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Demand for engaging and informative online courses has never been greater. But producing these types of content at scale is no easy task. In this post, we’ll break down what eLearning software is and how it helps organisations create better courses.

eLearning software is a digital tool that a company, organisation or individual uses to create learning content and experiences online. In some ways, eLearning software is an umbrella term that comprises numerous subcategories of specialised learning software.

While researching eLearning software, you’re likely to come across dozens of synonyms for the term. These include, to name a few:

Learning management system
Online training system
Content authoring tools
Digital instructional design
Digital learning software
Instructional design tools
Online training platform for business
Learning experience platforms

Each subcategory of eLearning software provides unique specialisations or features. But one thing they all have in common is their ability to create or distribute content and learning experiences online.

Traditionally, learning software was delivered offline, but this is becoming less common every day. Now the industry-standard for learning is the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, which offers a higher level of performance and flexibility.

How Does eLearning Software Work?

Producing an online course involves two steps: creation (or authoring) and distribution. eLearning software provides course designers a virtual environment for each.

The administration environment is where platform administrators will manage courses, products and the platform. The environment is also designed to provide the optimal user and learning management experience for the organisation operating the platform.

The frontend environment is where the end users, such as teachers, trainers, students and learners engage with the content and courses, as well as with each other. The design of this environment is focused on providing a positive user experience for the person taking – and the person grading – the course.

Types of eLearning Software

While there are dozens of providers of eLearning software – each with their own specialisation – they all fit into four general categories.

Comprehensive or All-in-One Software

Comprehensive eLearning software delivers both authoring and distribution functionalities in a single package.

This allows you to create, deliver and manage the entire learning experience, from inception to engagement with end users.

All-in-one software has become popular because you get the benefits of two platforms for the price of one, without losing functionality.

Authoring functionality for all-in-one solutions is usually either built-in, which often limits their capabilities, or achieved through seamless integration with a more robust authoring tool that has better features and functionality.

Some providers also offer solutions that allow you to customise your learning platforms, such as adding your own branding. These solutions check all the boxes of comprehensive software, but allow for a greater degree of customisation and flexibility.

It’s worth noting that a cutting-edge all-in-one solution should offer the capabilities of both a learning management system (LMS) and a learning experience platform (LXP), depending on the individual requirements and demands of its users.

(More on that in a bit.)

Online Authoring Tools

Online authoring tools are solely dedicated to the creation of eLearning content. They cannot deliver the content to end users. However, they do have the capability to export content via API (such as xAPI and SCORM) or by publishing directly to a connected learning platform.

Authoring tools have three main use cases:

Publishers use them to both digitalise their educational content and create more interactive digital content
Corporates use them to create and maintain high quality training courses for their employees
Agencies use them to create content that they can then sell to publishers or corporates

Learning Management System

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, and delivery of educational courses and training programs. Put simply, an LMS helps you manage every stage of delivering a learning experience to an audience.

There are standalone learning management systems on the market, but in many ways LMS represents a range of functionality that other applications provide. For example, an all-in-one solution might provide LMS features.

Learning Experience Platforms

A learning experience platform (LXP) is a new type of application that’s having a huge impact on the way the industry thinks about learning content. An LXP is essentially all-in-one publishing software but with a higher level of features and functionality that fosters a better user experience.

LXPs help you create personalised learning experiences through a number of innovative features, including:

Gamification
Personalised dashboards
Advanced reporting capabilities
Artificial intelligence

Conclusion

Engaging online learning experiences don’t happen by accident. eLearning software makes it easier than ever to create and deliver courses to users anywhere.

Need eLearning tools for authoring, distributing and managing your content? Tell us more about your needs today.

For almost 20 years, Avallain has provided the world’s most ambitious publishing houses and companies with the unique experience they require. Not to mention, with the ground-breaking technology they need to implement highly successful digital education and e-learning projects.

As industries evolve, so do their requirements, and we understand their need for an end-to-end learning management system (LMS) and learning experience platform (LXP) with top-rated e-learning features and immediate availability.

Enter: Avallain Magnet – Avallain’s new learning platform solution with powerful learning, product, and user management functions that can be implemented immediately. All in a fully intuitive user interface developed with cutting-edge features which seamlessly integrate with our leading e-learning authoring tool, Avallain Author.

End-to-end LMS also means limitless content creation

Avallain’s new out-of-the-box learning platform works seamlessly integrated with Avallain Author. Together, they unlock an all-in-one solution with unlimited options for content creators, opening up a sharp and intuitive publishing process. This solution creates fully interactive, responsive, highly individualised and thoroughly engaging learning materials.

In addition, this connection between Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet provides greater security and stability to your content creation and management strategy:

Content is hosted and managed in a reliable, independent e-learning authoring tool.
Content can be re-used without limitations, organised into sophisticated structures, and published instantly to your learning platform powered by Avallain Magnet.
Meanwhile, content creators are able to expand their possibilities to deliver intuitive and engaging learning materials.

This unlocks a straightforward, intelligent and agile publishing process that speeds up the creation, management and distribution of courses and products to teachers, trainers and learners.

What makes Avallain Magnet unique is that it understands the importance of keeping all stages of digital learning working together – without working in silos, but also without losing the most important capabilities which allow you to deliver top-quality learning experiences to your target audiences.

Your comprehensive learning management system, ready to go!

Whether you are looking for a digital platform to:

complement or substitute your printed learning material,
use a subscription-based model or one that combines different tiers of free and paid content,
establish a digital training academy,
or provide additional business continuity,

Avallain Magnet provides you with everything you need to meet your educational and business needs, regardless of the industry you are working in and with no time-to-market.

Our new learning platform combines Avallain’s almost 20 years of experience in the digital education industry with proven and cutting-edge technologies. This way, you will be able to realise your very own learning management system and learning experience platforms, with no setup costs and no waiting times.

With the option to easily set up separate portals with their own identity for each of your clients or end-user segments, businesses of any size and from any industry can provide their users with truly unique learning experiences.

Learning activity, created in Avallain Author and seamlessly published to Avallain Magnet

Built-in LMS and LXP features for teachers, trainers and learners

Teachers and trainers can use various built-in features of Avallain Magnet to create the best learning experiences possible, from automatically or manually marking interactive exercises, to live online teaching and mentoring through individual or group sessions.

With intuitive Teacher Dashboards that display statistics on courses and learners, teachers and trainers can use Avallain Magnet’s advanced Gradebook feature to gain valuable information about how individual learners approach their exercises: Where did they seem to struggle and where did they excel?

These statistics are a vital part of a fully individualised, responsive teaching style and Avallain Magnet is ready to measure and collate them, without complex interfaces to worry about. Of course, teachers and trainers will also be able to view the overall scores of their learners at all times. As a fully-fledged learning management system and learning experience platform, Avallain Magnet is built to accommodate various digital learning approaches.

From their intuitive dashboards, learners can efficiently work through the learning materials that are assigned to them either by teachers or after self-subscribing to the available courses and products. This enables learners to train specific skills while benefiting from the advanced mentoring functionalities that come with Avallain Magnet.

Teacher Dashboard. Course overview with learners’ average score

The best digital learning solution for your business

Another powerful feature of Avallain Magnet is its fully integrated token system, which makes it possible to operate different access and product strategies at the same time. It is also possible to launch different subscription models according to the individual requirements of your commercial strategy. This enables companies of any size and from any industry to have full control over the access and usage of their learning products.

The process is as simple as organising content structures into courses, then courses into products, and distributing them via the built-in token system to your end-users. Also, with dedicated user roles for teachers and learners, the option to bulk-create end-users and groups as well as the ability to create separate portals with their respective logos for each customer, every organisation can launch their own learning management system and learning experience platform effectively and with full control over their business model.

With an unlimited number of courses, products and tokens, Avallain Magnet opens the door to further business development and rapid business growth. We cater to companies of all sizes and Avallain Magnet works without any scalability issues. As Avallain Magnet works on our shared cloud-based hosting solution, there are no setup costs to obtain a robust, agile end-to-end solution for content creation and learning management – all in one, immediately available. Avallain Magnet. Digital Learning, solved.

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