Learning Management Systems and its descriptions

1. Moodle
Moodle is widely known among open-source LMS solutions. It features detailed guides on how
to set up your own Learning Management System, tips on how to create online training courses
and teach with Moodle, as well as a large community of Moodle users who interact on various
topics. Most importantly, it’s entirely free of any charge and comes with a mobile application as
well.

2. Canvas LMS
An open-source LMS that is free for instructors. It makes teaching and learning easier in terms
of implementation, adoption, customer support, and success. It is adaptable, reliable, and
customizable. Designed to get out of your way, and let you do your thing. Its interface and
features are crafted to save you time and effort, resulting in getting adopted faster and deeper
than many other Learning Management Systems.

Canvas LMS allows students to submit paperwork, obtain notifications, and interact with the
learning materials given to them on the devices they use. They can also merge their Canvas LMS
account with their social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook. The app offers a platform
that educators can use to create effective learning tools for learners. Instructors can provide
feedback and integrate wikis, blogs, videos, and other mediums of education, and monitor their
students’ progress.

3. Schoology
Schoology is an innovative LMS and social networking app. The platform makes it easy to create
and share academic content. It offers a collaborative and integrated learning experience to
make the conventional LMS more effective. The application also provides a customizable
training platform that streamlines content management.

4. Edmodo
Edmodo is a social LMS for schools, districts, students, and teachers. The company was founded
in Chicago, Illinois and today is based in San Mateo, California. It is a leading K-12 social learning
network that provides learners with the training materials and instructions they need to
maximize their potential.

You can use Edmodo to engage students and motivate them to learn in a familiar environment.
Using the system, educators can conduct online classroom discussions, release polls to measure
student comprehension, and give rewards to students based on their productivity or behavior.

5. Blackboard
Blackboard, a full-featured learning management system. The software combines platforms
called Learn, Transact, Engage, Connect, Mobile, Collaborate and Analytics. Blackboard also
sells other products for K-12, higher education, business, and government institutions. Teachers
and educators will find products specifically tailored to the needs of their jobs, as will students
and other education facilitators.

Blackboard Learn puts emphasis on communication and content. As such, it offers tools to
enhance interaction and connection between instructors and learners such as built-in chat
function, online discussions and announcements, and individual as well as mass mailing. On the
content side, there are tools for course creation and delivery, online learning modules, calendar
function for posting assignments and due dates, posting of assessments and gradebooks, and
easily accessible media library.

6. Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aim to simplify
creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of
Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.

Google Classroom combines Google Drive for assignment creation and distribution, Google
Docs, Sheets and Slides for writing, Gmail for communication, and Google Calendar for
scheduling. Students can be invited to join a class through a private code, or automatically
imported from a school domain. Each class creates a separate folder in the respective user's
Drive, where the student can submit work to be a graded by a teacher. Mobile apps, available
for iOS and Android devices, let users take photos and attach to assignments, share files from
other apps, and access information offline. Teachers can monitor the progress for each student,
and after being graded, teachers can return work along with comments.