What is a Learning Management System?
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are used to deliver and manage your
company's learning programs. Learning Management Systems track, coordinate,
quantify and otherwise manage all training, education and
certification for a diverse array of learning and e-learning
requirements. Whether your requirements are focused on
continuing education, human capital development, e-learning
or certification, Learning Management Systems ensure your
company's defined goals are met and ROI is realized.
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Who is Learning Management for?
Learning Management Systems are
designed to enable your company or organization to properly
manage continued learning initiatives, thus allowing results
to be measured and modifications to be made. Although these
systems can be used by any size organization, they
typically fit medium to large sized clients who have many
users and diverse learning and e-Learning activities.
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How do companies benefit from an LMS?
The benefits are numerous and vary
based on your specific situation. Generally the value can be
categorized in the following ways:
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Lower Training Cost. LMS and
e-learning can lower per-learner costs by up to 75% compared to other methods. |
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Increased Consistency. The
quality of training is the same for every learner, every time. |
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Better Reporting. Managers
can see exact training record information up to the minute. |
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Better Compliance. The superb
record keeping and reporting provide necessary documentation for regulations like Sarbanes
Oxley (SOX), JCAHO and HIPAA. |
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Certification An LMS can
automatically track when certifications are expiring, and notify the learner in advance.
Upon completion, they can automatically prepare the proper certificate for printing. |
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How do Learning Management Systems help
me with Employee Development?
Learning Management Systems are
critical to your employee's development because they manage
and track learning programs with automated tools that
greatly enhance the capabilities of managers. LMS' enable excellent record keeping, which is
paramount to any learning endeavor, as well as providing many automated features such as notifications,
reminders and tracking compliance.
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Who else can benefit from a Learning
Management System?
The benefits of Learning Management
Systems go beyond employee training. Learning Management
Systems can be used to deliver information to partners,
customers, suppliers and resellers, at anytime and any
location worldwide. They help with corporate responsibility,
accountability and compliance by automatically documenting
important components of a learning curriculum.
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What types of learning can be managed by
a Hosted LMS Portal?
LMS managed training is web based and
can be delivered anywhere for any purpose:
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Self Paced e-Learning (online
training) |
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Classroom / seminars (offline training) |
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Virtual Classroom (live e-Learning over the
web) |
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What
is SCORM?
The Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a technical specification
that governs how online training (or “e-learning”) is created and delivered
to learners.
The essence of SCORM is that any content
that conforms to the SCORM specifications
will work with any SCORM conformant LMS. SCORM is
similar in concept to
the digital photographic standard, .JPG.
SCORM dictates the technical specifications for creating e-learning. SCORM allows you to create any type of learning content;
however it doesn’t specify
instructional design, pedagogical methods, visual appearance or anything else that affects
the educational experience.
SCORM was originated
by a US Department of Defense
organization called ADL. It is now widely
adopted and is the de facto industry
standard. The most
widely adopted version is SCORM 1.2.
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What are Learning Management Systems used for?
Companies use Learning Management
Systems to track a variety of training initiatives: sales
courses; educating clients, customers, and partners;
continuing education for managers; computer competency
courses; and required certification courses for technical
employees.
Nearly any type of knowledge transfer, training, learning,
or education will benefit from an LMS.
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Can an LMS be customized
to fit my precise training needs?
Our Portals are built from the ground
up to be an extremely flexible and extensible system.
Because of this, most companies can use the Portal
without any customization. When needed, we have
experts work to closely with you to custom-tailor the
Portal to meet your specific requirements.
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What are the system requirements?
Small Business Training Portals will
run on any computer with a standard browser. No plug-ins are required.
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How much does it cost?
Portals are sensibly
priced. The technology design allows
us to fit your budget for both the number of users and the specific features you
require.
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Should we purchase a license or a
Hosted LMS Portal?
We offer the LearningServer LMS in
both a premise-based license model, and a hosted model, and each decision is individual depending
on your needs and budget. With the LearningServer LMS you
can start with a hosted offering, and if your needs change, we will move your data to your
own premise-based LearningServer LMS when you are
ready.
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Why Select a Hosted
LMS Portal?
Independent studies show that outsourced Learning Management System (LMS)
systems have 10-30% lower Total Cost of Ownership. This same research finds that 21%
of enterprise-class Learning Management System (LMS) systems are now externally hosted and
31% of mid-market systems are externally hosted. With today's increase in bandwidth and availability
of "web-services," a hosted LearningServer LMS makes
more sense than ever.
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How long does a
Hosted LMS Portal take
to implement?
Portal setup is extremely quick. We can have your basic portal up and running
with branding in place, learners loaded, user names and passwords assigned within 24 hours.
More complex implementations require more time, usually measurable in days.
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