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Elevate’s Group Portals bring structure and flexibility to how associations manage members across, chapters, departments, cohorts, and more. Each portal can be customized to control access, tailor content, and deliver engaging, branded experiences for every member you have.
In this guide, you’ll discover five powerful capabilities leading associations are using to streamline administration, enhance security, and deliver a more personalized and seamless learning experience across every group you manage.
1. Administration that Scales with You
- What it is: Assign local administrators such as chapter leaders, department heads or partner coordinators to manage each group’s members, enrollments, and progress.
- Why it matters: Instead of funneling every update through a single LMS admin, Group Portals empower each group to handle day-to-day operations independently. This saves your team time, reduces errors, and ensures each group can grow without chaos.
- Pro Tip: Provide quick-start documentation for new group managers so they can start effectively managing their groups and reducing your team’s workload.
2. Personalized Learning Environments
- What it is: Each group portal can be customized with unique branding, color schemes, and catalog layouts.
- Why it matters: Tailored visuals and curated content increase the relevance to your members and encourage them to participate, complete courses, and renew memberships.
- Pro Tip: Create a “branded blueprint” template for your team to replicate across future portals. This ensures every group feels distinct while maintaining brand consistency.
3. Group-Specific Reporting & Insights
- What it is: Group managers can review reports and analytics for their specific members that track progress, completion rates, and CE credits earned.
- Why it matters: Group-level reporting gives each group manager actionable insights into learner activity. The system-wide admin retains full oversight, but group managers can use this data to improve engagement and content offerings.
- Pro Tip: Schedule monthly “report refreshes” where group managers review engagement data and flag top performers or at-risk members.
4. Revenue-Ready Sponsorship & Licensing Options
- What it is: Group Portals can serve as premium spaces for licensed access, sponsored education, or exclusive training packages that include customized branding and seat-based pricing models.
- Why it matters: Associations can extend the reach of their programs by licensing bundles to external organizations or partners. It’s a scalable way to monetize existing content while building relationships and visibility.
- Pro Tip: Start small and slow by starting with one partner. Once you’ve streamlined the whole process, replicate the model across additional partners.
5. Data Consistency with AMS & SSO integrations
- What it is: Group Portals can integrate with your AMS or SSO provider to automatically map members into the correct portal based on key attributes like chapter, region, or role.
- Why it matters: This eliminates manual data entry while ensuring members only see the content relevant to them. This keeps members engaged and supports personalized experiences.
- Pro Tip: Define attribute mappings before implementing this capability so that provisioning becomes automatic and low maintenance.
Tying It All Together
By leveraging these five capabilities, associations can reduce complexity, scale effortlessly, and deliver the right content to the right members at the right time. Want to see Group Portals in action? Speak with an expert here.
