Anyone else who doesn't use an LMS?
December 3, 2013 12:00 AM
Kind of curious how common this is. If you don't, how do you keep track? Any tips? Any questions?
We keep track via email results currently, by using the Submit To Custom Script option.
I generally store the results for a month or two. One thing I find useful is to analyze test questions by sorting into folders. Our emails contain the name of the course in the subject line, so first I sort by subject then copy into a new folder. From there I sort by name and remove anyone who works in my department as well as any error emails. Since our script only shows incorrect answers in the email, I can search for each question to see how many people get each one wrong. So I copy all Question 1s into a folder, all Question 2s and so on. I copy the totals of each wrong versus the number of tests. Anything that sticks out means I should revamp the training and/or the question. Maybe a month later I will check again to see if things have improved. An LMS might make things easier but I'll do what I can with what I have available.
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My company has extensive online training so all courses I create are for our own use. I would love an LMS, but I guess not everyone has one. It didn't occur to me that many clients might not have them. I just hear everyone mentioning LMS as if everyone has one and thought maybe I was the odd man out.
Some of our smaller clients don't use LMS. They resort to two options:
1. Submit to Google Drive. Works perfect for short info like "name, surname, score, courseID" (large data chunks face issues that we discussed in another thread)
2. Submit to custom script. Best for people who already use some sort of CMS for intranet or company site. Then we can build on top of their site to e.g. provide report viewing access to certain website users etc. Quasi-LMS, if I may call it that.
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