Looking to implement a learning management system (LMS), but not sure where to start? You’re not alone. If you haven’t been through this process before, it can be overwhelming to think about the number of tasks your team needs to accomplish before you can launch.
Topics: LMS
We recently released the eBook "How to Align Customer Training With Certifications," where we discussed how training professionals have merged learning and certifications at their companies. Today's post is about the benefits of doing so.
Topics: Training, LMS, Integrations
If you’re in the eLearning industry, you’ve probably heard the recent buzz around xAPI (sometimes referred to as Experience API or Tin Can). According to Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), it lets applications share data about human performance, including quiz scores, performance in a mobile app, and whether someone has read an article or watched a training video.
That may sound better than using SCORM files, but is it really worth the hype?
Topics: LMS, Analytics & Metrics
As a CRM, Salesforce’s goal is to help you effectively manage customer relationships. However, when a new customer account is signed, Salesforce only has information on the sales and buying contacts at an organization, not necessarily the ultimate end users of the product.
This presents a significant challenge for professionals in the customer training, success, and enablement industry. How do you get behavioral data on your actual customers (the product’s end users) into Salesforce to better personalize customer messaging, understand adoption, and report on customer health?
Topics: Training, LMS, Integrations, Advanced Topics
If you’re unhappy with your LMS, you’re in good company. The Learning Management System (LMS) is one of the oldest and most hated categories in enterprise software. According to a recent report from the eLearning Guild, fully one-third of organizations are “dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with their LMS. In addition, over half of organizations are planning to change their LMS within the next year, and 89% within the next three years.
Topics: LMS
Customer training platforms are not the traditional K-12 or even Higher Ed learning management system (LMS). They often offer functionality that many academically-focused platforms ignore. In this post, we’ll outline a few key differences between the academic and the extended-enterprise LMS, and highlight why they matter.
What is your training team’s philosophy? In other words, is your customer training program focused on product adoption or driving revenue? And how, exactly, does your team define a successful customer training experience?
It’s an unfortunate tendency in the training industry to create a strategy, build the courses, and then never touch them again after they’ve been published. This toxic habit of allowing for static training courses can be lethal to your training program, especially if the courses are neither mandatory nor free.
Topics: Training, Instructional Design, LMS, Course Management
When launching a new LMS, there are several important things to keep in mind to help you plan a successful deploy. We've put together a complete booklet of worksheets to help you set yourself and your team up for success.
Until I began working at Skilljar, I had never been exposed to the LMS and training software industry. I learned quickly that there were dozens of commonly used acronyms and words in this field that I didn’t know. This post is for those of you who have found yourselves frequently having to Google definitions of terms on your journey to finding an LMS. Below is a list of some of the terminology that you will need to know as you learn more about Skilljar and its services.