If you want to get the most bang for your buck from your LMS, it’s essential that you integrate learning content from a variety of high-quality sources. Content integration can help you leverage the full potential of your LMS, save employees time spent locating relevant learning, and take the pressure off teams that support learning.
Read on to discover four key benefits of content integration.
1) Smoother, Simpler Experiences for Every Learner
Integrating content into your LMS is like making a sandwich. It won’t mess up your kitchen and it’s sure to go down well. You could ask learners to take a bite of bread and then spoon peanut butter into their mouths, but why would you when that’s complicated and time-consuming?
With content integration, the learning experience is seamless. The LMS serves as the bread, the delivery mechanism. And the content is the filling—the good stuff—that you want your learners to savor and remember. Instead of asking your learners to go find a morsel here and a crumb there, content integration helps you provide a single, simple, and enjoyable offer.
Keeping learning content in a single place means employees have a rich content library they can enjoy at their convenience. This cuts complexity for busy staff and can significantly boost uptake.
2) Reduced Complexity for Your Key Stakeholders
Content integration makes things easier behind the scenes too. Stakeholders from HR to procurement will see complexity cut.
Because all training modules are contained in a single space, there’s no need to juggle different platforms. Content for onboarding, continuous learning, and employee development are all available within one system, which saves time and reduces manual tasks for HR and L&D.
This is particularly useful when it comes to scaling. Bridge LMS, for example, offers quick and easy integration with OpenSesame—a content aggregator with over 40,000 pre-curated courses. This allows L&D or HR to share the right content with learners right off the bat, without lengthy content-creation or admin tasks.
IT professionals will welcome integration too. Blending learning content with the larger ecosystem streamlines a tech stack, so maintaining all systems is quicker and less complex.
A trusted content aggregator like OpenSesame, will also do all the technical ‘heavy lifting’ of making sure all modules and courses function properly. Its portfolio of content is constantly growing. This means your learners always have access to the latest content, without any extra pressure on your IT colleagues.
Procurement is a breeze too. Getting all your content through a single platform—your LMS—consolidates the sales experience and makes budgeting and renewal cycles easier.
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3) Compliance Peace of Mind for Your Organization
The results of a recent survey show that 87% of organizations suffer negative outcomes, including slow sales cycles, as a result of low compliance maturity. You know that proper training can help you avoid this kind of impact on your business’s bottom line.
Without readily available content, however, you’re burdened with manually sourcing modules or even creating content from scratch. The nuances of statewide mandates and changing regulations really turn the pressure up.
Content integration can make all the difference. When trusted providers give your learners continuous access to current information through the cloud, you'll have peace of mind that you'll stay compliant. All without needing to spend internal time and resources on updating training as laws change.
Integrating third-party content also makes tracking easier. On Bridge LMS, you can easily see analytics on enrollment and completion rates. This kind of information gives you a clear view of how employees engage with their eLearning, so you can take control of compliance training. Being able to share data also helps you prove the value of your LMS or training programs to decision-makers.
4) Better Insights Into Learning Progress for Managers
A Gartner survey found that 77% of employees feel getting support from their manager is more important now than ever before. Why not empower your managers with a fully stocked eLearning library?
Integrating content into a sophisticated LMS like Bridge, ensures you can identify skills gaps using peer-to-peer or stop-start-continue feedback and automatically match employees with the specific courses they’d need to improve.
Forget one-size-fits-all! When employees have a personalized content space filled with recommendations that are highly relevant to their specific needs, they’ll be more motivated to learn.
With Bridge, managers and HR also have easy access to analytics and reporting, which makes it easier to keep an eye on how staff are using content. You'll give them more of what they need and want to close skills gaps faster.
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Getting the Most Out of Content Integration—What to Look for
With all the benefits easy access to content brings you and your learners, you’ll want to make sure you choose the right approach. What should you look for when you want to take your training program to the next level with content integration?
- Ensure that your content provider offers eLearning in a SCORM-compatible format so you can easily integrate content with your learning systems
- Your LMS should support single sign-on to make it easy for users to access their learning libraries from anywhere
- Make sure that your LMS integrates with your HR software and performance management systems so your learning content strategy is informed by clear, coherent data
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Bridge Makes Content Integration Easy and Effective
When it comes to simple, efficient content integration, Bridge checks all the boxes. Whether it's universally required off-the-shelf content on common training topics, or more niche content created especially for specific industries, we’ve got you covered.
Our partnership with OpenSesame means you get access to a huge range of courses—all from rigorously evaluated publishers, so you can be sure your content is of the highest quality, relevance, and accuracy.
We’ve helped countless organizations across the world take advantage of content integration and we can do the same for you. If you want to see how we can help, arrange a demo below.
