eSkilled Learning Management System has been awarded Gold at the prestigious LearnX® Awards for Best AI Tech – LMS EdTech, recognising the innovation and impact of its AI-powered features within its learning management system. This accolade highlights eSkilled’s leadership in delivering compliance-ready, automated, and learner-centred technology to the Australian VET sector—particularly as RTOs prepare for major 2025 regulatory changes.
Transforming LLND Compliance Through AI Innovation
The award acknowledges eSkilled’s groundbreaking implementation project, which introduced two major advancements into its learning management system: LLND Quick Assess and LLND AI Assess. Together, these tools support RTOs as they respond to the new legislative requirement—effective 1 July 2025—that mandates Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital (LLND) assessments before enrolment.
Traditional LLN assessments have long been a pain point for the sector. Paper-based processes, inconsistent marking, and heavy administrative loads created bottlenecks for RTOs and delayed support for learners. eSkilled’s project set out to remove these challenges entirely by embedding automated, AI-supported diagnostic tools directly into the enrolment workflow.
A Smarter Way to Assess: LLND Quick Assess
LLND Quick Assess is fully integrated into the eSkilled Learning Management System enrolment experience, automatically assessing every student’s LLN and digital capability against national standards. By aligning results to both the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and the Australian Digital Capability Framework (ADCF), the tool ensures compliance-ready precision from the outset.
Learners who meet benchmark standards are automatically progressed into their courses, while trainers receive rich diagnostic insights—including visual “spiky profile” reports—to inform targeted support plans. The automation eliminates manual marking and significantly reduces trainer workload, allowing staff to refocus on mentoring and student support.
Elevating Fairness and Consistency: LLND AI Assess
To further streamline compliance, eSkilled developed LLND AI Assess, an AI-enhanced grading tool for essay-style LLND responses. The AI model analyses open-text answers, drafts scores and feedback aligned to ACSF and ADCF benchmarks, and passes them to assessors for review. In keeping with ASQA’s principles of assessment, human assessors always validate the final results, ensuring fairness, reliability, and audit integrity.
This hybrid approach—automation plus professional oversight—has proven particularly effective in reducing marking time, mitigating assessor bias, and improving assessment consistency across teams.
A Strategic, Research-Driven Implementation
The award-winning project was shaped through collaboration among compliance specialists, instructional designers, AI developers, trainers, and pilot RTO partners. The team followed a structured implementation plan, moving through prototype development, pilot testing, iterative refinement, and a phased rollout across the sector.
Throughout the process, eSkilled placed emphasis on:
- Accuracy and compliance alignment, ensuring every output met ACSF and ADCF standards
- Usability for trainers and assessors, improving workflows and reducing cognitive load
- Scalability, enabling RTOs of all sizes to adopt the technology with minimal disruption
- Sector education, providing training, webinars, and support resources for smooth transition
Delivering Measurable Impact for RTOs and Learners
The effectiveness of eSkilled’s AI-powered LLND tools is already evident across RTOs nationwide. Organisations report:
- Greater compliance confidence thanks to automated, audit-ready assessment evidence
- Massive time savings as manual marking and record-keeping workloads reduce
- Better learner placement through detailed diagnostic insights
- More consistent assessment outcomes supported by AI-assisted marking
- Improved learner experiences, with faster enrolments and earlier intervention strategies
The return on investment for RTOs is significant. Automation frees staff to engage in higher-value activities, enhances operational capacity, and supports growth without additional headcount. For learners, the technology ensures more equitable and supportive pathways from enrolment to completion.
Leading the Future of LMS Innovation in Australia
This Gold LearnX Award recognises more than just technical achievement—it celebrates eSkilled’s commitment to advancing educational excellence and supporting RTOs through complex regulatory change. As the sector moves toward the 2025 LLND requirements, eSkilled’s learning management system stands out as a powerful, future-ready solution that blends automation, AI, and human expertise.
eSkilled will continue enhancing its AI capabilities, guided by national frameworks and the principles of quality assessment. With scalable cloud-based infrastructure and a focus on compliance, fairness, and learner success, the eSkilled LMS is shaping the future of technology-enabled training in Australia.
