Learning management (LMS)
Course pages, study material and assignments, video, SCORM lessons and external tools, with each student’s progress visible to the people who teach them, all on the same student record.
Built for the people who run it
- Deans of Academics
- Programme offices
- Faculty
- E-learning and IT teams
- Students
What usually prompts the call
- Study material goes out by e-mail and messaging groups, and nobody can say who has received what.
- A separate LMS needs its own class lists and sign-in, kept in step with the student record by hand.
- Scores from online lessons and tools are typed into the marks register again.
- Faculty find out a student has fallen behind only when the term’s marks come in.
What it does
Which of these are included in a deployment is set out in the proposal for that institution.
Course pages
A page for every subject, with an overview and sections by week or unit, the subject’s documents and web links, and sections kept hidden until they are ready. Only the subject’s staff and students see it.
Announcements and discussions
Announcements to a subject’s students, pinned or with an expiry and optionally e-mailed, and a discussion forum that staff can pin, close or moderate.
Video
YouTube, Vimeo and Google Drive videos play on the course page, YouTube through its privacy-enhanced player. Video and audio clips held in the document locker play in the page too, only for those allowed to open them.
SCORM 1.2 and 2004
Packages exported from authoring tools are checked, unpacked and played, resuming where the student left off. SCORM 2004 sequencing, prerequisites and attempt limits are followed. A score can be posted to a test item in the marks grid.
External tools (LTI 1.3)
Tools that support LTI 1.3 are registered by the institution and added to course pages. Students open them without signing in again; grades return to the marks grid; faculty can pick content inside a tool that supports Deep Linking.
Learning progress
Each student sees how much of a course page they have done. Faculty see every student’s progress, hand-ins, quizzes, attendance and last activity, with students who need a word picked out and an Excel export.
Study material
The document locker holds study material in folders, and a subject’s documents reach only the students who take it; for an elective, only those who chose it.
Assignments
Hand-ins through the locker, with late cut-offs, individual extensions, group work, feedback files and marking against a rubric.
File versions
Replacing a file keeps the old one in its history, where staff can download or restore it. The submissions list shows which version of a brief each hand-in was made against.
Similarity checking
Hand-ins for an assignment can be compared with each other, with earlier hand-ins for the subject and with its material. See similarity checking for exactly what is compared.
On a phone
Students can add the institution’s portal to a phone’s home screen. It needs a connection; records stay on the server.
How a course runs, start to finish
An illustration of a typical sequence. Your own process is configured during implementation.
Subjects, sections and faculty are set up for the term in the academic record.
Faculty build each course page: sections, study material, videos, SCORM lessons and external tools.
Students open their courses and work through the material; progress is ticked as they go.
Assignments are handed in through the locker and, where switched on, checked for similarity.
Marks from assignments, lessons and tools reach the marks grid against their test items.
Faculty review the progress tab and follow up with students who have fallen behind.
A module, not a separate system
The LMS is the Courses & e-learning module of OLT SIS, together with the document locker it depends on. It uses the platform’s students, subjects, faculty assignments and marks, and can be switched on for an institution alongside the other modules. See the OLT SIS platform.
Who we have worked with
The institutions we have worked with, and the letters they have written, are on our clients page. In a demonstration we show this module working on demonstration data.
Works alongside
Online quizzes
A question bank, quiz structures and timed schedules, with live monitoring, lab-network limits and Safe Exam Browser.
Similarity checking
Assignment hand-ins compared with each other and with the subject’s earlier work and material, inside the institution.
Academics and student administration
One student record from registration to transcript, covering courses, attendance, assessment, grading and attainment reporting.
Frequently asked
Do we need a separate LMS alongside the student record?
No. Course pages, study material, assignments and progress use the same students, subjects and faculty assignments as the academic record, so there is no class list to keep in step and no second sign-in. Marks from assignments, SCORM lessons and LTI tools can go straight into the marks grid.
Which e-learning standards does it support?
SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages, including SCORM 2004 sequencing; post- and exit-condition rules, time limits and randomisation in a package are not interpreted. External tools are connected through LTI 1.3, with grade return, Deep Linking 2.0 and Names and Role Provisioning 2.0.
What does it cost?
It depends on the modules you take, the number of students and the deployment model. Tell us those and we will give you a figure.
See the LMS with your own courses
Tell us how your faculty share material and set work today and the demonstration will follow that.