For trade schools, technical training centres and apprenticeship programs
An LMS built for trades training
Run programs where the theory is online, the practice happens in the shop, and every hour, sign-off and certificate needs to be on record. OpalLMS keeps all of it in one place.
Where trades training gets hard
Theory, shop time and practical sign-offs live in different places, so nobody has the whole picture of a student.
Instructors sign off skills on paper, and the paper has to be chased, filed and typed in again.
Hours, attendance and certificates are checked by hand when a student finishes or an auditor asks.
How trade schools run on OpalLMS
Build programs the way trades are taught
Put online theory, classroom sessions, shop time and practical evaluations into one program with one enrollment. Students see what comes next, and staff see where every student is.
- Multi-course programs, sold and enrolled as one
- Intakes and cohorts with their own schedules
- Prerequisites and release dates between modules
Sign off practical skills where the work happens
Instructors complete practical evaluations item by item on the shop floor, with a pass or fail and a comment on each item. The result goes straight onto the student’s record.
- Practical evaluation checklists
- Competency checklists that build a transcript
- Equipment details recorded with each evaluation
Keep hours and attendance without the clipboard
Record attendance for every class session and log training days and hours as they happen, so completion is never a reconstruction exercise.
- Attendance for every class session
- Training days, rotation and hours
- Daily reports for instructors and administrators
Finish with credentials anyone can check
Certificates and wallet cards are issued when a student meets the requirements. Each carries a serial number and a verification link.
- Certificates issued on completion
- Operator wallet cards
- Public certificate verification
Who uses it
- School administrator Runs intakes, programs and student records.
- Instructor Teaches, evaluates and signs off practical skills.
- Apprentice Sees progress, hours and certificates in one place.
O’Brien Training runs on OpalLMS
O’Brien Training runs a Construction Equipment Operator program approved by British Columbia’s Private Training Institutions Branch. OpalLMS’s program, competency and daily-record features were built with O’Brien, around how that program actually runs.
- 160
- hours in the program
- 40
- hours in the classroom
- 120
- practical hours on equipment
What they run on OpalLMS
- Applications and admissions
- Classroom and practical hours
- Competency sign-off
- Daily training records
The parts of OpalLMS you will use most
OpalLMS for other kinds of training
See a trade program running in OpalLMS
Bring one of your programs to the demo. We will show you how its theory, shop time, sign-offs and certificates fit together.