Best Practices - Content delivery

The LMS has various ways of delivering content, which creates multiple ways to deliver the learner journey. In this article, we discuss each of these delivery ways with best practice examples so that you can decide which are the ways that work for your organisation!

In detail, we will review:

Levels
Curriculums
Library
My Learning section

1. Levels

Levels can be utilised for multiple purposes, however, as levels are linear paths, these work best for structured learning journeys.

Best practices:

Creating pathways allows to you ensure that your learners are taking your pre-planned content in the order you want! You can group different pieces of content together for a level and then a collection of levels in a pathway
You can have multiple-level pathways for various user groups
For example, level works well as an introduction unit for LMS
Can be used for new starters as you can structure content to ‘level up' from easy to strenuous content

Things to note:

You can add required and optional content; learners can level up without completing the optional content
The learner can be only on one level and one level pathway at a given time, and the learner is not able to see the next level content until they are on that level. Hence, it is a good idea to showcase through banners that show how many levels there are in the pathway
Levels will override the content groups - so if you allocate content to the level, it will show to learners on that pathway

2. Curriculums

The curriculum is a ‘folder’ of specifically grouped content. The difference to a level is that curriculum can be more controlled by the order the content is taken.

Best practices:

Curriculums are great for ad-hoc training, for example, new training or requirement/certification
Content can be ‘locked’ and released based on the completion prior piece or on a specific day
You can add a curriculum to a level - however, recommend not adding more than one curriculum per level as it could very intense level!

Things to note:

Curriculum can exist in the library as well or you can invite learners to curriculums
You can include classrooms in there as all other types of material.
You can add more content to curriculums through this: “Tick this box each time the content changes to withdraw users' completion status & notify them of your new material”, which means that users will then see the curriculum again

3. Library

The library is a collection of content pieces. This is an ideal way for the self-exploration and discovery of new interests.

Best practices:

The library can be organized by categories and sub-categories, for example, by topic or by skill or department or sites/offices.
You can restrict access to content by content groups or you can have modules as ‘open access, whereby all learners have access to the modules.
If you have both individual pieces of content as well as pulled these into a curriculum, try arranging these by categories/ sub-categories to show learners the difference

Things to note:

It is not recommended to feature classrooms in the library as posting multiple events can get very crowded in a library category
If the learner has no access to the content in the category, that category will not show in the learner's library

4. Learner - My Learning (MTTD and Timeline)

Finally, My Learning section is a user-specific collection of learning including:

The current level, which they can access their level
Curriculums or any other content invited to, which can access the content directly
Content the learner has started from the library
Timeline of content learner has completed- and could re-take
My updates: including achievement and content
My favourite content; content that the learner has favourited

There you have it! Using these best practices and tips should allow you to choose the ideal delivery method. You can also see how this compounds into the “My Leaners' personal section.

Happy Learning!