The Six Biggest Challenges in LMS Implementation
According to research by Bersin and Associates, Learning Management
System users have ranked their top six challenges to successfully implementing a Learning Management
System. Because we have over 2,000 installations serving millions of learners in more than
42 countries, we know first-hand what the challenges are, and have pioneered best practices
in each area to provide our clients with time-tested solutions they can rely on.
# 1 - Customizations of the System
Our Approach
The LearningServer Learning Management System includes a comprehensive
control panel that enables point-and-click configuration capability so our clients
are able to refine the LearningServer LMS to meet their individual needs quickly, with no need
for any technical assistance.
The LearningServer LMS also provides
Administrators via an easy to understand web based interface, the ability to create and modify
categories, curriculum, career paths, course catalogs, tests, assessments, surveys, upload
courses, run reports, and virtually all other functions within the system.
If you need even more, you can easily leverage the built-in system
extensibility to tailor virtually every relevant aspect of the LearningServer LMS.
# 2 - Content Integration
Our Approach
Because we have over 2,000 implementations
serving millions of learners in over 42 different countries, we are expert in integrating content
within the LearningServer LMS. We support SCORM and AICC content from every leading
manufacturer available in the market today. We also have built-in diagnostics to provide specific
reports to assist the content development team to rapidly troubleshoot any content integration
difficulties. We are also expert in supporting all the major 3rd party content authoring tools.
# 3 - Integration with HRIS
Our Approach
The LearningServer LMS approaches
this challenge in three ways.
1) The LearningServer LMS includes extensive ability to connect
with disparate systems with every implementation. Our comprehensive Web Services API is based
on XML allowing an efficient and low cost connectivity model which seamlessly enables two way
data integration with virtually any system, large or small.
2) LearningServer LMS has
built-in spreadsheets that enable off-line import of data to various parts of the system. For
example, this allows simple text based files to be output from your HRIS system,
and LearningServer understands how to manage the additions, changes and deactivations from
your HRIS. These specialized spreadsheets are available to manage all aspects of
learners, their course and curriculum assignments, and many other points of integration. Our
clients acheive all the key benefits of integration without the hassles.
3) If your enterprise has implemented Microsoft SharePoint as part
of your HRIS solution, take advantage of LearningServer for SharePoint and be fully integrated
in a matter of a few days!
As a result of this open approach, integrating LearningServer with
your HRIS and other systems is simple and straightforward.
# 4 - Ongoing Administration
Our Approach
Simple administration is central to our strategy. We recognize that
a Learning Management System must serve its constituents with elegant, highly functional simplicity.
We embody this philosophy with two parallel, interrelated strategies. First we make administration
and management of the LearningServer LMS as simple and intuitive as possible by a collection
of consistent, easy to understand web-based interfaces geared specifically to the audience.
Second, we adhere to industry standards. LearningServer LMS is created using state-of-the-art
development tools, leveraging the most capable and self-maintaining databases and industry
standard web services.
# 5 - IT issues
Our Approach
From the start, the LearningServer LMS has been designed to minimize
the impact on the IT environment. Because your IT department already knows the Microsoft .NET
environment, and understands Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Sharepoint, this immediately makes
the LearningServer Learning Management System 'main stream'. Also because it's so easy to administer
from the web-based control panel, the vast majority of the system functions are intuitive and
self-revealing. Why re-invent the wheel by learning proprietary tools and processes that by
definition are outdated before they come to market?
We further simplify the process by offering a completely
hosted solution which requires little or no IT dependency whatsoever. Our solutions may be
installed on premise, or be fully hosted or any combination thereof.
# 6 - System Performance
Our Approach
LearningServer LMS has been implemented from the ground-up to provide
phenomenal response time to users regardless of their location, bandwidth and local machine
performance. The standards-based LearningServer is 'ultra-thin', placing little burden on the
infrastructure that will negatively impact performance. Further, we enable widely supported,
industry standard approaches to provide superior system performance. For example, LearningServer
LMS supports single or multiple web servers, redundancy, fail over, clustered servers, storage
area networks, separate content servers and many other strategies that can be efficiently deployed
to provide unparalleled system performance even as your needs grow and change.
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