What Features You Should Look For In Your Corporate eLearning LMS
If you’re on the lookout for a new Learning Management System for your internal corporate learning, it can be hard to know what to look for.
Today, we’re going to talk about some of the top features you want to keep an eye out for when you’re shopping around for a corporate eLearning LMS to ensure you get the best system for your business.
1. Built-In Reporting
Reporting is a key element of any Learning Management System, but it will be particularly important if you are running corporate eLearning and you want to keep track of your employees and their training.
LMS reporting will allow you to get an overview of all the employees in your business, and how they are getting on with their training, which will be particularly handy if your business is quite large and would, therefore, be quite hard to keep track of.
Once all your employees are set up, you can use reporting to see what progress has been made through the courses they are signed up to, as well as check if the courses have been finished before any deadlines you have set to your team.
You can also keep track of things like mini-assessment results to ensure your staff is getting to grips with the material they are being taught.
Having a quick and easy way to check on the progress of your whole workforce will also be great for your training administration team, and for individual team managers so as to get a detailed overview of how their specific team is doing.
2. Custom eLearning Content
If you are using your corporate LMS to run training that is very specific to your business, then it’s vital that your new LMS allow you to upload custom content instead of having to use some pre-made off-the-shelf content.
Some of the courses you offer could be quite generic, such as first aid, but for more business-specific courses it’s vital that you can create your own custom content to ensure that your staff is getting the exact training that they need.
Being able to use custom content will also mean you are able to make changes to the content and re-upload it whenever you need to. This is useful if you notice mistakes, or you just want to add or remove content to a course.
3. Integrate With Internal Systems
If you’re using your LMS for internal training, it may be handy to be able to integrate your LMS with some of your internal systems to make everything nice and organized.
For example, you may want to integrate it with your current HR system, which will enable you to store everyone’s current training records alongside the rest of their employee information, so everything is in one place and easy to find.
You may also want to be able to pull the data through into your main reporting system so you can compare the data you collect from your LMS with data from the rest of your business seamlessly, without lots of exporting and importing.
4. Easy To Use
A big thing to look for in your corporate LMS is a system that is easy to use.
First of all, you want it to be easy to set up so that your internal training team can get everything up and running with ease. If you’re asking your entire business to learn how to use a new system at the same time, this can create a lot of problems if the system is complicated and hard to use. Try and make it as simple as possible, or your internal training team will likely spend all day answering questions!
It’s also important that it’s easy to use when working through the training courses, as your staff will be doing it in their own time, at their own pace, so you don’t want anything to slow them down and waste their time.
5. Online Assessments
The last key feature we think you need to look for in your corporate LMS is the ability to run online assessments. If all your course information is taught online through eLearning, then ideally you want to do your assessments online as well.
This is a good idea for the following reasons:
- Staff will be completing the courses at their own pace, and therefore can just do the assessment whenever they finish, rather than waiting to sit the assessment in a group.
- You don’t have to coordinate group assessment sessions, which could take a lot of time to plan, and will take a lot of people away from their work at the same time.
- Easy to arrange resits as they can just be completed online again.
- Results will be automatically pulled into your reporting system without any additional manual work.
