Important communication
If there is one element that has the power to predict an eLearning course’s success, it is communication. The reason? eLearning demands a social collaboration environment to guarantee its success. Regardless of the environment, learning is a social event. Without feedback, opinions, arguments and discussions, learning is incomplete and sometimes even obsolete!
Communication through multiple channels and formats ensure eLearning is as social as any learning environment. As digital consumers, we have added several communication platforms to our lifestyle. With apps for almost all social media, we revel in the notification signal.
If you want your learners to engage regularly with your course, then we strongly suggest providing a mobile application version of your LMS. This app will notify your learners when a new message or announcement needs to be checked out. Make sure there is always something new to read: a blog, an expert advice, message from the president and so on. Broadcasting achievements through notifications is also a great way to keep everyone engaged and in the loop. Announcements of new courses also keep things interesting. Automated communication encourages desirable behaviors.
Automate it
We all know the familiar ping of a notification. Notifications can be enabled in many ways to ensure the correct message is conveyed at the desired time. There are many types of notifications available in a learning management system. Talk to the experts in the Information Technology Department, who selected, procured and installed the LMS for your organization.
Getting to know the features and functionality of your organization’s learning portal gives you a superior advantage in administering your e-courses. Simply request for your organization’s learning management system orientation session. Take notes of all the bells and whistles of the learning portal.
Ask yourself what features you need for your course? Is it updates on course changes? Is it the grade distribution? What about the latest trends in training strategies? How will you share this information? What if you have more than a hundred learners? How would you send out multiple notifications to multiple users? Automated notifications are the best thing that happened to course administrators since the idea of mass-emails! Learn about the various types of notifications from the IT personnel and utilize them to engage and retain learners in your ongoing and upcoming e-courses. Imagine sending one message to all learners at a click of a button. Also imagine, being able to write customized notes for special situations and sending them to the categorized groups of learners.
These and the following types of notifications are great to use, in order to keep your learners in your e-course.