{"id":11576,"date":"2021-08-02T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uxpertise.ca\/6-tips-for-relieving-back-to-school-stress-in-your-training-or-educational-organization\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:05:13","slug":"6-tips-for-relieving-back-to-school-stress-in-your-training-or-educational-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uxpertise.ca\/en\/6-tips-for-relieving-back-to-school-stress-in-your-training-or-educational-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Tips for Relieving Back-to-School Stress in Your Training or Educational Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back-to-school Stress<\/h2>\n

Back-to-school is, more than ever, a year-round part of life for adult learners.<\/p>\n

Faced with this rising tide of demand for online learning, educators, instructors, course creators, and other leaders in the knowledge-sharing business may be feeling stressed by the challenge of responding cost-efficiently to a 12-month back-to-school period.<\/p>\n

The roots of this stress may be found in the educational technology (ed-tech) you\u2019re working with. Perhaps you\u2019re wrangling with the constraints of a basic e-learning platform. Or maybe, your legacy learning management system (LMS) is overloading your staff with admin tasks and slowing the growth of your learner base.<\/p>\n

Adding to the stakes for your organization are the rising expectations your learners have regarding digital experiences: expectations shaped by the easy and convenient online interactions your learners are having every day with some of the world\u2019s most forward-thinking organizations.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, ed-tech offers a solution for cost-efficiently relieving the stress of this year-round back-to-school demand — the modern learning management system (LMS).<\/p>\n

By automating processes and efficiently creating, managing, distributing, and marketing your online learning offer, a modern LMS can help your learners reach their goals while supporting your budget and bottom-line goals.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how an LMS can help alleviate some stress.<\/h2>\n

1. Centralize and streamline the admin of all your learning activities<\/h3>\n

Managing all your learning activities, both online and offline, means orchestrating a lot of moving parts. That can be a time-consuming and laborious task for your team. The beauty of an integrated LMS is that, from one location, you get both a top-down view of your entire course offering and the power to manage it efficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n

From assembling your online course content to storing it, managing, and distributing it, your LMS empowers you to incorporate all these functions seamlessly and manage it all effortlessly through an intuitive interface.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, an integrated LMS with must-have automation options can eliminate many repetitive tasks. For example, when a learner enrolls, all the related actions are automatically executed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, you can more easily manage\/automate tasks like scheduling, registration, attendance, testing, compliance, performance tracking, and more. These efficiencies relieve your team of a big administrative burden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Reduce the costs of reaching your Total Available Market (TAM)<\/h3>\n

An LMS helps you efficiently manage both your in-person and online training. What\u2019s more, your LMS\u2019 powerful functions simplify the expansion of both your online course offering and its geographic reach, so you can extend your Total Available Market (TAM), i.e., the total number of people who could potentially be interested in your online course offering.<\/span><\/p>\n

A modern LMS enables you to do so in various ways:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n