LMS reporting is crucial to your business because it allows you to view big data in a succinct and digestible way. Most organisations have more data than ever at their disposal. A centralised point for storage, collection and analysis is important for two key reasons.
- Optimising resources: LMS reporting data is made to measure the LMS itself. Being able to see enrolment and completion rates/times gives you a clear idea of what’s working and what’s not. Beyond saving money, it also enables you to better plan future resources.
- Reporting to stakeholders: There will always be higher ups who want to know the ROI of training. Providing regular and/or in-depth updates can be time-intensive – with no let up from the powers that be. The sheer variety of available LMS reports means all angles can be covered, while scheduled reports take the hassle out of manual data collection.
LMS reporting data can boost learning effectiveness by helping you better understand learner engagement, which in turn means you can accurately evaluate investments, ensure skills are applied and identify issues such as skills gaps. Consider these specific LMS reports that will help you address these items.
- Learner progress: These are the most all-encompassing LMS reports you’ll get, as they can provide a full picture of engagement and interaction. You can go bird’s eye and report on all users or filter it down by department, team, job role or learner cohort.
- Course completions: These metrics show you data for selected content. Where there’s consistently failed or incomplete courses, you’ll want some idea of what’s tripping up learners or causing them to check out.
- Course progress: Course progress metrics will give you an idea of individual comprehension. It’s super useful for understanding how learners interact with certain courses and can reveal high-potential and self-motivated employees.
- Capabilities: Capability frameworks are made up of tens, if not hundreds, of skills. By understanding what capabilities are being built into the business, your learning initiatives are focused on intentional capability building linked to business goals.
- Compliance: Compliance reports help you keep track of how up to date employees’ compliance knowledge and certifications are. Expiry dates can be viewed en masse. Ultimately, this helps reduce business risk.
- Attendance: In a single report, you can filter by course or learner to understand what is commanding learner engagement and therefore worth the investment. It will also help you breakdown individual attendance, popular time slots and session waitlists.
- Assessment results: This report will allow you to see how each question in an exam, for example, is answered. They’re essentially the main way you can understand if your employees are learning what they need to.
- Feedback and satisfaction: While you can get a good idea of engagement from other reports, sometimes it’s best to go directly to the source. Feedback or surveys attached to courses can be arranged in an LMS report, enabling you to better understand engagement and forecast learning resources.
- Instructor feedback: Seeking feedback from learners about their instructors helps you understand whether learners are connecting with their instructors. If not, they’re very likely to check out of critical courses which can affect learning outcomes.
For a more in-depth look at LMS reports and all they can achieve, have a read of the full article.
