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Learning Management Systems (LMS) provide a framework through which online learning is delivered and managed. An LMS platform allows for an anytime, anywhere learning environment, delivering and tracking eLearning courses, programs and testing. A Learning Content Management System (LCMS) enables an organization to learn content from Courseware authoring tools and to present the content to students. Learning Management Systems are related to Training software. Find the best Learning Management System in Canada for your organization.

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360Learning combines LMS and LXP capabilities with collaborative learning Academies to power your business’s upskilling flywheel. Learn more about 360Learning
360Learning empowers Learning and Development teams to become a strategic business function while optimizing costs and improving efficiency. 360Learning’s comprehensive learning platform combines LMS and LXP capabilities coupled with collaborative learning Academies to power your business’s upskilling flywheel. 360Learning is the easiest way to onboard new employees, train customer-facing teams, and develop professional skills–all from one place. Learn more about 360Learning

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  • Blended Learning
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  • Certification & Licensing
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All-in-one system of learning that brings together learning, growth, skills, and capabilities into a personalized, curated experience. Learn more about Cornerstone LMS
Cornerstone Learning helps you provide a connected learning and growth experience for your people. With intentional AI for making people extraordinary, create a personalized development resource that inspires and accelerates transformation. Get a solution designed to dynamically understand your users, connect them to personalized opportunities for growth, and help them develop the skills that will get them from here to there. Learn more about Cornerstone LMS

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Absorb LMS is an easy-to-use and dynamic learner and admin LMS experience for external and internal learning programs. Learn more about Absorb LMS
Empower organizations to provide employees, customers, partners, or members with the knowledge they need to effectively do their job with Absorb LMS. Absorb’s best-in-class interface creates an easy-to-use and dynamic learner and admin LMS experience. Make learning and development your competitive advantage by integrating an award-winning learning management system that combines the power of traditional LMS features with a core focus on user experience. Learn more about Absorb LMS

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Over 1,300 L&D teams around the world partner with LearnUpon LMS to execute their learning strategy and hit their learning goals. Learn more about LearnUpon
At LearnUpon LMS we’re on a mission to help you unlock the power of learning. Combining our award winning LMS and our industry-leading Customer Experience team, we pride ourselves on being a trusted partner to over 1,300 businesses. Every day, L&D teams around the world choose LearnUpon’s intuitive, feature-rich and deeply integrate-able platform to deliver a connected learning experience to millions of learners across their employees, customers and partners. Plans start at $15,000. Learn more about LearnUpon

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dominKnow is an authoring, publishing, and knowledge management platform known for robust content creation and quick-to-publish process Learn more about dominKnow | ONE
dominKnow is a dynamic course authoring, publishing, and content management platform. It makes authoring content fast and easy with a flexible template library and simultaneous collaboration features. It also makes updating and reusing content across the organization a dream by using a ‘single-source’ model, that updates content across your LMS, job aids, web experiences, and everywhere else, on any device, in one quick motion. Learn more about dominKnow | ONE

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Intellum helps medium to large brands and fast-moving companies increase revenue and decrease support costs through education. Learn more about Intellum Platform
Intellum combines learning science and a user-centered approach to provide a robust, modern and intuitive EdTech platform. Create, manage, track, improve and scale highly-personalized learning experiences for customers, partners, and employees from one single destination. Enhance learner engagement with Reputation-Based Gamification, certifications and social experiences. Seamlessly train multiple audiences with one consistent location for all live and on-demand educational content. Learn more about Intellum Platform

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eFront is the resilient LMS built to support the demanding training programs of world-leading and growing enterprises. Learn more about eFront
eFront is the enterprise learning management system built to offer blue-chip and growing companies limitless learning. Advanced features, stringent security protocols, and rich customization tools serve to meet any training scenario. Designed to be the most adaptable LMS, eFront gives you complete control over your training environment and data. Seamlessly blending with your tech stack it functions as the malleable infrastructure with the resilience to support even the most complex enterprise Learn more about eFront

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Litmos Training delivers powerful but easy-to-use LMS features for admins and learners alike, and a built-in content library. Learn more about Litmos
Litmos Training delivers powerful but easy-to-use LMS features for admins and learners alike. It’s known for quick deployment and simple integration with other key business systems, as well as automation of formerly time-consuming tasks, such as user onboarding and reporting. It offers custom UI branding and dashboards, built-in content authoring, and access to a large library of off-the-shelf content. Other popular features include video assessments, gamification, and mobile responsiveness. Learn more about Litmos

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TalentLMS is the LMS built for training success. Easy to manage and a joy to use, teams embrace training from the very first click. Learn more about TalentLMS
TalentLMS is the LMS built for training success. Designed to get a "yes" from everyone, it's where great teams, and companies, go to grow. With an experience that's fully customizable and easy to manage, teams embrace training while feeling right at home. TalentLMS makes it easy to provide the right training to any team and every use, while giving expert guidance and support every step of the way. On a mission to democratize training, TalentLMS already serves 70, 000+ teams worldwide. Learn more about TalentLMS

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Meet TalentCards: the mobile learning platform built to train deskless employees. Build courses online and deliver them on smartphones. Learn more about TalentCards
Meet TalentCards, the mobile learning app that puts training in your people’s hands, no matter where they are in the world. While traditional LMSs are made for employees who work from behind a desk, TalentCards is built for mobile and deskless employees— people whose jobs keep them on the move. Build powerful courses online and deliver them straight to your team’s smartphones. Train teams on safety, compliance, product knowledge, soft skills, and more, without interrupting the work day. Learn more about TalentCards

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SkyPrep's LMS empowers organizations to effortlessly create, manage, and track training with ease. Learn more about SkyPrep
SkyPrep offers a robust and user-friendly Learning Management System (LMS) that enables organizations to seamlessly create, deliver, manage, and track training initiatives with ease. With over 500 customers, SkyPrep caters to those seeking to educate their employees, clients, and partners. SkyPrep is dedicated to ongoing innovation and provides a customizable platform renowned for its ease of use, paired with exceptional customer support. Learn more about SkyPrep

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Udemy Business is a learning solution that allows teams to share trainings, create learning paths and manage course content. Learn more about Udemy Business
Udemy Business is an integrated learning solution that offers engaging on-demand, immersive, and cohort-based learning to help companies build a future-ready workforce, increase employee engagement, and achieve business outcomes. Learn more about Udemy Business

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A specialized, cloud-based, enterprise LMS with over 1,000 CPE courses for audit, accounting, finance and related professionals. Learn more about Illumeo LMS
Illumeo is the only learning platform for audit, accounting, and corporate finance that is best suited for companies with 1000-100,000 employees. Illumeo covers the full learning cycle, from training and reporting, to learning plans and assessments with a course catalog of over 1,000 courses and webinars. Earn over two dozen types of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for certifications such as the CPA, CMA, CPD, and more. Trusted by leading companies like Oracle, Cisco, and Maersk. Learn more about Illumeo LMS

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Learn how leading mid size companies easily train their remote teams from anywhere in the world with Trakstar Learn. Learn more about Trakstar Learn
Easily train your remote team with Trakstar's learning management software. Train from anywhere in the world with a learning management system for the modern workforce. Manage training across hundreds or thousands of employees in your organization. Learn how leading mid size companies use Trakstar Learn to quickly create quizzes and assessments, make training more impactful and never miss another compliance training deadline. See a free demo today! Learn more about Trakstar Learn

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Hosted LMS solution that comes with everything you need to create, manage, track and deliver quality online training courses. Learn more about TrainCaster LMS
TrainCaster LMS is a hosted learning management solution that includes everything you need to get started with online training. Built-in course authoring tools, custom reporting, detailed tracking, and an easy training interface, to name a few popular features. There is a PowerPoint-to-Web course converter, so using legacy content is easy. And we are SCORM/AICC compliant, so you have even more options. You can get up and running quickly - in days, not weeks. Sign up for your free trial today! Learn more about TrainCaster LMS

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Learning management solutions for agriculture and related industries. Learn more about Ally LMS
Ally LMS includes a secure learning website, library of professional training, and custom learning services for the agriculture industry. Ally LMS helps businesses reduce operational risks, train better managers, and build professional company culture through employee training and engagement. Ally LMS offers employee performance tracking and reporting, custom course creation, and integrates with most HRIS platforms. Learn more about Ally LMS

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Easy-to-use cloud-based LMS 100% integrated with a robust authoring tool. Launch your eLearning in just one day with a minimum of fuss! Learn more about iSpring Learn
iSpring Learn is a fast LMS with a powerful authoring tool. With iSpring, you can easily launch onboarding or continuous learning in your company, and train employees no matter where they are. Native iOS & Android apps enable learners to get instant access to courses, even offline. Account owners get great value at a reasonable price. Personal live tech support is at your fingertips. Schedule a free 15-minute online meeting to learn how iSpring Learn works for your mission-critical project. Learn more about iSpring Learn

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Ideal for B2B and B2C training vendors. Multi-portal LMS makes it easy to service multiple clients. Sell e-learning using Shopify. Learn more about Firmwater LMS
The LMS for training companies. Create distinct, branded e-learning sites for each of your clients or sell courses B2B and B2C with our Shopify e-commerce integration. Build custom courses of different sizes, and mix and match modules. With our multi-tenant solution, a single course update is automatically applied for all clients and learners. We provide personal and responsive support, taking the time to listen and understand your needs. No wading through community forums. Call us today. Learn more about Firmwater LMS

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Industry-specific eLearning solutions that help alleviate the challenges of onboarding, upskilling, and retaining you workforce. Learn more about Vector LMS & Training
Vector Solutions offers industry-specific, cost-effective eLearning solutions that help our clients alleviate the challenges of onboarding, upskilling, and retaining their workforce. Whether seeking to fulfill continuing education requirements, manage license requirements, or provide career pathing for your workforce, Vector Solutions has world-class and award-winning content and LMS to help you get the job done. Choose from our large selection of modern, interactive, mobile-ready courses that m Learn more about Vector LMS & Training

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Wisetail’s learning platform turns companies into communities and empowers teams to learn through doing. Learn more about Wisetail LMS
Wisetail’s user-friendly learning platform turns companies into communities and empowers teams to learn through doing. The award-winning LMS and operational solutions drive consistency through efficient training and onboarding programs with custom site branding. The platform can be used as a hub for safety and compliance certifications, host endless learning initiatives, and spark social interactions. Wisetail believes learning is vital to building community and a more sustainable organization. Learn more about Wisetail LMS

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Rated HIGHEST User Adoption, ACE LMS is an industry-leading, single-platform software solution for all your learning management needs. Learn more about Adaptive Compliance Engine (ACE)
ACE LMS is your one-stop-shop solution to your company’s training needs while being the market leader learning management system that industry leaders trust to use for their companies! With our cloud-based system, your company’s employees can train on documents, and processes, while being able to take quizzes, upload files, and sign off on these educational courses all in one place on any device. Keep up to date on training, saving your company money, and increasing your workplace productivity! Learn more about Adaptive Compliance Engine (ACE)

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ClassTrack is an intuitive and powerful LMS that makes work easier for teachers, students, and administrators. Learn more about ClassTrack
A Simple, Flexible Learning Management System (LMS). ClassTrack is an intuitive and powerful LMS that makes work easier for teachers, students, and administrators. Our integrated tool will help you save time on administrative tasks and increase efficiency. Learn more about ClassTrack

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An easily customized comprehensive solution for managing training and compliance backed by outstanding personalized customer service. Learn more about Prosperity LMS
Prosperity LMS by Ziiva is a scalable enterprise LMS solution that is easily configured and customized for your unique needs. With 25 years of experience, Prosperity excels at complex certification and compliance training management, 3rd party system integrations, and is backed by personalized US-based technical support. Whether you are providing or selling training to employees, customers, members, partners or distributors, Prosperity has what you need with flexible pricing options. Learn more about Prosperity LMS

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LearnWorlds is a powerful, fully customizable, white-labeled and cloud-based LMS ideal to help you market and sell online courses. Learn more about LearnWorlds
LearnWorlds is a powerful, fully customizable white-labeled LMS with eCommerce capabilities. As an all-in-one eLearning solution, it is ideal for any professional and business that wants to train employees, educate customers, or create and sell online courses. Unlike an on-premise LMS, this 100% cloud-based LMS is always up-to-date, and it is packed with robust features like interactive video, ebooks, branded mobile app, SCORM content, live sessions, analytics, marketing integrations, and more. Learn more about LearnWorlds

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Jolt is an app used to manage daily operations & train workers, with real-time feedback to business owners & managers. Schedule a demo. Learn more about Jolt
Jolt is a tablet-based learning management software that helps you maintain records, create trainings, and complete reporting with ease. Used by brands like Chick-fil-A, Legoland, and Regal Cinemas, and every industry, Jolt is a comprehensive suite for managing all your employees' training needs. Over 300,000 employees use our training library featuring powerful just-in-time trainings that help them do their jobs more efficiently. See what just-in-time training can do for your business today! Learn more about Jolt

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LearningZen.com is a revolutionary, low cost, easy to use online training platform. Online training made easy. Learn more about LearningZen
LearningZen is the pioneer of easy LMS and includes the most user-friendly course authoring tool on the planet plus free COVID-19 and starter templates. Backed by the best hands-on and friendly customer support in the industry. Proven to be the best in class solution at a fraction of the cost. Helping clients realize training objectives is our passion. LearningZen is cloud based and SCORM compliant. Contact us today for more information or to arrange a demo! Learn more about LearningZen

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Connect the dots between learning and performance with eloomi, driving true people development all in one intuitive learning platform. Learn more about eloomi
eloomi is is an easy-to-use and intuitive learning management system. We connect the dots between learning and performance to streamline your onboarding, upskill & reskill your talent pool, hit compliance goals, and drive true people development. Build unique and interactive learning, import existing content, or access our curated content store. Discover why organizations around the world choose eloomi to drive employee engagement and deliver tailored learning experiences. Learn more about eloomi

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Onboarding, routine training & custom courses: Connecteam’s learning management software is easy to use and quick to get started! Learn more about Connecteam
Connecteam’s Learning Management Software (LMS) makes Training and Onboarding easy for your new frontline employees! Trusted by Over 36,000 Companies! ✔ increase productivity ✔ boost levels of job satisfaction ✔ save a lot of time. View the status of training, add custom courses, quizzes, checklists, knowledge library, schedule training sessions, upload documents, and media - all from the same mobile app. Dedicated customer success managers & Digital help center & full chat support. Try It Now > Learn more about Connecteam

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Compliance & CE is a complete learning management solution for your laboratory. Learn more about Compliance & CE
Compliance & CE is a complete learning solution for your laboratory. Provide safety training, P.A.C.E.-approved continuing education, and custom courses and checklists to your employees in one cost-effective online system. Learn more about Compliance & CE

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LearnDash is a WordPress LMS plugin that instantly transforms any WordPress site into a viable learning management system. Learn more about LearnDash
The #1 choice of Fortune 500 companies, major universities, training organizations, and entrepreneurs worldwide for creating (and selling) their online courses with WordPress. Learn more about LearnDash

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Integrated learning and performance management that enhances employee development from on-boarding to professional development. Learn more about Performance Pro
Performance Pro's Learning Management System is an application for companies with 50 to 5,000 employees interested in enhancing employee development through automated competency-based course assignment and ongoing assessment of progress. The integrated learning management system supports development with on demand content to keep skills current and compliant while streamlining the employee learning experience from on-boarding to professional development. Learn more about Performance Pro

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Bridge's LMS helps you create a learning culture that engages & develops employees, and is easy to use with robust learning features. Learn more about BRIDGE
Bridge LMS combines an easy to use interface with powerful learning features so you can deliver a people-first learning experience to your employees, partners, and customers. Bridge is perfect for high-growth, culture driven companies that seek to provide connection, alignment, and growth opportunities for their employees. Help your people achieve their full potential with Bridge. Learn more about BRIDGE

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Deliver scalable onboarding, training and coaching to help sellers engage every buyer with confidence and win more deals, faster. Learn more about Showpad
The Showpad Enablement Operating SystemⓇ (eOS) gives marketing, sales and enablement teams the flexible and scalable tools they need to create impactful content, engage buyers with confidence, and drive revenue growth. Showpad eOSⓇ integrates seamlessly with existing tech stacks, workflows and processes, while connecting with a network of innovative service partners to help our 1,200+ customers in over 50 countries to create tailored buying experiences. Learn more about Showpad

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Qooper partners with organizations to make mentorship and peer learning programs easy to launch and scale. Learn more about Qooper
Qooper Mentoring & Learning software enables mentorship and peer learning programs at scale. Organizations looking to develop employee and student careers, skills and inclusion leverage Qooper in many use cases. Innovative solutions such as mentor matching, training, and tracking makes Qooper super easy to use and to launch a new program with best practices. Join hundreds of organizations using Qooper to create meaningful connections and learning opportunities. Learn more about Qooper

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Accord LMS helps clients expand their training programs with smart enterprise features and expert support. Schedule a demo today. Learn more about Accord LMS
Accord LMS has the advanced features and support team needed to help you run large scale extended enterprise training programs at a fair price. Smart features automate repetitive administration tasks. Unlimited Learning Roles provide each user with a tailored learning experience based on their unique needs. Easy course assembly with quiz and survey authoring supports compelling learning experiences using SCORM, video, online documents, live classes and more. Schedule a free demo today. Learn more about Accord LMS

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HireRoad is the modern talent acquisition, onboarding, eLearning, and HR analytics software of choice for millions of users globally. Learn more about HireRoad
HireRoad is the modern talent acquisition, onboarding and eLearning software of choice for millions of users globally, with customizable reporting and insights to help HR teams make better business decisions, faster. Experience talent engagement and increased speed to hire. Accelerate your talent’s velocity towards value. Learn more about HireRoad

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Skilljar's cloud-based, mobile-responsive learning management system (LMS) enables businesses to scale customer and partner training. Learn more about Skilljar Customer Education
Skilljar is the leading training platform purpose-built for external education. Our enterprise-grade platform gives you all the tools you need to onboard, engage, and retain customers at scale. Skilljar integrates with the best-in-class tools, platforms, and software you already use to create a comprehensive Customer Education ecosystem powered by data-driven insights. Learn more about Skilljar Customer Education

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Learning Management System Software Buyers Guide

Introduction

Learning management systems are software platforms designed to help instructors create, manage, track, and scale learning content for large audiences consisting of; existing and prospective customers, business partners, and employees. Used by professionals operating in virtually any industry vertical, these tools put onboarding, training, and career development into the hands of instructors and students, giving them access to learning opportunities from anywhere across the world.

LMS tools provide the framework for managing learning material and progress anytime and anywhere. Unlike conventional LMS applications built for people studying from behind their desks, today's systems are designed for professionals without a desk, with a more dynamic lifestyle. These tools enable proprietors in sectors like real estate, manufacturing, automotive, and education to train their teams on and off-site, throughout the day, and without interrupting their workflow.

Rich in functionality and broad in scope, learning management systems can be used for a variety of learning content, from aviation simulators to early years education. However, most users in the corporate sector rely on them for compliance, safety, product knowledge, and soft skills training. Together with progress tracking tools, eLearning applications enable instructors, educators, and entrepreneurs to create and sell digital or blended academic experiences in their areas of expertise.

Also known as learning content management systems (LCMS), these platforms come with many benefits. They help businesses combine their learning initiatives and knowledge base management operations with their employee support, customer success, sales, and marketing activities. This enables them to speed up onboarding and mentoring. It also helps them facilitate hands-on experiences, increasing every stakeholder's awareness of the culture, policies, and practices of the business. As for the wider industry, these tools can also help companies meet their compliance training deadlines and boost their productivity.

As they allow users to create, present, and manage their learning content through courseware authoring tools, LMS tools share some of their functionality with authoring and training software. On a Venn diagram of tool capabilities, LMS applications would share much of their functionality with eLearning Authoring Tools Software, Learning Experience Platform Software, and Course Authoring Software. But users would be right to point out that LMS is also the area of convergence for Training Software, Talent Management Software, and School Management Software. Also, as Mobile Learning Software grows into a category of its own, it's plain to see that many LMS tools could easily fit into this category too.

LMS software tools may vary widely in terms of functionality. They may also share many of their capabilities with a range of software categories. But most LMS applications will be able to offer at least these five functions to their users:

  • Import, create and customize online coursework
  • Offer synchronous and asynchronous, individual and team-based learning options
  • Provide online, offline, and blended learning opportunities
  • Deliver customized learning resources through interactive and adaptive learning technology
  • Track student progress, manage classrooms, assess learning, and grant certifications

What are learning management systems LMS?

Learning management systems are applications used to create, manage and deliver online learning content. They help instructors, educators, and professional development teams curate courses. These courses are used to train their customers, B2B partners, and employees on matters of compliance, safety, business procedures, soft skills, or corporate culture.

From small classrooms to university-led courses and from workshops to fully certified courses offered by accreditation bodies, LMS platforms can provide career development opportunities at any scale. In a virtual or blended learning setting, students and trainees can benefit from access to forums, quizzes, and web conferencing facilities from virtually any device, while course providers can enjoy curating customisable assessments, authoring course content, and mapping outcomes for every student.

Combining the functionality of a virtual learning environment (VLE), management information system (MIS), and sometimes even human resources information system (HRIS), an LMS tool can assist professionals in a variety of administrative activities. This includes attendance management, pastoral care, staff, and payroll management, as well as onboarding, engagement, productivity, and customer success management.

Many of today's LMS platforms are web-based, cloud-native, agile, and modular. They are utilized by mid-sized and large companies and sole proprietors in a variety of industries. They enable managers to cooperate online and offline remotely, with one another and with employees, gaining valuable insights into learning progress, comparing cohort results, and accessing custom-made analytics dashboards and reports. They can also help inform performance reviews, set off promotion-in-place initiatives, and reduce turnover rates.

As they don't require in-depth programming skills to create, import, and manage courses, LMS tools can be used by most people in the professional sphere. This includes traditional educators like university professors and tutors, as well as people in non-traditional roles, such as personal trainers, life coaches, and therapists. It also includes creatives, such as music and drama teachers, graphic artists, photographers, and interior designers. But its main users are made up of back-office workers, such as business administrators, accountants, HR managers, and consultants in sectors like FinTech, software development, engineering, stock trading, and property portfolio management.

Learning management systems rely on the strength of the internet connections between the content provider and the viewers for sending data like multimedia content. As the process is bandwidth-intensive and requires vast storage capacity, many companies procure their LMS tools from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, essentially outsourcing their data transmissions and storage to the Cloud. But some large companies prefer to use on-premises or hybrid services to secure the safety and integrity of their company knowledge bases.

What are the benefits of learning management systems LMS?

The benefits of learning management systems LMS tools for content providers have less to do with the content itself and more to do with its accessibility. While it is obvious that, from a student's perspective, an eLearning platform is only as interesting and engaging as the courses it showcases, there are other gains to be had from using LMS tools, from a content provider's point of view. It may help to break them down as follows:

  • Limited computer literacy requirements: Not many businesses have the time and resources to create multimedia content from scratch, market it, publish it, and generate sales or other quantifiable metrics from it. LMS applications can help break down those barriers by enabling users with limited IT skills to import, create, and publish content online from a single dashboard, using basic drag-and-drop commands to customize, catalogue, and operate it.
  • Branding options: While many of today's courses are at least partially inspired from existing content, outsourced, or co-authored, it's frowned upon and inadvisable for companies to produce and distribute content that doesn't display their branding. Thankfully, many LMS platforms are white-label, offering users the option to make their mark by applying the logotype, theme, slogans, and imagery of their choice. This helps build trust and brand awareness.
  • Quantifiable and scalable results: LMS tools can help companies reach a vast audience for their in-house and off-site training initiatives. It gives employees and trainees immediate access to company information from their mobile devices. With everyone on the same page, managers and mentors can avoid unnecessary tasks and use their time more productively, with real-time insights into the staff's learning progress. This reduces training downtime, onboarding costs, and HR expenses while also streamlining business operations and improving communication across departments.
  • Permanent access: As a self-sustained, self-service tool, a company's LMS can grant users permanent access and control over company content. Without the back-and-forth of checking with their managers, employees feel empowered, trusted, and motivated to stay with the company. Being able to pursue their career development plans from within their existing positions means that they are less likely to leave. For HR staff and other managers, this translates into savings related to recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training replacements to perform at the same level.
  • SEO and social network marketing: Learning management systems have the added advantage that they publish their content online, often promoting it to existing and prospective users. Therefore, course authors can benefit from having their content search engine optimized and shared across social media platforms, with a virtually unlimited audience.
  • Facilitates in-work training and leveling up: As the ONS can attest, employees in professional occupations are very likely to require in-work training. Also, whether they are young trainees or highly skilled, they are more likely to be given supervisory responsibilities if they carry out in-work training.

What are the features of learning management systems LMS?

The features of LMS tools depend on the technological framework (i.e., AICC, SCORM, or xAPI). This will dictate the list of features users can deploy to enrich the customer experience. For instance, full-featured LMS tools sometimes come as mobile apps with offline progress tracking, built-in gamification and badges, leader boards, quizzes, surveys, and VR compatibility.

But most LMS platforms are web-based. For most users, the emphasis lies less on eye-catching attributes and more on ease of use and accessibility, so LMS tools come with this range of basic capabilities that streamline training, assessment, and certification within a virtual classroom environment:

  • Course creation and management: Recruit students, create content and manage course provision for large audiences. Learning management platforms enable users to create and manage their course material in a variety of ways. They can often import and upload their presentations, videos, and graphics. Using drag-and-drop commands rather than entering programming language, they can edit, sort, segment, sequence, and enhance the content. From a central dashboard, they can also recruit, profile, and group students, assign course work and restrict access. Finally, they can customize their virtual classrooms to suit students and customers accessing them in a variety of languages and work settings.
  • Progress tracking: View milestones as they are reached by students, track video views, and gain insight into the order in which they access the content. A must-have feature of LMS tools and all eLearning software applications is the capability to track learning progress for all students individually, as well as the cohort. It grants instructors the ability to view completion rates and progress for their material in real-time. This enables them to adjust the workload, the difficulty level, or the sequencing of their course material quickly, to suit the dynamic lifestyles of today's professionals. While some of the most advanced tools feature even off-site progress tracking and scoring, most users find that tracking online progress only is more than sufficient to gauge learner engagement.
  • Test and assessment tools: Draft, develop, administer, and automatically score tests, exams, and other papers. Educators can streamline their test administration tasks with LMS applications. Most applications will only provide a single pass-fail score per student and test. But other LMS tools will allow students to take a test several times, providing multiple scores for the same test and showing the student's learning curve. They may also display cohort results simultaneously, enabling instructors to compare student performance. With detailed test results at their fingertips, instructors can also pinpoint the topics they should readdress before they move on to a new topic.
  • Blended learning: Provide course linking tools for hybrid workers and students. When it comes to distributed teams, being able to juggle on-site and remote work is a requirement that extends to coursework as well. To satisfy these needs, LMS applications feature tools that enable users to merge physical and virtual content. For instance, they may allow virtual message boards to feature digital versions of post-its and memos or allow users to print digital content for display on a physical message board. They might also feature online wikis and forums that users can contribute to from their desks by digitizing their text, sounds, diagrams, or sketches.
  • Mobile learning: Mobile learning: Enable students to access course material through an app and web-based LMS to learn on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. According to a study published on Researchgate, massive open online course (MOOC) students access their coursework from mobile devices and desktops. And based on a list of statistics put together by Mark in Style, mobile learners complete their coursework about 45% faster than desktop learners. Also, m-learning is the learning method of choice for 71% of millennial learners, and it boosts knowledge retention five-fold.
  • Social learning: Produce material that is interactive and collaborative. LMS tools can enable students to highlight phrases or paragraphs, leave comments, and initiate a discussion. Through contextual commenting, learners can drive conversation and collaboration while also enabling social learning (i.e., learning by watching peers and imitating their behaviour).
  • Learning analytics: Produce performance reports for visual analysis. LMS tools can readily produce visual representations of the swathes of data that constantly feeds into it from learner activities. This is especially helpful to business users, as they rarely have the statistical expertise to generate graphs and charts instantly. Being able to view learner metrics like completion rate, time spent on each course, peak learning days, etc., translates into more accurate HR performance reviews, better cost analysis, and higher course management efficiency.
  • White labeling: Customize the UI so that the learner associates the content with the company. LMS tools that offer a white labeling option enable users to claim the content as their own and protect it from infringement and forgery. It also enables them to build their brand image and promote brand awareness across the globe, as learners would be able to see the company's logotype, slogan, theme, layout, and branded media content every time they access their LMS profile.

Sifting through Capterra's software directory, readers can find out more about the learning management systems featured here and use these insights in their decision-making process. With the option to filter these LMS tools by some of their highlights, users can narrow down their list of preferences and identify the most suitable tool for their business needs.

What should be considered when purchasing learning management systems?

When purchasing learning management systems, users should consider a range of factors. They will point to the impact that the LMS software choices can have on their business performance and whether the software is a good fit for the business. Here are a few essential questions users should ask themselves before deciding on an LMS tool:

  • Technological standards: Learning management systems are built on a set of technical standards specific to eLearning software. Users might come across terms like aviation industry computer-based training committee (AICC), sharable content object reference model (SCORM), and the Experience API (xAPI). These models determine how content platforms perform and what their specifications are. For instance, AICC content, once used in the aviation industry to facilitate computer-based training and simulations, communicates with the platform via HTTP. This makes data transfers secure but cumbersome. SCORM compliant LMS software uses JavaScript to facilitate real-time reporting, gamification, simulation, offline learning and interactive, adaptive, and blended learning. But xAPI, the newest and most versatile communication standard, is what enables LMS platforms to offer mobile apps, offline and informal progress tracking, on-the-job scoring, and cross-platform engagement insights through API integrations. Instructors can use xAPI to harness data from several knowledge bases, help desks, forums, and group platforms, as well as talent, performance, and data management software applications.
  • Acquisition and adoption: Because there are so many stakeholders involved in adopting and embracing an LMS tool company-wide, reaching out to every user is essential. Ease of use and accessibility for all members of staff, business partners, and customers will determine the success of a transition from in-person training to hybrid or virtual learning.
  • Helpdesk availability and customer care: As many of the LMS tools on the market today are cloud-based products offered based on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) agreement, the outcome of an initiative will rely on how responsive and helpful the LMS vendor is. Going incognito as a prospective client may reveal their response times and availability over email, chat, or telephone.

The most noteworthy LMS trends reflect changes in customer lifestyles. When investing in LMS, it's best to ensure that the software application can adapt or even anticipate these changes. For forward-thinking businesses, cutting corners isn't an option if it involves ignoring emerging trends. Here are some of the most relevant of these learning management systems LMS trends:

  • Shift to microlearning: Microlearning boosts productivity and retention rates. It's also an increasingly popular learning option, according to the above-mentioned Mark in Style report. It comes as no surprise, as people find it easier to digest bite-sized chunks of information as well as fit microlearning sessions in their busy days. So, LMS tool users would do well to adjust their content to their customer base, trimming it down and structuring it so that employees and customers can absorb and retain it within minutes.
  • Gamification and simulation: Scores, points, badges, leader boards, game-like graphics, and fantasy narratives are some of the incentives LMS platforms can use to enrich their content and tailor it to a younger market. With scenario-based training, businesses can follow the example of the defense sector, which utilizes gamification in military and cyber security.
  • VR and AR technology: As users embrace wearables of any caliber, from cutting-edge AR helmets to homemade cardboard VR goggles, the world of augmented and virtual reality is quickly spilling into eLearning. At this rate, VR classrooms should become commonplace within years, bringing online learning to an even wider audience.

Sources:

The features highlighted were identified based on their relevance and the percentage of products in Capterra's directory that offer them. The following sources were used for this document:

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