Everything formation takes, in one place.

Build courses from blocks, or bring the ones you already have.

• Text, images, and video from YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia
• Documents with inline preview
• Knowledge checks and quizzes with passing scores
• Sections that unlock in order
• Upload courses built in Articulate Rise, Storyline, or Adobe Captivate
• Three kinds of course: self-paced, in-person class, and live online class

A learning path carries every step of a program, in any format, and tracks it from start to finish.

• Courses, sessions, assignments, forms, resources, and approvals on one path
• Electives, like “choose any two of these five”
• Prerequisites and time-released steps
• Paths that lead into the next path
• Terms and credit requirements for multi-year programs
• Forms whose answers change what a person is required to do

Pair people with the mentors who walk with them, and gather cohorts that move through a program together.

• Match mentors and candidates with both people’s answers side by side
• Mentors schedule meetings, message their mentee, and review assignments
• Pastors and supervisors can submit on someone’s behalf, like a letter of recommendation
• Cohorts get their own courses, community, announcements, and tasks
• Cohorts and programs can be free or paid

Schedule sessions, register people the way parishes actually work, and record who came.

• In-person and live online sessions with capacity, RSVPs, and a meeting link
• Reminders a day and an hour ahead, plus calendar downloads
• QR check-in: a printable code for each session that records attendance
• Tickets bought in blocks and passed from dioceses to parishes to families
• Family profiles, so parents can register their children
• Custom forms with conditional questions, uploads, and signatures
• Room and booth requests during registration

LEAD tracks what someone has completed and what that qualifies them to do.

• Certificates in your own design, including parish versions
• Ministry mandates and badges
• Authorization to serve, earned through courses, approvals, or other requirements
• Any ministry or role can require another, like safe environment, before someone is authorized
• Expiration dates, with renewal notices sent ahead of time
• An optional VIRTUS integration for dioceses that use it
• Approval queues for applications and requests

Your office, each parish, and each leader see exactly the people they’re responsible for.

• A diocesan view of every parish, leader, learner, and task
• A parish view of its people, with invitations, bulk import, and saved filters
• Team roles within each parish
• Authority that follows your structure: diocese, deanery, parish, school
• CSV and PDF exports

Message people by what they’re doing: a ministry, a path, a parish, or everyone who hasn’t finished.

• Email, text message, and in-app messages, with attachments
• Announcements scheduled for exactly the people who should see them
• Tasks that ask people to acknowledge, sign, fill out a form, or upload a file
• Automatic reminders and notifications along every path

Communities give each group a place to talk, share, and encourage one another.

• Communities for any group, from one parish ministry to a whole diocese
• Posts, comments, reactions, and mentions
• Moderators for every community
• No open direct messaging between members; one-to-one messages are only between mentors and their mentees
• Paths can ask learners to take part in a discussion

LEAD runs in any web browser, and the LEAD Catholic app brings it natively to iPhone and Android.

• The full web app on laptops, tablets, and phones, with nothing to install
• The LEAD Catholic app on the App Store and Google Play
• One app for every LEAD institution a person belongs to
• Sign in with a password, a code sent by text, or an emailed link

LEAD’s screens and emails come in English and Spanish, and each person sees them in their own language.

• Offer courses in both languages; learners see the ones in theirs
• Emails go out in each recipient’s language
• Built to support more languages; to add one, we’ll work with you on the translations

Charge for programs, events, and resources through secure online checkout.

• Card payments or invoices
• Coupons, vouchers, and installment plans
• Subscriptions with seats the buyer assigns to others
• Payments routed to each organization’s own account

Every institution gets its own private instance of LEAD, with no data shared with anyone else.

• Your parishes and schools inside it, each with its own leaders
• Your name and logo in the web and mobile apps
• Share courses, paths, and resources with other LEAD institutions when you choose

LEAD connects to the services dioceses and ministries rely on.

• VIRTUS, optional, for dioceses that use it
• Stripe, for payments
• Mailchimp and Flodesk, for mailing lists
• Articulate and Adobe Captivate courses, with a built-in learning record store (xAPI)
• Formstack forms
• Any meeting link, like Zoom, for live sessions
• An API for your own systems