What Makes a Good Learning Management System?
Gone are those days, wherein the quality of education used to be the only parameter vetting the contribution of schools and colleges. Today, we live in an age wherein, along with the quality of education, factors such as the admission process, fee management, etc., prove equally decisive in determining the competence of a particular school or a college and play an instrumental role in its success. But modern-day competency demands technology adoption and leveraging its capabilities to survive and thrive amidst competition and become a distinct education partner.
By leveraging technology, we refer to deploying an efficient and sustainable learning management system! Learning management systems, also known as LMS, are exclusively designed to simplify and accelerate many otherwise daunting tasks. Accordingly, an LMS should have a few essential features that make it competitive and useful enough to deliver value to the educational institutions that use it. So, let us look at a few features that make up for a good LMS.
Features of an Excellent Learning Management System
1. Comprehensive Classroom Management
Classroom management enables teachers to manage every crucial aspect of live virtual classrooms, such as running video lectures, showing presentations, images, sharing screens, etc. Further, it also helps teachers manage routine activities such as student attendance and classroom schedules, thus increasing the efficiency of live online classes.
2. Bulk Data Upload
Uploading the data of thousands of students one by one isn’t just time-consuming but affects the institution’s productivity in its entirety, let alone the manual errors that may take place during the process. Accordingly, a good LMS allows administrators to upload the data of all existing students in bulk. It enables institutions to set parameters based on which they can see the required information on the portal. This saves time, energy and also minimizes errors.
3. Student Admission/ Enrollment Management
A quick, seamless and efficient student enrollment process is a solid indicator of the competencies of an educational institution. In this view, a professional LMS expedites and simplifies the student admission process through end-to-end digitization. Additionally, it also provides timely updates and confirmation about admissions to students and parents.
4. Video Upload
Video learning forms an integral aspect of the modern-day online education system. Accordingly, the video upload feature of a competent LMS enables teachers to upload as many videos and video lectures as they want and also allows students to view them anytime and anywhere through their laptops, mobile phones, desktop, etc.
5. Online Fee Collection and Management
Online fee collection and management is another significant area that LMSs serve. Deploying a comprehensive LMS provides pending fee reminders to both the administrators and parents, sends upcoming fee payment alerts, shares secure payment links, facilitates online fee collection, and notifies the fee payer when the fee is paid successfully.
6. Online Content Creation and Management
One of the most crucial features of a good learning management system is that it enables teachers to create classroom-wise, batch-wise, and subject-wise content online and that too in multiple formats, including videos, audios, text, pictures, etc. Additionally, it allows them to update, upgrade, modify, and delete content based on its contextual relevance anywhere and anytime.
7. PDF Upload
With this feature, teachers can upload as many PDFs of varying file sizes as they want and enable student access to those PDF files for learning purposes.
8. Efficient Doubt Management
The doubt management feature helps teachers answer topic-wise, chapter-wise doubt resolution, store them in the system, and let students and teachers refer to them and access them easily as and when required.
9. Students’ Sign-Up Link
This feature, in a way, relieves administrators from the cumbersome process of managing admissions manually. Instead, it enables them to create a student sign-up link. Students can click on the link and enroll. Further, the LMS should be able to integrate well with any payment gateway and facilitate secure payment links to ensure seamless payments.
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