Learning Management Systems (LMS)
1. Introduction
      Learning management system (LMS) is software designed to create, distribute, and organize the delivery of learning content. The significance to the advancements of web-based technologies is the development of powerful software systems, known as learning management systems (LMS), have become a widely-used technology and a key instrument in supporting e-learning in higher educational institutions. As LMS offers numerous benefits to individuals and institutions. Students can access course materials independent of time and location. Significantly, it opens up fresh potentials for initiating academic innovations where students function as dynamic, control their own learning, develop critical thinking and become collaborative participants. In addition, LMS provides an automated mechanism for teachers in the management of online courses, allowing them to create, add, modify, customize, and reuse digital content and learning objects and tracking learner progress. From the student or learner perspective, the LMS provides personalized access to assigned course materials, messaging and notifications, and access to scores and transcripts.
E-learning is a new education concept by using the Internet technology, it deliveries the digital content, provides a learner-orient environment for the teachers and students. In connection to this e- learning we connect Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content.
2. Experience using LMS
      In this digital era, online learning methods are becoming increasingly popular in the world of education, in fact many bring benefits to learners and also teachers. Approximately two years undergoing an online learning system, so that the activity seems normal we feel and receive it well. As a result of the online learning system, students are certainly required to be able to learn independently and have initiative in developing all their potential and insights. This online college system that has been running has many limitations, but there are no other options. Learning from home is certainly not the same when on campus. Campus is indeed provided as a place to learn, socialize and organize to develop all potential. But if the house is not like that. The home environment will be faced with a lot of work. Both the work inside the house itself and the work of helping parents outside the home.
3. The advantages of LMS
An LMS allows flexibility of access from anywhere with internet accessand.
Easily accessible
Simply using a smartphone or other technological device such as a laptop connected to the internet you can already access the material you want to learn.
A LMS can support content in many formats, e.g., multimedia, video, andtext. Which will support more varied and interestinglearning.
Potential to reach a global audience.
4. The challenges of LSM
Internet network is less supportive
Make the delivery of the material less maximal. Some students will have difficulty hearing lecturers deliver material because they are disjointed.
Wasteful Internet Quota
The beginning of the implementation of online classes did create challenges in terms of costs for internet quotas. Using video conferences or others can increase the consumption of quotas.
Difficult to interactive
Although this is not always the case, but generally the teaching and learning process that is done online causes the learning process can not take place interactively. Many students are confused by a material but find it difficult to ask the teacher.
Lack of Supervision in Learning
Lack of supervision in doing LMS learning sometimes loses focus. With the ease of access, some users tend to procrastinate on learning time. It needs self-awareness so that the learning process with this method becomes purposeful and achieves goals.
5. Subject are effectiifely and not effectively learned by using LMS
LMS refers to the use of internet technology to deliver a series of solutions that can improve knowledge and skills.
LMS has shortened learning time and made study costs more economical. LMS facilitates interaction between learners with materils or subject matter, learners with teachers or instructors and fellow learners. Learners can share information with each other and can access learning materials at any time and repeatedly, with such conditions learners can further strengthen their mastery of learning materials. Inside the LMS, the ones taking on the role of teacher are computers and computer-designed electronic guides. Therefore, the level of effectiveness can be said to be relative, depending on each component that supports or participates in this online learning process so it is expected that this learning brings the best results even within existing limitations.
6. Expectation about learning process through LMS
LMS is implemented to train the skills of teachers and students in this digital era, combining lms models with offline as an alternative to future learning, so that the quality of education does not deteriorate. Education is a long-term investment for a nation.
LMS is done online for the transformation of science to learners to make a lot of changes, both in terms of the implementation of learning, learning methods and in terms of assessment. Almost in all educational institutions / schools utilize technology such as the use of gadgets, laptops and learning applications available from his school and from outside for the implementation of learning. Various online media used such as whatsapps group, google classroom, zoom, google meeting, youtube, material is given in the form of powerpoint, short videos and reading materials. But in the implementation of learning the use of technology does not mean there are no problems, many obstacles are encountered during the execution of learning.
7. Conclusing
Technological advances have a major impact on the development of education, educators use it to facilitate the teaching and learning process and improve the quality of education as provide feedback and discussions during learning. In all-round conditions
Limited today, it takes the understanding and creativity of educators in packing online learning to attract the attention and motivation of students in follow the stages of online learning. Selection of approaches and models the right approach, as well as the support of various parties determine the success online learning. Evaluation of online learning is important to do. This is because by evaluating online learning, It can be known whether learning can run effectively or not. If it feels it is not effective so that it can make modifications to the learning system. in accordance with the needs of students.
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