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Onboarding, Training, Support, & Development We take a personal approach to onboarding and training all of our customers. An onboarding specialist works with your staff to ensure connectivity and to prepare accounts. Trainings are customized to accommodate the needs and requirements of individual schools and districts. Our team of Learning Solutions Specialists (subject matter specialists) will work with each client to share their expertise of EMC’s products, and plan a unique training experience to suit your needs. Meet the Team EMC’s Learning Solutions Specialists (LSS’s) are all former teachers, and are experts on EMC products. They will work with your school or district to create a custom plan for training and integration, and make sure your teachers and students are receiving the intended benefits of EMC’s programs and platforms. The LSS’s are also experts in their field – they regularly present professional workshops at conferences and seminars, and are available to provide professional development to your school or district. EMC’s User Experience Team provide EMC clients with a “white glove” service. They have an in-depth knowledge of EMC’s digital products and platforms, including Passport and eBooks. They work with district IT personnel to ensure the smooth transfer of information between systems, and provide onboarding assistance and training to get users up and running on our platforms. They will be available throughout the implementation process, and beyond, to ensure your experience is the best it can be! We will provide… 1 Onboarding 2 Training • enable the smooth setup of accounts and onboarding of users. • work with IT personnel to ensure the flow of information between systems (yours and ours). • facilitate rostering and SSO options (including Clever®, syncing with SIS’s, etc.) WWY223291 • provide tailor-made training to implement EMC’s products and services. We work with you to tailor a unique blended approach, which will include all or a combination of the following: - self-guided, online training - live or recorded webinars - in-person on-site visit(s) 3 Outreach and Support • after implementation training, EMC’s outreach specialists will contact users to follow- up and provide support, guidance on integration, suggestions on usage, and to facilitate further group or individual training if necessary. • provide user support which is easily accessible from our digital platforms and our support website. 4 Professional Development • help teachers easily integrate EMC programs into their classroom. Whether it be regular webinars on specific topics, live Q&A sessions, or Lesson Plans for use in class, our product experts are continuously creating resources and materials for all of our programs that are available to you for free on our support site. • deliver targeted Professional Development based on the most up-to-date, research- based, best practices in the field.