LMS Success: Steps to Implement and Administer Your Learning Management System
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Transcript of LMS Success: Steps to Implement and Administer Your Learning Management System
With Katrina Baker, Resources of Fun Learning
LMS SUCCESS: SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPLEMENT & MANAGE YOUR LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Based on book LMS Success!
Available on Amazon.
“It’s an informative (and amusing) guide to selecting, implementing and administering an LMS.”
“This book should be given to all employees who are involved in the LMS decision making process, even in the midst of the implementation.”
Excerpts from Amazon.com Reviews
Selecting and Implementing Your LMS
Assembling Your Administrator Team
Types of Training Content and Course Content CreationMaintaining the System and Handling Technical Issues
Realize the Value of Your LMS
Our Class Agenda
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Selecting Your LMS
• What are leadership's goals for the LMS?• How many employees or students do you have? What is your
projected growth?• Will all of your employees have access to the LMS? • Will your company be delivering most classes through an online
format?
Take stock of your company’s current and future needs.
• Are they successful, offering other products, have a good reputation? • Walk through the “standard user experience.”• Is the LMS company willing to customize your system? In what ways? • How long will it take to build your system and make it available to
employees?• How easily can you transfer existing training data into the new LMS?
Research Learning Management System companies.
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Security & Network Considerations
Security• Is your level of security
appropriate for the content that will be stored in the LMS?
• Are you going to maintain the LMS on your own server, or use the LMS company's server?
Network• Do all of your employees have e-
mail addresses or ID numbers?• Do you want employees to access
this content from home, or only on the company network?
• How will your LMS interact or link to existing company systems?
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Selecting & Implementing: Common Concerns
How do I use the LMS home page to effectively market company training
programs?
How do I “market” the LMS to employees so they accept the system?
Where am I going to find administrators, content designers, and programmers?
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Assembling Your Administrator Team
Traits of an Ideal AdministratorHighly
Analytical
Excellent Multi-Tasker
Technical Backgroun
d
Customer Service Skills
Patience & Sense of Humor
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Determining Admin Team Structure
Recruit a Lead Super Administrat
or and Back-Up
Define how many levels of admins
are needed
Define the tasks
associated with each
role
How will you train
your admins?
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Tips for Communicating with the Admin Team
Create a list of tasks performed on an ongoing
basis
Create a list of development
projects
Check-in procedure for
remote admins
Create a list of responsibilities
and deadlines for each high-level
admin
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Admin Team: Common Concerns
How can I minimize the amount of time spent maintaining the LMS?
How do I get supervisors on board with training and the LMS?
Who can I hire to train my admins?
I’m not sure what tasks to give my admins, or how to lead them effectively.
I don’t have employees who fit the bill of an “ideal admin.”
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Types of Course Content & Course Creation Resources
Types of Course Content and Resources
Videos
Documents
Interactive Games
Assessments & Surveys
Virtual Classes
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Course Content Considerations
Formatting Consideratio
ns
• HTML 5 vs. Flash-based• SCORM, AICC, API Tin Can, etc.• Mobile device compatibility• Load time
Legal Consideratio
ns
• Electronic Signatures• ADA Guidelines & Accessibility• Differences in laws throughout
company territory• Careful wording – “exam” vs.
“assessment”
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Course Content: Common Concerns
I need help with course creation!
Yikes! Can someone help me choose software?
What are some ways I can be sure my trainings are as accessible as possible?
How do I know that I am choosing the ideal format for my trainings?
How can I ensure that my trainings comply with the law?
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Maintaining the System & Handling Technical Issues
Regular Maintenance
Set course creation
guidelines
Set data entry procedure
Enter data in a timely manner
Training data audits
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Planning for System Failures
Who are your resources during a system outage?
When the system is down, how quickly do you need it back up?
Create back-ups of system data.
Create a “paper version” of course content.
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Technical Issues: Common Concerns
What are some ways I can decrease the number of questions about common technical issues?
I wish I could have help in performing training data audits.
How do I help my technology-challenged employees adjust to a computer-based training environment?
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Realize the Value of Your LMS
Five Clever Ways to Use Your LMS
Deliver classes to a broad base of employees. Keep up with
company growth.
Ensure compliance
courses, such as harassment trainings, are automatically assigned and completed on
time.
Make it easier for employees
to find and register for upcoming
instructor-led classes.
Auto-assign a curriculum for
new employees so they can
start learning immediately.
Create competition by
releasing training stats by
team every quarter.
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Make Your LMS an Important Company Tool
Determine what "training success" looks like in relation to your LMS.
Incorporate transcripts into job evaluations.
Link promotions to completion of certain courses.
Provide a list of electives that
employees can take when there
is down time.
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Utilize LMS Features
Scorecards that advertise your employees’ training accomplishments to leadership
A catalog of increasingly challenging courses on a variety of subjects
Auto-assigned curricula
Courses and assessments that “reassign” until employees accomplish a certain grade
Automatic/recurring reports to track progress of your training initiatives
More info at: ROFL411.com© 2013 Resources of Fun Learning
Thank you for attending!Questions? Please e-mail the instructor directly at [email protected]. We appreciate your feedback!
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