Learning Management Systems Explained

Every business needs to train their employees and Hexis Plus provides an excellent Learning Management System (LMS).

What is an LMS?
An LMS is a framework in which a training process adheres to. In this technology driven era, the education and business sectors have invested heavily in making courses available digitally. This allows for continuous updates and greater exposure.

What does a LMS do?
An LMS reduces day to day training expenditure and helps to analyse return on investment per department. It also helps to maximise efficiency and cost effectiveness by reducing the need for paper wastage and printing costs as well as allowing users to learn in their own time rather than through a traditional classroom environment.
Training needs to be structured and monitored and the LMS does this perfectly. An LMS provides:

• adaptabilty so that the course content can be tailored to specific company or industry requirements.
• translation into multiple languages – great for global companies.
• instant distribution and redistribution from a central location.
• personal development
• structured and monitored training.
• advanced level functionality.
• management and delivery of content.
• progress checks and assessments.
• supervisory information.
• automatic course registration and analysis.
• security and reporting tools.
• administration for free.
• human error prevention.

What can LMS be used for?
Many companies already use LMS for corporate training and we here at Hexis Plus have made our LMS a simple, professional, convenient, adaptable and upgradeable and our clients agree.
An LMS can be used for:

• compliance training.
• student managed learning
• self service training.
• online learning.
• performance management.
• competency.
• collaborative learning.
• online assessments.
• resource management training.
• continual professional education.
• career path planning.

What are the benefits for employers?
Business goals and legislation can alter but an LMS has allowed for this change in the information that needs to be presented in the course. It is easy to update and amend courses instantaneously and remotely.
The employer’s workers have independent control of their skills, know their potential is being recognised which energises them. Christopher Papass, founder of The ‘eLearning Industry’s Network’, claims that ‘99% of [...] respondents, [say] that the use of LMS has a positive impact on eLearning content and online training efficiency’. This includes:

• aiding staff retention.
• Staff satisfaction increases.
• productivity being optimised.
• workload for Human Resources being reduced.
• less I.T. input.
• reduced overheads.
• staff contentment being evident to customers.
• no travel or hotel stays are required for training accommodation.
• cloud technology compatibility.
• studying taking place on a device at any time, anywhere.
• setting deadlines and reminding learners about them.

Our expert team at Hexis Plus know that the use of LMS’s is rapidly increasing in popularity, offering optimum management, decreasing overheads and delivering effective resources.There has never been a better time to make your training digital so be a step ahead of rivals by using a Hexis Plus Learning Management System.

By Joanne Hayle