Hurix DigitalHurix DigitalHurix DigitalHurix Digital
  • Home
  • What we do
    • Digital Content Solutions
      • eLearning & Training Solutions
      • Higher Education Solutions
      • K-12 Content Solutions
      • Design, Animation & Video Services
    • Digital Content Transformation
      • Production Services
      • Editorial and Pre-Press Services
      • Quality As A Service
      • Robotic Process Automation
    • Digital Engineering & Technology
      • Learning Technology Services
      • Managed Cloud Services
      • Custom Software Development
      • E-Commerce Solutions
      • Business Analysis as a service
    • Digital Platforms
      • Kitaboo
      • Kitaboo Insight
      • Kitaboo College
      • Learning Management System
  • Who we are
    • About Us
    • Life at Hurix
    • Careers
  • Who We Serve
    • Higher Education Institutions
    • K-12 Institutions
    • Enterprises
    • Publishers
    • Societies & Nonprofit Associations
  • Hurix AI
    • Equalsense
    • Dictera
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Case Studies
    • E-Books
    • How To Guides
    • Whitepapers
    • Point Of View
    • Awards
    • Press Releases
    • Podcast
    • Glossary
    • Infographics
  • Contact Us
    Home Digital Engineering & Technology How to Increase User Dwell Time with LMS?
    NextPrevious

    How to Increase User Dwell Time with LMS?

    By Darshan Shah | Digital Engineering & Technology, LMS | Comments are Closed | 24 July, 2023 | 0

    Content and usability are two of the most important aspects of eLearning. A good user experience design and techniques used to make your learning management system (LMS) more engaging play a key role in defining the success of your L&D program.

    If you have an LMS in place currently, but your employees aren’t spending enough time on it or engaging with it to the extent that you would like, you’ve come to the right place. This blog explores some of the best practices for making your LMS more engaging.

    Table of content:
    1. Relating Concepts to the Real World
    2. Using Plain and Simple Language
    3. Creating a Community and Seek Feedback
    4. Breaking the Course Down Into Smaller Chunks
    5. Leveraging the Power of Social Media
    6. Offering Different Options for Personalization

    1. Relating Concepts to the Real World

    When it comes to learning and development, users like the idea of new skills or information they are learning to have relevant applications in real life. It is, therefore, useful to integrate engaging videos, infographics, etc., to display the valuable takeaways of your LMS training program.

    Providing such visual stimulation in the form of engaging graphics and images helps you add better clarity to concepts and improve learner engagement.
    Additionally, incorporating the latest research into your training program that highlights the importance of the content and course also helps increase your employee’s buy-in, builds interest, and encourages learners to spend more time on the LMS platform so that they can then apply the concepts on the job.

    2. Using Plain and Simple Language

    One of the key benefits of online learning is that it can be presented conveniently to a large number of learners.

    Plain or simple language is, therefore, a must as it makes the course content effective, ensuring that a large number of users from different backgrounds can join the course and learn comfortably.

    The focus here should be to compose the materials for online courses in simple language and in a way that is easy to understand so that it delivers content/information effectively.

    Apart from this, making use of game-based learning to increase participation and information retention is important to keep learners engaged.
    For this, you can take advantage of your LMS’s gamification options, such as reward points, leaderboards, achievement badges, group games, etc.

    3. Creating a Community and Seek Feedback

    Learners are often discouraged from participating in training programs if there are too many barriers to understanding new material or information.
    One of the best ways to help learners here is by creating a community where they can benefit from collaborating and discussing various projects online and learn from one another when in doubt about the new information.

    Seeking user feedback is another important area to take care of here. When attempting to complete training, users will be much more engaged if they can provide feedback, share their opinions, and easily connect with their trainers, even if it is on a virtual or remote basis.

    4. Breaking the Course Down Into Smaller Chunks

    Long training sessions are not only overwhelming for learners but are also impractical as it is difficult to take out so much uninterrupted time from hectic work schedules and devote it to an LMS.

    To address this challenge, you can simply break your modules or course content into smaller chunks that will only take 5-10 minutes to complete.
    Breaking information into much smaller chunks of similar content also helps you enhance learning speed and retention. This kind of bite-sized learning is especially important in a remote or virtual learning setup since the content is being learned independently.

    Besides, the chances of employees having shorter breaks than longer ones are quite high, and keeping the lessons short will only incentivize them to go to the LMS and use their downtime to finish a lesson instead of putting it off for later.

    5. Leveraging the Power of Social Media

    Maximizing the power of social media platforms is an excellent way to make your learners spend more time on the LMS and stick to the course, boosting their knowledge and enhancing retention rates as well.

    Social media platforms are also helpful in transforming passive learners into active ones. This can be done by setting up targeted training-related groups/communities within the LMS platform that can encourage learners to collaborate, work together, and take up challenges with each other.

    This not only keeps them mentally stimulated but also puts their newly acquired knowledge and skill sets to the test.

    6. Offering Different Options for Personalization

    Since every learner has a distinct way of processing content, it is important to offer them different options for personalization instead of forcing them to go through the same LMS modules in the same order.

    This offers them choices in terms of which courses or modules they wish to complete and when. Providing choices will also make them feel more in control of their learning and encourage them to actively engage right from the start rather than simply being passive learners and taking the modules as they come. This will help in enhancing their investment and engagement in the LMS manifolds.

    Read this: Does Your LMS Have These 7 Features?

    The Bottomline

    Similar to any other enterprise software product, the key factor determining the effectiveness level of the tool is the users’ capacity to use it to their advantage.

    This applies to L&D as well, where LMS user adoption is the deciding factor in the success of the training program. We have discussed some of the proven ways you can use your LMS to increase both user engagement and dwell time on the platform.

    If you are looking for a perfect LMS solution to enhance your user engagement, Hurix offers a customized LMS for all the learning and development needs of your organization.

    A leading LMS service provider, HurixDigital offers end-to-end services, including LMS maintenance/support, LMS administration services, learning content management, and much more to suit the specific needs of users.
    Contact us to learn more about Hurix’s LMS.

    Also read, 21 Learning Management System (LMS) Statistics 2023

    learning management system, LMS, workforce learning

    Darshan Shah

    More posts by Darshan Shah

    Related Post

    • gamification and employee engagement | 12 Ways to Enhance Employee Engagement with Gamification

      5 Ways Hurix LMS Enhances Employee Engagement

      By Darshan Shah | Comments are Closed

      With an increasing number of companies realizing the importance of learning and development for better business outcomes, the one aspect that has become a priority is ensuring employee engagement during training.  While it’s always goodRead more

    • XML workflow

      How to Identify the Best Learning Management System for Small Business?

      By Antara Harve | Comments are Closed

      Pushing for the adoption of a cost-effective, state-of-the-art, and the best learning management system (LMS) can help drive greater efficiency, inter-connectedness, and scalability to your operations. As a small business, you run a tight operationRead more

    • LMS for Business – Does One Size Fit All?

      By Sundar Narasimhan | Comments are Closed

      Keeping in line with the advancements in technology, more and more organizations across the globe are adopting Learning Management Systems (LMS) to supplement their learning and training requirements. In fact, eLearning is today one ofRead more

    • How to Solve Your Training Effectiveness Problems with LMS?

      By Sundar Narasimhan | Comments are Closed

      Increasing the effectiveness of training programs while allocating training resources is one of the top priorities for any organization. The simple reason for this is the fact that a training program that is optimized toRead more

    • Unlock the benefits of a moodle based learning management system with Hurix

      10 Benefits of Moodle based Learning Management System (LMS)

      By Sundar Narasimhan | Comments are Closed

      Download WCAG Guide Today!What is an LMS? Simply defined, a learning management system (LMS) is a software used to administer learning and training of various courses to one or more learners. These days, an LMSRead more

    NextPrevious

    More Resources

    • Case Studies
    • WHITEPAPERS
    • How To Guides
    • Point of View
    • Awards
    • Press Release
    • Podcast
    • Glossary

    Follow Us

    Recent Posts

    • Digital Learning Best Practices for Continuing Medical Education
      4 March, 2024
      Comments Off on Digital Learning: Best Practices for Continuing Medical Education in 2024

      Digital Learning: Best Practices for Continuing Medical Education in 2024

    • Google Classroom or Moodle
      4 March, 2024
      Comments Off on Google Classroom or Moodle – Which is the Better Option for You?

      Google Classroom or Moodle – Which is the Better Option for You?

    • 4 March, 2024
      Comments Off on Top 10 EdTech Companies in the United States

      Top 10 EdTech Companies in the United States

    • 15 Best Online Learning Platforms in 2023
      4 March, 2024
      Comments Off on 15 Best Online Learning Platforms for Higher Education in 2024!

      15 Best Online Learning Platforms for Higher Education in 2024!

    Categories

    • Digital Content Solutions
    • Digital Engineering & Technology
    • Digital Products & Platforms
    • Digital Transformation Services
    • Higher Ed & K-12 Solutions

    Services & Solutions

    • Managed Cloud Services
    • Custom Software Development
    • eLearning & Training Solutions
    • Editorial and Pre-Press Services
    • Higher Education Solutions

    Products and Platforms

    • Equalsense
    • Dictera
    • Learning Management System
    • ePUB3 Conversion

    Resources

    • Blog
    • Case Studies
    • Press Releases
    • How To Guides
    • WHITEPAPERS
    • Point Of View
    • Glossary

    About Us

    • Our Clients
    • Contact Us
    • Awards
    • CSR Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookie Policy
    Copyright © 2024 Hurix | All Rights Reserved.
    • Home
    • What we do
      • Digital Content Solutions
        • eLearning & Training Solutions
        • Higher Education Solutions
        • K-12 Content Solutions
        • Design, Animation & Video Services
      • Digital Content Transformation
        • Production Services
        • Editorial and Pre-Press Services
        • Quality As A Service
        • Robotic Process Automation
      • Digital Engineering & Technology
        • Learning Technology Services
        • Managed Cloud Services
        • Custom Software Development
        • E-Commerce Solutions
        • Business Analysis as a service
      • Digital Platforms
        • Kitaboo
        • Kitaboo Insight
        • Kitaboo College
        • Learning Management System
    • Who we are
      • About Us
      • Life at Hurix
      • Careers
    • Who We Serve
      • Higher Education Institutions
      • K-12 Institutions
      • Enterprises
      • Publishers
      • Societies & Nonprofit Associations
    • Hurix AI
      • Equalsense
      • Dictera
    • Resources
      • Blog
      • Case Studies
      • E-Books
      • How To Guides
      • Whitepapers
      • Point Of View
      • Awards
      • Press Releases
      • Podcast
      • Glossary
      • Infographics
    • Contact Us
    Hurix Digital