Learning Management Systems
An organisation can maintain its success and stay at the top only if the workforce is knowledgeable and productive. To keep the workforce updated with the latest happening of the industry in terms of knowledge and skills, it is important to make employee learning a continuous process. To achieve this goal, it is essential to choose the right learning management system to make corporate learning effective and beneficial for both the employees and the organisation.
Whisskers being the leading digital marketing company in India is providing best learning management systems to assist the organisations in filling the learning gaps to improvise the routine administrative and technical jobs and also to develop the potential of employees by facilitating them with training programs.
What is the Learning Management System?
A learning management system (LMS), is a software designed to generate, allocate, and manage the distribution of educational contents. Learning management system makes the learning process centralised, easily accessible, economical, efficient, and trackable.
The basic LMS has a main operational platform to upload the training material, provide its access to trainees, serve notifications, and share the progress report as well as data with the administrators.
Whisskers Learning Management Solutions
Whisskers provide several learning management solutions that can suit all kinds of industries and company sizes as given below.
Commercial vs. Free
Free LMS allows knowledge sharing in the companies on an open platform. In this, an individual can develop courses and the rest of the employees can access the course material via e-learning to gain knowledge. The commercial LMS is an advanced e-learning solution that an organisation can deploy for its employees learning program. Whisskers provide 24/7 support and various features in commercial LMS for its smooth functioning.
Individual vs. Enterprise
At an enterprise level, LMS is deployed for a large company having 500 plus employees. Whereas an Individual learning solution is provided for small-size companies as well as for individual employees to undergo the required training program. Whisskers provide various features to suit different needs from big to small size companies.
On-premise vs. Cloud-based
The cloud-based LMS is highly scalable and can be accessed by all kinds of electronic gadgets. This is installed on a secure off-site server that can be accessed even in offline mode using an app. This comes with varieties of features to make it’s functioning smooth and easy for the users. On-premise LMS is a licensed product that can be customised and installed as per the organisation’s requirements. This also protects the confidentiality of the data related to the users and the organisation.
Licensed product vs. SaaS
SaaS LMS is the most popular model that comes with easy installation procedures and free upgrades. Being scalable this is one of the best LMS systems for the large size companies where employees learning is a continuous process. The licensed LMS can be customised as per the requirements and it also comes with easy installation procedures. This is little costlier than the SaaS LMS since the license to use is given to the organisation to protect the confidentiality of the learning contents and data.
Integrated
Integrated LMS allows the installation to be done on existing software and systems that the organisation is already using for flawless user experience. In this LMS is connected with the compatible products for enriching learning experience.
Pre-written CMS vs. Built-in-Authoring tools
Built-in-authoring LMS integrates pre-designed learning content with the newly developed courses, assessment tests, exercises, modules and revisions. The pre-written CMS allows learning and development teams to design and develop the various courses required for an organisation and upload them in a learning management system.
Benefits of Learning Management Systems
The LMS ensures to suit everyone’s learning graph and helps organisations with simplifying the learning process to bridge the learning gaps. The key benefits of LMS are given below.
- The course content can be accessed by all kinds of electronic gadgets for a good learning experience.
- Customise learning pathways and training plans for students.
- Integrating all kinds of learning contents in the form of text, video, presentations, etc. from various sources at one place.
- Progress report cards are generated for each student to analyse the learning graphs.
- Notifications can be sent automatically to inform about the schedule of training programs,
invite students to join the training program, and take follow-ups.
FAQs
A learning management system (LMS), is a software designed to generate, allocate, and manage the distribution of educational contents.
LMS is advantageous for all kinds of industries, company sizes and businesses for the following reasons.
- Keep user’s information and corporate training private with data security.
- Fast, economical, and easily accessible mode of imparting corporate training.
- Provide consistent and unified training programs across multiple locations
- Learning graph of each employee can be monitored to help them in improvising their learning abilities
SaaS LMS is the most popular model that is scalable and can be installed easily with free upgrades to bridge the learning gaps and develop the workforce in big enterprises where corporate training is a continuous process.
