IBM G210-1784-00 manual Chapter About the IBM Lotus Learning Management System, Introduction

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About the IBM Lotus Learning Management System

Introduction

This document provides information on the IBM® Lotus® Learning Management System installation process as well as information on packaging and layout. The intended audience for this document is system administrators, developers, and other users who wish to install the Learning Management System.

What is the Learning Management System?

The IBM Lotus Learning Management System is a scalable, flexible platform for managing both classroom-based and e-learning activities, resources, curriculums, and courseware catalogs across the enterprise. The product is an end-to-end fully integrated learning solution that is comprised of the following modules: Learning Management System Server, Authoring Tool, Delivery Server, and an Offline Learning Client to support disconnected use.

Learning Management System organizes and delivers courses, tracks and reports on student activities, and reserves instructors and resources, enabling customers to manage their entire training program from a single platform.

Using a web browser, students can review the online course catalog to enroll in both instructor-led classroom training and e-learning offerings, then receive confirmations and/or notifications of schedule changes. Training managers are able to reserve resources to avoid scheduling conflicts, develop curriculums for various audiences, and provide managers with reports on their employees' training activities. The Learning Management System product streamlines the overall management of an organization's training activities, increasing efficiencies and saving time and expenses.

With the product's support for industry standards, organizations can offer a wide variety of courseware developed with third party products such as Macromedia→ Dreamweaver™, or they can develop their own courses in house with the Learning Management System authoring tool. Subject matter experts can create courses on their own, with no programming skills required.

Understanding the Learning Management System Architecture

Learning Management System components

Learning Management System framework can include some or all of the following components:

•Learning Management Server

•Delivery Server

•WebSphere→ Application Server

•Relational database management system

•Authoring tools

•Domino™ servers

•LDAP

•IBM® Lotus® Virtual Classroom (LVC)

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