With over 6 million confirmed cases and 372,000 deaths and 1.2 billion children out of classroom, Covid-19 pandemic is the most serious threat to learning and education globally since the world war two. The data gathered by UNESCO Institute of Statistical Data shows that learning is still affected in 150 countries worldwide.

The outcome was a drastic change in field of education and in learning process of children. According to World Economic Forum, there is a sharp rise in e-learning trend and teaching through digital platforms. Even the World Bank has extended support to dozens of countries to strengthen education technologies (EdTech) in minimising the gap between students and learning during Covid-19.

The Research Institute of America’s study reveals retention rates in students are 25% to 60% in online classes as compared 8% to 10% in offline classes. Besides, online learning has been seen as Convenient, flexible, effective and interactive method of learning. With close interaction between teacher-students and students-students, social learning makes it fun and engaging to mobile generation.

According to UNESCO, majority of the countries in Asia, Africa and South America are using a mix of e-learning tools including videoconferencing, broadcast (TV and radio), texting, EdTech apps etc. as an alternate after pandemic affected the education systems.

But a core point here is to address the issue of ambiguity, arising in result of sporadic use of online learning tools and methods, without any proper training, planning and assessment techniques.

“This challenge comes with different dimensions, most particularly the technical infrastructure, the support tools to use for distance learning, assimilating online teaching pedagogies and finally how to organize and manage exams and student assessments from distance,’ says the International Association of Universities’ survey report on the impact of Covid-19 on higher education. The situation is more ambiguous when it comes to different level of schools.

For example taking a class through an app like Zoom is possible and easier, but assessing the learning made during an online class needs to involve some other method. Broadcasting lectures for different classes is useful, but engaging students need another tool. And the same issue goes on until we go for a comprehensive solution of learning online.

Here comes the Learning Management System, the comprehensive online learning approach blending the all possible tools and methods for e-learning at schools and even at business organizations.

‘An LMS stores unit and course plans and often has activities built into it such as discussion forums, quizzes and e-portfolios,’ defines a report of International Baccalaureate Organization on online learning.

Contrary to sporadic use of online learning tools and methods, LMS oversees every bit of learning process – right from the admission to course completion – in a systematic and managed way. Although Learning Management System or LMS is beneficial for educational institutions and business organizations alike, the educational scenario after Covid-19 has made it mandatory for educational entities to go for it.

Apart from basic functions, a comprehensive LMS should be applicable to both academic and business settings, though both are different in nature. Then a dynamic LMS should have various deployment capability including Cloud-based deployment – where participants can have access through a web browser – and onsite deployment – with client’s own infrastructure and servers are used.

In addition, a cutting edge LMS should be giving some common features to its users including Course Management, Course Updating and Authoring, efficient Course Tracking, easy to use Learners’ Portal and others.

But 21st century LMS even needs some advanced features like Gradebook (tracking attendees’ performance), Learning Paths (combing and sequencing training modules), Certification management, and Mobile learning (using mobile devices for continuous learning). Some reports also suggest 3rd party software and apps integration like Content management system (CMS) for smooth addition or deletion of courses, Videoconferencing apps or software for online classes or Webinars etc.

Combing all such tools, methods or software make a customisable and flexible Learning Management System (LMS) for your educational institution or business entity. For this, world class software development team at the Softkodes has come up with a world class solution.

We, at Softkodes, have been keenly observing the impact of global pandemic of Covid-19 on education and learning. We are already serving education sector for the last 4.5 years; however, after global scale disruption of educational process, Softkodes feel it is the right time to introduce a custom solution for all related learning issues, an AI-based comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS).

Combination of databases and 3rd party integration, our unprecedented Learning Management System (LMS) solution is aimed at helping institutions transforming their education systems after global pandemic. Unique point is its equal suitability and customisation for Enterprises, SMEs, Universities, TAFE, Colleges, VCE, Secondary and Junior schools

We are unique unlike others- who integrate few tools and use obsolete or weak eLearning methods – as we employ latest methods and customise solutions comprehensively. Some of such are usage of Whiteboards learning method, Artificial intelligence (AI) based system – answers literally to every query you have in your mind – Auto Learning, Facial Recognition of participants, Image Scanning for smart learning and even quizzing and many more, which are usually lacking in LMS solutions by others.

The Softkodes Learning Management System (LMS) is flexible so you can adopt it 100% online to blended courses, as per your situational requirement. Our LMS is not only the best learning partner for your institution amid Covid-19 lockdown, but this AI-empowered system will also ensure smooth learning operations in post Covid-19 scenario.