So, the bottom line is that in designing their platforms, LMS solution providers are constantly walking the fine line between ease-of-use and how powerful and customizable to make their reporting features. 'Satisfaction surveys of learning management system administrators invariably identify reporting as the most reviled feature in their platform. Administrators complain about reporting being unintuitive, cumbersome, lacking customizability, not being powerful enough, and just generally being bad at displaying the data administrators want. They want templates with one button to push. MORE >>

learning management system (LMS) can provide an effective way to monitor who has viewed such important information and who may need a follow-up telephone call. Learning management systems typically provide feedback to learners on their progress. For the learner, this is like crossing an item off their TO-DO list, which provides happy feelings of accomplishment. Somewhere among the hundreds or perhaps thousands of e-mails in your inbox, somewhere in the skyscraper-high piles of paper on the corner of your desk, is something really really important. Here’s how: 1. MORE >>

So how do you provide learning to those outside your organization? How to provide reports to external managers and administrators. Join us for a free Webinar: Date:  Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Time:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST. Partners, suppliers, contractors, interns, volunteers, association members, customers… How did all these people sneak into our learning initiatives? Clearly, work today is different from back in the days of three-martini lunches in smoky lounges and asking your assistant to “be a sweetheart and fetch me a cup of coffee.”. Space is limited.  MORE >>

Understandably, the company providing this course-of-the-month subscription service doesn’t want the headache of managing all this manually. For the sake of this example, let’s assume that this commercial course provider sells courses related to mandolin playing. The ability to automatically provide new courses every month. STEP 1 : Bundle together the courses you want to provide in the first month of the subscription. Courses provided in month one: Mandolin Care. Courses provided in month two: Mandolin Care. Ok, full disclosure. MORE >>

They view LMS as creating inflexible learning environments where learners are provided with few choices and force fed content created by a training department. In reality, though, it’s possible to create a learning environment using a LMS that provides learners with choices over their learning activities. We rarely hear complaints that universities provide rigid learning structures. As I’ve mentioned in the past , there’s a large and vocal group of learning pundits who are vehemently anti learning management system (LMS). MORE >>