Your premier destination for mastering the Open LMS platform. Whether you are a site administrator overseeing an entire organization or an instructor designing your first digital classroom, our self-paced courses provide the hands-on training you need to succeed!
Who is Academy for?
Open LMS Academy is designed for anyone interested in learning more about our products and services - administrators, instructors, even those using alternative LMSes but wondering what Open LMS can provide.
In addition to our online Open LMS Academy, we also provide monthly Open Office Hours for all of our clients. Find out details such as dates, recordings, and additional resources by enrolling in our four Open Office Hours courses in Academy, each designed for different regions and timezones. Find links for each course right on the Academy Home Page. These Office Hours are available for anyone within your organization - administrators, instructors, or anyone at all who would like to learn more about Open LMS.
What content will you find on Academy?
Open LMS Academy hosts a wide variety of content, including:
Self-paced learning courses (see below for details)
Open Office Hours courses that allow you to register for upcoming monthly sessions, watch recordings of previous sessions, complete learning activities, and access additional links and resources
Event-specific courses and information available through the Events menu. Learn about and register for upcoming events and access their corresponding courses when the events are live
How to sign up for Academy
If you are interested in any of our self-paced courses or our Open Office Hours, please visit https://openlmsacademy.myopenlms.net/login/index.php to register yourself in the Open LMS Academy. Here are the steps to do so.
1. Access the Site
Go to https://openlmsacademy.myopenlms.net/login/index.php in your browser and click on Create new account at the bottom.
2. Fill in user details
Fill in your username, password, email address, and other details.
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Username: The username cannot contain spaces. We recommend using an underscore
_character instead. - Password: The password must have at least 8 characters, at least 1 digit(s), at least 1 lower case letter(s), at least 1 upper case letter(s), and at least 1 special character(s) such as *, -, or #
- Email address: Be sure to double-check that you have entered your email address correctly. You will receive an email at that address containing a link to verify your account.
- City/town and Country are optional fields.
- Organization/Organización: This is a required field, but you may leave it as the default "Independent" value if you wish.
- Preferred language/Lenguaje de Preferencia: This is a required field. The language you select here (currently English or Spanish) will enroll you into the set of courses in the selected language.
Once you have filled in the required information, click Create my new account.
3. Verify your email
Next, check your email for a verification link. Click on that link to verify your email and finish creating your account.
4. Access the Academy Home Page
Once you log back into the Academy site, you will see the Academy site home page:
- To access our self-paced courses, click on My courses from the top menu.
- To access our Open Office Hours courses, click on the relevant course icon for North America & EMEA, LAC, APAC, or the Philippines User Group. You are welcome to access one, two or more!
- The Calendar on the bottom of the page allows you to see upcoming Open Office Hours sessions.
- On the upper right, you can click on your initials and select Profile > Edit Profile to update any profile information such as your profile picture, organization, or timezone.
Below is a screenshot of the My courses page (you may see the Spanish courses if you selected that as your preferred language):
What courses are available?
We currently have several courses available (in English and Spanish):
Find details about each of these courses below. Stay tuned for updates in our Open LMS Community site as we roll out new courses!
Admin Orientation: Master the Engine of Your LMS
Designed for new site administrators, this course provides a comprehensive roadmap for managing your platform. You will learn to handle high-level configurations, manage user data securely, and maintain a seamless learning environment for your entire organization.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Navigate with Confidence: Identify key administrative areas and customize the site’s "look and feel" through themes and dashboards.
- User Management: Master manual creation and bulk CSV uploads to manage thousands of users efficiently.
- Course Architecture: Build course categories and establish site-wide default settings to ensure consistency.
Instructor Orientation: Design Engaging Learning Experiences
If you are brand new to the role of instructor, this course is your guide through the configuration options, activities, and resources available within an Open LMS course. We focus on the pedagogical "why" just as much as the technical "how."
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Course Configuration: Set up course settings, manage groups for collaborative work, and navigate the instructor interface.
- Interactive Assignments: Create versatile assignment activities with specified submission types, due dates, and grading rubrics.
- Collaborative Discussions: Differentiate between forum types to facilitate graded, asynchronous class discussions.
What's New in Open LMS 5.1
The 5.1 release is a massive leap forward for Open LMS. We’re introducing a unified Open LMS experience, powerful new AI integrations, and major usability upgrades. This course will ensure you’re ready to take full advantage of these features the moment your site is upgraded!
Complete the course to earn a completion certificate and a downloadable course export that you can upload to your own site!
Some key highlights of the course:
- User interface improvements: A new enhanced activity selector, as well as the ability to customize the new color groupings used for activity icons to better align with institutional branding or visual preferences. The Activities overview page has also been improved with additional key information, including important dates and activity statistics.
- “Inactivity Manager”: To help you take ownership of your platform usage, the new Inactivity Manager plugin automates the management of dormant user accounts, allowing you to automatically suspend users who have been inactive for a configurable number of days.
- “Question Bank” enhancements: Teachers can now share and reuse questions across multiple courses using the new Course Question Banks, aided by six new filtering options for easy discovery.
- The unified experience: Open LMS 5.1 brings the best features across all environments into a single, consistent experience. All SaaS clients now have access to powerful tools like Personalized Learning Designer (PLD), Conduit, and Programs & Certifications. In addition, a single, unified plugin matrix ensures you have access to everything Open LMS has to offer.
H5P Creator Course
Are you tired of uploading static PDFs and long, unengaging videos? H5P is a game-changing, open-source technology that allows you to build rich, HTML5-based interactive content directly inside Open LMS. This course will turn you into an interactive content architect, where you’ll learn to build many of the H5P activities you’ve already seen and experienced in the Academy courses!
Some key highlights of the course include:
- Simple but engaging interactions: Drag & Drop and interactive image activities such as hotspots and image sliders bring your content to life.
- Interactive video: Avoid passive watching. Add multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and pop-up text right in the middle of your lessons. If a student gets a question wrong, you can force the video to rewind so they can review the material!
- Branching scenarios: Create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning modules. Perfect for nursing simulations, customer service training, or ethical dilemma exercises.
- Course presentation: Level up your traditional slide deck by integrating questions and other interactive activities directly into your slides without any special software or downloads required.
This course details best practices for H5P as taught by Open LMS. Open LMS is not affiliated with H5P. https://h5p.org/trademark