Nearly 1,000 students have already used the free on-demand, self-paced training offered at ELAN’s online g! School, which is available 24/7 and provides more than 150 unique courses.

According to Elan Home Systems content manager Eric Herdman, “Our coordinated approach to dealer certification combines online and in-person training in a way that ensures that any prospect, anywhere in the world, can become an ELAN dealer as quickly as they want to. By combining a free seven-hour online introduction course with a 13- hour, 1.5 day regional on-site training seminar, we provide new dealers with hands-on experience plus a complete understanding of the inner working of the Elan g! system.”

The certification process is simple: a new dealer simply visits www.brainshark.com/go/elan and signs up to take the online course, which is available immediately. Upon successful completion of the 7-hour training course, the new dealer contacts an Elan regional representative to sign up for a 1.5 day, $100 in-person training seminar in their local area that will complete their education. After the in-person seminar, each dealer must pass a final online exam to receive Elan g! certification, which is sent in a PDF and available immediately.

“Our solution allows dealers to become familiar with the Elan g! system on their own time, with the ability to pause, rewind and restart any lesson they need, so they can progress at their own pace and on their schedule,” Eric says.

Elan’s g! School is the latest incarnation of Elan U, which debuted as the first-ever online installation-training program in 2003. Since then, installers have taken more than 300,000 online lessons.