BAI offers a widely popular “Fast Track” option for experienced learners in all of its newer courseware (course codes beginning with “3”) that are longer than 30 minutes. The option to choose the “Full Course” or “Fast Track” is located at the beginning of courses for users.
Tip: Run the Fast Track Report in the BAI Learning Manager to see which of your users have chosen the the fast track option vs. the full course.
BAI distinguishes its Essential and Comprehensive courseware as:
Example: “BSA and AML: Essentials” (30502) and “BSA and AML: Comprehensive” (30501)
Audio information in online courses serves learners best when it complements—rather than reiterates verbatim—ideas from the printed text. This conclusion is strongly supported by work conducted by multimedia education researchers Richard Mayer and Patricia Clark, as well as others.
For this reason, BAI’s courses use audio selectively to emphasize key concepts and learning goals of a course. Short, focused audio segments are interspersed throughout courses in locations where they reinforce critical information from the main text.
BAI has a very thorough update and review process. Our content development team monitors different regulatory agencies, including the CFPB, Fed, FDIC, NCUA, the IRS, and FinCEN, and meets to do a weekly review of updates and clarifications that affect our courseware. Each new update that comes out – Proposed Rule, Final Rule, Guidance, Announcement, etc. – is individually reviewed. During this process, we review the Federal Register (or agency website, CFR, etc.) and determine which of our courses, if any, will be affected by these changes. Based on these findings, we make additions to our project plans based on the comments due, effective, and mandatory dates of the affected regulations.
With these changes, we make the necessary updates to our existing courseware, or develop new courseware when the situation demands it. We work closely with our experts to ensure that our courses accurately reflect changes to the regulations. Based on their input, our content team breaks this information down into digestible language, and creates real-life scenarios for different job categories based on updated information. We then update Course Content, Fast Tracks, Pretests, Job Aids and Comprehension Tests to ensure that the content of the update is truly absorbed by the user – not just a chunk of information shoe-horned into the course.
Once regulatory updates have undergone our extensive quality assurance process, they are released to our clients at least 90 days before mandatory compliance dates (when possible).
BAI calculates course expected duration times as 1 min per page, with additional time added for test taking, and estimates rounded to the nearest 5 min. Please note that these are just estimates, and that your experience may vary.
BAI does not allow customers to copy or print out our courseware due to copyright concerns. However, there are certain alternatives we provide depending on the circumstance, including:
Yes. BAI can accommodate many customization requests to our 30000 series courses. Please contact your relationship manager to discuss customization options available to you. Note: certain customizations may incur a small fee.
