It will be a headache if you are exploring new LMSs for your eLearning contents. It is not a simple tsk, you may need a lot of work and research. In one way it may be a simple task as there is a huge verity available in LMS out here on the web. Choosing an LMS will be the toughest task in the eLearning course creation. So how to start hunting for the right tool? It is the most important question and if you answer it in the right way then more than 80% of your problems will be solved completely. Here in this article few things are discussed which will help you in choosing a right learning management system for your business.
Look on Functionalities not on the Features
There may be unlimited features in LMS, but what you need, this is important to look before choosing LMS. Make list of the most important that you need from LMS then discuss this with your friends, stockholders as well as with other interested people in the learning platform. Choose learning management system with maximum functionalities rather than features. This is the feature of a good LMS to provide you the maximum features and focus on functional success.
Keep End User in Mind
Your focus should be on the learners and how they might engage and interact with your published contents. Engaging end users is one of the important task in the eLearning industry and this can be done through choosing the right LMS. Before choosing LMS ask some questions from yourself like:
- How much it is friendly?
- What are important to learner point of view?
- What devices they might use your published contents on?
- What things make learners frustrated?
After answering all these questions, then just look on the user’s experience and not on your administrator’s.
Engage Your Internal Stakeholders
It is important to evolves all the interested people in your content lifecycle. You have to focus on primary users including end users and your stakeholders (directly or indirectly interested with your project). Choose LMS while keeping this point in your mind that your LMS should be easy for all the stakeholders to handle and use.
Be Clear on Learning Strategy
Make this your first priority. Spend lots of time creating complete and wide strategies for your organization and eLearning contents. Make up to date strategies and focus on long term goals. Consider few things like:
- What is the nature of learning you are delivering?
- When, where and how to deliver learning?
- Will your strategies be up to date or not?
- Selection process of LMS is right or not?
