Learning can come from many sources, so why can’t you capture this when you are training your team? We know that not all of your learning items come in course form, which is why Go1 has developed a world-first Chrome Extension, allowing users to add relevant content from anywhere across the web, directly to their learning portal.

With the help of the Go1 Chrome Extension, adding any web page to your Go1 Portal is as simple as clicking a button, and sharing. You no longer have to remember to save and email links to your team, in the hope that they might click on them - you can even assign them in the same way you do with a course!

To get started, make sure you are in your Chrome browser and head to the Chrome web store. Search for Go1 and you will see Go1 Extension appear in the results, then click Add to Chrome. The Go1 Extension will now appear on the top right side of your screen next to the search bar.

You can now browse any website on the internet and when you find a page that you think might be interesting to your team, simply click on the Extension icon. The first time, you'll need to log into your portal, and select the Go1 Portal that you would like to associate your extension content with, which may vary based on the website you are looking at.

There are then 2 options to select from - Add this page, or Add note. Add this page will add the current web page to your portal as a learning item, whereas Add note adds the page as a new note in the Discussion tab of your learning portal.

You can also add tags to this item, and have the option to assign the new learning item to users, or view in our portal - you can also choose to continue browsing the internet too.

Logging into your Go1 Portal you can now see the new learning item appearing on your dashboard, just as you would see any other created learning item. Chrome Extension learning items are also editable, so you can customise titles, provide information on why you believe people should be completing the item, and more.

Finally, just like any other learning item in Go1, you can head across to the Results tab within the learning item to see the full reporting item, including which users have completed or read the item, and the progress of any users you may have assigned the learning item to.

The Go1 Chrome Extension is FREE so add it to your browser and try it out today!

If you have any questions about the Go1 Chrome Extension, please let us know so our customer support team can help you out.

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Make any webpage a learning item with the Go1 Chrome Extension

Are you looking for ways to improve your training?

2017 has been an eventful year in many ways and it’s also been a busy year for online e-learning courses. Their popularity has grown rapidly over 12 months, with more and more businesses and companies using professional courses for introductory and ongoing employee training.

At Go1, we have a host of award-winning training courses and materials that you can use to upskill your team and educate on compliance. In addition, these courses are great for learning skills that can be used in your personal life too!

So, we’ve used our data to gather up the most popular courses of the year based on the most enrolments. This means that these courses are not only tried and tested by other professionals in the workplace, but they are also enjoyed by users.

All of these top courses are available with Go1 Premium and ready for instant enrolment.

Check out our list to find the top 10 most popular courses and the best ones for your team!

Time is everything in business and procrastination is the thief of time.

But with this course, you can learn how to improve your organization skills and ways you can plan and prioritize tasks effectively. By managing your time better and efficiently, you can be more productive in the workplace.

As part of the personal development collection, this course is suitable for anyone that wants to improve their time management skills.

You’ll learn all about the four essential pillars of time management and how you can use them in your life and career, using an animated and interactive interface.

This includes realizing ways to avoid procrastination and how multi-tasking and focusing are keys to success. There is also a quiz at the end of each topic to test your knowledge. You’re onto a winner with this course!

Excel is one of the most popular programs out there and a stable in many workplace environments. But, not everyone is as tech-savvy as they’d like to be, so this Excel for Beginners course will get you up to speed!

With interactive and step-by-step content, this course is all about learning how to do the basics on Excel yourself, instead of just sitting back and listening. Users can digest bite-size topics to learn everything at their own pace, as well as practice the steps themselves.

This course is suitable for people that are new to Excel 2016 or using spreadsheets altogether, as well as being a refresher course for others to gain confidence and more knowledge of the uses of Excel.

You know what they say – teamwork makes the dream work! This Team Working Excellence course is all about how you can work together with others and improve your communication skills and performance.

To become a team player, this course explains why team working is important and how you can collaborate with others effectively, as well as dealing with conflict.

As part of the personal development collection, this is an interactive course that keeps users engaged with interesting stories and bite-size activities. With a quiz at the end of each topic, users can test their knowledge and retain information to use in real life scenarios.

Anyone that works in a team or manages one can learn all about the four key skills needed to improve team working performance for future success in this course.

When the office is busy and work seems to be stacking up on our desk, it’s easy to get stressed and feel out of your depth. But, we all know it’s not good for our health or for being productive in the workplace.

Now with the Managing Emotions course, users can work on ways to take the intensity out of their working lives and filter in more positive ways of thinking and acting on a daily basis.

This course is suitable for every employee, including managers and covers how you can develop enthusiasm when the times get tough and ways to use anxiety as a tool for success. You don’t have to be your worst enemy anymore!

Being professional and courteous is essential when you work in customer service, especially when you’re answering telephone calls.

The way you interact with a customer represents your company and you have the ability to secure lifelong clients within only a few minutes of a conversation.

With this animated Telephone Etiquette course, users can learn all about the seven steps to providing excellent service, with good manners and effective communication to improve the experience for customers.

This includes how to answer calls and introduce yourself, ways to provide your full attention and take good notes, as well as how you can resolve issues and end the call on a positive note.

This course is part of the customer service collection, which makes it valuable for any employee that works in a customer service role. But, it can also be a useful course for anyone that wishes to learn about practicing good telephone etiquette in the workplace.

The way that employees handle complaints is essential to retaining customers and sharing positive company representation.

Of course, it’s not always easy when you have difficult clients and tough situations. With the Compliant Handling course, users can learn how to turn a negative into a positive in only a few simple steps.

This course is part of the customer service collection, which means it’s a great choice as training for customer-facing employees. It explains why it’s important to possess complaint skills and how you can put yourself in the customer’s shoes to reach a compromise.

In addition, the course teaches you how to find a solution for a positive outcome that will make sure you and your company are seen in the best light.

Training for manual handling shouldn’t be underestimated – without it, employees can make mistakes and even suffer serious injury. This is especially true if an employee’s around hazardous substances or activities.

This Manual Handling course teaches workers the controls that should be applied in the workplace when there is manual handling involved.

The course explains what manual handling includes and how you can define hazardous activities, before teaching the controls that should be used to reduce risk to health and exposure to injury.

This content is aimed at workers that conduct manual handling in the workplace as a refresh course for regular training.

Some people are born confidence and natural speakers. But for the rest of us, it’s skill that has to be practiced and honed since it plays a crucial role in business and in the working world.

As part of the personal development collection, this Presenting and Power course will help users build their confidence and learn how to conduct an effective presentation in front of a group of colleagues or wider audience.

In particular, this course teaches techniques to captivate and persuade an audience, as well as motivate and inspire others. What’s more, these presentation skills are used by some of the best public speakers in the world!

There are also methods that can be used to overcome the fear of public speaking and how to create the best presentation – this course is the whole package!

One of the most important skills to have in the workplace is the ability to communicate with others. Not to mention, this is a skill that’s essential in life too!

This course is from the personal development collection and is designed to help users become a better and more effective communicator with others.

Anyone can benefit from this Communicating Effectively course and improve their communication skills. Through interactive content, you can learn listening and questioning techniques, as well as how your body language can speak louder than words.

In addition, users can master written and email etiquette skills, with a quiz at the end of each topic to test what you have learned effectively.

Accidents on the road can take place at any time and this includes during working hours. You can never learn too much about driver safety and this course focuses on how you can stay safe and lower the chance of accidents happening.

This is especially important for those employees who drive as part of their workplace duties.

With this 30 minute course, users can listen to the significance of driver safety and the most common causes of motor vehicle accidents on the road.

This course also teaches the ways you can prevent driver fatigue and comply with driver management procedures while at work.

The great thing is that these top 10 popular Go1 courses are only the tip of the iceberg.

All of the Go1 off-the-shelf training courses are created by professionals and experts in the field and all you’ve to do is select the course you want to upskill your team and you are ready to go.

You can search through courses in areas of leadership, HR, communications, customer service, IT training and sales skills.

What’s more, Go1 Premium offers sophisticated reporting so you can track your users progress with the e-learning courses. You can also have access to 24-hour support so you can get help with anything you need for your business to succeed!

What are you waiting for? Get started with Go1 Premium now! 

Go1’s top 10 most popular courses of 2017

As we approach the end of 2017 we have one final round of updates to the Go1 Platform that will set you up for a great start to the new year! With this update you will be able to take a deeper look at how users are interacting with individual learning items within Premium content as well as Awards, view learner transcripts, review groups prior to joining and more.

Administrators can view a Learner’s Award progress

To provide greater clarity around current and needed training, Administrators can now view the Learning Records tab for a Learner’s enrolment in an Award. By clicking on the "View Details" button from a Learner’s Award enrolment, available through the Reports tab on an Award, the Administrator can view the courses and external learning items that learner has accrued against that Award.

Understanding which Premium content learning items are best for your learners can be tough, so we’ve now added a “Results” tab on all learning items so that administrators take a closer look at how their learners are interacting with specific learning item. Simply to the the learning item, and click the results tab to view the report.

Have multiple authors on a single learning item

To improve the learning content creation process, you can now have multiple authors not only on a course, but on individual learning items themselves.

Courses with scheduled dates now appear on course card

To make it quicker and easier to find the right scheduled course that you are looking for, all scheduled courses now have the dates, and number of seats available displayed on the course card.

To make it easier to track Awards without having to look at individual courses, we have added a Reports tab to all awards page. Here you can utilise all of the Go1 reporting tools, as applied to your users completing Awards.

Just like with courses, you should be able to view a group before deciding to commit to it. With this update you can view the current public comments without joining to decide if the group is the right fit for your needs.

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Sign up for a free trial today and try it out for yourself!

If you have any questions about any of the updates and improvements listed above, please let us know and our Customer Success Team can help you out!

Try our new reporting tools with the Go1 December update

As 2017 draws to a close, we thought we’d look back at some of the highlights of the past year – it’s been a very busy and exciting time for the Go1 team!

From the launch of The eLearning Assist webinar, to our new 24/7 customer support, and the many updates we’ve made to the Go1 platform, here’s what we’ve been up to throughout 2017.

At Go1, we’re continually making improvements and updates to the Go1 platform, to make life easier for you – and your learners.

Throughout the year, we launched a stack of new tools to help you save time and streamline the way that you deliver learning material.

A handful of our many updates during 2017 included:

Simplifying the way in which you can purchase and assign content to your users

Making improvements to the Administrator dashboard, to include a new tab for Groups for quickly viewing and managing all of your groups in the Go1 portal

Making it easier for Administrators to distribute learning content and track user progress

Improving communication with learners, simplifying course bookings, and being able to save and schedule learning

Improving learner engagement, with a tool that encourages users to watch a full video, before being able to mark as completed and move to the next learning item

Allowing our Administrators to control how their portal will look, with options to customise login screens and images, portal banner images, color schemes and even add your company logo to the Menu Bar.

We hope you’ve enjoyed using these new features and tools in the Go1 platform!

In 2017, we launched The eLearning Assist, with our inaugural webinar taking place on August 22nd.

We know that many of want to learn more about how to deliver an effective training program and get the most out of the Go1 platform, so we decided to pass on our knowledge to you through regular webinars.

This year, Go1’s VP of Marketing, Scott Cooper, alongside members of the Go1 team, talked us through many features of the Go1 platform, with step-by-step instructions and plenty of handy tips.

The eLearning Assist takes place every month and covers trending industry information, a demonstration of a Go1 Platform feature, and a Q&A session where we will cover any questions you might have around anything to do with online learning, content, training, or the Go1 platform.

You can watch recaps of each episode here, and keep an eye out for our first episode of 2018!

Episode 1 – How to get the perfect blended learning approach, so that you can enable your team to take advantage of online training

Episode 2 – How to go about structuring a good training program to get the most out of your team

Episode 3 – How to get started with setting up and configuring a learning portal, from scratch

Episode 4 – How to use the groups feature, you can start automating assigned online courses to your learners

The eLearning Assist podcast is also available through iTunes – making it even easier for you to keep up-to-date with our episodes.

Introducing Go1 Premium – Now with 600+ Courses

Earlier this year we introduced Go1 Premium, containing 270 online courses.

In October 2017, we were excited to announce that we’ve more than doubled our course offering to include over 600+ courses!

With Go1 Premium, we’ve got all the courses you need for employee training, covering compliance, professional development, leadership and more, from some of the best content providers worldwide.

At Go1 we understand that getting the help you need, when you need it, is important to all businesses.

Our round-the-clock support service allows all Go1 users and website visitors to speak directly with a member of the Go1 team at any time of the day, with instant responses to any questions that they might have.

And from the positive feedback we’ve had from you all, this new service has been a big hit!

Remember, our 24/7 customer service includes email and phone support, as well as our live chat support that can be opened at any time by clicking the chat icon in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Helping Organisations Improve their Learning Culture

Throughout the year, we’ve partnered with many businesses to help them improve the way they deliver and manage their employee training.

We teamed up with workforce automation solution specialists, Tanda, to make compliance easier for businesses across the world.

And partnered with learning management systems provider Totara to provide Totara partners with comprehensive training solutions for its customers.

We also helped companies such as Thrifty, ASG, HESTA and Claim Central develop a culture of learning across their organisation, through improved training.

Take a look at three case studies from this year, to see first-hand how the Go1 platform is helping companies to deliver improved learning to their teams.

This year, we covered many exciting (and sometimes challenging!) topics on the Go1 Blog, as we explored all things learning and development.

From diving into the innovative world of gamification and VR, to talking about current trends in eLearning technology, our articles discussed many interesting facets of the learning industry.

Here’s a look at your top five most-read articles of 2017!

We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers, partners, readers and followers for your ongoing support throughout the year – happy holidays!

Accessing some of the best learning content from across the world is one of the defining features of GO1, and with our December update we’ve made it even easier to add free courses from our course marketplace directly to your own Go1 Portal. This means that your learners can access thousands more learning items instantly for free.

Administrators can add free Marketplace content to their Go1 Portals

To make it quicker and easier to add new content to your learning portal, Administrators in Go1 can now add marketplace content directly to their portal. This includes free courses existing in the Go1 Marketplace.

View and download certifications from your learning

You can now download your learning records and certificate within your Go1 portal so that you can share your completion records with others. To learn more about how to complete this process, view the full instructions here.

You can now view your Awards, as well as course and learning resources in the My Teaching tab of your portal. You can also filter by content type to narrow down your search.

Awards will now be included in Enrollments section under Administrator dashboard

For more insights, subscribe to the Go1 newsletter to stay on top of all the latest L&D trends. Or, you can book a demo today to find out how Go1 can help with your team’s learning needs.

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Add free courses to your Go1 portal, download certifications, plus more with our December update

Over the past few months the Go1 team has been improving on the functionality of our Awards tools that allow you to create custom training programs for your team combining your own training with off the shelf content. In our November update we have made assigning Awards to users in bulk easier by leveraging our groups tools.

Admins can assign award to group or learner

It’s now quick and easy to assign an award to a group by clicking the Assign Learning button on the Award. This can the be viewed by the learner in the Learning tab, and My Learning assigned page.

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Find out what’s new in the Go1 November update

Our end of October update is here and we have some updates and new tools that are going to make the way you train your team even easier.

Sharing content that you have created in Go1 with another learning platform is simple thanks to our course exporter. Plus, you can now quickly and easily edit your enrollments and update their status straight from your administrator dashboard.

An admin user can go to a course settings in their Go1 portal and click on download SCORM file. This will generate a zip file that is specific to that portal for that item. Any LMS that supports SCORM files can then import a Go1 course into their platform.

You can now quickly edit the enrollment status of any of your learners directly from the 'enrollments' tab in your 'Administrator' dashboard by clicking 'Edit' and then selecting from the options in the dropdown list.

Relevance search display is now available for Awards

Awards enrollments now appear in enrollments reporting

Administrators can schedule content for learners

Suggested completion dates will be added by default in assign learning

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Explore now shows enrollment status for all courses

You can now add a category field to manual learning in awards

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Export Go1 courses and quickly edit enrollments with our end of October update

At Go1 we understand that getting the help you need, when you need it, is important to all businesses. Which is why as of November 1 we are excited to be extending our customer support services to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our round the clock support service allow all Go1 users and website visitors to speak directly with a member of the Go1 team at any time of the day, to get instant responses to any questions that they might have.

This includes email and phone support, as well as our live chat support that can be opened at any time by clicking the chat icon in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Whether you are wanting to find out how to access the 600+ courses in Go1 Premium, trying to create a course, or importing users, we are always here to give you the help you need to improve the way that you train your team.

Don’t forget, you can also access a wide range of useful articles on our website covering some of our frequently asked questions such as:

How to create a course from scratch
How to use Advanced Reporting Tools
Setting up an assessment using Quiz Builder
Adding logos and branding to your Go1 Portal

If you have any questions about our 24/7 support, or need some help with your Go1 learning portal, please let us know so we can help you out!


Being able to improve the social aspect of learning is important for keeping your learners engaged and on the path for continuous sustained learning.

We have recently been adding new functionality to improve this in the Go1 Platform, and with our mid-October release we are excited to announce more updates to our Notes tools that will allow you and your learners to take the next step in building an engaging social learning experience.

To improve the way in which you use the Discussion tab in your Go1 Portal we have added a new editor toolbar to enhance formatting when adding notes. This allows for text to be bold, italic, strikethrough, quoted, and to include hyperlinks on text.

A comment or a reply to a comment can now be deleted by an admin or group creator. This is a great function to prevent one comment to hijack an entire thread and have it deleted. Admins can simply click to delete a particular reply or comment allowing discussions to continue on regardless of an inappropriate comment/reply in the thread.

“All” group added to share notes with all users in your portal

A new default group has been added to portals called “All”. When new notes are added to this group, all users will be able to see the notes.

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Improve your social learning with the Go1 mid-October update

Training your team has never been easier! Last year we introduced Go1 Premium, containing 270 courses.

We are now excited to announce that we have expanded our course offering to include over 1000+ courses covering compliance, professional development, leadership and more, from some of the best content providers worldwide.

To make it as simple as possible to get access to the content that you need, we have also improved the way that you sign up for Go1 Premium, to provide more flexibility and remove the costly long-term contracts often associated with online courses.

All Go1 Premium users receive a free 14 day trial period so that you can explore the content and even enroll some of your team members to test it out. When you reach the end of your trial, our payment terms are month to month, allowing you to easily increase or decrease your user numbers at any time, and keep the payments much lower and more manageable than if you were to sign an annual contract.

No matter how big or small your team is, GO1 Premium is the ideal solution when it comes to training. Give your team instant access to a huge range of courses covering important training areas such as compliance and professional development, without the huge annual fees, and without months of getting everything set up.

Simply invite your team members into your portal and start enrolling in any of the courses that you like. You can add our ready to go courses into a required training group and assign them to specific people or groups within your business to ensure that you are meeting your business requirements.

You can even completely customize your Go1 Portal to match your business colors, contain your logo, configure personal message and notifications, and send email reminders!

If you are looking to improve your own personal professional development, you no longer need to have accounts with multiple content providers, simply signup for Go1 Premium, and take advantage of our extensive range of professional development courses.

For teams of 21+ users it's only $8 per month for 1000+ courses, that’s 2 cups of coffee per month that results in continuing professional development, and taking that next step towards your next promotion or new job.

All of our courses in Go1 Premium are reviewed by our learning consultants to ensure that we only have the best of the best content. Our content is sourced from some of the top learning content providers from across the world, and by selecting your Region upon signup, you will have access only to the courses that are relevant to you.

Our course library is constantly expanding so that you have access to all of the latest courses, and any time that an existing course is updated with new content, this will automatically update in your portal so that you have the most up-to-date content available.

By signing up for Go1 Premium, you automatically get 100% access to all of the tools in Go1 Platform for no additional charge. This allows you to start creating your own learning content and courses for your team, or to sell on the Go1 Course Marketplace, take advantage of our advanced reporting tools to track your progress, create custom awards, and get 24/7 customer support if you have any questions or need help.

So what are you waiting for? Start your free 14 day trial today!

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