How Flexible is Your LMS at User Management?
One of the most import questions you will face when deploying an LMS is, “how do I organize my users?”The decisions you make here will impact things like Reporting and Admin Rights, as well as Content...
View Article4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not
Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in.Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology.Fresh...
View ArticleWhat You Can Expect When Asking a Vendor for Client References
It’s pretty common for prospective clients to ask software vendors for references prior to signing a contract. A 15-minute phone call with two or three organizations who have used the system...
View ArticleWhy Reporting is the Most Hated Learning Management Feature
Stripped of its hundreds of bells and whistles, a learning management system (LMS) is essentially a software application designed to do two things:Provide learners with learning contentReport on the...
View ArticleHow Our Intuitively Designed LMS Administration Saves You Time
Here at Blatant Media we are focused on one primary goal – To Build Intuitive Software!This was our goal back in 2003, and it’s the filter through which we look at every new feature that we build into...
View ArticleHow to Use a Learning Management System for Employee Reviews
Turning Your LMS into a Multi-functional PowerhouseSome friends of mine recently went Like/Share/Thumbs Up-crazy about an item on our Facebook news feeds. All of this excitement was about a Kickstarter...
View ArticleHow to Use Test Results to Automatically Enroll Learners into Learning...
Making Sure Your Learners Have The Knowledge They NeedMy last blog post was all touchy feely. We looked at empowering learners by asking them what they’re good or bad at, and to subsequently use these...
View ArticleSo, you complete a course and then what happens? Time-based enrollments in...
Dan Medakovic VP Learning Solutions The subject of time-based enrollments has come up in client discussions quite often lately, so I thought I’d write about it here. Here are some examples of what...
View ArticleWeight Control Strategies for Learning and Development
A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the...
View ArticleA First Look at Absorb LMS Version 5
After more than a year and a half in development, Absorb LMS version 5 was launched this week. This release contains more than 400 new features and enhancements. Highlights include: A responsive, HTML...
View ArticleBorrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs
You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you...
View ArticleIdentify Your LMS Requirements Easily Using this Powerful Visualization Tool
I’ve ranted repeatedly (here, here, and here) about the horribly-designed Request for Proposals (RFPs) that cross my desk. Invariably, these so-called learning management system selection tools suffer...
View ArticleThe Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning...
It seems like just yesterday that business analysts were wondering whether this newfangled e-commerce fad would catch on. Would anxiety over credit card theft deter customers from trusting on-line...
View ArticleHow Branding Your Learning Management System Can Influence Culture (and...
The best companies I’ve worked with have had great workplace cultures. Management in these companies understand that happy team members are more productive and less likely to jump ship the next time...
View ArticleTry This `Winning Strategy’ to Increase Learner Engagement
There are two ways to get a young child to school on time in the morning: Method 1: Every minute or so, repeat the words `HURRY UP!’ at increasing levels of volume. After about ten minutes, and upon...
View ArticleTurbo Charge Scheduled Events in Your Learning Management System by Using Tags
Instructor-led sessions, either in physical or virtual classrooms, play a big part of many organizations’ learning strategies. To support such initiatives, the best learning management systems (LMS)...
View ArticleThe Most Important Learning Management System Features to Support...
In many organizations, workplace learning consists of getting people into a room to listen to an instructor. If the workforce is distributed, the room used may be virtual instead of physical, and the...
View ArticleHow Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills
Remember reflection? That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior to...
View ArticleThe Learning Management System Feature People Hate the Most
Satisfaction surveys of learning management system administrators invariably identify reporting as the most reviled feature in their platform. Administrators complain about reporting being...
View ArticleHow to Use a Learning Management System to Solve the I-Didn’t-Get-the-Memo...
Somewhere among the hundreds or perhaps thousands of e-mails in your inbox, somewhere in the skyscraper-high piles of paper on the corner of your desk, is something really really important. This might...
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