The change in the educational field has introduced teachers and learners to many new modes and methods of teaching and learning like video conferencing, online courses and live chat during the online lecture. While teaching online has brought ease of learning from anywhere and at any time, it has also added some extra work for teachers. Now, teachers in schools have to prepare everything online, then send assignments individually to each student and then collect them back. All this can be quite hectic for teachers and there are also the chances of mistakes, in such a process. However, if school administration and teachers use school LMS to manage every task related to online teaching, then the online teaching-learning process can be made manageable. Not only this but using LMS can also enhance the quality of education imparted to the students, especially students of K-12 standards.
Let’s see how LMS can enhance the teaching-learning process in online education.
Timely Distribution And Collection: The major reason for using LMS is to create, distribute, and collect the educational progress report of the students, in their said courses. LMS helps the teachers to send the course details on time to all the students and at the time of collection of their progress reports and assignment to make sure that the data of every student is collected on time. This saves lots of hassle on the teachers’ side, and students also get timely updates and information regarding their course and academic progress.
Various Modes Of Educational Content: Teachers know that every student learns differently, some of them are visual learners then others are auditory learners. This means their learning needs and the content they learn from is different too, in such cases teachers need to provide students with the right form of course content. LMS allows the teachers to modify the course content as per students’ needs, so teachers can add additional video links, e-books, PDFs etc along with the primary learning material. This provides learners with the option to choose from various learning materials of their choice, be it videos, e-books, audiobooks or PDFs.
Better Administration: LMS helps all the people involved in the learning process to come together. The data collected by the LMS helps the teachers, students, administrators and parents to measure and compare the learning progress of the students. Through which they can right measures (if needed) to improve the progress of the students.
Transparency: LMS brings the right amount of transparency to the teaching-learning process. As mentioned in the above point the parents have the access to their child’s academic report, this helps them to keep track of what their child is learning. Which was not possible earlier. Through LMS teachers can also post their feedback on the class post or can send messages to the student’s parents. This form of transparency brings better results to students’ learning and also gives chances for teachers to modify and improve their teaching strategies.
Better Communication: Online learning doesn’t mean that there would be no interaction between teacher, student or parent. LMS makes the communication between all the parties more open and easier, with the features like live chat, emailing, class boards, newsletter etc. Such conversation between teachers, students, and parents brings clarity to the end goals, the path to choose and steps to take for improvement. It also gives students a chance to express themselves, their problems, queries and learning needs.
Easy Content Management: LMS is used for the basic purpose of managing the online teaching content in the right way. It makes it easier for the teachers to store all the necessary documents in one place securely, it keeps the backup of every information for any emergency and organises the academic data of every child in a manageable way.
Enhances Online Learning Experience: The school learning management system creates a great e-learning environment for the students. When students have all their learning resources at one click and also get timely feedback and updates on their progress, they remain focused on their learning. This enhances their ability to self-learn and makes them a better learner and communicator who asks questions when needed.