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LMS Customisation: Configuring your LMS to achieve industry-specific training success

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At Hubken, we take pride in providing e-learning solutions that serve clients across a range of industries. With over two decades of cross-industry experience, we can safely say that one of the best ways to get the most out of your e-learning investment is to tailor it to the unique needs of your industry.

We believe that LMS customisation is the key to industry-specific training success.

But what do we mean by industry-specific LMS customisation and how can you achieve it? Find out everything you need to know as we share our top tips and expert insights in this blog.

 

Why should you customise your LMS to cater to your industry needs?

One of the biggest mistakes we see people make when implementing a new LMS is to take the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. Every business and indeed every industry will have its own unique training and development requirements, meaning the way an LMS has been configured for one business may not suit another.

A well-configured LMS is the best fit for addressing the unique challenges and goals of a specific industry, such as adhering to regulatory training requirements in a healthcare organisation or meeting budget-focused training targets in third-sector organisations. By configuring your LMS to your industry needs, you’re better positioned to not only meet those goals and tackle any challenges but also deliver a strong platform ROI.

To better understand this, let’s look at our clients for some real-life industry-training success stories.

 

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Hubken client: International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)

Industry: Charity/Third sector

As a charity organisation with teams of volunteers positioned all over the world, IFRC needs an LMS that ensures universal access to vital training content, even in under-resourced areas. To achieve this, IFRC has configured the mobile app in our Moodle LMS to provide multi-device and offline access.

If you’re an organisation looking to provide offline mobile access to training, you may need to consider customising your training content so that it can be easily downloaded and completed without internet access. Try looking at SCORM content for this, you can find out more about SCORM here.

 

Hubken client: The Royal College of Podiatry1132-original (1)-1

Industry: Healthcare

The Royal College of Podiatry (RCPod) has championed the flexibility of our Totara Learn LMS, which allows them to be responsive to membership needs and easily provide new services their members may want. Totara’s flexibility ensures that RCPod can customise training activities to suit the needs of its members with diverse content delivery options, auditing tools, and centralised site admin. Read RCPod’s full case study for more information.

 

Hubken client: Arrivaarriva-1

Industry: Transportation

With strict industry compliance regulations in place, Arriva came to us looking for an LMS that could support compliance training delivery and management to its 39,000+ employees. To achieve this, Arriva used the automation functionality in our Totara Learn LMS to create customised compliance training pathways.

By using automation technology to deliver tailored compliance training, Arriva can automate mandatory course assignments based on specific user profiles (position, geographic location, etc) and take advantage of a series of automated reminders to ensure training completion.

Arriva’s compliance training success resulted in them winning Totara’s 2023 Best Compliance Experience Award – read the full story here for further insights and inspiration.

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LMS customisation options you should explore

Having looked at what some of our clients are doing, let’s explore some additional ways you can configure your LMS to fit the unique needs of your industry.

It’s worth noting here that to implement a customisation strategy, you need to first analyse your industry-specific training requirements and then find an LMS partner that can support your customisation needs. We offer a whole host of sophisticated customisation options that provide everything you need to achieve your industry-specific training goals and business objectives. Get in touch with us today to find out why you should choose Hubken as your LMS provider.

 

Integrations

LMS integrations allow you to combine the functionality of third-party software with your chosen LMS, meaning that you can unify both platforms and seamlessly transfer data from one to another. This can be hugely beneficial for businesses looking to customise their LMSs to address industry-specific training requirements.

For example, the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) integration allows NHS organisations to create a seamless connection between workforce management and our Totara Learn LMS.

For educational facilities looking to customise their LMS to support eCommerce training activities, integrations like WooCommerce and Shopify make it easy to monetise online courses directly from our Totara Learn LMS.

Find out more about our Totara integration options here.

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Custom branding and UX

When designing your LMS, you’ll want to make sure it feels like an extension of your organisation, ensuring it can easily be recognised through elements like brand colours, company tone and logos. This is true for an LMS in any industry but especially for organisations such as educational facilities or businesses that offer third-party training and customer training programmes.

For these industries, getting the platform’s UX right is also of the utmost importance. If the platform isn’t easy to navigate and use, people won’t use it, limiting your chance of repeat business and potentially damaging your company’s reputation as a result.

Find out more about the importance of getting your UX right and find out how to customise it to suit your organisation here.

 

Industry-specific training-content

Each industry will have specific requirements when it comes to deploying training content that will best serve its learners. Industries like healthcare may require specialised long-form training content, such as courses made up of multiple lessons and formal assessments. On the other hand, businesses delivering HR training courses may wish to keep content light-hearted and concise with snappy, engaging videos.

The great news is that by using an LMS, you can easily customise your training content so that it aligns with your industry-specific business training strategy. Find out more by visiting our content solutions page.

It’s also worth noting that businesses, such as our third-sector clients, with employees spread across the globe may need to customise their training content so that it caters to multiple languages. To achieve this, you’ll need an LMS that offers multi-lingual support such as our Totara and Moodle solutions.

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Blended learning functionality

Businesses in industries such as manufacturing, transportation, and retail often have employees working in a variety of workplace environments and locations. For example, a business may have staff working in an office, along with delivery drivers based in a depot, and employees based in a warehouse.

To achieve the best results, training should be tailored to suit not only specific roles, departments and training needs but also the environment in which training may take place. Here, employers may wish to adopt a blended learning strategy by customising training delivery to each environment. Warehouse staff may prefer face-to-face seminars while office staff may prefer online training. The important thing is to use an LMS that can seamlessly manage both offline and online training.

Find out how to customise your training delivery by learning more about blended learning here.

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Multi-tenancy

Industries such as the public sector and healthcare are often comprised of large organisations with a huge range of departments, each with its own training requirements. Tailoring training to each department requires unique content, varied content delivery, a multitude of user profiles, group dashboards and department-specific reports. Does this mean each department needs its own LMS? The short answer is – no!

Great news for your business and your budget, you can simply customise your LMS by deploying multi-tenant LMS functionality, allowing you to create and manage multiple independent learning environments within a single LMS.

Find out how to use a multi-tenant LMS to deliver personalised learning for different departments by reading our blog.

 

Ready to unlock the key to industry-specific training success?

You can utilise loads of powerful configurations within your LMS (we haven’t even scratched the surface in this blog). By leveraging your LMS configuration options, you’re guaranteed to boost your ROI and see better training results for your business. However, you need the right LMS and the right LMS partner to achieve this.

Our award-winning Totara LMS is a highly configurable and flexible platform that offers everything you need to achieve industry-specific training success. Join forces with Hubken today and experience first-hand what makes us stand out in the crowded world of LMS providers: unparalleled expertise, unbeatable value and unmatched support.

Get in touch with us to find out more about our LMS options today or if you’d like to expand your LMS customisation knowledge, discover more customisation options by reading our ‘Top 10’ blog here.

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