If you’re facing the challenge of getting your employees onboarded and engaged with your education initiatives, the answer is seemingly simple – place studying in the heart of your employees’ work lives. One such app that might already be central to your employee’s work lives is Microsoft Teams.

MS Teams is not a learning management system (a tool for delivering online learning materials) but rather a collaborative hub for work-related communications. MS Teams can be used for online learning by integrating it with an LMS. Essentially, this means placing an LMS inside the app, allowing users to access the normal functionalities they would in the LMS within MS Teams.

Such an integration helps because it provides:

• An ecosystem of communication, collaboration, documentation and studying rather than disparate locations for each.
• Provides a more meaningful delivery of information in the daily workflow.
• Allows for a more viable, valuable and sustainable application of software.

When thinking about an integration between your LMS and MS Teams, you’ll likely come up with a few reasons for both sides of the argument.



If you decide to go down the integration route, you’ll likely see 3 key benefits for your organisation over time:

• Greater efficiency. Without some kind of integrated software, 69% of employees spend up to 60 minutes a day navigating between apps. That’s over a month spent clicking in and out of screens. Up to 4 hours a week can be saved through the information sharing MS Teams makes possible, and an integrated LMS falls into that bracket too.
• More impactful interactions. The most effective feedback comes at the right time, from the right person, and in the right space. Having the immediacy of chat within MS Teams is important for validating the education experience of an LMS. Not to mention, socialisation is an important part of the adult education experience.
• Digital employee experience. Creating a smooth and inviting digital employee experience is important for user buy-in. This can be achieved by building a consistent look and feel, ensuring content is discoverable and making sure content can be easily accessed. An LMS-MS Teams integration can help achieve all 3 of these items.

Integrating your LMS and MS Teams doesn’t override the core function of one or the other. Rather, it simply removes the background noise that distracts employees from engaging with well-crafted learning programs.

For a more in-depth look at an integration between your LMS and Microsoft Teams, have a read of the full article.