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What is an LMS?

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What is an LMS?

Let me ask you a question. What is an LMS? Put simply, an LMS is just a learning management system. More realistically, it's a course management system. It's a centrally administered service offered by your institution in which you can manage a course or group of courses, their files, students' grades, and so forth. Sound an awful like a web site, doesn't it? Well, no, it's actually quite different. See, rather than having you remember the web site addresses for each course web site that you own, the LMS uses a single web site with a single sign-on, which is much easier to remember, and once you get into your learning management system, your username and password get you access not only to the learning management system, but also to all of your LMSs' course sites in which you're an instructor or a student. Once you get into the courses, you are going to notice that there is a uniform look and feel across all courses. Notice here we have got navigation on the left-hand side, content on…

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