CATEGORY: Training

In today’s fast-paced AEC industry, efficiency and collaboration are more important than ever. Successful teams need clear roles, streamlined processes, and the right technology to stay ahead.

If you missed our recent webinar, now is the perfect time to catch up on how to optimize your team’s workflows and leverage Eagle Point Software’s Pinnacle Series—a powerful e-learning system designed to enhance team productivity.

What You’ll Learn

This webinar explores key strategies for improving your team’s performance, including:

• Clarifying Roles & Responsibilities – Define and communicate team roles effectively to foster better collaboration and accountability.
• Streamlining Workflows – Learn proven methods to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce redundancies, and optimize processes for peak performance.
• Embracing New Technologies – Discover how to integrate innovative digital tools into your workflow to enhance productivity and stay competitive.
• Measuring & Improving Performance – Gain insights into tracking progress and ensuring continuous team development aligned with business goals.

Why Watch This Webinar?

Whether you’re a project manager, team leader, or AEC professional looking to improve efficiency, this webinar provides practical takeaways to help your organization thrive. Plus, we’ll show you how Pinnacle Series can serve as an all-in-one learning and training resource tailored to your team’s needs.

📺 Watch the webinar on-demand now!

Let’s Elevate Your Team’s Performance

At Microsol Resources, we’re committed to helping AEC professionals stay ahead with the latest training and technology solutions. If you’re looking to enhance your team’s skills and efficiency, contact us today to discuss how we can support your learning and development needs.

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Peak Experience for Pinnacle Series is here! This foundational update to the pioneering Pinnacle Series LMS sets a new standard for what learning and development can look like in architecture, engineering, and construction businesses.

Peak Experience is more than just a one-time upgrade—it’s an evolution. Peak Experience represents the first step in an ongoing process to build on what excels in Pinnacle Classic, and to grow Pinnacle—and your business with it—into the best possible version of itself.

In this article, we’ll delve into the details of what’s available now in Peak Experience for each subscription type, and we’ll also take a look at what those features lay the groundwork for in the weeks to come.

Enhanced Features: Taking the Next Step

The goal with Peak Experience isn’t to reinvent the wheel. Rather,  to smooth out and streamline what’s working well in Pinnacle Classic and then build on it, incorporating valuable feedback from users into new quality-of-life features that make learning even easier.

These are the key Enhanced features in Peak Experience: what’s available now, for both users and managers, and what’s in store down the road.

Look and Feel

A new interface design allows both users and managers to navigate Peak Experience even faster and more smoothly than Pinnacle Classic. Added content carousels offer easy access to categories like Assignments and Libraries (more on those below), and restructured menus and an added quick-access search bar make Peak Experience more intuitive to use.

• For end users: Flags and progress indicators provide extra information at a glance on their home pages.
• For managers: Theming, branding, and other customization functions are streamlined for easier use, and the home page’s background image can now be changed. Managers can take advantage of list or tile view when navigating content.

In the works: Additional customization options for the home page (assignable layouts, landing pages) and end-user list/tile view toggle.

Search

The Search function has been retooled across Peak Experience to work faster and surface more information at a glance. The new interface incorporates graphical elements like content thumbnails for greater context; makes certain handy metadata available in the search results; and allows users to enroll directly into a course from the search page. We’ve also added quick filters to help users narrow down their searches easily.

Upgraded Search metadata:

• New description logic
• Content length
• Course difficulty
• Course topics
• Enrollment status

Viewing and Consuming Content

Peak Experience optimizes the information available to learners on screen, offering additional visibility and control. Users have access to more details about the course they’re in, the content they’re consuming, and the quizzes they’re taking, as well as the option for full-screen views to focus in on learning content or workflows.

Increased visibility into:

• Content metadata
• Course completion status
• Course description
• Quiz data

User Profile and Organization

End users have access to new information and organizational tools, with even more capabilities on their way. The user profile page has been redesigned to accommodate these tools, and to make navigation easier and more intuitive.

Transcripts and other downloads are now available for users, as is an all-new Bookmarks landing page where users can see content they’ve tagged for easy access. In the near future, users will have additional search and viewing options for Bookmarks as well as their My Documents folder, and will also be able to submit off-platform learning for inclusion in their history and transcript.

Supercharged Features: A New Level of Learning

Some of Peak Experience’s features go beyond an upgrade and cross into “transformational” territory. These supercharged capabilities pave the way for innovative new approaches to employee development, helping learners to create fresh connections across disciplines and managers to customize the experience ever more closely to the needs of both their business and their users.

Assignments

A restructured assignments interface offers both users and managers unprecedented transparency and flexibility. Users can view assigned KnowledgeSmart assessments alongside assigned learning content and see them in either tile or list views. New sorting options and visibility into assignment status let users see more information at once and give them the tools to customize their view—on top of which, they’re also able to bring up their current enrollments and full assignment history.

Managers have access to a new assignment management area with information aligned to organizational structure, making it easier than ever to target learning to the employees who need it most. Full visibility and robust sorting across title, content type, status, and due date let managers create and edit assignments intuitively and quickly.

Upcoming Peak Experience releases will build on assignment capabilities even further with role-based and assessment-based personalized learning plans; bulk actions like editing, emailing, and exporting; and granular assignment options for individual content items.

Content Management and Customization

Peak Experience provides managers with all-new ways to organize and manage content. One of the most significant is a new content container called libraries, which are visible to end users as well. Libraries give managers another axis along which to control content publication, visibility, and grouping, including the ability to collect your own custom content alongside subscription content in the same library. Managers and users alike can view libraries in tile or list view, see and edit library descriptions, associate images with libraries, and copy existing libraries to create new versions.

Additional content management options let managers structure content permissions in alignment with organizational roles, and provide a content change summary which can be exported for auditing and review. With these content controls, managers have even more tools to personalize learning quickly and consistently based on business needs and the demands of a job position or department.

User Management

In keeping with the theme of more closely aligning permissions with business hierarchies, Peak Experience allows managers to grant assignment privileges on the basis of organizational roles—making it easier for team supervisors and other organizational leaders to connect their staff with targeted learning content.

In addition, Peak Experience adds three new tiers of content management permissions, creating more granular options for controlling content publication, creation, and editing. Within Peak Experience, administrators have more tools to manage knowledge sharing and ensure organizational policies and standards are maintained.

• Log in to the Administration Portal.

• Navigate to Settings.
• Select General from the menu.
• Enable the Peak Experience Configuration option.

How can Microsol Resources help

Microsol Resources is committed to our users’ continued growth and excellence in their industries. Contact us at info@microsolresources.com if you would like to schedule a demo with the team and see what Pinnacle Series has to offer.

Construction is facing a labor shortage—and it isn’t the only industry affected. A shortfall of skilled workers is impacting businesses across the AEC industries, and elearning is a critical piece of the solution.

As an industry, construction has been slower to embrace digital transformation. While digitization presents its own challenges, many digital tools are not designed with the unique needs of the construction industry in mind—and a tool that doesn’t fit its users’ context can quickly become a stumbling block.

The hurdles to training in the construction industry are varied. Learning often happens on the job and in the field. In many cases, it incorporates multiple layers of specialized information: safety procedures, regulatory compliance, or even customized project-specific processes. Documentation of classes and certifications is also crucial.

The right LMS for a construction business doesn’t just provide good information—it meets employees where they need it most. When evaluating elearning options, consider these four key features:

1. Flexible, Personalized Learning Paths

One of the biggest challenges to effective training in any industry, particularly in construction, is time. It can be difficult to allocate hours for quality learning, especially when rising demand creates more pressing work.

Construction employees often need to leave the field for training, separating them from the tools and situations where the training is most applicable. Many workers also already have experience with the subject matter and risk retreading material they already know.

Skill assessments and personalized learning paths allow workers to focus on the content they need, avoiding unnecessary repetition. Shorter, targeted lessons improve retention, and the ability to access course content from anywhere enables workers to apply what they’ve learned immediately, reinforcing the information.

This flexibility also streamlines hiring and onboarding, which are high-priority tasks during a skilled labor shortage. Skill assessments provide a straightforward way to identify talented new hires and customize their onboarding and initial training to help them get up to speed quickly.

2. Relevant and Up-to-Date Content Libraries

The construction technology ecosystem is becoming increasingly sophisticated, requiring both new hires and current workers to stay updated on the latest developments. This applies to every level of the construction process, whether managing a project in Procore, modeling a building in Revit, or designing components in SolidWorks.

A construction-oriented LMS should offer relevant content libraries that are regularly updated to reflect the latest software versions and industry standards. Customization of course libraries is also important to match company-specific use cases and policies.

3. Documentation and User History

With health and safety at stake, the construction industry is heavily regulated. Compliance often requires regular recertification or training, updated materials when regulations change, and retaining proof of completed courses or certifications.

A suitable LMS should track and provide historical user data, detailing which users have completed specific courses and when. It should also store and retrieve certifications for easy access. Collecting this training data ensures compliance with regulatory obligations.

Additionally, user data offers insights into the workforce, helping identify skill gaps and guiding targeted training or hiring initiatives. It also highlights which LMS resources are most utilized, enabling focused improvements in high-demand areas such as certification courses, safety training, or reference materials.

4. A Repository for Institutional Knowledge

Construction often involves specialized knowledge that resides solely in employees’ minds. This can create bottlenecks when others need access to that expertise or significant disruptions if the employee leaves the organization.

A robust LMS serves as a repository for institutional knowledge, making it accessible to all employees, both current and future. Centralizing this information improves operational efficiency and reduces interruptions for the expert employees who would otherwise need to provide it.

An LMS can also be used to establish standard operating procedures and workflows, providing workers with a reference for complex processes whenever and wherever needed.

Pinnacle Series: A Construction LMS Built for the Industry

Pinnacle Series is specifically designed to meet the needs of the AEC industries. In an environment where skilled workers are hard to find, KnowledgeSmart skill assessments help identify talent to grow businesses. The course libraries cover top construction software titles in depth, and the content and workflows can be customized to meet specific training needs.

To learn more about how Pinnacle Series enhances e-learning in the construction industry or to request a demonstration of the software, contact Microsol Resources today at info@microsolresources.com