Features of a Successful LMS

It will be the most difficult task to choose the right LMS for publishing/uploading your eLearning contents. This is due to the reason that most of the time we look for open source technologies which often lead us to misunderstanding. Another reason for this is that here on the web, lots of open source LMSs are available which becomes hard to choose the right one from such a large verity. So here the question arises, that were to start surfing for online tools related to eLearning especially Learning Management System (LMS).  Here are few tips and tricks given in this post which will defiantly help you in the right selection of eLearning tool.

Following are the top three methods/strategies which you need to keep in mind before choosing LMS for eLearning contents:

1# Clear Your Learning Strategy

This should be your first priority to define your strategy. For this you need to spend some time on clearing your major goals of your eLearning contents. Means you are supposed to know that what is the major audience of your eLearning contents. For this you should consider:

  • What is the type of learning you are delivering?
  • When will this content be delivered?
  • Where you deliver your eLearning contents and courses?
  • What is the technology?
  • Your major learners and their age?

Once you clear these questions then it will be simple for you to go ahead to the next step.

2# What will be the Learning Method

Before publishing your eLearning contents and courses you have to ask a question from yourself and that is:

Do you know how your learners learn things from your published contents? And how they will engage with your contents?

To clear this step ask yourself few questions:

  • What will be the primary interaction of end users with the Learning Management System?
  • What they are looking for in their first attempt?
  • What should be not there in the course?
  • What is the type of device hey want to use LMS on?

These are few questions which will help you while choosing the right tool for your eLearning publishing for public access all over the world of web.

#3 Response to Users Feedback

Don’t get frustrated with the negative feedback from your audience. This is the responsibility of a good administrator to answer all the questions either negative or positive from the end users. Negative feedback is better for improvements. While on the other side positive feedback and response is best to improve morals. So try to answer each question coming from the end users side.