The ATD 2017 International Conference and Expo in Atlanta is THE place to be May 21-24! This is an awesome event with tons of info-packed sessions, so be sure to come prepared to learn the latest trends and best practices to design, deliver, and measure your learning programs. We’d love to hear what you think […]

How do I turn my current live classes into e-learning? This is a very common question from many new LMS customers. Many companies adopt an LMS expressly to overcome the challenges they have with live training. When customers ask me this question, I first ask them if they are sure they should take their classes […]

The Big Picture of Learning The bigger picture of learning in the organization goes beyond courses. Frameworks like 70:20:10 as promoted by Charles Jennings, and Modern Workplace Learning as represented by Jane Hart, suggest that most of the valuable learning doesn’t come from courses. I don’t disagree; it is not that courses aren’t valuable, but we […]

I've launched a few LMSs in my career.  And I've heard about many, many, more implementations. In my early days you really had no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on a hardware/software solution supported by your internal IT department. But that all changed with cloud technologies and the massive shift […]

Congratulations to the entire Litmos Team! The SIIA announced the finalists for their annual CODiE awards and Litmos was chosen in the following categories: Best K-12 Course and Learning Management Solution "Recognizes the best digital learning environment/system designed for K-12 educators to manage curriculum-based content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, data management […]

There isn’t really one clear definition for online training and there are even more names for it: online learning, computer based training, eLearning, mLearning, distance learning, self-paced learning, asynchronous training, and the list goes on… What we do agree on, is it happens online. The type of online training that we’re talking about is a […]

Over the years I’ve produced several software training courses for Instructor-led, classroom-based training. We all know the kind, where such courses last anywhere from 1 to 5 days in length. Then during a project implementation, as the solution nears completion and client testing begins, the Project Manager comes to you as the Training Manager and […]

You have been asking for some new features and we have been listening.  We have decided to change how learners are notified of updated courses and we have also updated reports to fit your needs better. We have added a feature that shows courses as updated only when you want to notify the learners that […]

Let me wish you a happy and productive new year from the Litmos blogging team! It's time to continue with our occasional manifesto on how to bring eLearning to your organization (and maximize the use of your LMS). This is a food-for-thought post on authoring tools. Many Litmos clients (and others tasked with magically converting […]

Over the weekend we released a major upgrade to the way that Litmos sends emails. What this means for you is more of the emails that Litmos sends out to your students will find the inbox rather than get caught in spam or junk filters. Over the past year the number of emails that Litmos […]