What is LMS?

Learning Management System. A system that allows assigned learning privileges, links learning resources and modules to individual learners and groups of learners, monitors individual and group performance, collects assessment data and transfers it to the student management system for reporting and recording purposes. 

LMS FEATURES MATRIX  

Catalog :

• Allows all users (employees) to search the content by topic or keyword.
• Includes course characteristics, such as course length, format, availability status, and prerequisites in the catalog description.

Registration :

• Allow administrators and/or instructors to register students for training.
• Allow employees to self-register for training.

Notification :

• Provides feedback to learners, supervisors and instructors on successful completion of a training requirement.
• Generates notifications to learners, supervisors and instructors about changes in course schedules or cancellations.
• Automatically notifies a student who was previously waitlisted for a course, that they are now successfully registered for that course.

Administration :

• Maintains and manages organizationally developed competency and skill based job definitions, management, monitoring, and reporting.
• Allows remote administration of courses and classes.
• Collects, tracks and reports course delivery costs to calculate Return on Investment from manager’s course budget information.

Resource Management :

• Provides a library of pre-built templates and images for use in custom content development.
• Monitors the availability of paper reference materials. 

Personal Learning Records :

• Provides the capability to be the employee system of record for all training experiences including instructor led, CBT, WBT, outside seminars, video, professional conferences, etc.  

Reporting :

• Allows students to generate a training transcript indicating course attendance, both course and individual learning module completion, scoring, etc.
• Provides the capability to report on competency data.
• Reports are easily generated by the LMS regarding all aspects of the training arena.
• Identifies individuals who have completed training and the name of the training requirement.

Content Delivery :

• Delivers on-line custom Web Based Training (WBT) content.
• Delivers on-line Video Tele-training (VTT) content.
• Maintaines a version control scheme for on-line courseware.
• Supports threaded discussion functionality (synchronous collaboration).

Assessment :

• Provide capability for assessment of all learning opportunities.
• Provides the capability to perform skill gap analysis tasks, including skills defining, tracking and searching.
• Provides the ability to link competencies with courses.  

Content Authoring Tools :

• Allows for development and delivery of custom web based training (WBT) content.
• Provide the capability for sharing custom-authored courses with other regions.
• Provide the capability to convert existing PowerPoint presentations to web based content.

Competency Management :

• Capability to report on skill health of the organization or region.
• Capability to document ROI of training investment.
• Capability to create custom competency dictionary based on clinical, managerial and leadership skills.
• Allows for reporting on skill gap analysis at individual, department, and regional levels.
• Capability to link various modes of education with competencies.

Content available through LMS :

• Ability to deliver content in the area of Desktop skills training.
• Ability to deliver content in public health.