USING THE CDS

• Individual Online Orientation. Much of the orientation content that is required in the beginning of a person's employment is included in the CDS content. While organizations will still need to provide a welcome and orientation to their place of employment, much of the standard industry content can be offered through the CDS online format.
• Group Learning and Discussion. Some organizations may want to include follow-up discussions and interactions as a component of the employee orientation or training. In this model, employees complete designated CDS courses/lessons by a specified time and meet to review and discuss the information that was presented.
• In-Service/Continuing Education. Many of the CDS courses are introductory in nature and some are more advanced. CDS courses can be used to meet in-service training and continuing education requirements on a wide variety of topics.
• Review/Remedial Training. The CDS courses offer an excellent means for employees who have difficulty learning in traditional classroom settings to take courses at their own pace and over a period of time so that they can more easily assimilate the content.
• College Education. Many colleges and universities are working to include the CDS curriculum in their coursework and credentialing programs. Among them, the University of Minnesota will provide course credits and continuing education units (CEUs) related to the CDS course content.

• Certificates of completion that can be printed from the computer upon completion of the individual lessons and successful performance on the assessments.
• Availability for direct purchase of one or more courses for a shorter period of time without the learner management system or other tools through an "E-commerce" option.
• A permanent, portable record of all training successfully completed by each learner.