𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 (𝐋𝐌𝐒) + 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 & 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠!

𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩, 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙜! 𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 (𝙇𝙈𝙎) 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢! :)

⚜️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐀 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 (𝐋𝐌𝐒)?

A learning management system (LMS) is a web-based software application that helps people to design, create, assess, administer, track and deliver the training programs, educational courses & content and learning process online. A LMS is mostly customized and operated by administraors, instructors, and students for a specific learning process as a E-Learning plaform. By using Learning Management Systems, administrators can upload an educative and learning content, make their students reach the lessons easily, put some notifications so that their students' learning can be productive, faster and most importantly trackable.

⚜️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐀 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮? & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐌𝐒: There are several great features of A Learning Management System that can be used to facilitate the access of various educative content and learning materials.

1) User-friendly Interface-Interaction & Social Learning Abilities ➞ The user-friendly feature of a LMS helps the users to navigate their progress and have a control on their LMS platform. The users in LMSes can match their abilities and their specific goals with the organization or the advisor according to compatible pairing. Instructors, that use the LMS platforms in their teaching, are able to make their lectures accessible, quick changes for their students and exchange some ideas with them by making collaborations online. As many Learning Management Systems contain various social media platforms, users are able to interact with other people, such as their peers, their colleaques and improve their social learning capacities thanks to the active interaction. By finding some learning experiences that are adapted to them personally, learners can customize their learning process and access different tools and opinions as well.

2) Easy Access to Reports and Analytics & Course and Catalog Management: ➞ By accessing reports and analytics instructors are able to navigate and track their online training results, so that they can make some adjustement or changes to provide more effectiveness to their students' learning process. Learners are also can view their process and track their improvement by having insight into their process. Learning Management Systems have the online courses and catalogs management feature for the users on the Internet. By administering their online courses, instructors can create various education activities on the platform and make the course a more memorable and targeted learning activity for their students. Students on the LMS platform, can improve their course development, and make their knowledge permanent thanks to different tutorials, courses and lesson plans that their instructors provide to them.

3) Automation & Artificial Intelligence (AI) ➞ Instructors enable to automate the repeated tasks and activities with different learner groups through group enrollments. The feature of Artificial Intelligence in LMSes can be a solution to create customized learning experiences and processes for different learners as Artificial Intelligence provides course formats that match with learner's interests, needs, goals by recommending specific topics online.

After having an idea about the specific features, from the user-friendly interface to Artifical Intelligence, let's have a look at some great benefits of a LMS! :)

⚜️ 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠:

FOR TEACHERS: Teachers can use various models and platforms to deliver customized lessons and increase attendance of their students. ◾ Teachers can monitor and manage their course development according to the efficiency of the course. ◾ Teacher can track the process of all of their students easily. ◾ Teachers can easily ensure the online training and provide their students different learning materials. ◾ Teachers can increase e-Learning ability accessibility by saving an organization, time and money. ◾ Teachers can make interactions and collaborations with their students effectively.

FOR STUDENTS: Students have a chance to facilitate their learning process through e-Learning. ◾ Students can learn any time and everywhere through their computers, laptops, cellphones and other technological devices. ◾ Students can experience and encourage great collaborations between each other thanks to creativity and flexibility of their learning materials and platforms. ◾ Students can take control of their learning process and increase their self-confidence & self-reflection. ◾ Students can exchance ideas, opinions, learning experiences with other students online.

⚜️ Learnıng Management Systems: SAAS/Cloud based LMS & Open Source LMS

A) Cloud Based Learning Management Systems: A Cloud-based LMS is the system that allows users to access and use the LMS without installing or downloading any software or hardware.

B) Open Source Learning Management Systems: An Open source LMS is the system that makes the source code open to everyone to inspect, modify, and enhance according to their business/education. It is generally used for public collaborations.

Now, let's talk about two specific Learning Management Systems are great tools for education!

⚜️ MOODLE: Getting started is easy

Moodle is a open-source learning management system that creates ''private'' websites and online courses for educators and trainers freely. Moodle is mostly used for different learning topics, e-learning projects & tasks & activities and distance education in schools, universities, workplaces and other places. On the Moodle platform, teachers can provide their online teaching by creating online courses, assignments, homeworks and tracking their students' process.

Moodle as the world's most widely used learning platform stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment and continues to provides free learning tools and collaborative learning environments that empower teaching and learning through its flexibility accesibility.

For detailed information, you can check out the the website of Moodle from here: https://moodle.org/

I came across a very detailed & good guide to Moodle while I was searching on the Internet, hope it helps if you are looking for one! :) https://ethinkeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/What-is-Moodle_-The-Comprehensive-Moodle-LMS-Guide.pdf?x18494&x32406&x32406

You can also check out the official Youtube account of Moodle:

⚜️ BLACKBOARD: Lets Advance Learning

Blackboard is a virtual learning environment and learning management system that provides course management, customizable teaching-learning process, and scalable design. The main purpose of Blackboard as a learning management system is that creating online courses and making them accessiable for all of the learners & users by empowering education with the power of technology. & Blackboard produces its service for higher education, K-12, business and government clients around the world.

If you are looking for a detailed guide and you have some questions, you can check out the website ''Blackboard Help'' from here: https://help.blackboard.com/Blackboard_App/Feature_Guide

Do not forget to check out the official website of Blackboard: /www.blackboard.com/

There are awesome educational videos on the official Youtube channel of Blackboard!

Finally, if you want to have more knowledge about Learning Management Systems (LMS), i highly recommend this video to you! :)

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed my blog about LMS. Let's continue to educate ourselves with the power of technology!