My days and nights are still consumed with the issue that our LMS does not manage classroom based courses well at all. I can not find a work around for our courses that run over many different days. The vendor gave me a solution if they are all in the same week, but that doesn’t solve it.
- I tried making session 2 a whole new course and that session 1 is a prerequisite, but they can’t register for number 2 until they pass number 1.
- I tried about putting all the sessions under one certificate, but they can’t register for a certificate only an individual course.
- I tired making one course and just putting all the dates in the details, but that doesn’t help the instructor keep track of everyone showing up for all sessions.
- I tried letting the learner registering for the first session and the instructor registering them for all the other sessions (hidden from public view). Nice idea however the instructor is never notified if a new student registers, they would have to go into the course, see who is new, go the the learner management screen add the other sessions (of which they can’t see entirely because the window is too small), and then go back and look up the next new learner. Too much for an instructor that may have 6 sessions and 30 learners.
I’m at a brain freeze trying to work around this issue and about 60% of our in class teachings are like this. I’m ready to scrap the whole think and become a shepperd.
Nothing but sympathy from me. I have many biases against LMSs, which tend to be compromises based on what engineers, executives, and marketing people think a training-management system should do.
I’ll bet it’s pretty good at generating multiple-guess questions, huh?
Why, however did you know? LOL. I think you are very right. What actually happens learning wise in an organization is very different from perceptions.
At the very least I’m being constantly challenged at work.