Never be Asked to Try Again with Coggno\\\'s Learning Management System 08/27/2009

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Juggling all the different subscription, banking, social network, email, learning management system, and other account passwords is overwhelming. And it seems like more and more websites are creating increasingly complicated password requirements.

 

Your old stand-by password is suddenly no good anymore. Some sites want a mix of numbers and letters in your password. Some require more than 5 or 6 characters. Others want a combination of lower-case and capital letters, others a mix of both plus numbers, while the most horrible sticklers require a more-than-six-character mix of both cases plus numbers.

 

Some very efficient, clever, and/or über-organized people have found tricks for remembering passwords. For example, I read about one trick where you take the first and last letters of the website name, and stick your usual password in the middle, adding perhaps a number or two that you always use. I read about another trick too, but I've forgotten it. Just as I've forgotten the passwords to oh-so-many subscriptions, networks, and other sites.

 

I know I'm not alone. And that's why universal login, that magical feature that learning management systems and other e-learning platforms are beginning to adopt on a wider scale, is so smart.

 

For organizations and schools delivering e-learning content to large numbers of students, accessibility and ease are essential. And universal login provides this in a simple and logical way.

 

To aid organizations and all users in their virtual learning environment access, Coggno has recently integrated RPX with its learning management system. Accessing your training or other e-learning content is now so, so simple.

 

Coggno no longer requires users to create a Coggno account, providing instead a smorgasbord of login options. Through the RPX app, users can now access Coggno using identities from major sites such as Google, AOL, Yahoo!, Twitter, WordPress, MySpace, and Facebook.

 

Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.

 

The Evolution of Learning Management Systems and E-Learning Tools 07/23/2009

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E-learning and learning management systems need to evolve with a changing world, just as other systems have.

 

Take Scrabble, for instance--the word game that tests your vocabulary and ability to arrange words on a board in a strategic way. I've always loved the game and considered myself a pretty good player.

 

But it's changed in recent years--in the same way as education has changed. And the way of playing it has had to change with the different rules.

 

In traditional Scrabble, if I'm not sure the word I want to use is a real word, I either refrain from playing it or play it and take my chances. In case you aren't familiar with the game, the chances were this: if a person wants to challenge my iffy word, they can do so--grab a standard dictionary and look for the word. If it isn't there, I have to take my non-word off and forfeit my next turn as punishment. If the word does exist, the challenger has to forfeit their next turn. This part of the game was always, for me, quite essential, at the heart of Scrabble.

 

But on online Scrabble, this part of the game is no longer relevant. And yet, people are still playing and loving cyber Scrabble. I don't play it myself, but I asked a friend who does how it works, and why it's still fun. "Can't you just look up words?" I asked her. "Can't people just cheat?" "Well, it's not cheating to look up words on online Scrabble," she replied. "So, of course you can."

 

E-learning courses can face the same conundrum. From online training and learning content to the use of discussion boards and other Web 2.0 tools for educational purposes, who's to say a student isn't simply looking up the answer, copying and pasting responses, learning nothing? This is possible in some settings, and depending on the content, it may have a profound impact on the content's effectiveness.

 

That's why built-in tools to track, test, and enhance student progress are essential e-learning strategies which can be provided by a robust learning management system.

 

Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.