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Increase the Visibility of Your Reports with Sharing Settings
As LMS administrators, it’s essential to track learning. Creating and running reports is one way to do this in SmarterU LMS. But did you know you can save time and effort by saving reports you frequently run? You can then make these reports availabl...
Discover the Admin Experience with Our LMS-in-Action Videos
In any learning management system (LMS), the admin experience can significantly impact efficiency, satisfaction, and overall success. Therefore, when picking an LMS to create, deliver, and manage your organization’s training, consider what you nee...
Managing Knowledge Base Permissions in SmarterU LMS
One key to creating a positive learning experience is providing learners with information that meets their needs. While this often involves assigning training in the form of courses, it can also include sharing content in a resource library. As an...
How to Organize and Beautify Your SmarterU Knowledge Base
As LMS admins and HR professionals, we want to make training delivery efficient and stress-free for learners. One way to facilitate this is to centralize training and resources within the LMS. Rather than using multiple applications and trying to ke...
Five Innovative Ways to Use Forms in SmarterU LMS
A form is a way to collect information from your learners. Class registrations, medical consents, job applications, and opinion surveys are examples of forms you’re probably already familiar with. SmarterU’s built-in form feature (used to create...
Collect Valuable Feedback from Your Learners with SmarterU LMS
As LMS administrators, we understand that one of the most significant factors in the success of any training program is your content. It must be accurate, comprehensive, relevant, and error-free. While you and your content team must work toge...
Offer Support to Your Learners Directly Within SmarterU LMS
As LMS administrators, one of our primary goals is to deliver a smooth, enjoyable learner experience. SmarterU LMS facilitates this by featuring an intuitive default learner dashboard , a clean, modern design, and advanced customization options lik...
Leverage SmarterU’s Learning Plan Report to Track Your Learners’ Progress
We recently announced that learning plans are available in all SmarterU LMS accounts. Learning plans offer a structured way to bundle your training and present it to learners in an intuitive format. If you missed it, read our previous article, Lear...
Beyond Grades: How to Leverage Transcripts in SmarterU LMS
A transcript is a document that records a learner’s training history. It typically includes details such as course names and grades. Available in SmarterU LMS, a transcript maps out a learner's progress and achievements, guiding them to improve thei...
Learning Plans Are Now Available in All SmarterU Accounts
We are thrilled to announce that learning plans are now available in all SmarterU LMS accounts. But what is a learning plan, and how can it help you deliver training more efficiently? Keep reading to find out. Want SmarterNews ...
Track Learners’ External Training in SmarterU LMS
In today’s ever-evolving professional landscape, pursuing upskilling, reskilling, and continuous learning is essential for career growth and development. Learners are constantly presented with information both inside and outside your LMS. Whether at...
Use Tagging to Enhance your Learner Dashboard
The learner interface is one of the most crucial parts of any learning management system (LMS). Learners who find an LMS experience welcoming, intuitive, and well-organized are likelier to log in and engage. Beyond user-friendly navigation and clear...
Now Available: Video Feedback for your Quiz Questions
As LMS administrators, we always look for new and innovative ways to improve learner comprehension, engagement, and outcomes. An easy way to do this is by including strategic multimedia elements — such as videos — alongside your text content. ...
Important Update: Changes to Email Address Fields in SmarterU LMS
On January 31, 2024, we will be making some changes to our custom domain settings in SmarterU LMS. Currently, we allow you to use a custom “from” email address when sending user- and system-generated emails from your SmarterU account.  ...
Explore the Learner Experience with Our LMS Walkthrough Videos
How learners experience your LMS can have far-reaching effects on the success of your training program. A positive learner experience can complement your training, enhancing learning outcomes, completion rates, and overall satisfaction. It c...
On-Demand Support: SmarterU's New In-App Help
Imagine the following scenario. You’re an LMS administrator back from vacation and just discovered that a new hire is starting… today! You quickly add them to your SmarterU LMS account and assign their training, but you accidentally enroll them in a...
Level Up Your Communication: Customizing Email Templates in SmarterU
When it comes to learner engagement, effective communication is key. Whether reminding learners about an upcoming deadline or congratulating them on completing a course, emails are essential to any LMS administrator’s role. However, crafting the per...
Creating Accessible Content with the SmarterU LMS Course Builder
To establish a diverse and inclusive learning environment, we, as LMS administrators, need to consider how we design our content. Is it accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities? Can everyone use and benefit from our training equ...
Using SmarterU LMS Themes to Create the Right First Impression
First impressions are essential, and one of the first things learners notice when they log in to your LMS is how it looks. Perhaps you want your training environment to represent your organization’s brand and culture to create consistency across you...
Create a Resource Library with our Knowledge Base & Custom Page Builder
When someone says “LMS,” we often immediately think of online courses and quizzes. While this is a large part of many learning systems, it is also important to provide learners with supplemental information and resources — such as product referenc...
Why Feedback Forms are Critical to Your Training Success
As LMS administrators, we work hard to create the best possible experience for our learners . We make sure they have all the information they need, design beautiful courses, and ensure everything is easy to find and use. But many of us need to reme...
Using a Multilingual eCommerce Storefront to Improve Your Learner Experience
More and more organizations are moving away from traditional in-person learning and instead embracing online offerings such as SCORM courses, webinars, and video tutorials. The online eCommerce storefront has further bolstered this trend by allowing...
Gain New Insights with SmarterU LMS Forms
As training administrators, we always strive to provide the best training experience to our learners . One of the most effective ways to improve and evolve training is through valuable learner feedback. Want SmarterNews delivered to y...
How to Use the SmarterU LMS Enrollment Process Report to Resolve Errors
You’ve created your courses. You’ve enrolled your learners. As a final step, you might want to run a report to ensure that everything is complete. Good news! After processing your enrollments, SmarterU LMS will automatically send you the Enrollmen...
Finding the Right Fit: Default and Custom Reports in SmarterU LMS
Everyone reports to someone, and getting to the data we need and then analyzing it correctly is an ongoing challenge we all share. We know that reporting is essential to any effective training program. Metrics help us track key performance indicator...
Everything You Need to Know About the SmarterU LMS Timeline Page
While it is necessary to make it easy for learners to find and access their training quickly, it is equally important to allow them to look back on their learning history. To let them reflect on what they’ve done, see their progress, and review thei...
4 Ways to Use Your Custom Learner Dashboard in SmarterU LMS
Are you an HR professional looking to take employee engagement to the next level? Or an LMS administrator searching for new ways to present your training to learners and help them find what they need? If so, we invite you to check out our latest vid...
Boost Training Completion Rates with Scheduled Reminders
It's no secret that training completion rates are often less than desirable. With so many things competing for their attention, employees often struggle to make time for training, or they start it but fail to finish for one reason or another. The re...
Everything You Need to Know About Supervisor Access in SmarterU
At the heart of every organization are the people. People with different jobs, titles, and training requirements. Typically, organizations sort their people into a functional hierarchy based on their roles and responsibilities. At SmarterU LMS, we u...
How can I view my learners' training history?
Mark is a fantastic employee. He excels at his tasks, exceeds client expectations, and works well with the rest of the team. Unfortunately, last week Mark made a mistake that resulted in a workplace accident. Now there is an investigation and, as th...
How can I send certificates to my learners?
For many learners, completing online training can seem like something that takes them away from what’s important to them — their daily work. At the same time, completing a course is an accomplishment that should be celebrated. So how can we recogniz...
Why can’t learners see my knowledge base content?
So you’ve set up a knowledge base with a ton of helpful resources, documentation, and downloadable forms, but your learners can’t see it. Now what? Don’t panic. This is likely caused by one of two things. Want SmarterNews delive...