How Will an LMS Help Keep Your Business Running?

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LMS Helps Keep Your Business Running

For weeks now, COVID-19 has disrupted lives and impacted people all across the globe. The largest concern is people’s health, safety, and well-being. That’s why measures like social distancing, quarantine, and stay-at-home mandates are crucial. These actions, of course, have negative implications on businesses. New hire training and classroom education are both difficult and should be avoided. If you still have essential training to accomplish, a Learning Management System (LMS) can help you.

What is a Learning Management System?

A learning management system is an online platform used to deploy, host, and track online education. They’re used everywhere from elementary school to food service to the transportation industry. Sometimes, rather than completely replace in-person classroom education and training, they enhance it, offering a convenient location to host all company educational content. In the last decade, they’ve transitioned from a nice-to-have to an essential for organizations of any size.

Why Should You Invest in an LMS?

Regardless of your industry, size, or market, an LMS could yield many rewards for you. Here are just a few benefits of investing in an LMS:

  • Organization of company educational materials:  One of the best features of an LMS is it puts all of your company educational materials into one place. You, your trainers, and your employees will have easy access to all of your company’s education with just a few clicks.
  • Better learning outcomes: This is not true for all subjects, but an LMS can actually improve the learning process. We learn quicker, easier, and retain information longer when we seek it out on our own. It’s the adult learning concept of Discovery. An LMS can give some autonomy in the learning process to your employees.
  • Track employee progress, performance, and use:  With an LMS, you’ll be able to see who took what and when. If you use quizzes in your online lessons, you’ll be able to see who passed and what score they received. Most learning management systems allow you to easily access these reports.
  • Reduced employee education costs:  In-person training and education is expensive, time-consuming, and takes a lot of resources. Of course, sometimes it’s necessary. You can’t teach someone how to drive a bus unless you get them behind the wheel in a closed course. However, an LMS allows you to make the most of your trainer’s time. You’ll have the flexibility to only do in-person training when it really counts.
  • Flexibility on your employee’s end:  Not only will an LMS make your life easier; it will make your employees’ lives easier too. They can take training from any device, any place, and any time. And, they’ll be able to re-take any lesson or course that they have access to.