How to сreate an LMS project
With SendPulse, you can organize an online learning space for your team, customers, and partners, allowing them to get acquainted with your product or system. An LMS can help you adapt to your new company, master certain software, or improve your knowledge and skills.
In this article, we will talk about how to create an LMS based on the Courses platform.
What is an LMS?
LMS (Learning management system) is a tool that allows you to create, conduct, and report on training programs in your company.
Such programs can be created for enhanced teamwork — from newcomers’ onboarding to improving experienced employees’ skills. An LMS can help employees feel supported during their work and encourage them to reach their full potential.
If you need to educate customers about your product or system, an LMS can do it using a simple and easy-to-understand course format. Learning how to use a product allows you to smooth out clients’ future experience with it.
An LMS can also be a reliable and convenient storage of important information you can use in the future.
Create an LMS academy
Go to the Courses section and click Create academy. In the modal window, select New LMS academy.
Read also: Academy basics.
Enter an academy name and create a link
Add an academy name that will be visible to instructors and students if you enable this option in your academy settings.
You can add a new link or use an existing one if you have already created LMS projects.
Add a website
Add your LMS academy website to allow students to enroll in your courses.
You can use ready-made templates for corporate training. To do this, select a language in the Template language section and click one of the templates.
You can also set up the site yourself using the website builder. To do this, click New site.
Read more: How to create a website and How to work with site elements.
When your academy website is ready, publish it so that students can access it. To do this, save all the changes in the website builder and go to the course page. Click your website link and select the Publish option.
Once your website is published, you will not be able to change its domain.
Once you create an academy, configure its settings. Add an academy name to show it in student accounts and course recommendations and upload a favicon.
Create an LMS course
Go to your academy and click Create course.
Enter a course name that will be visible to instructors and students. Click Create a course.
Read also: Add a new course.
Adjust your course settings
Once you save and publish your website, go to the Settings tab. In this section, you can select a course language, flow, completion criteria, and category, configure student reviews and recommendations, set your course program and lesson numbering, add a certificate, and include an SMTP sender email address to send notifications.
Read more: How to set course options.
Add lessons
Go to the "Lessons" tab where you can add all the necessary content. First, develop your future project structure, and select educational materials such as videos, images, and documents.
To go to the lesson builder, click Add lesson.
You can add more lessons, sections and tests. To do this, click Add Lesson, or go to the lower right corner, and select the necessary element.
Stick to your course structure, and keep in mind who you create it for. For example, for corporate training, tests are crucial when deciding whether to hire a candidate or improving your employee's skills. However, for clients, providing comprehensive learning materials without testing their knowledge is a better way to go.
To add text, images, audio recordings, videos, files, dividers, buttons, or homework assignments, hover over any element, and click the plus sign (+). Next, select an element from the panel.
Read more: How to create a lesson in a lesson builder and How to set up a course program.
To set up students’ access to a lesson, click the three dots next to a lesson name, then click Lesson settings, and select an access type.
Click Duplicate to copy a lesson and use it as a template within your current course. You can also copy a lesson to another LMS course by clicking Copy to course.
To delete a lesson from the builder, click Delete.
Invite students
When your course is ready, you can invite students. Go to the Students tab, and click + (Add student).
You can invite users only when your website is published.
Students cannot register for your course on their own — they can only log in using your invitation.
Afterward, in the modal window, enter your email address, select your invitation email language and account creation type, and assign a tag to your student if necessary.
Read more: How to enroll students in a course.
Start the course
To launch your course and allow users to start studying, click Start. Afterward, it will appear in students’ accounts, and they will be able to start studying.
Once you start a course, you will not be able to change its format.
Last Updated: 27.11.2024
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