January 6th, 2010 by Robin Green

This year, use your learning management system to secure an edge in the competitive global economy. In choosing the right LMS training for your organization, remember that knowledge is power. Especially in this knowledge-based economy, the most valuable asset you have is the knowledge of your employees. Capable and confident employees are the foundation of a successful business. 

There are many ways in which a learning management system can be used to profoundly benefit an organization. Well-trained and knowledgeable employees are the glue that holds your organization together. They make your operation run smoothly, boost your company’s reputation, prevent injuries at work, and ensure that you are meeting all required legal standards. LMS training can be used for compliance training, sales training, and other areas of company education.

Compliance training is easily taken care of online. Using an LMS, you can cover all kinds of important topics, workplace safety, cultural sensitivity, sexual harassment, and other respect and legal issues in the workplace. However, for an employee taking mandatory compliance training, too often a training issue seems simply common sense, or not worth one’s time. This too-prevalent conception towards compliance training can cause behavior such as learning content skimming or skipping of entire sections in the learning content, and ultimately, mindless guessing on exams. Oftentimes students simply retake assessments until they have scored well. 

Trainees’ absence of interest in a compliance training topic is often a result of bland training material–not to mention the sheer reality that the training course is mandatory. And that lack of interest can cause students’ failure to really learn and process the learning content, and to skimp on the time required to actually absorb the material. 

However, holes in employee understanding of important issues (like those listed above) which compliance training courses cover can cause big trouble down the road. That is why supervisors are wise to ensure that employees are completing course material completely and correctly, and devoting the appropriate amount of time on each part of the training course.

Of course, it isn’t enough just to train employees on organizational policies and procedures. In order to get ahead in a competitive job market, take advantage of your training management system to go the extra mile. This year, educate your employees with state-of-the-art and effective tools so that they can efficiently and effectively educate your customers.

Customers want to make an informed decision when considering buying a product. There is no greater discouragement to purchasing a product than an apathetic or unknowledgeable sales representative. 

Aiding with the development of employee knowledge is an essential practice for any company hoping to remain relevant in an increasingly competitive business environment. For this reason among others, investing in your employees is the wisest business move you can make in 2010. 

Provide your employees with a customized, one-on-one training method. How can you do this? Using a SCORM-compliant learning management system is one solution that more and more organizations are turning to to make sure their employees are well-educated on their products. 

But being well-educated on a topic is only the first step. This reminds me of some professors I had the unfortunate experience of having in college. A professor who was a physics genius but knew nothing about teaching. A literature professor who took no time for her students and spent more time trying to get published, or applying for federal grants. And so on. 

Clearly, it isn’t enough to simply know a lot about a topic. In the same way, it isn’t enough for your staff to simply be well-educated about the product they are selling. They need to be able to share that knowledge with others.

This year, think long-term and invest in your best asset: your employees. Use your LMS not only for compliance and other basic training, but to educate your staff on how to best interact with customers. Deliver online learning management system courses to help your employees explain features and aspects of your product, and help customers understand all there is to know about your company’s benefits and unique products and services.

December 25th, 2008 by Robin Green

School districts are finding that a learning management system is an effective way to keep costs down and students enrolled. But another enormous benefit of a pre-populated LMS is the sheer variety of classes offered. With a robust learning management system such as Coggno, schools have access to some of the best online courses available. Users are able to customize and upload content, courses, assignments, and more. 

An effective customizable learning management system includes instructional tools like Coggno’s video and text tools, SCORM publisher, question bank and template, quiz and assessment tools. It should also provide straightforward and useful functionality to help teachers, and an easy-to-navigate interface to make the LMS easily integrated into any school. 

November 26th, 2008 by Robin Green

While your learning management system students will constitute a motley batch of learning types, many are probably strong visual-spatial learners. Luckily, the instructional tools that a learning management system provides can be used to effectively represent information spatially and with images. 

Include graphs and graphic organizers in your learning material. Graphic organizers include brainstorms and idea maps, webs, plots, and illustrations like stack plots and Venn plots. Showing the relationship between ideas and images, teachers can help all students–not only visually-gifted ones–digest information more quickly. 

Using your learning management system tools like Coggno’s text tool, video tool, SCORM publisher, template tool, and question bank, engage your students in active, visually-interesting learning content.

November 11th, 2008 by Robin Green

Putting your courseware system on the market doesn’t have to be complicated. If you’re looking for an easy-to-use, free online course syndicator for your courseware system, consider Coggno. 

Coggno’s user-friendly, flexible, straightforward user interface is a breeze to navigate and you’ll be walked through every step of your course creation. Entering Coggno’s website, you’ll find a variety of features including the SCORM publisher, text and video tools, question bank, quiz, template and assessment tools. Take a video tour of each of the tools to find out just how easy putting your product on the market can be. 

Coggno allows you to create and brand your unique and sophisticated courseware system. From now until November 15, take advantage of Coggno’s exciting promotion. We’ll migrate your learning content for you, absolutely free of charge. 

September 11th, 2008 by Robin Green

Most LMS buyers use an authoring tool to create course content, which is then hosted on an LMS. The buyers need to choose an authoring tool that integrates smoothly with their LMS in order for the course content they are trying to host to function correctly. 

There are many authoring tools on the market, but one important consideration is that these told meet AICC and SCORM standards. Coggno is one LMS that provides instant SCORM upload to its users. 

August 21st, 2008 by Robin Green

Good news for instructional designers and content developers: Coggno has enhanced its LMS with instant SCORM Content Migration. Uploading training materials to Coggno has gotten simpler still.

The LMS SCORM publisher tool will provide the necessary information about the data model and its elements, as well as sample code. It can be opened, reviewed, and adapted with any basic text editor, because it was developed using HTML.

Being able to migrate all your SCORM modules instantly means all you need is one click. First, you title your module. Then, simply click the SCORM radio button. Finally, you will be able to choose which SCORM module you would like to upload from your desktop. All free, of course. And if any doubts should arise, a glossary is accessible from any point.

Just another way Coggno’s LMS facilitates your training.