To assess the impact of your training with your LMS, it is essential to use integrated analysis tools to monitor key indicators such as completion rate, assessment scores, and learner feedback. This data allows you to continuously adjust and improve your training programs, thus ensuring their effectiveness and relevance.
Evaluate the impact of your training on your LMS is a necessity if you want to measure the effectiveness of your content and offer personalized learning paths.
Vocational training is undergoing profound changes thanks to the integration of new technologies. The border between the different formats (e-learning, face-to-face, distance, distance, collective, collective, individual, social learning, etc.) is becoming thinner and companies no longer hesitate to vary formats, supports and evaluation methods in order to offer a complete and personalized program to their employees.
Whatever the approach chosen (100% e-learning or Blended Learning), it is necessary to supervise, manage and evaluate the learning system according to training engineering and pedagogical engineering adapted to each project.
Assessing the impact of training with an LMS can be done using the approach of Donald Kirkpatrick, who held the position of Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States and was recognized for creating his model dealing with the assessment of employee learning on four levels: the evaluation of reactions, learning, knowledge transfer and finally results.
The Kirkpatrick model adapted to online platforms
Kirkpatrick's 4 assessment levels can be adapted to online learning, and more particularly done from an LMS.
These platforms make it possible to automatically report certain strategic information about the success and relevance of a module: completion rate, time spent on the various modules, etc.
Feedback can be evaluated by launching surveys (questionnaire, survey, feedback) directly from an LMS training platform, manually or automatically.
Finally, the last level of Kirkpatrick's assessment concerns the increase in learners' skills and by extension the ROI of training for the company. At the same time, it requires tools to analyze performance before and after the follow-up of a module by an employee, and therefore to connect to other external tools such as a CRM.
Why measure the impact of LMS courses?
Remember that the purpose of an evaluation, regardless of the e-learning platform chosen (LMS or LXP) is to enter a cycle of continuous improvement in order to improve the effectiveness of the program and the quality of content for employees.
After measuring the impact of LMS-type training, it will be necessary to set up a process of improving and integrating new features on an ongoing basis. The training offered to employees involves significant expenses on the part of companies which, although they are obviously concerned with the well-being of their employees, seek above all to remain competitive in their market. A market that is very likely to have been impacted by digital technology and is therefore in constant motion, requiring constantly updated skills.
The courses offered must therefore be able to be quickly evaluated and the performances resulting from the gain in skills measured. The concept of return on investment (ROI) is therefore a fundamental criterion in the evaluation system. It is therefore essential that the chosen LMS provides relevant data for the learner and the company because the evaluation of training courses is now a strategic data.
