What is an LMS (Definition and Uses)

WHAT'S

Everything you always wanted to know about Learning Management Systems

(but were afraid to ask)

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EARNING — because you use it to deliver education courses.

ANAGEMENT — because it helps you organize these courses.

YSTEM — because an LMS is a computer program

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LMS stands sort for Learning Management System.

It is a software program that helps you create, manage and deliver eLearning courses. Just like Gmail helps you send emails.

WHO USES AN LMS?

Government agencies and local governments

Businesses of all sizes

Organizations, from the United

Nations to your local co-op

Schools, universities, colleges

Online and eLearning (from Khan Academy to lynda.com)

Most common use cases for an LMS platform are employee training, employee orientation, knowledge retention. Education!

An LMS handles the management and delivery of eLearning courses. It lets you create eLearning content, organize it, deliver the content, enroll students, monitor and assess their performance.

CREATING AN ELEARNING COURSEWrite or import content. You can do it inside the LMS or import it various sources (Word document, Power Point, Wikipedia).

Organizing your courses is simple. An LMS allow you the freedom to structure your eLearning offering in any way you want. There's a lot of organizational tools that

you can combine in multiple ways.

Delivering your courses is also flexible. Your courses might be made for restricted audience or they migh be meant for a wider population. A modern LMS should handle all these

cases an be available to mobile devices.

administrators instructors students

MANAGING YOUR USERSLet's see how an LMS can help you manage your users. There will be three kind of users:

Managing those users involves registering them in the LMS, assigning them to courses, interacting with them as instructors, determining what kind of content they are allowed to see etc.

An LMS like TalentLMS is no more difficult than using Facebook.

Facebook

MONITORING AND ASSESSING STUDENT PROGRESSThe ability to monitor the student in real time is important. Whether you're dealing with 10 or 10,000 students, an LMS gives you automated and quick access to grades, records, stats.

A modern LMS should report student work in simple way, display their data in graphs and charts. TalentLMS, for example, allows you to filter your student and course

information in multiple ways.

AdvancedLMS features

THERE IS ALSO SOME MORE ADVANCED FEATURES THAT YOUR LMS MIGHT DO:

online whiteboard functionality, so instructors and students can create and share writings and drawings in real time

the ability to sell courses and integrate with payment processors such as PayPal

and Stripe

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IN GENERAL THERE ARE THREE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS:

Locally deployed(self-hosted LMS) - a web app that you get to install and maintain on your own server.

Cloud based LMS - a Cloud is perhaps the preferred solution for most LMS needs. Installation, updates and server monitoring is taken care of for you

Private Cloud (hosted LMS) - halfway between the locally deployed and public cloud options.

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TalentLMS is an advanced LMS platform. It supports all of important options.

Try the super-easy, cloud TalentLMS to train your employees, partners, customers

or students, for free!

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