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9 Proven Tips to Maximize Your LMS Effectiveness

9 Proven Tips to Maximize Your LMS Effectiveness

Introduction

Various reports have pegged the global market share of the learning management system (LMS) at anything between USD 20-32 billion for the year 2023. This market share is expected to grow at 17-19% CAGR over the next few years.

A LMS is a framework for efficiently delivering digital courses. However, it is not just for hosting eLearning courses. A LMS has the potential to transform the way the learners engage with the content and experience the training process. Here are 9 ideas to enhance the LMS experience for the learners.

Gamify Your LMS

Add a leaderboard on the dashboard for each learner. The leaderboard will reflect the points that the learner earns for every engagement with any learning asset. This brings in friendly competition and motivation to engage with the learning management system.

Make it Social

Friendly competition and collaboration are two sides of the same coin—learning.

An inbuilt discussion forum helps learners discuss concepts with peers and trainers. They can seek more information and clarify doubts. Employees can share their experience, and knowledge, as well as suggest reference materials. Challenges can be discussed, and peers become a strong support network.

Make it Responsive

The LMS should have a responsive design so that learners can visit the eLearning platform and engage with learning assets from any device at any time. Learners should be able to resume the course from the other device. Remember, one of the benefits of eLearning is that end-users should be able to visit the course at their convenience.

Use External APIs

Facilitate seamless eLearning management through wide integrations. Wide integrations with content aggregators, business intelligence tools, HRM systems, meeting platforms, and email clients help the L&D teams to manage the training program from a single-stop shop. It makes training management simple and enhances the learner’s experience.

Carve a Learning Path

Continuous learning requires a path with no horizon. An effective LMS should be able to manage users and create learning paths for each individual or group. The learning path should not be limited to courses. It should be able to string different learning assets like courses, webinars, classrooms, and surveys.

Create Personalized Learning Paths

Create enough open courses, reels, and a content hub so that learners can create their own open learning paths where they can add an asset as per their choice. This would be in addition to the assigned courses.

Allow Users to Become Trainers

Continuous learning is a collaborative one. Also, heutagogy is penetrating the learning and development (L&D) landscape. One aspect of heutagogy at the workplace is the harnessing of the enormous amount of learning that occurs naturally in workplaces. A salesperson may have closed a difficult deal, or an employee may come up with a new visual merchandising approach, a product/service idea or innovation, etc. Employees who want to share their expertise and experience should be able to become trainers and hold a webinar or make additions to resources in the LMS.

Allow Users to Upload Content

An advanced LMS takes collaboration to a new level and provides a participatory learning model. Employees across different verticals and industries can add their content based on their research or experience. For example, new store layouts, videos of medical procedures, engineering blueprints, successful marketing campaigns, code snippets, assembly line processes, or anything successful and done differently. The list is endless.

Set Up Repositories

Images, videos, documents, etc. are added in more than one course. What if any of these resources are updated? The LMS administrator would have to figure out the courses where those resources are added. Then update the resources in all those courses. Not an efficient way of working.

Add a common folder for all resources and create a method so that any updates in the resources reflect in all courses instantly.

These are nine tips to enhance your LMS. Incorporate them to stay ahead and get better returns on your training investments.

Conclusion

KREDO is one of the top learning management systems, which is redefining the trajectory of technological evolution in the learning industry.

You not only host eLearning courses and manage users but also create courses with its built-in authoring tool. With wide integrations for webinars, translations, external content, etc, it provides a single window for your training management. KREDO supports both collaboration and friendly competition. This LMS helps users create learning paths, suggest new content, and make learning a personalized journey.

KREDO is a cloud-based, scalable LMS for small to large enterprises. It has won accolades and awards in the past 2 years, including the coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold Award 2024 for excellence in various categories. If you want to explore the KREDO learning management system, schedule a demo or write to us at <suresh@tesseractlearning.com>