What is Electude Essentials?
Electure Essentials Learning for Technicians is a virtual world where you learn and practice your automotive troubleshooting skills using the "Engine Diagnostic Trainer" on realistic engines using a variety of virtual diagnostic tools. With Argo, you will learn the basics and the advanced aspects of automotive diagnostics. It's the most comprehensive and effective automotive e-learning solution currently available.
How does Electude Essentials work?
Browse to the Electude site, log-in as a 'student' and then select from over 450 topics. Read the content and try to solve the problems presented using the tools and information provided. Did you get it right?
If not try again.
Electude Essentials is available wherever and whenever you are!
Electude Essentials' cross-platform compatibility with mobile and desktop devices (PC, Mac, phones, tablets) means 24/7/365 access. Electude is also available in over 20 different languages.
Electude Essentials in your language!
After your account is created, choose the language that works best for you, there are over 30 choices!
Spanish (Latin America or Spain), English (American or British), Japanese, Chinese, etc...
Please note, not all courses within Electude have been translated.
What's covered?
Over 400 topics in 11 groups cover all aspects of automotive repair from the basics to the advanced, including the 8 areas covered by ASE:
* Engine Repair
* Auto Transmission
* Manual Drive Train
* Suspension & Steering
* Brakes
* Electrical/Electronic
* I-HVAC * Engine Performance
* Foundations
* New technologies
* Others
Over 160 of the topics utilize the "Engine Diagnostic Trainer".
Shops can use Electude Essentials
Evaluate a job applicant, is he or she the top gun he claims to be? Let him/her prove it with Electude Essentials.
Do you have in-shop training? Electude Essentials makes it easy to add top-level training for every level of technician. Ask about a multi-user discount.
Schools and Trainers can use Electude Essentials
Enhanced packages for schools, fleets, and trainers with multiple students are available. Enhancements include customization of the Argo with your branding, ability to upload your content, and teacher logins. Electude Essentials meets the requirements of NATEF Standard 11 E-learning and is SCORM compliant with Moodle, ANGEL and Blackboard. Documentation available upon request. Contact us for pricing and details.
Contents
- 1-year subscription to all Electude modules
- Student log-in
- Electude Simulator
- Engine Management
Requirements
Electude is an HTML5 application that runs in your browser. It requires up to 1GB of memory and at times it can consume 100% of a CPU core particularily when running the simulator. On slow processors the user experience may be poor. Electude runs in recent versions of all major browsers: Chrome (best performance, recommended), Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer. Electude runs on Android (Chrome) and iOS (Safari). For a better user experience you need a recent and fast device (phone or tablet).
Note: Roughly 60% of the Electude content will work on android mobile phones, therefore, the users experience will vary and can be limited by the size of their screen. It is recommended that users use a PC, Netbook, Chromebook or Mac. Preferably a computer with a keyboard and mouse or trackpad.
Language options available as of July 2021
Not all but much of the content of Electude have been translated into over 30 languages. You can change to any language you choose, as often as you choose.
However, the content that has not been translated into that language will not display. That's because the system only displays the content that's been translated for that language. To see all the content availlable switch back to English or to another language that has been fully translated.
Bahasa Indonesia -Indonesian
Bosanski- Bosnian
Ceština - Czech
Dansk - Danish
Deutsch - German
English (American)
English (British English)
Español - Spanish
Español - Spanish (Latin American)
Euskara - Basque
Françias - French
Hrvatski - Croatian
Italiano - Italian
한국어 (hangug-eo) - Korean
Lietuvių Kalba - Lithuanian
Magyar - Hungarian
Nederlands - Dutch (Netherlands)
Norsk - Norwegian
Polski - Polish
Portuguēs do Brasil - Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguēs eutopeu - Portuguese (European)
Românä - Romanian
Shqip - Albanian
Slovenčina - Slovak
Slovenščina - Slovenian
Suomi - Finnish
Svenska - Swedish
ไทย (Thiy) - Thai
Tiếng Việt - Vietnamese
Türk – Turkish
עברית---Hebrew
Ελληνικά (Ellinikά) - Greek
Български (Bulgarski) - Bulgarian
русский (Russkiy) - Russian
Српски (Srpski) – Serbian
日本語 (Nihongo) - Japanese
簡體中文 (Jianti Zhongwen) – Chinese simplified
繁體中文 (Fanti Zhongwen) - Chinese (traditionl)
