What’s a LMS?
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the delivery of educational courses or training programs. It has become the ubiquitous term for products that help administer or deliver part or all of a course.
LMSs support a range of uses, from supporting classes that meet in physical classrooms to acting as a platform for fully online courses, as well as several hybrid forms, such as blended learning and flipped classrooms.
An LMS helps the instructor deliver material to the students, administer tests and other assignments, track student progress, and manage record-keeping.
Most LMSs are web-based, to facilitate access.
South African NQF
The Benefits of a South African NQF Configured LMS
A South African NQF Configured LMS can triple you B-BBEE score in half the time. In addition, it can multiply your learnership success rates and help secure millions in incentive payout. A NQF Configured LMS pays for itself many times over.
An NQF compliant LMS is important in achieving the ambitious B-BBEE skills development targets of 6% of your wage bill. And a necessary tool to prevent being penalised an entire level of B-BBEE for scoring under 40% of the skills development target.
Furthermore, B-BBEE requirements are that 85% of your skills development spend must be NQF credit bearing.
The NQF credit bearing process requires 70-90% of the notional training hours to be workplace assignment based. This is difficult to achieve and account for, without and LMS that links learner logs to specific unit standard numbers and costs.
Strategically speaking, learnerships are the most cost effective way to achieve B-BBEE skills development points and avoid penalties.
A learnership completion benefit 0f R 30 000 per learner is awarded upon learnership pass rates and often adds up to millions.
For learners to pass they must be found competent on their Portfolio of Evidence. But to be awarded a certificate, you also need to satisfy the SETA regulations, follow their processes and account for notional hour requirement of workplace assignments.
FusionLMS is proactive in managing learner success rates. It automates the development of the portfolio of evidence. It contains an Imbedded Management Dashboard to manage your learnership investment.