Choosing a Corporate LMS

An effective corporate LMS (Learning Management System) is no longer a business luxury, but is now a required competitive edge tool for achieving the savings, optimization and productivity objectives of your organization. Your LMS may touch every part of your organization, from finance to sales, to research and development and Human Resources. As your LMS will have such a wide reach and varied types of “learners” within your company, we recognize that a deployment decision of this level of importance requires a round table evaluation processes, and as such, we offer some guidance and input to select organizations within your company.

LMS: Considerations For The e-Learning Professional

As the e-Learning Professional, you are responsible for the day to day operations of the LMS and will be on the front-line with regards to user experience, content management and content development. You are asked to report not only by courses and curriculum, but by outcomes, scores and completion ratios to a number of corporate metrics.

ShareKnowledge^TM is an LMS designed to your needs. We designed ShareKnowledge^TM around the “the learning process”, not a one-size fits all information distribution model. With a rich history of content creation, content authoring and now the LMS engine of delivery and distribution, Competentum Group has had at our core, a design process and practice of delivering an engaging and effective learning environment.

The LMS system may be the delivery tool, but we know that you know, it’s all about content. As such, we have made sure that ShareKnowledge^TM LMS conforms to all standards of interoperability within the industry. Our SCORM player is not only designed to accommodate the needs and media types of today, but also as new formats are developed and deployed, we have designed our architecture to keep pace with the future as it arrives. While it may be of more interest to your IT co-workers, we should point out here that our learning materials library architecture is Microsoft SharePoint based, and as such is “industry standard”, extensible and customizable as well.

Our e-Learning Professional Management tools are designed using a “role based architecture”. From assigning/distributing materials, courses, curriculum, to grading, reporting, and designing custom items such as grading scales and compliance reporting, the tools in our LMS are designed around the work flow and thinking of the e-Learning Professional. Like you, we recognize that it’s not just about “completing the training”, but it’s about improving outcomes and competencies. ShareKnowledge^TM LMS is designed to those ends.

Coupled with the needs of corporations for managerial reporting, compliance and certification auditing and tracking, along with the ever increasing need for outcome and knowledge gains, ShareKnowledge^TM  LMS is e-Learning tool designed to help you deliver results while providing the learners with a compelling, easy to use and comfortable learning environment.

LMS: Considerations for the IT Professional

As the IT professional, it is likely that your priorities are the non-disruptive integration into your overall IT architecture, up-time and performance, all while minimizing any costs or support requirements.

We have some great news for you. Knowing that the best LMS system should be deployed as a standards based, non-monolithic system, ShareKnowledge^TM is an LMS based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and as such provides best in class system integration to the rest of your IT and Business Systems, while providing great modularity, extensibility and customization option.

LMS: Considerations for the HR Professional

Productivity, Compliance, Accreditation, Certifications, Compliancy, Confidentiality, Legality, these issues are always top of mind to the HR Professionals. We understand that like the LMS system, you are also a central point of coordination and business process facilitation. The enterprise looks to you for guidance and advice on how to drive up productivity, how to increase accountability and competencies all the while doing so within a framework of employee satisfaction.

Depending upon the size of the organization, you and the eLearning Professional may be one and the same person or organization. At a minimum, you are cooperative partners with shared objectives that may differ only in specific roles and areas of focus. In the same way ShareKnowledge^TM LMS was designed around the work flow and priorities of the e-Learning Professional, you will find the tracking, report and administrative functions designed around the increased needs of compliancy, confidentially, and certification in today’s business environment.

ShareKnowledge^TM  LMS is designed to work with your system of record for HR and Personnel record keeping. Organizational structure information, along with titles, positions and levels of responsibility can be dynamically linked to your existing systems to reduce any concern about additional systems to be maintained or information between systems being out of sync.

ShareKnowledge^TM is designed for maximum flexibility in reporting. Do you need to report by curriculum or class, by position titles or organizational teams or units? Our LMS is designed to accommodate all of the above, in addition to real time email notifications on trigger events such as signing up for classes, completing activities, notification of supervisors on activities and even due date reminders. ShareKnowledge^TM LMS is not only designed for post event status reporting, but proactive learning process work flow acceleration.