORM Cloud content, such as enrollment approval workflows (including enrollment caps and waiting lists), tracking of course pre-requisites, support for learning paths which consist of multiple SCORM and non-SCORM content, eCommerce, and generation of completion certificates and transcripts. Users also have access to powerful dashboards and reports, and can setup automated emails and reminders to learners.

“Genius is committed to simplifying the registration and tracking of all training, regardless of delivery format, technology or platform. We believe our integration with SCORM Cloud will add powerful functionality to the richness of the content provided by SCORM Cloud today. By adding SCORM Cloud as our latest e-learning delivery option, we want to bring together silos of training data, freeing each client to choose the best learning delivery platform for their business,” said Beny Lederman, CEO of Genius.

"We are excited about the SCORM Cloud integration in the Genius SIS platform and the user friendly features such as e-commerce, learning paths and certificates that it easily lends to SCORM, AICC, xAPI and cmi5 content. Genius is a great example of how we envisioned people using the SCORM Cloud API to build useful and elegant learning solutions," said Tim Martin, CEO of Rustici Software.
June 01, 2017
Instructure and Genius SIS Announce Partnership
Integration will provide additional management and reporting capabilities to users of Canvas LMS and Bridge
Plantation, FL (PRWEB) June 01, 2017 -- Genius SIS, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Canvas, the open online learning management system (LMS) by Instructure that makes teaching and learning easier. The partnership will help bring the management and reporting functionality provided by Genius' student information system to the many clients currently using Instructure's Canvas and Bridge platforms.

Genius SIS is known in the eLearning industry for its student information system designed specifically for online schools, as well as its corporate learning management tool used by companies and government throughout the US and abroad for tracking the learning of employees. The newly established partnership will allow Genius' products to be offered to both K-12, higher education, and corporate markets through the existing integration with Canvas LMS and Bridge.

"We are very proud to be working with Instructure and excited about the potential of the partnership. We have many clients using Canvas' products, and this partnership will allow us to evolve our offering and provide even more value to our shared customers", said Beny Lederman, CEO at Genius SIS.

"We were very impressed with the comprehensive integration built by the Genius SIS team, and this partnership reflects our desire to partner with best-of-breed companies that complement our offering," said Melissa Loble, vice president of platform and partnerships at Instructure. Additional information can be found at the partner profile page here (https://community.canvaslms.com/community/answers/partnerships/genius-sis).
May 24, 2017
Genius SIS Launches its Platform on FedRAMP-Authorized AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) further enhances safety and security for government agencies using Genius SIS to provide registration, tracking, and reporting of all training across the U.S. government and military.
Plantation, Florida (PRWEB) May 24, 2017 -- Genius SIS announced today the availability of its powerful Student Information System (SIS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US), an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud. U.S. government agencies and military can now continue to register, track, and report on their mission-critical training programs within a more secure cloud environment. Clients will also continue to self-host Genius within secured networks, behind their firewalls.

The availability of Genius on AWS GovCloud (US) further helps customers who choose to host Genius in AWS GovCloud support their U.S. government compliance requirements. AWS is one of the first cloud service providers to meet the FedRAMP High baseline, a U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRamp High gives U.S. government agencies the ability to leverage the AWS Cloud for highly sensitive workloads, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII), sensitive patient records, financial data, law enforcement data, Federal tax information, and other Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

“Genius is committed to helping our U.S. government and military clients register, track, and report on their mission-critical training objectives from any environment they chose”, said Beny Lederman, CEO of Genius.

Genius SIS is fully integrated with the leading Learning Management Systems, including Blackboard Learn, Moodlerooms, Canvas, Moodle and Brightspace.