Learning Management Systems
A learning management system (LMS) is a software application that automates the administration, tracking, and reporting of training events. LMSs can cater to different educational, administrative, and deployment needs or requirements. While an LMS for corporate learning, for example, may share many characteristics with a LMS, or virtual learning environment, used by educational institutions, they each meet unique needs.
The virtual learning environment used by universities and colleges allow instructors to manage their courses and exchange information with students for a course that in most cases will last several weeks and will meet several times during those weeks. In the corporate setting a course may be much shorter, completed in a single instructor-led or online session.
An LMS does the following:
- Centralize and automate administration
- Allow user self-registration
- Collect payment for courses (e-commerce)
- Use self-service and self-guided content
- Assemble and deliver learning content rapidly
- Consolidate training initiatives on a scalable web-based platform
- Support portability and standards
- Personalize content and enable knowledge reuse
Auto Enrollment & E-Commerce Enabled LMS
Your site can produce revenue 24/7 with features like Auto Enrollment and E-Commerce. Auto Enrollment and E-Commerce work together to take all manual intervention out of your custom acquisition process.
Is your content valuable? Are there potential paying customers out there looking for your training content? Users will find your site, enroll in your system and pay for courses all by themselves. Need help connecting the dots and getting started? We can fill in the blanks and connect the dots for you. Our specialty is turning your training content into revenue.
Contact us to get started with an initial interview to determine your needs.
Why Open Source?
One of the most popular LMSs in the world is an Open Source LMS. An LMS is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its modular design means that administrators can develop custom solutions by choosing what options to implement. Additional product add-ons are available from many sources that contribute to LAMP Open Source projects.
Brightcore Consulting can administer and configure the LMS to use the following features and many more:
- Manage Users and Groups
- Create Courses and Classes
- Online Testing
- Outcome Based Testing
- Instructor Led Chat
- Unique User Profiles
- Detailed and Summary Reporting
- Completion Certificates
- Customized Graphics and Color Scheme
Our Open Source LMS is the most powerful LMS in the world. It will meet and exceed all your expectations as it moves your company forward with your training infrastructure needs.
SCORM Conformant Content
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment (commonly a function of a learning management system). SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file.
SCORM is a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which comes out of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense.
SCORM 2004 introduces a complex idea called sequencing, which is a set of rules that specifies the order in which a learner may experience content objects. In simple terms, they constrain a learner to a fixed set of paths through the training material, permit the learner to “bookmark” their progress when taking breaks, and assure the acceptability of test scores achieved by the learner.