
Characteristics Purpose Īn LMS delivers and manages all types of content, including videos, courses, workshops, and documents. Modern LMSs include intelligent algorithms to make automated recommendations for courses based on a user's skill profile as well as extract metadata from learning materials to make such recommendations even more accurate. In the higher education space, an LMS may offer classroom management for instructor-led training or a flipped classroom. LMSs are focused on online learning delivery but support a range of uses, acting as a platform for online content, including courses, both asynchronous based and synchronous based. Learning management systems were designed to identify training and learning gaps, using analytical data and reporting. Learning management systems have faced a massive growth in usage due to the emphasis on remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first introduction of the LMS was in the late 1990s.

Learning management systems make up the largest segment of the learning system market. The learning management system concept emerged directly from e-Learning. A learning management system ( LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials or learning and development programs.
