Learning Management Systems (LMS) Mastery

Course Code: IDL07

Program: Curriculum, Instructional Design & Digital Learning

Course Overview: A Learning Management System provides the digital environment through which courses, content, activities, and learner progress can be organised and managed. Effective LMS design helps make learning structured, accessible, engaging, and scalable.

This course equips educators to translate curriculum into an LMS, organise courses, modules, lessons, and learning paths, manage learners and content, and improve navigation and engagement. It also develops approaches for monitoring, reporting, optimisation, and continuous improvement.

Learning Outcomes

• Structure courses and programs within an LMS
• Design effective learning environments
• Manage learners and content
• Optimise LMS use for engagement and scalability
• Align LMS structure with curriculum design

Target Audience: Educators, LMS administrators, instructional designers, programme coordinators, and learning-operations teams managing digital courses.

Learning Experience: Learners engage through video overviews, audio deep dives, study guides, practical examples, reflection prompts, workbook activities, applied tasks, knowledge checks, and end-of-module quizzes. Activities support LMS course structuring, navigation, content and learner management, reporting, optimisation, and scaling.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 16 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Structure digital courses. Manage learning systems. Improve the LMS experience.