Enterprise LMS Features to Transform Your Approach To Enterprise Learning

The Modern Learning Management System (LMS) has revolutionized corporate learning and development, making employee training easier for human resources (HR). LMS makes corporate training efficient and cost-effective by centralizing the hosting of learning modules and providing round-the-clock access to learners from anywhere. LMS also enables companies to customize and personalize according to the needs of the organization or based on employee job requirements. This helps improve learning outcomes and enhances employee engagement.

Below, we analyze some of the top features of an LMS which can transform your outlook towards enterprise learning.

Customization to enhance user experience

Legacy LMS offers limited customization, making it difficult to modify a User Interface (UI) or create a custom branded learning environment. The lack of good user experience leads to a poor online learning experience, resulting in a lack of interest among learners. 

Modern LMS, on the other hand, enables you to customize user interfaces to enhance user experience, making it easy for employees to understand the features and navigate the platform. The customization features of LMS ensure that the system meets your requirements, thereby optimizing efforts and cost for platform management. In a dynamic business environment, as organization learning needs change rapidly, the customization features help you modify the platform to meet your specific requirements.

Gamification to improve engagement and learning outcome

The in-built gamification of LMS helps in making corporate training more engaging and fun, encouraging greater involvement from employees. Gamification helps to increase employee interest levels and improves knowledge retention by adding a sense of competitiveness that benefits individuals as well as organizations.

• Points

LMS can be configured to create conditions or occasions wherein learners can earn points.  These conditions could be, for instance, completion of course modules or receiving upvotes for their comments on the discussion board.

• Levels

You can incorporate levels in your online learning programs by assigning simpler learning modules or courses to the basic levels and more difficult ones higher levels. A Learner would need to perform at a declared level of proficiency to unlock higher levels and become eligible to enroll in those courses.

•  Badges

Badges can be awarded to learners on reaching pre-defined milestones; those with a higher number of badges will appear on top of the leaderboards. Badges help add elements of prestige and honor in training, encouraging them to strive to improve.

• Leaderboard

The visibility of the leaderboard on employees’ LMS can help drive engagement as it motivates them to earn more points and badges to get to the top of the leaderboard.

Thus, a gamified LMS enables you to add challenges to help employees develop their problem-solving skills and sharpen innovation capabilities.  This allows managers to easily see those that are upskilling themselves which can add a level of prestige and pride for the employee.

Social media tools to aid learning and development

With social networks becoming an integral part of our everyday lives, incorporating social media features in LMS has become a necessity.  LMSs enable you to add social media tools to your corporate training in order to aid learning and enhance user engagement.  

Here’s how social media tools can be leveraged to enhance collaboration, engagement, and knowledge-sharing among employees:

• Messaging forum – A forum provides a means for learners with common interests to connect and collaborate. It is a quick way for learners to solve their problems and learn from each other, leading to shorter learning curves.
• Blogs – Blogs can serve as an effective means for organizations to disseminate knowledge and updates to all employees at once. Blogs can also be effectively used to engage employees by inviting them to write posts on specific topics. It helps them initiate discussions among peers, adding value to the company’s knowledge base.

Further, social media engagement tools, such as like and sharing buttons, also encourage trainee participation and help you assess their engagement. This way, the social feature improves interactivity and converts learners from passive observers to active participants. 

Personalization to align individual and organizational goals

Personalized learning helps improve learning outcomes and aligns employees’ personal aspirations with the organization’s goals and requirements.  

LMSs enable you to create personalized learning tracks by considering employee–client commitments, learning abilities, and skill upgrade requirements. LMSs also match individual learning aspirations with the organization’s skills requirements to create a customized learning plan. 

Further, the availability of employee training and work performance data helps create a tailor-made learning experience. As more data becomes available with the application of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Virtual and Augmented Realities, personalized learning gets further impetus. 

Performance-tracking tools for effective assessment

LMS offers you tools that can help you monitor and track learner progress and the overall success of programs. You can create customized assessments modules, quizzes to evaluate learner progress, and share metrics to keep them updated. You can also use tracking tools to help trainees compare their performance with their peers, motivating them to perform better.

Modern LMSs help you organize and store data on multiple aspects of learning, unlike the legacy LMS that has limited data storage and analysis capabilities. Today’s LMS enables you to monitor learner progress will drill down into minute details, such as the number of modules completed, test and quizzes participation, test scores, and engagement metrics. At an organization level, you can assess training performance using metrics such as user counts, course completion percentages, and more.  

Access Management

Remote work and learning have expanded organizations’ LMS scope to cover more training and a greater number of employees. The user base of today’s LMS consists of employees at different levels in an organization, contractual employees, and may also include third-party users such as customers, external consultants, and employees that are yet to be onboarded. 

A diversified user base requires proper access and rights management to ensure that employees access content according to their roles and training requirements. LMS will help you manage effective control over the user base to prevent unauthorized access to programs and content. 

Security

Legacy LMS is typically a central repository for organization knowledge and proprietary content. Besides, employees’ personal and professional information is stored in databases which can be accessed by them and other users remotely. This raises the risk of cyberattacks and malware. 

Modern LMSs, however, come with advanced security features such as SSO (Single Sign-On), advanced password authentication, data encryption, antivirus, and antispam protection, enabling you to operate your online learning ecosystem securely. In a fiercely competitive environment where trained resources are scarce, employees are the key asset of an organization. A good LMS will ensure that the confidentiality of your employees is maintained by limiting access to skills credentials and performance metrics. 

Conclusion

If your organization is looking to match and align company skills requirements with the enterprise training programs, a good Learning Management System (LMS) can help you achieve this. It can help you enhance employees’ learning experiences and engagement levels by including advanced features and tools. A well-configured LMS can take your enterprise training success to the next level and generate a better return on investment (ROI) for your organization. If you are yet to implement an LMS, there is no time like the present—especially since remote learning and working has now become the rule rather than the exception.