PNWSS is a Continuing Education Provider. We’ve integrated a new powerful learning management system (LMS) into our WordPress website—LearnDash LMS. When you purchase a class through our website, all of the activity is managed through this LMS add-on.
We will track all aspects of this program through an online Learning Management Software (LMS) that has been added onto the business website. A detailed registration form is required upon purchase. The LMS database tracking software will enable us to collect data: Demographics, Participant Activity, and Session Survey Questions.
Reports & Records
Pacific Northwest Social Scientists will develop reports, analyzing metrics will enable us to make any updates or modifications to address areas where participants report issues.
Policies and procedures are in place for maintaining training and testing records through the LMS. Pacific Northwest Social Scientists will generate reports on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to monitor activity, scores, and feedback.
LMS Monitoring
The key feature of the LMS will be enabling us to scrutinize the session quizzes. Updates, modifications, and design changes will be based off what we learn from participants responses to survey questionnaires and testing results. Some queries we are interested in include ensuring the word choices and questions are reinforcing the knowledges and skills presented within the sessions. Section quiz questions will provide opportunity for skill building by basing questions off previous answers. Key questions may be reworded and reused in other sessions. Questions and the potential answers will reiterate key concepts. Using principles from Psychology, we will pay attention to primacy and recency of information (which we can observe using the LMS). For example, “How many times does the average user take to get the right answer(s)?” If it is a lot and the information was delivered early (primacy) in the presentation, perhaps a review at the end (recency) in order for participants to better retain key objectives or concepts. Each question will be tied to a learning objective. This will enable us to determine whether there are areas within the training that are not sufficiently covering the objective(s).
We can also generate reports that look at problem learning areas by professions. Perhaps we find a correlation by profession (for example, Social Work Associates) where a high percentage of participants in this profession are repeatedly missing questions on the SOARS. We can use this information to update the video and any corresponding quiz questions. We can also email previous participants the updated information (for participants who take the training within the same calendar year a major training modification is made).