What is an LMS?
LMS stands for Learning Management System. An LMS is a web-based system that automates the
delivery of Educational Courses, Training Programs, Vocational Courses, and Administration of Employee
Training. LMS divides the learning material for all the different types of learners. LMS is widely used as
the E-learning system by some educational institutions such as schools, colleges, or online learning
gateways. LMS is also used by some companies who can train and regulate their employees by giving
them online instructions through LMS based software. Company employees can also use LMS even after
being absent in office and they can directly prepare all the reports and statistics through LMS by sitting
away from the remote location and send all the work copies to the group and instructor.
Types of LMS
There are two different types of LMS •
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Corporate
Academics
Both LMS’s have different learning material and different aspects of training their individuals or groups.
In Corporate LMS, training focuses on daily practical knowledge and strategies of every individual but in
Academics the learning focuses on daily learning and gives more amount of subjective knowledge
through the web without handling any books or notes.
Who uses LMS?
LMS can be used by teachers to create integrated course materials, set assessments and assignments for
students, track daily learning reports of students, and create a customized test for each student in the
batch. Companies can use LMS for displaying their statistics, reports check the daily work done by the
employees. LMS can support the content in various formats such as Text, Video, and Audio.
What are the features of LMS?
LMS helps us to add users and assign them their duties and roles by dividing them into different groups
and organizations. LMS helps to create content, upload learning material, and create a task for students
and employees to work upon. Some LMS platforms can be also accessed on Mobile or Smartphones
which is quite easier for individuals to access anywhere and work. We can also share our content so that
others can like, comment, and share further to other groups. Some platforms already have a readymade course library on different topics that are easily accessible. Some LMS platforms are also based
upon the certifications that mean the user has to complete a course or test in a particular given time so
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they can receive the certifications and grade depending upon their work or output. We can also organize
e-video conference sessions through LMS in which multiple students or employees can participate at
one time through video and audio. LMS also offers functions such as real-time whiteboard or screen
share option, so instructor or student can write or create anything in real-time.
What are the benefits of LMS?
There are many benefits of using an LMS for both Corporate businesses and Academics learners :
1. For corporate businesses it reduces training cost and for academic learners unlimited access to
learning content is available anytime and anywhere.
2. It reduces or cutdowns the time for training in office and is remotely accessible for all the
employees and it reduces the efforts for academic students to go to a place or campus for
learning and learn every required module in home in a less required time.
3. It maintains the link of communication and work among the partners and it increases the
knowledge engagement among the students.
4. It creates individual learning plans for corporate businesses and it improves the work and
learning performance of academic learners.
5. It helps in Live performance tracking of employees and students from anywhere.
What task does LMS automates?
1. LMS offers several training programs for employee onboarding. The only thing we need to do is
just create a training program and add new users to the groups.
2. We can update the training programs at any time within a few minutes and provide a better
standard of learning.
3. Some companies can educate their employees through LMS for product knowledge that what
are the features and main USPs of their product and company and sales training that how they
can sell their products in different geographical locations.
4. Some companies or education institutions provide knowledge base training and customized task
for every individual so they can work and research upon and provide a good output.
How to create an e-learning course on LMS?
We can create content either by adding some scratch material such as our lessons inside the LMS or by
importing some existing material (a Word Document, PowerPoint presentations, or Wikipedia Articles,
etc.). We can even add course materials in various formats in the form of Video, Audio, and Graphics to
our lesson. Another essential feature to make learning better is we can also add links to some Youtube
Videos, Wikipedia Articles, and some essential webpages.
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