Learning Management System

The Learning Management System or LMS is a kind of software application meant for the documentation, reporting and tracking of the training programs, administration, online and classroom events, training content and e-learning programs. The duties of a robust learning management system are:

• Automate and centralize administration

• Use self-guided services and self-services

• Support standards and portability

• Rapidly deliver and assemble the learning content

• Combine the initiatives of training on a web-based scalable platform

• Enable the knowledge reuse and personalize the content

Learning management system varies from the systems for educational records and managing training for distributing various courses online with attributes for the online collaboration. Corporate training process use this process to automate the employee registration and record-keeping process. The various dimensions of Learning management system are: training work flow, student self-service, provision of the on-line learning, management of CPE or Continuous Professional Education, online assessment, training resource and collaborative learning management.

Some of the Learning management systems also include: PMS or Performance Management System that encompass: competency management, employee appraisals, succession planning, multi-rater assessments and analysis of the skills-gap. Several performance and learning management systems also include reward and recruitment functionality for the commercial market.

Various web-based Learning management systems facilitate the access to administration and learning content which are used by the regulated industries. These systems are also used by the educational institutions to support and enhance the process of offering courses to the learners around the world and for classroom teaching.