Over the years, new laws and regulations and a boom of information and technology have increased the demand at the University of California to train and update faculty and staff at its campuses, medical center and laboratories across the state. The training tasks at times have been overwhelming, but thanks to the new UC Learning Center and learning management system, training the 135,000 will now be more controllable, consistent and, at times, literally at your fingertips.

The UC Learning Center will allow UC locations to create and host online training events, deliver and track courses, and manage the data to meet the University’s ever-increasing compliance training needs.  The system will also give UC locations the means to manage their own online and instructor-led training. 

The UC Learning Center, including a Learning Management System purchased from SumTotal Systems, will be rolled out throughout UC in the coming months.

Many Advantages for UC

There are many issues and policies at UC that necessitate training of staff and faculty.  Ethics, conflict of interest, IT security, financial aid administration and laboratory research practices are among topics that currently or in the future require training.

In the future, the UC Learning Center will also include tools for work skills analysis, career development and succession planning.

How UC Benefits

The new UC Learning Center with its comprehensive LMS will:

• Make it easier to create and deploy systemwide and local training content
• Offer a consistent web-based platform
• Improve tracking and reporting of training events
• Reduce dependency on vendor-managed programs
• Offer the ability to share training courses and resources throughout the UC system
• Present locations the opportunity to modify the look of their LMS and manage autonomously from the core LMS
• Easily identify regulatory training requirements based on jobs, roles and activities
• Allow creation and assignment of individual development plans
• Manage and track career paths