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Tools for tracking digital learning: Learning management systems (LMS)

Tools for tracking digital learning: Learning management systems (LMS)

From the course: Converting Face-to-Face Training into Digital Learning

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Tools for tracking digital learning: Learning management systems (LMS)

- [Instructor] When you build digital learning, a video, online module, a virtual training, the stuff you build needs to live somewhere. Often it lives in a learning management system, or LMS. This is where learners log in to access the training. A learning management system is a complex software that does a number of things in addition to housing assets. It tracks your learner's performance. For example, you can run reports that tell you who completed what training, and how they scored on it. Tracking is especially important for compliance training, sexual harassment, diversity and inclusion, and so on. An LMS gives you data on how learners interacted with the content and what they thought of the learning experience. Common data points are the device learners used to access the training, how long they spent on a module, which quiz questions they missed. With most LMSs, you can also offer a survey to get the learner's…

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