Assignment on Learning Management System & Content Management System

Assignment on Learning Management System & Content Management System

  September 18, 2019    Beema Saif

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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
• A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.
• The LMS concept emerged directly from e-Learning. E-learning provides excellent opportunities in terms of professional and personal development, but it can be a real challenge for administrators to keep everything in check.
• The first LMS appeared in the higher education sector, the majority of the LMSs today focus on the corporate market. Learning Management Systems make up the largest segment of the learning system market.
• The first introduction of the LMS was in the late 1990s.
• It is becoming a vital part of any large company or educational establishment’s digital toolkit.
• Learning management tools can greatly improve the way e-course administration works within organisations.

FEATURES OF LMS

• Learning management systems were designed to identify training and learning gaps, utilizing analytical data and reporting.
• An LMS is a software that functions as a virtual classroom for learners and a management hub for administrators.
• This software makes it possible to easily keep track of course administration, documentation, reporting and delivery, all from one central control panel.
• LMSs are focused on online learning delivery but support a range of uses and acting as a platform for online content.
• An LMS delivers and manages all types of content, including video, courses, and documents.
• LMS include a variety of functionality that is similar to corporate. But will have features such as rubrics, teacher and instructor facilitated learning, a discussion board, and often the use of a syllabus.
• The LMS may be used to create professional structured course content. The teacher can add, text, images, tables, links and text formatting, interactive tests, slide shows etc. Moreover, we can create different types of users, such as teachers, students, parents, visitors and editors.
• It helps control which content a student can access, track studying progress and engage student with contact tools.
• Teachers can manage courses and modules, enroll students or set up self-enrollment, see reports on students and import students to their online classes.
• LMS can enable teachers to create customized tests for students, accessible and submitted online.
• Some LMSs also allow for attendance management and integration with classroom training wherein administrators can view attendance and records of whether a learner attended, arrived late, or missed classes and events.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)

• A content management system, often abbreviated as CMS and is a software that helps users create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.
• CMS is a tool that helps you build a website without needing to write all the code from scratch.

COMPONENTS OF CMS

CMS has two components. Together, the two components make it easy to maintain your website.

1. CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION (CMA) : CMA allows the user to control the creation, modification and removal of content from a website without needing to know anything about HTML. It is the front-end user interface.
2. CONTENT DELIVERY APPLICATION (CDA): It provides the back-end services that support management and delivery of the content once it has been created in the CMA. This is the part that allows to add and manage content on website.

CHARACTERISTICS OF CMS

• It is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content.
• It manages the creation and modification of digital content. It is a software that facilitates creating, editing, organizing, and publishing content.
• It is an Internet based software that allows you to organize and keep track of text, photos, videos, documents on your website.
• Instead of building your own system for creating web pages, storing images, and other functions, the content management system handles all that basic infrastructure stuff for you so that you can focus on more forward-facing parts of your website.
• It typically supports multiple users in a collaborative environment.

• CMS are widely used for either enterprise content management or web content management.
• CMS are User-friendly - It uses templates, which makes it simple to upload text, images and videos.
• Examples of CMS - WordPress , Joomla and Drupal

• Mobile support - CMS can support mobile-responsive sites or provide a separate app for mobile sites. Or, they can provide both options in one platform. Mobile support is critical especially that worldwide more users today are accessing the Internet via their mobile device.

• User permissions - These include system-wide access, editing controls and read-only access. These controls help you minimize unauthorized publishing, content deletion or data breach.
   
  

  REFERENCES

  1) https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/content-management-system/

  2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

  3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system

  4) https://www.cae.net/main-features-lms-learning-management-system/

  5) https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/content-management-system-cms/