Learning Management System

In a world where access to information is the key to staying competitive, organisations rely on their people continually learning new skills, crafting innovative solutions to changing circumstances and staying informed and responsive.

By using this interactive learning management system to team the knowledge in your organisation with development and delivery technologies, you can achieve strategic goals, cost-effective training, secure distributed access to information - nationally and internationally, comprehensive learning management, demonstrable efficiencies and certifiable results.

This powerful course management system allows learning administrators to enter an unlimited number of courses and students on the database. The system can be deployed on a LAN, Intranet or the Internet, effectively managing thousands of students and courses.

Administrators can assign courses to students or students to courses. Logs are kept of scores and other student activity.

The system includes:
- E-mail communication between administrators and students;
- Built-in threaded discussion groups.


Learning Management System
The Learning Management System is designed to manage the process of delivering training and education over the Internet, including:

- Managing organisations and members;
- Designing and developing assessments, and managing content;
- Managing student access to lessons;
- Monitoring student progress and tracking scores;
- Enabling a collaborative learning environment; and
- Generating management reports to track learning effectiveness.

Users interact with the Learning Management System using their web browser.

Once logged in, a student can:
- take or resume assessments;
- view and modify personal information;
- view reports;
- open assigned material; and
- send messages.

The Learning Management System records student activity in a database. Administrators, once logged in, are able to create and manage content, create interactive assessments, review lesson activity, search for members and generate reports. The Learning Management System uses access privileges to secure confidential student and course information. The Learning Management System client/server architecture is designed to scale with the growth of an organisation.

Interactive Learning
Technology has changed the way we live, work, think and learn. Today's workforce has to process more information in a shorter amount of time. New products and services are emerging with accelerating speed. As production cycles and life spans of products continue to shorten, information and training quickly become obsolete. Training managers feel the urgency to deliver knowledge and skills more rapidly and efficiently whenever and wherever needed. In the age of just-in-time production, just-in-time training becomes a critical element to organisational success.

Delivery
An important part of planning an interactive learning application is deciding how to deliver it to your users. Perhaps more so than any other type of learning environment, an online application represents an intersection of content, form and function. Developing an application that works the way you intended and that successfully delivers content requires the joining of many diverse skills. Careful planning and project management, mastery of the material to be presented, an understanding of the technical development issues, a good aesthetic sense, and a thoughtful approach to the use of design elements and special effects is needed.

When you compare interactive learning with traditional classroom training, interactive learning has many advantages. One advantage is cost savings. Corporations and schools often need to stretch funds while maintaining high-quality training programmes. The cost of developing, distributing and maintaining an interactive learning application is often much less than the cost of an instructor-led training programme. Online learning can help organisations get the most out of their budgets and can add valuable learning tools and techniques.

Another advantage to interactive learning is the ability to update any topic in your published content and deliver the results instantly over the Internet or an Intranet. Now all of your learning material can be up-to-date without the expense of reprinting a book, storing inventory or manually distributing an update.

In an online course, you can deliver an unlimited number of colourful graphics and special effects that direct the attention to the important points in the learning material. Students can interact with new material right away, by answering practice questions and determining their own learning pace.

Contact Sound Idea today to arrange a demo of Learningmanager.
Tel: 012 664 4227
email: info@soundidea.co.za