Learning Management Systems (LMS) – The Top 10 Tools

Everything you need to know about Learning Management Systems so you can optimize new hire onboarding, increase employee engagement and retention, and build a better business in the process.

Rodrigo Vázquez Mellado
HR and B2B software analyst and advisor, tech writer and editor, former conversational designer

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Looking for an employee Learning Management System (LMS)? Good news! We’ve got three to recommend right off the bat: eloomi, CornerStone OnDemand, and Trainual stand up to our strict criteria and research methods. There’s more good news! They aren’t the only employee LMSs that caught our eye. Read on to find out who else makes the cut, and, more importantly, why.

We test our vendors with user research, expert input, and in-house HR tech nerd knowledge. This guide will teach you how to research like a pro: you’ll learn what to look for, what to look out for, and much more.

The Best Learning Management Systems

Hand picked by our HR Technology experts after product testing, user research, and much debate - enjoy!

Eloomi's LMS helps teams deliver great learning experiences. Through it, you can assign training to certain roles, import learning materials, or create your own from scratch with the course builder.
This LMS offers customization at levels we have yet to see in other platforms. Its AI translation and content creation services are uncommon features you would hardly find in other learning and coaching systems.
We love Lessonly because it's an interactive and beautiful-looking product with all the features you'd expect from a fully-fledged LMS; course authoring, quizzes, forums, SCORM, and more.
It's an eclectic eLearning ecosystem and LMS from the quintessential social network for work, and one of the top tools for recruiters.
It's an eCommerce ecosystem specifically geared towards technology workers. They also have their own platform where ways to learn, such as skill assessments, certifications, and cloud labs, are offered.
It's an enormous eLearning library that lets you choose between your existing LMS or theirs. You can access all their content for a a low-priced subscription.
More than an LMS, Trainual aspires to become a playbook, a way of organizing who does what and how, for each business they serve. They do this by encompassing onboarding, training, documentation, a wiki, and other tools, all within a single platform.
Cornerstone OnDemand makes highly-acclaimed software for recruiting, training, and managing. Their LMS is a stellar solution for large enterprises and small businesses alike.
Docebo is a robust and scalable LMS ideal for companies with more than 300 team members in need of some sort of training.
Bridge combines a learning management system and an employee performance & engagement tool into a single platform.

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Introduction to Learning Management Systems

Learning management systems (LMS) are becoming increasingly popular at companies large and small. An LMS will allow your business to train new employees and teams on a variety of topics and skills. With an LMS, you can more efficiently onboard new hires and keep employees engaged, which will lead to increased productivity, higher retention rates, and a more successful company in the long run.

To really reap the benefits of e-learning, you need to make sure you invest in an LMS or employee training tracker that’s the right fit for your needs and budget. In this guide, we’re going to help you figure that out with a short list of the best learning management systems along with everything else you need to know when buying new software. Let’s get started!

Our criteria: How we chose the best vendors

We take research seriously. To make sure we’re offering our readers the very best solutions in a given software category, we are methodical, rigorous, and expansive in our research. We consult with HR professionals, vendors, and industry experts. We cut through the noise to bring you a carefully curated list of vendors, along with other essential information, to help you find the right software platform for your business. 

Here’s how we chose who makes the cut: 

Product: We believe in gaining a comprehensive understanding of a product before we recommend it, so we start by getting to know the software. Whenever possible, we meet with a senior executive (CEO or Head of Product) for a demo and Q&A. We also test the product ourselves to make sure it has a solid UI, intuitive workflows, and the features to make it a best-in-class offering. 

User feedback: We go straight to the source and compile feedback on user experience. Real-world input supports our commitment to diligence in our software evaluation methods and the products we recommend. Keeping up with the everyday experience of HR pros also puts new vendors on our radar, and it keeps us close to our community so we can better connect the right products to the right people.

Financial metrics: We are certified finance nerds, so we use all the data we can get our hands on to make selections for our guides. We comb through data for concrete statistics like retention rates, growth, profitability, and scalability. We evaluate the bottom line of each product because we know making a software purchase can put your reputation on the line. 

Best for a use case: Software is never a one-size-fits-all product. Sometimes the best solution is free or cheap. Other times it’s the one that is best for global companies or the one that’s sized right for early-stage startups. Keeping this in mind, we include solutions across the spectrum so our readers can find the best fit for their unique needs.

Here's more detail if you want to read more about how we research vendors. Our dedicated staff writers rely on hard data, impartial experts, and user feedback to ensure our reviews are helpful, truthful, and hopefully a pleasure to read!

Top Learning Management Systems

After surveying the landscape, we came up with this short list of top learning management system vendors for you to talk to.

eloomi's employee learning management system dashboard screenshot

eloomi

Review:

Eloomi streamlines the training process both for your new hires and existing employees. You can use the platform’s pre-built content and templates or build your own training from scratch. You can also inject other content delivery formats such as quizzes, images, and videos, into your training materials to make the learning experience more interactive and fun. Learning sessions can be automatically assigned to your employees according to their roles and you can track the progress of each employee’s learning journey and evaluate their skills.

eloomi

Pricing:

Eloomi offers custom pricing, so the best way to find out how much it costs is to request a demo.

Eloomi offers custom pricing, so the best way to find out how much it costs is to request a demo.

Best For

Eloomi is for HR leaders and managers of mid-sized and large businesses to make onboarding easier for employees, engage them through frequent feedback, and track the progress of their personal development.

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SafetyCulture Employee LMS Dashboard Screenshot

SafetyCulture (EdApp)

Review:

EdApp is a learning management system designed for deskless workers. It provides useful features that help create bite-sized interactive lessons that can be accessed by anyone on any device, for free.

Speaking of free, they also provide free content creation services that involve turning old powerpoint slides, pdfs, and other learning materials into engaging and interactive content — all within the space of 48 hours.

SafetyCulture (EdApp)

Pricing:

As far as content creation for educational purposes is concerned, EdApp is completely free. But you can get additional features across two paid subscriptions. Here is a breakdown of their price plans:

  • Free: The free plan provides an unlimited number of course creation and access to a library of 800+ editable courses. It is also free for an unlimited number of users. 
  • Growth: This plan costs $1.95 per active user per month. It offers all the benefits of the free plan with the ability to customize the learner’s journey with achievements, review tests, and certifications.
  • Plus: The plus plan gives you everything in the two previous plans with advanced features such as full API integration support and AI translation. It costs $2.95 per active user per month.

Note that EdApp offers a 30-day free trial period for all paid plans.

As far as content creation for educational purposes is concerned, EdApp is completely free. But you can get additional features across two paid subscriptions. Here is a breakdown of their price plans:

  • Free: The free plan provides an unlimited number of course creation and access to a library of 800+ editable courses. It is also free for an unlimited number of users. 
  • Growth: This plan costs $1.95 per active user per month. It offers all the benefits of the free plan with the ability to customize the learner’s journey with achievements, review tests, and certifications.
  • Plus: The plus plan gives you everything in the two previous plans with advanced features such as full API integration support and AI translation. It costs $2.95 per active user per month.

Note that EdApp offers a 30-day free trial period for all paid plans.

Best For

SafetyCulture’s EdApp works best for small-medium sized blue-collar companies as it is a mobile-first platform. Larger global companies can also benefit from its numerous features, such as multilingual content deployment.

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Lessonly's very unique Employee LMS Software dashboard

Lessonly

Review:

Lessonly allows teams from L&D to Sales to create and deploy effective learning materials to help new employees ramp faster through consistent training, and existing employees to get on the same page with best practices for their roles. It's very intuitive and easy to use, and has advanced features like an open API and webhooks for teams that want to have a deeper integration with existing technologies.

Lessonly

Pricing:

Although Lessonly has two available plans (Pro & Pro+Coaching), the pricing for them isn't disclosed on their website. The difference between one plan or another is mainly having additional modules and features like Lessonly Practice, conversations, and certifications.

Lessonly has two plans:

  • Pro: This plan includes Lessonly's training software, intuitive lesson builder, interactive quizzes & surveys, automation & triggers, training event tracking, and integrations. Pro plan customers also get assigned a personal Customer Experience Manager
  • Pro+Coaching: This plan includes everything from Lessonly's Pro package, plus Lessonly Practice, Coaching, Conversations, and Certifications.

The pricing of the above plans isn't disclosed on Lessonly's website. Contact their sales team for a price quote accordingly to the size and scope of your operation.

Best For

Lessonly is a good bet for companies of all sizes, but the product might resonate particularly with distributed teams.

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LinkedIn Learning dashboard - one of the best learning management system

LinkedIn Learning

Review:

LinkedIn Learning has a strong backbone of content from Lynda, one of the first online businesses from back in the 1990s that had several decades to assemble content around all types of business knowledge from soft to hard skills. With LinkedIn Learning, employees can get training on three main areas, business, creative, and technology. Together, these categories can display topics on anything from SCRUM and Excel to photography and non-verbal language for leaders.

LinkedIn Learning

Pricing:

With LinkedIn Learning, you can buy individual courses or subscribe to the whole catalogue as you would do for a streaming service. The latter option is priced for a single account, and starts at $29,99 per month if you pay monthly, or $19,99 if you pay for the whole year. If you'd like to purchase the service for a team, they offer custom pricing.

With LinkedIn Learning, you can buy individual courses or subscribe to the whole catalogue as you would do for a streaming service. The latter option is priced for a single account, and starts at $29,99 per month if you pay monthly, or $19,99 if you pay for the whole year. If you'd like to purchase the service for a team, they offer custom pricing.

Best For

Companies or individuals that want a simple solution with ready-made content that won't break the bank.

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Pluralsight's employee learning management system dashboard screenshot

PluralSight

Review:

Technology is changing rapidly and it doesn't take long for even the best technical teams to fall behind. Pluralsight provides assessments, courses and testing for technologists to stay sharp on the latest in skills, languages, and the softer side of how to get work done. Their expert-authored courses are offered on their own software product, Skills.

PluralSight

Pricing:

There are two plans for Skills by Pluralsight, Professional, which is $579 per user per year, and Enterprise, at $779. With the former plan, you can start a team trial. With the latter, you can start a pilot. Both of them include the entire course library.

There are two plans for Skills by Pluralsight, Professional, which is $579 per user per year, and Enterprise, at $779. With the former plan, you can start a team trial. With the latter, you can start a pilot. Both of them include the entire course library.

Best For

Skills by Pluralsight is an excellent choice for companies that want a solution specific to their technology workers, regardless of company size or industry. It's also great for individuals, as they even offer a pricing scheme for freelancers or consultants which starts at $29 per month.

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Go1 training LMS system dashboard screenshot

Go1

Review:

Go1 provides thousands of online courses to HR teams looking to help their people maintain certifications, grow their hard skills, and become more productive colleagues. While they do provide tools to manage learners, Go1 also integrates with many of the major LMS players so you can access their content from your existing or new learning management system - or just use them as the way your employees access content directly.

Go1

Pricing:

Go1 is priced differently depending on whether you want the content hub (which includes their platform) or just the platform. To give you an idea, the content hub plan starts at $10 per user per month and is for teams with less than 20 users. Their next plan is for growing teams (21+) and is $12 per user per month. If you just want the platform to use your own content with, the basic plan is free for unlimited users, while the enterprise plan is priced based on your needs.

Go1 is priced differently depending on whether you want the content hub (which includes their platform) or just the platform. To give you an idea, the content hub plan starts at $10 per user per month and is for teams with less than 20 users. Their next plan is for growing teams (21+) and is $12 per user per month. If you just want the platform to use your own content with, the basic plan is free for unlimited users, while the enterprise plan is priced based on your needs.

Best For

Go1 is used by small businesses and startups, but also enterprise clients and government organizations. Naturally, it's best-suited for teams looking for ready-made content instead of creating their own, regardless of size and industry.

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Trainual's HR learning management system dashboard

Trainual

Review:

Trainual is a simple to use tool that allows organizations to document standard operating procedures across anything from pushing code to re-stocking. This is a great solution for smaller organizations that want to structure the necessary organizational knowledge for people to do their jobs, but that don't want to invest the time and money into a full-on learning management system.

Trainual

Pricing:

Mainly, Trainual is offered in two plans; Pro and Premium. The former is either $99 per month if you pay for one year or $119 if you go monthly. The Premium plan is either $149 or $179 per month. Both plans include the first 25 users. Afterwards, you'd pay more for each user, but the fee is currently not disclosed upfront, likely because it varies according to the number of additional accounts. If you've got more than 100 users, they offer custom pricing from the get-go. And, in case you're a nonprofit, they may offer you 50% off any plan for as long as you use the tool. They also offer a free trial.

Trainual has two plans with fixed pricing:

  • Pro: This plan allows up to 25 users to create unlimited documentation and gives them access to templates for training, tests, etc. This plan costs $99 a month when billed annually
  • Premium: Users on this plan (up to 25) get everything from the Pro plan plus phone support/coaching, stock image library access, and more. This plan costs $149 a month when billed annually

A custom plan can also be created for larger companies upon request.

Best For

Trainual was designed for smaller companies that, unlike enterprises, perhaps don't need a very robust LMS. Instead, they've combined certain features of an LMS with modules like a company wiki, process documentation, and SOPs.

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CornerStone OnDemand employee training management system dashboard

CornerStone OnDemand

Review:

Cornerstone OnDemand's LMS is best known for servicing large enterprise customers who need a dependable solution to ensure employees stay up to date with certification requirements, evolve their skill sets, and can get access to a blended learning model of both in person and virtual learning.

CornerStone OnDemand

Pricing:

Pricing for the Cornerstone OnDemand LMS is not disclosed publicly. However, they do offer a free trial.

Pricing for the Cornerstone OnDemand LMS is not disclosed publicly. However, they do offer a free trial.

Best For

Judging from their stats, customer list, and reputation, we could say that Cornerstone OnDemand could be a good fit for organizations of all sizes, industries, and postal codes.

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Docebo's HR LMS dashboard screenshot

Docebo

Review:

Docebo allows employees to drive their experience by choosing their learning paths based on skills they'd like to acquire. Managers can then understand the progress made by employees through a unified dashboard. Docebo is used by companies like Uber and WalMart.

Docebo

Pricing:

Pricing for Docebo is undisclosed.

Pricing for Docebo is undisclosed.

Best For

Docebo is best-suited for medium to large enterprises. Typically, they work best with companies that want to train more than 300 customers, partners, and employees on a monthly basis. It's also ideal for those organizations that want to expand rapidly and whose learning needs span several business units.

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Bridge's Employee Training LMS dashboard screenshot

Bridge by Instructure

Review:

Companies like Chemical Bank and Livongo use Bridge to engage employees with a learning management system that is tightly integrated to performance management. This means managers can assign continuing education materials that align directly with goals. You can leverage Bridge's content, third party content, or create your own courses.

Bridge by Instructure

Pricing:

Bridge has four potential pricing plans. The first three are priced per user and billed annually. The "Learning" plan starts at $3 per user per month, and then you have the "Learning+Performance" and "Learning+Performance+Engagement" plans which are priced at $9 and $12, respectively. For larger companies, Bridge offers enterprise and custom solutions with unique pricing models.

Bridge has four potential pricing plans. The first three are priced per user and billed annually. The "Learning" plan starts at $3 per user per month, and then you have the "Learning+Performance" and "Learning+Performance+Engagement" plans which are priced at $9 and $12, respectively. For larger companies, Bridge offers enterprise and custom solutions with unique pricing models.

Best For

Companies of all sizes may benefit from Bridge's LMS. This vendor is especially suitable for companies that may be looking for a performance and/or engagement tool as well.

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Use-Cases: Why Use a Learning Management System

Learning management systems provide a great opportunity for companies to engage their employees and track employee training through processes like new hire onboarding, specific skill augmentation, and certifications, to name a few. The type of learning you’d offer your company depends on a number of variables, but overall, you should consider an LMS if you want to do any of the following:

  • Improve Career Paths and Increase Retention: Learning management systems provide an excellent opportunity to engage your employees and allow them to improve their skills and grow professionally. When employees feel engaged and see a path for growth, they’re more likely to stay. In fact, Better Buys reports that companies with professional development opportunities like these see a 38% higher retention rate than those that don’t.
  • Evolve with Changing Business Needs: If your business is growing rapidly or has pivoted in a way that will require you to train employees on a new system or set of values, for example, an LMS can help make the process more efficient.
  • Increase Productivity: When employees can learn new skills and access employee training programs that will make them better at their jobs, they’ll work more efficiently. Not only that, but being able to learn on their own time and at their own pace will allow them to improve their skills without disrupting their normal workflow.

Pro Tips on Best Learning Management Systems

Considerations & Common Mistakes

As with any new system, common challenges exist with an LMS. But if you can anticipate and prepare for them, your ramp-up will be much smoother. With that, here are four LMS considerations:

  • Define Your Objectives: What is it that you want to achieve with an LMS? Do you want a more efficient onboarding process for new hires? Do you want to improve employee engagement? Do you want your employees to get their necessary certifications or compliance training? Do you want to train employees on work place safety? Do you want to provide leadership training for new managers? Whatever the case may be, you need to be clear on your objectives and the metrics you'll require to be able to tell whether you meet them. This way, you can choose the right LMS for your company — and the right content.
  • Content is Key: Your content strategy needs to be as clear as your LMS objectives. If you don’t use the right content, the LMS or content authoring tool will end up being a wasted investment. So figure out what content you need to produce, both in terms of the format (like video vs. PDF vs. course modules vs. slides) and the subject matter. Then designate someone on your team to lead the content creation/execution and make sure the right stakeholders are keyed in— for example, if you’re creating trainings for new hires, you might want to connect with your marketing or communications lead to align on company messaging; that way, your new hires will learn the most accurate way to communicate with their specific audience(s).

Encourage Usage: There are two ways for your employees to actually use an LMS:

  • Evangelize the Platform: Promote the LMS— and the results it will provide— to all employees. Send emails, make an announcement at your next all-staff, meet with individual teams to give demos, and empower managers to get their direct reports on board.
  • Offer Incentives: In some cases, the incentive is already baked in (i.e. career advancement or a necessary credential). For others, you should consider what type of reward would work best for your employees (gift cards, extra time off, company-wide recognition, a cash bonus, etc.)
  • Assess Customer Support: Keep in mind that some training management systems provide better customer support than others. So do your due-diligence ahead of time to see how your platform of choice handles customer issues and questions. In addition to asking a rep on your demo, you might want to ask existing clients or even go “under cover” by reaching out to customer support via phone, email, and/or live chat.

Benefits and ROI

By now, you should have a solid understanding of the benefits that learning management software provides, like increased employee retention, providing opportunities for professional growth and internal mobility, and boosting overall productivity. 

One more to add to the list: recruiting. Give your employer branding the competitive edge it needs to attract the best candidates to your company — by showing potential hires that you provide corporate training opportunities and want to help them succeed and grow within your organization, they’ll most likely accept an offer from your company.

Want to know what type of return you can expect from benefits like increased productivity and retention? Check out our ROI calculators to get an estimate.

Pricing

How much learning management software costs depends on a number of factors, including the actual vendor you choose as well as how you want to be charged. In other words, do you want to be charged per learner per month or per usage per month? Or, do you want to just pay a one-time fee to access course content or a learning environment in its entirety and in perpetuity? 

While actual pricing varies by platform, here is an idea of what you can expect:

  • Per Learner: In most cases, learning platforms will charge between $5-$15 per learner per month. This range accounts for what’s actually included for each learner. Most platforms also charge a setup or installation fee on top of the per learner per month rate.
  • Per Usage: If you only want to be charged for what your employees are actually using, you can expect to pay wide ranges depending on how much pre packaged content you're using. Similar to the per learner pricing, where your price falls in that range will depend on what’s included.
  • One-Time Licensing Fee: To purchase a license to install LMS software and use it in perpetuity, you could pay up to $50,000 or more. The licensing fee itself ranges from $500-$20,000 and then there is usually a hefty setup cost as well. Keep in mind that this option is really best suited for larger companies with a dedicated IT staff.

As you do your own research, you might see that there are also free options (which are typically the most basic and not very user-friendly). There are also open-source products, which are free in theory, but you need to pay for your own hosting. With more modern SaaS solutions, watch out for free trials. Be sure to discuss pricing packages on your demo so you can get a clear sense for what an LMS will cost your company.

Features: What You Can Expect from Learning Management Systems

LMS solutions offer a variety of features depending on your needs and budget. You’ll see that some offer a full suite of them (and usually command a higher price as a result), while others are more niche. So once you figure out what kind of online training you want to provide your employees, you’ll be able to pick a vendor that meets your needs. 

Generally speaking, learning management systems offer some or all of the following LMS features:

  • Employee Training: Access new hire onboarding materials and employee training courses on everything from business skills, to compliance training, to workplace safety and more. If your industry requires certain certifications, you can administer the relevant tests to get your employees properly certified.
  • Content Library: Many learning management systems have ready-made educational content that you can use for your company. Such content includes (but is not limited to) slides, videos and animations, PDFs, course modules, even gamification.  Many of these will be specific to a given set of roles, industries or levels in the company (for example, sales training or management training).
  • Content Development: If you want a learning experience that’s tailored to your specific company, you can use templates to create your own materials. 
  • Synchronous & Asynchronous Learning: You can decide if you want to provide learning opportunities in real-time (synchronous) or allow your employees to access on their own time (asynchronous). 
  • Mobile learning: Depending on the LMS, your employees can get complete course/learning access from mobile devices, allowing them to learn anytime, anywhere.

Demo Questions: What To Ask During Demos

Demos are a great opportunity for you to see how an LMS works and ask questions before you actually invest. To get the most out of your demo, make sure to ask the following questions:

General questions to ask on any demo:

  • How will this solution fit into the rest of my tech stack and therefore what integrations do I need?
  • How will others in the organization use this solution?
  • What are the key features I want to ask about?
  • What are the things that would make me nervous about investing in this sort of solution?

Questions specific to learning management systems:

  • Do you provide a library of training content or will we have to create our own? 
  • What type of content do you support and/or deliver?
  • Is gamification built in, and if so, what kinds?
  • Do you offer employee incentives/rewards for using the platform?
  • How many team members can your solution support per company?
  • Does your solution provide a training log, training records, and other sort of reports?
  • To which extent is your platform customizable?
  • What are you doing to ensure accessibility and inclusivity in online learning?
  • Does your solution provide video conferencing for instructor-led training and collaborative learning?
  • How do some of your features promote social learning?

Implementation

Using an LMS will most likely require a team of stakeholders from across the company. This includes executive management (for buy-in), IT (for tech integrations), HR/People Ops (for learning content), team leads (to encourage usage), etc. It goes without saying, then, that you’ll need to regularly communicate so everyone is on the same page in terms of what needs to get done, who needs to do it, and when it should be completed. You can get a general idea of all of this during your demos, so make sure to ask about all things implementation — and see if they offer on-site or virtual trainings.

Additionally, you need to focus on these key elements:

  • Content Management: Figure out the type of content you need, who is going to run point, and how you will manage updates as needed.
  • Rollout: Create a rollout strategy to introduce the platform to your employees and encourage usage. Make sure stakeholders especially are clued in so they can communicate the right messaging, incentives, etc. to their direct reports.
  • Monitor Usage: Regularly check usage data to see how many employees are engaging with the content, whether courses have been completed fully, if there are any user-experience or functionality issues, etc. Depending on your findings, you may need to make adjustments to your content or rollout plans.

Learning Management System FAQs

What does LMS mean? 

LMS means learning management system, although some people also use learning management software.

What does a learning management system do? 

Learning management systems allow your business to train new employees and teams on a variety of skills and topics. An LMS platform is typically used to efficiently onboard new hires and keep employees engaged, leading to increased productivity and higher retention rates.

How do you use a learning management system? 

You use a learning management system to provide numerous functions for employees, including efficient and effective onboarding, skill augmentation, certifications and incentive-based learning. In addition, employers can use an LMS to track employee progress and performance.

What features should a learning management system have?

A learning management system can have the following features:

  • Administrative suite for instructors and managers
  • Engaging training modules
  • Tracking and reporting
  • Course creation tools
  • Evaluations
  • Gamification
  • Messaging capabilities
  • Video Conferencing
  • Certifications
  • Calendar management
  • Mobile adaptability
  • Social learning aspects
  • Customization
  • Multimedia capabilities
  • Android & iOS app

What are the advantages of using a learning management system?

Using a learning management system can lead to many advantages, such as increased employee retention, professional growth and internal mobility opportunities, and boosted productivity. An LMS can also help recruiting efforts by showing prospective hires that their potential employer wants them to learn, succeed and grow in their organization. The best LMS vendors also offer employee training tracking software within their platforms, which is necessary to measure the effectiveness of the tool. For example, you can see metrics like training sessions per user, time to complete a course, enrollment rates, etc.

Next Steps

At the end of the day, a learning management system can be great for your company as long as the platform you choose aligns with your learning/engagement objectives. So make a list of your must-haves and then run through that list on your demos so you can be confident in your investment.

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