Respectful Workplaces & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Foster a positive workplace and fairly represent your community by prioritizing a full range of perspectives and learning the importance of diverse collections and employees.
From DEI and professional development to database instruction, Niche Academy’s tutorial marketplace gives you the expertly crafted, high-impact tutorials you need to serve patrons better, build a healthier work culture, and make an impact with training.
That’s how long it takes to set up your own online learning academy, choose the training you want, and start inviting learners.
Access hundreds of industry-specific tutorials for organization success covering leadership, customer service, sexual harassment, DEI, online risk, and physical safety.
On average, organizations that use Niche Academy realize 32 additional learning sessions for every learner, every year. What will you do with that much new learning?
The Niche Academy Learning Design team has 42 years of accredited education and draws from over 65 years of real-world experience.
Increase e-Resource usage, prepare for library challenges, and serve your community with tutorials like:
Gather data on the learning outcomes of your library instruction and equip students with tools they need to succeed. Tutorial collections include:
Build a resilient organization and improve community outcomes with training on topics like:
Deliver high-quality care at a sustainable cost by increasing confidence and mitigating risk with tutorials like:
Do you work at a different mission-driven organization? Get in touch to see how Niche Academy can help you find the training you need.
Increase e-Resource usage, prepare for library challenges, and serve your community with tutorials like:
Gather data on the learning outcomes of your library instruction and equip students with tools they need to succeed. Tutorial collections include:
Build a resilient organization and improve community outcomes with training on topics like:
Deliver high-quality care at a sustainable cost by increasing confidence and mitigating risk with tutorials like:
Do you work at a different mission-driven organization? Get in touch to see how Niche Academy can help you find the training you need.
Foster a positive workplace and fairly represent your community by prioritizing a full range of perspectives and learning the importance of diverse collections and employees.
Discover the most successful strategies and methodology for outstanding customer service in any mission-driven organization with tutorials on interacting and resolving issues with patrons, consumers, and program attendees.
Lead others confidently by learning practical skills and the growth mindset needed to effectively guide and overcome the challenges unique to your organization.
Learn how to recognize sexual harassment, identify its effects, respond to harassing behavior, and check behavior to avoid sexually harassing others in the marketplace’s various tutorials.
Protect your organization from growing online threats by enforcing smart habits and preparing your organization for threats and challenges.
Niche Academy is a powerful tool for creating training tools for staff and tutorials for the public. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a new instruction platform where they can both access tutorials and create their own content.
Jolanda Durbin, Librarian, Eagle Valley Library District
The training is excellent. It covers all needs for library instruction. Very comprehensive in its offerings.
Lisa Hulett, Wallace State Community College
Yes. Niche Academy is compliant with the WCAG 2.1 standard at the AA level. This is something we work hard to maintain as we continuously update the platform. If you spot anything that’s slipped through our testing, please let us know. A thorough enumeration of our compliance level is available in the Niche Academy Accessibility Conformance Report or VPAT. You can download that report by clicking here.
We have 3 basic access levels for securing content hosted on the platform:
Administrators can also choose not to show a tutorial on the main academy page if they want to limit the visibility of a tutorial.
The "Private" designation can also be set at the academy level, rendering all tutorials within the academy effectively private.
To present your own content within Niche Academy, use the following process:
The following tutorial provides a bit more detail on this process: Creating a Tutorial.
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