Every teacher wants to build the best LMS portal that is easy to use, and compatible with their learners. It should make them want to visit their portal repeatedly come out relying on it for all their semester needs. Let’s learn about a few things to keep in mind to help you with this;

1. Branding

Whether you are a private teacher, or a professional providing for individual courses, your learning management system must have a particular logo or name that portrays you’re related to it. You want the attention of your students, and their parents, enabling them to access their website by simply remembering your name or the factor leading to brand identity.

This is the external factor to it, with an attractive and eye-catching logo, font, color theme, or website style.

1. Features needed for LMS

• Domain and email: This is created either with the name of your learning management portal page, or anything related. The best part is, you can customize the domain and email right from the beginning to make students feel included. Try out something like 'user@learningbig.com’
• Log in and log out page: This must have your institution name, with simply the option for login details such as email, username, and password. You can also add a piece of extra information below in case you have different courses available and students from multiple years of learning.
• Dashboard: this should include the introductory part of all your course details. basic information such as upcoming assignments, notice, holiday and exam calendars, chat rooms, live video calls recordings, teacher and student area, and fees submission.

1. Focus on navigation

When you are building a learning management system, besides being simple to use, the navigation must be easy for all students to manage. Because it is the main hub where all the interaction and activity is going to take place simultaneously for everyone, it must be able to handle the amount of data at once without inconveniencing the students by hampering the learning experience through virtual shortcomings.

Make sure to put all the sources related to the subject on one side, you can also create a virtual library that can be accessed by specific students and teachers. In the present times, with online teaching, online libraries have also gained popularity because they are easy to use. One great feature is, you can simply type in a word in the search bar of a PDF and it brings up the exact page where it is located. No more time wasted on rummaging through the pages, you can now focus on the subject without any delays. Although there is no denying that an offline class suits best for learning, the virtual teaching methods do have their own unique experiences.

1. Add blogs and social features

You can add the blogs in such a way that students do not need to log in for accessing them. This way, you attract a lot of new learners to join and learn with you. You are providing for everyone where their advantage is knowledge, and yours is having the capability to provide it. Blogs are supposed to be fun and informative at the same time. Keep a bunch of blogs ready at hand before you launch a learning management system portal so that you can focus more on modifying the features later while keeping the blog publishing constant.

Social features can be included in the form of;

• Available to all virtual chat boxes among learners
• Surveys with different topics
• Discussion boards and argumentative boards for debates
• The feedback channel lets the students can use to get in touch with the creator of LMS, which is you, and give you a personal review.

Students can learn a lot from each other since communication is the best way to understand better and have unique perspectives. Unless they are curious, they will not have the urge to ask questions. You are the one who is making them question things and live video calls, which they will remember and follow in real life. They can communicate about it and even continue the discussion in chat rooms later. In case you are unable to understand the need of certain learners, as it is your teacher’s point of view, your students can help you out from time to time through their feedback.

At the end of the day, it comes down to your need for the LMS portal which will decide how you are going to build it. Which feature are you prioritizing?