Want to Make Training More Interesting and Effective? Try These 6 LMS Features

The days of spending hours in a windowless office conference room listening to a training lecture are long gone and thank goodness for that. With digital technology, companies can train employees with more engaging and efficient courses. Whether you want to add a digital element to existing courses or create digital-first training courses, an LMS platform facilitates engagement and makes training more effective.

The ExpertusONE digital LMS platform enables engaging learning so companies can train and equip their employees, partners, sales teams, and customers. With a digital LMS, training is personalized, specific, and efficient. Learners don’t waste time sitting through courses that aren’t relevant to their needs. Instead, they access training through a personalized profile that provides recommendations tailored to their needs and interests. Courses dispersed through an enterprise LMS are often shorter, more concise, and easier to digest, so learners can benefit from microlearning through an adaptable platform. In addition, learners can access training while they’re in the office or working remotely. Training is more effective when companies serve their learners with specific, tailored, adaptable learning experiences.

Administration is another key ingredient for creating interesting and effective training. If training managers can keep courses up-to-date, add interactive elements to classes, and follow up with employees, their learners will have better experiences. A digital LMS platform can gather critical insights about the learner experience with data reports and insights. These features help managers adapt training as needed to maximize ROI.

Whether you’re creating a new strategy from scratch or revamping your existing training strategy, here are six LMS features within the ExpertusONE platform that make training more practical and compelling.

1. Interaction Studio enables engagement with quizzes, polls, videos, and audio content.

Aptly named Interaction Studio is our all-inclusive engagement tool that companies can use to add interactive elements to courses. This feature includes multiple components and capabilities. With ExpertusONE’s Interaction Studio, course creators can upload video or audio files (MP4 video files or YouTube Links), add polls and quizzes throughout the course to test learner engagement, and quickly create engaging and interactive learning experiences. This rapid LMS authoring tool enables microlearning so managers can chop training into smaller, more digestible sessions. Learners are more likely to retain information when training is dispersed in smaller amounts.

2. Digital Content Player makes learning more streamlined and interesting.

Historically, many companies have incorporated video or audio elements into training. Still, they have done so through sharing links, requiring employees to download videos, or sending learners to look through the company’s library of training videos. These are inefficient ways to disperse training and can hinder the impact of learning overall. With ExpertusONE’s Digital Content Player, audio and video content plays directly within the mobile LMS app so that learners don’t have to seek out the course content and move away from the training system.

This enables another element of engaged learning while streamlining the training experience by keeping necessary components within the same system, platform, and application window. The LMS Digital Content Player also offers a breakdown of each training module so learners can easily see the required content and courses they must take. Learners can easily switch from a desktop to a mobile device as needed to continue training even outside the office.

3. Gamification encourages healthy competition among learners.

Here’s one simple way to make training more interesting: make it a game. Healthy competition at work can encourage camaraderie among employees. With ExpertusONE’s LMS gamification feature in the learners can track their training progress and compare it to their peers’ progress. The platform has a point and badge system that rewards learners for their training efforts. Companies can even adjust these badges and points to align with branding and initiatives.

Gamification makes training more exciting and can help motivate your team to stay on top of learning goals. A leaderboard with top-ranking learners can be displayed on the company’s training homepage to celebrate those learners who have gone above and beyond with their commitment to training.

4. The Observation Checklist helps learners and managers identify learning gaps.

ExpertusONE’s Observation Checklist tool helps learners and managers assess and understand the team’s skills and identify where training is needed. The system can be used for both digital and in-person training, providing another layer of efficiency. For example, compliance managers and instructors in the healthcare industry can use the Observation Checklist feature to record the critical competencies of team members. For skills that require hands-on training—like CPR—instructors can train the learner, observe their progress, and track competencies with the Observation Checklist feature so that the learner’s skills are recorded and stored in the LMS system.

5. Meetings within the LMS platform encourage social learning.

Meetings can be a necessary part of the corporate training process, especially when learners may need to go over complex topics or talk through specific processes with managers. ExpertusONE’s Meetings feature enables managers and learners to schedule and host meetings within the digital LMS platform. There are multiple benefits of having an LMS with video conferencing.

First, it reduces the number of applications needed to complete a training task and streamlines the learning experience. Second, managers can easily schedule meetings with their entire team and clarify that the topic will be related to training. Third, the platform records meetings, and managers can easily convert these meetings into new courses. For example, a sales coach may want to meet with sales team members to work through a new sales strategy or practice pitching. The coach can schedule a one-on-one session with a learner through the ExpertusONE LMS and then, after the session, convert the recording into a new course that other sales team members can use to learn from. This maximizes the effectiveness of every training initiative—one-on-one coaching or large-scale courses—and ensures that they are helpful in multiple ways.

6. Insights about training, certifications, and compliance reveal learning progress.

Finally, companies can create more interesting and effective training by running data reports and studying the numbers. With a digital LMS platform, it’s easy for training managers and company executives to get a picture of the impact of their training initiatives. They can use the ExpertusONE Insights feature to search for essential training data easily, run reports, and take the temperature of overall organization compliance. This LMS reporting feature helps companies get a close-up look at their investment in training and determine if it has been effective. If not, companies can quickly adjust and adapt to create a more effective strategy.

If you want to make training more valuable and compelling, invest in LMS software and prioritize these six features. If you offer your learners interactive courses, a healthy sense of competition, and personalized learning experiences, your team will be more engaged with corporate training. Companies can leverage digital training technology to facilitate engagement so that their learning and development strategy offers the best ROI. With the ExpertusONE LMS, creating engaging, interactive, and effective courses for your employees, sales team, partners, and customers is easy.

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