5 Types of Content You Can Deliver Through Your LMS

 If you're thinking of buying an LMS system for your company, you might want content that will keep your customers coming back. In this article, we'll look at five online learning sources.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) offer quick and simple delivery of training. A lot of companies enter this market without a content strategy. It's important to plan carefully when setting up a training platform. Otherwise, your platform may fail quickly.

An analogy I like is Facebook: If it didn't regularly update with new comments, photos, and videos, fewer people would go on it.

The same is true for LMSs. Once learners log in and access the content, they need to stay engaged with new and frequently updated content.

What is a Learning Management System?

LMS is a SaaS (software as a service) that works as an online classroom. Distance learning was made possible by this system. It enables students and teachers to interact in a virtual environment. The pedagogical portion refers to the educational approach that guides the computer's development, such as how students "relate" to it.

An LMS lets instructors offer online courses. Students can use the platform to access materials and other resources to support learning, like chats. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are tools that help you do distance learning. Its main purpose is to make online learning and teaching possible.

Thanks to the growth of eLearning, Learning Management Systems have millions of students and are helping more and more people get an education.

How does Learning Management Systems work?

To be a virtual classroom, the software must provide the resources to promote this. All LMSs have both a technological and educational component. The technological component consists of the implementation and management aspects of a course. This includes passwords, content publishing (monitoring access), performance reporting, chats, and passwords.

Using different media and resources, you can use the Learning Management System to make your classes more engaging and dynamic.

Among its features are tools to facilitate interaction between students, teachers, and peers and the exchange of information and resources available for use.

Learning Management Systems: Who Uses Them?

LMSs may be used by anyone looking for new knowledge, professionals who want to start a business, or companies seeking to make their employees more productive and efficient.

There are generally two types of users.

• Students - Anyone interested in online learning to gain new knowledge or to further their studies. Employees in training need to learn company policies or acquire new skills.
• Instructors - An educator creates and maintains teaching materials for a subject and teaches students individually. In a corporate setting, a manager might be responsible for the content of a course.

The following are five types of content you can upload to your LMS. The following list is arranged in order of speed of implementation.

1. Off-the-Shelf Training:

You can deliver high-quality content to learners with off-the-shelf training. These courses are often of high quality and can be downloaded from the vendor's site. Once uploaded to your LMS, you can test and launch.

Depending on the topic, these courses can be pricey. You might want to consider a bulk purchase offer if you're delivering lots of courses.

2. Recorded webinars:

Your LMS can store recorded sessions if you offer training and product demonstrations via webinars.

You can record webinars on many platforms. The final product can look very professional if the presenter uses a high-quality microphone. Once you have recorded the webinar, you can upload it immediately to the LMS. By breaking down the webinar into smaller segments, you can make the user experience better. An hour-long WebEx can be broken down into 12 x 5-minute videos.

You could add quiz questions to each module using the LMS assessment function to make it more interactive.

Although this is not the best form of online training, this method can produce beneficial content very quickly.

3. Recorded Face to Face Training

A quick way to make content that doesn't take time is to record live training. In the past, this technique has been successfully used in the induction process for new employees of the company. In the past, inductions were only done face-to-face. You can set up HD video cameras so employees at satellite offices can watch the induction live.

You can also use a lapel microphone to maximize the quality of your final production. This allows you to capture better voiceovers than you could have if you had used a video camera.

Two video cameras can be installed so that the learner could move from one camera to the other. You can record slides with the screen capture software. This will improve the quality of the recording. Software such as these allows you to capture three angles using high-quality audio. As with the webinar recording example, it is good to break down this recording into smaller modules. You can also add interactivity by adding quiz questions at the end of each module with some development.

4. Outsourced Bespoke eLearning

If creating content takes up a lot of your time, you can obviously outsource an eLearning course to someone who will do it for you. Training may be available in many formats or none at all. A specialist from another company may help you transform your ideas and content into interactive e-learning courses.

This production method has the advantage that you don't have to develop the content. This method has its downsides.

5. Develop e-learning internally

In addition to creating your own content, you can add it directly to your LMS. This takes the most time and is best done within your company.

An instructional designer should create storyboards around SME materials. To turn the content into an engaging course, you will need to be proficient in rapid authoring software.

Many companies have tried to create eLearning courses using Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline. They mistakenly thought that creating a course was similar to creating a PowerPoint presentation. It is possible, but it is rare to see a company achieve this without investing in specialists, internal instructional design, or eLearning development capability.

Next steps

You may need to consider which types of content and how you want it to be implemented in your company's LMS.

It's easy to underestimate how much time it takes to create a piece of content that is effective. Do not fall for the false belief that implementing an LMS or eLearning course will solve all your training problems. Contact SeekLMS for more information.