Learning Management System [LMS]

A Software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programs.They help the instructor deliver material to the students and other assignments, track student progress, and manage record-keeping. LMSs are focused on online learning delivery but support a range of uses, acting as a platform for fully online courses, as well as several hybrid forms, such as blended learning and flipped classrooms. LMSs can be complemented by learning technologies such as a training management system to manage instructor-led training or a Learning Record Store to store and track learning data.

💡 Purpose

An LMS delivers and manages instructional content, and typically handles student registration, online course administration, and tracking, and assessment of student work. Some LMSs help identify progress towards learning or training goals. Most LMSs are web-based, to facilitate access. LMSs are often used by regulated industries (e.g. financial services and biopharma) for compliance training💻.

🔰 SWOT

STRENGTHS💪

• Long existence & well accepted Provides a central & manageable system for online & offline training STRENGTHS.
• Capable of integrating with the workflow STRENGTHS.
• Capable of integrating with other existing HRMS/IS.
• Capable of integrating with other existing HRMS/IS Exhaustive MIS reporting.
• Works excellent for course management, delivery & tracking of formal learning.
• Capable of managing competency & talent management.

WEAKNESSES📛

• Focused on control & managing more than learner experience.
• Not ready for Web 2.0 experience and offers outdated way of course WEAKNESSES access.
• Focused on formal learning to be pushed to learners No real standards govern LMS development.
• Overall customer experience with LMS is not consistent.

OPPORTUNITIES🎯

• To create learner-centric environments rather thancentralized course delivery system through Social & Informal learning.
• To offer talent management functionality in the context of both formal & informal learning.

THREATS⚠️

• Slow to respond to changing learner needs.
• As market fragmentation increases, more LMSsystems will become out of tune to the market demands thereby creating a higher level of dissonance with the LMS.
• Social networking tools could extend to take over some of the LMS functionality posing a new competition (already are) to LMS.

🔨 Use Case in Educational Institution🎓

1. Provide the information of student,quiz ,assigments etc.
2. manage the information of student.
3. show the description and information of the course and faculty.
4. It increases the efficiency of managing the course for student.
5. It automates the existing manual system by he help of internet.
6. To assist the staff in capturing the effort spent on their respective working areas.
7. Provide searching facilities & REDUCES PAPERORK.

🏁 What Are The Benefits of an LMS?

• The more obvious benefits of an LMS include the development of knowledge amongst students or employees. But let’s dig a little deeper into why an LMS is so useful.
• First, an LMS gives an organization somewhere to centrally house its training and development content. It can be stored, managed, edited and deleted from within the same software.
• An LMS also saves money, since traditional forms of training like seminars or training days directly impact the company’s bottom line.
• With an LMS, learners can access their eLearning environment from anywhere, at any time, at their own pace and without draining additional company resources or incurring travel expenses.

✅ How Does an LMS Work?

• To experience the way an LMS works, let’s take a look at a very basic example of how an LMS can be deployed. A company wants to educate its sales team about a soon-to-be-launched product.
• To do that, they use the course builder function within their LMS to create slides, bite-sized documentation, quizzes and certifications. Once the course materials are ready, each member of the sales team can log into the LMS with their own personalized account to begin learning (and now you know where the term eLearning came from).
• When an employee feels ready, he or she can take the quizzes or tests required to achieve their certification — proving that they’re qualified to sell the product at the standard required. The LMS can track the progress of each employee, so administrators can see how well learners are moving through the course material, who has qualified, and who remains confused about the topic.