Bigger Brains offers a comprehensive library of 240+ award-winning eLearning courses designed to enhance business productivity and efficiency.
- About Bigger Brains
- About the Free and Premium Courses
- Enabling the Bigger Brains Courses for Users
- Monitoring Your Bigger Brains Bill and Usage
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
About Bigger Brains
Bigger Brains courses encompass a wide range of topics, including:
- Microsoft Applications: In-depth training on Microsoft 365 and its various apps
- Business Skills: Courses covering communication, project management, sales, and more.
- Cybersecurity: Training focused on cybersecurity awareness and best practices.
- Data Analysis: Instruction on data literacy and analysis techniques.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Courses aimed at improving workplace diversity and inclusion.
- Google Workspace: Training on Google's suite of productivity tools.
- HIPAA Compliance: Courses ensuring understanding of HIPAA regulations.
- Manager Training: Development programs for new and existing managers.
- Meeting Management: Strategies for effective meeting facilitation.
The courses are delivered through engaging video lessons, averaging around seven minutes each, and are available in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Bigger Brains continually updates its content, adding or refreshing over five courses monthly to keep up with evolving business needs.
About the Free and Premium Courses
Bigger Brains course content is available directly through CloudRadial. We offer 40+ courses at no additional cost to you, which are included with your monthly CloudRadial subscription.
- The free courses are part of the Mastering Microsoft series, which includes any course related to Microsoft 365 and its apps that starts with the word "Mastering." You can view a full catalog of Bigger Brain's course library by clicking here.
- You can also upgrade to the premium catalog of 180+ additional courses spanning multiple topics by adding an add-on to your existing subscription.
- The cost of the full, premium catalog is billed at $40 per month for 100 seats, billed month-to-month and added to your existing CloudRadial bill. These seats are assigned by company, not by the individual user.
Please contact success@cloudradial.com if you wish to learn more and/or enable premium Bigger Brains Courses.
Enabling the Bigger Brains Courses for Users
Please Note: As of February 2025, we are mid-transition of a new way to render Bigger Brains courses. If you are looking for the Legacy method of integrating Bigger Brains courses, please read this article. Once the transition is complete, the new method (described below) will be the only way to deploy Bigger Brains.
Your users will be able to access Bigger Brains courses in the same method, regardless of whether you have the premium courses or just the free ones.
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If you have not paid for premium Bigger Brains, your clients will simply see the free Mastering Microsoft courses once they access the SSO link in their CloudRadial portal.
- If you have paid for premium courses, all of Bigger Brains courses will be available to users once they access the SSO link in their CloudRadial portal.
Read the steps below to learn how to set up the integration, after you've purchased Bigger Brains by emailing and confirming with success@cloudradial.com.
Please Note: You will still need to log into your Bigger Brains portal as an administrator to manage courses for users and companies.
Step #1: Creating Access to Bigger Brains Courses
To create access to Bigger Brains courses for a seamless user experience, we recommend enabling the Company > Applications area of the Feature Set. Adding an icon to go directly to training is the fastest and most user-friendly way to get to the courses.
If you are so inclined, you can also take the extra step to add the menu item to your home page to make it even easier to access for your end users, like so:
To add the Bigger Brains link for all users:
- Navigate to Partner > Content
- Select + Add to add a new content package
- Create a content package with the following settings:
- Content Type: Menus
- Name: Your choice, but we recommend Bigger Brains
- User Groups: Everyone
- Description: Optional, your choice. None needed.
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Company Groups: All
- Select Submit to finalize the content package creation
- Once created, use the + Add button to build a menu item to the package
- Category: Your choice, but if you want it to be in the same grouping as other menu items you have, you'll need to name it the same thing.
- Name: Your choice. We recommend something generic, like Microsoft 365 Training, but it's up to you to package and serve the training in a manner that fits your clients.
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URL: @BiggerBrains
- It is critical that the URL is exactly @BiggerBrains, as this is the trigger the SSO process for users to get to the Bigger Brains portal.
- All of the rest of the choices, like the iconography and display order, are to your preference.
- Select Submit to finalize your selection
- Once your link has been created, select the Publish button at the top to push out the link.
The link to access Bigger Brains courses will now appear within the Company > Applications area for companies. If you want to take the extra step to add it to your home page, watch this video to create a modified home page that makes it even more prominent.
Step #2: (Premium) Enabling Companies to See All Bigger Brains Courses
If you are using only the free courses, you do not have to do this step.
If you have paid for premium Bigger Brains courses, you will need to determine which companies get access to these courses. You cannot choose individual users that get access from CloudRadial - every user within a company that is enabled for Bigger Brains will count against your user bill.
- Navigate to Partner > Clients
- Use the Edit All option at the top right to bring up the multi-selector
- Select as many companies as needed to receive the Bigger Brains catalog
- Select the Bigger Brains button in the top bar
- Review and accept the notification of the premium Bigger Brains charge
- The price for courses is $40/100 users, billed on a month-to-month basis
- The next bill will reflect the price change
Users in Bigger Brains-connected companies can now access their courses when clicking the button created in Step 1.
Optional - Enabling Bigger Brains from Company Creation
As you add new companies to CloudRadial, you can assign them to receive the premium Bigger Brains course catalog from the very start by toggling the option to Enable Premium Bigger Brains courses?.
This option is not enabled by default.
Monitoring Your Bigger Brains Bill and Usage
By navigating to Partner > Account, you can see your available licenses and how many you have allocated. Remember that the price for courses is $40/100 users, billed on a month-to-month basis.
You can always turn off companies from having premium Bigger Brains courses by following the steps in this section above, but instead toggling the checkbox off.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Is course completion training tracked from Bigger Brains courses?
- Not at this time from within CloudRadial. For now, Bigger Brains course completion is best tracked within the administrative portion of Bigger Brains.
Do I need to set up a company in Bigger Brains before I set them up in CloudRadial?
- No, you can create companies in CloudRadial first. The SSO connection to Bigger Brains takes care of enrollment and company attribution. You must use the Bigger Brains administrative controls to manage users specific course availability, if needed.
I've used Bigger Brains before in CloudRadial, and I could have SWORN there was a different way to do it. Is that true?
- It's true - in fact, we're transitioning to the methods described in this article from a legacy method that used content packages. You can see the legacy article here.
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