The learning management system (LMS) helps you to study from your home, there is a great need for it in today’s world. In this article, you will get to know what is LMS, how it works, its example, and its uses after COVID 19 pandemic.
Definition of Learning management system: A learning management system is basically a software application by which you can manage all the activity of the education for example you can provide online courses, report the online courses, administer the online course, etc.
All the things you need to provide to learners for proper e-learning is managed by a learning management system.
Taking the example of a school, if you have to run a school properly, you need proper classroom, teachers, staff, infrastructure, and ahead who is taking charge of all the activity which is to be done, so if you want to do all these by any software, that software is simply known as Learning management system.
The work of LMS is not limited to providing information to students but to increase the overall experience of the learner and teacher.
Types of learning management platforms:
Enterprise LMS: These are types of software that are those which are used by any big company (enterprise), which has more than 500 employees. In this type of multiple in build, features are there to fulfill any type of need of the company.
Individual LMS: It is a kind of software that is used by a small scale industry or by one individual. Generally, it has various subscription plans so that one can take a subscription to that plan which fits in his/her need.
free LMS: These are free and available free to all so that everybody can use them and enjoy the free facility. In the world, not everybody has the privilege to use paid software especially students so need these types of learning management systems for their study so these are very helpful to the student.
Commercial LMS: These are other types of systems. To use them, you have to pay some amount of money to use them. These are used by those people who need some unique features in their learning management system.
SAAS LMS: SAAS (software as a service) LMS are those which use cloud storage therefore it is also called a cloud learning management system.
These are very helpful because you have very limited storage in your devices so if you need more storage this type of LMS helps a lot.
You can say that in the future these types of software are going to be used by many organizations.
Following are a list of some best learning management system:
Google Classroom: Google Classroom is a free LMS provided by Google. It is very useful for students and teachers, as by it teachers not only do online classes but also can transfer files.
Schoology: It is also a good learning management system, where you can create lesson plans and can give assignments to the students.
Powerschool LMS: It is a kind of software that has a facility of asynchronous type of e-learning. It is not a free learning management system.
Moodle: It is a type of free learning management system. It is also an open-source LMS so anyone can make their own private website.
Blackboard: As the name suggests blackboard is also a kind of LMS. It is also a free platform where you can use a digital blackboard (actually whiteboard) and can teach to students as you teach in a classroom by use of a black or whiteboard.
How LMS works
The following are some features by which learning management system works:
1.Learning portals: There are many learning portals in an LMS by which it provides many courses to students.
There is the main portal and many sub portals in a good LMS so that anyone can use this type of software with ease.
2. Management of courses: By this feature, an LMS manages all the courses which are provided by and there is no hotchpotch in different types of courses provided by any LMS example videos, pdf file, images, etc should be there in a proper sequence.
3. LMS makes you a brand: If you have your business so using a learning management system is one the way to increase your brand value. You can upload your logo, brand color, image, etc in LMS which you are using to attract your targeted audience and hence increase your brand value.
4. LMS can do automation: A good learning management system can do many things for you such as an automation process, for example, if you are using this type of system for your school and want to give free books to those students who are regularly taking part in quiz competitions so there is no need to do anything. Your LMS can do this automatically by your command.
Way to use a learning management system:
The way to use LMS is to provide education to school students by school.
By LMS you can ask students to join various activities such as quiz, drawing composition, etc. by using their computer or mobile.
You create small games in the learning management system to make the student understand the topic. Student can play the game and can learn by playing these games
LMS can be used by many companies to conduct many types of conferences in which you have to explain many things.
Advantages of learning management system:
The following are some major advantages of the learning management system
Learn from your location: You can learn by learning management from your location so even if you are traveling then also you can continue your study without taking any leave or break with the help of LMS.
Save your time: You can save your time by using a learning management system because, if you use LMS then there is no need to go anywhere to take education which saves your time
Increase your personality level: Using LMS automatically improves your typing speed, you get to know how to use computers.
You save your time by using such systems so you can learn extra skills at that time which level up your personality.
After COVID 19 what are the requirements of LMS in the education system?
As we know the covid19 virus is very dangerous so we can’t let our children go to school in this pandemic.
To overcome such problems we need an online system to provide education to our kids so that we can make our kids educated at home. A learning management system can be helpful in many ways to provide home education to students.
The following are some reasons which describe the need LMS in our education system:
1. To protect our students from the covid19 virus: To educate today’s kids in a pandemic time we have to create a system by which we can provide education to all students without putting students in danger.
2. To compensate for the study loss during a lockdown: As we all know during lockdown period schools were closed due to which there is a great loss of study of the student.
To compensate, we need a good learning management system by which we can cover the course of the student as fast as possible.3. To provide uninterrupted education to students for a pandemic: If any kind of pandemic is going to come then there should be such a system like a learning management system so that, if lockdown is needed so there should be no interruption in the education of our students.
Conclusion: In the above article I have described all about the learning management system, how it works, and what are requirements of LMS after COVID 19. I hope you understand all the things discussed by me in the article.
