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Norvet MSP

Veteran-owned · SDVOSB · Atlanta-based

How much time does your team spend managing training manually?

Enrolling learners, answering the same questions, chasing reminders, tracking completion, and making certificates by hand adds up. Enter a few numbers to estimate what that manual administration costs you in hours and labor each year. No sign-up.

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How much does managing training by hand cost you?

Enter a few numbers about your current training program to estimate the hours and labor cost of the manual work: enrolling learners, answering questions, sending reminders, tracking completion, and making certificates.

Example: 60 learners a month at 10 minutes each to enroll (10 hours), plus 10 hours a month on questions, reminders, tracking, and certificates, at $30/hour across 12 months, is about $7,200 a year, roughly $10 per learner.
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Enter learners a month, an hourly cost, months per year, and at least one time field.

Where the hours actually go

When training lives across email, shared drives, video links, spreadsheets, and payment links, most of the effort is not teaching. It is the repetitive administration around it. A dedicated learning platform is built to automate that layer, so the same program takes less manual work to run.

  • Enrolling learners or granting access one at a time
  • Answering "where do I find this?" questions
  • Chasing people with reminders to start or finish
  • Tracking who started, completed, or stopped
  • Building certificates and completion reports by hand

Two ways forward: start on LearnWorlds, which organizes enrollment, lessons, tracking, certificates, payments, and reporting in one place, or have Norvet map your current training process first and set it up with you. A platform reduces the repetitive administration; it does not remove course design, content updates, or real learner support, and it does not by itself produce course sales, learner completion, or compliance.

Common questions

How is the administration cost calculated?
It is simple arithmetic on your own numbers. Enrollment minutes are converted to hours and added to the hours you spend each month on questions, reminders, completion tracking, and certificates or reports. That monthly total is multiplied by your staff hourly cost, then by the number of months the program runs each year, to estimate the annual and five-year cost. Nothing here is a Norvet claim; change an input and the estimate changes.
Will a learning platform remove all of this work?
No. A dedicated platform can automate the repetitive parts, such as self-serve enrollment, automatic reminders, progress tracking, and certificate issuance, which is usually where the hours go. It does not eliminate course design, content updates, or real learner support, and it does not by itself produce course sales, learner completion, or compliance.
What counts as "administration" here?
The recurring, mostly manual work of running a training program: enrolling or granting access to learners, answering "where do I find this?" questions, chasing people with reminders, tracking who started and finished, and preparing certificates or completion reports. It does not include the creative work of building courses.
What does Norvet do, versus LearnWorlds?
LearnWorlds is the platform that organizes lessons, enrollment, tracking, certificates, payments, and reporting in one place. Norvet is the optional implementation help: mapping your current training process, selecting a plan, setting up courses, roles, assessments, certificates, and reporting, and migrating existing content. You can start on LearnWorlds directly, or have Norvet map your process first.
How accurate is the five-year figure?
Treat it as a directional estimate, not a quote. It projects your current annual labor cost across five years without adjusting for inflation, wage growth, or changes in learner volume, so the real number will differ. It is meant to show the rough scale of ongoing manual administration, not to predict an exact total.