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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Learning Manager

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Enterprise LMS with Adobe Learning Manager

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Looking to deliver scalable online learning solutions? Adobe's latest enterprise Learning Manager is a powerful learning management system (LMS) that enables organizations to deliver, manage, and track immersive learning experiences. This book unlocks the full potential of Learning Manager, guiding you to become an adept administrator, author, or teacher, experimenting with Learning Manager from different perspectives. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the features and their impact on your business. From platform setup to course administration, you’ll be able to create blended learning experiences, deploy your content to different devices, and explore Learning Manager's features for monitoring your students' progress on a daily basis. Finally, you'll discover techniques for organizing and maintaining your course catalog while elevating the learner experience. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to implement your organization’s training strategy, deliver engaging learning experiences, and generate meaningful reports to monitor their effectiveness.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Publishing Learning Content
6
Part 2 – Managing Learners and Tracking Learning Data
13
Part 3 – Enhancing the Learner Experience
17
Part 4 – Administering the Platform

Managing user roles

Within a platform such as Adobe Learning Manager, authentication and authorization are the two fundamental aspects of user management. So far in this chapter, we have only focused on authentication. Authentication answers the question Who are you?

In this section, you will focus on the authorization aspect of user management. Authorization answers the question What can you do? Indeed, just because you can authenticate on a platform does not mean that you are allowed to use all its features. For example, learners cannot create courses, authors cannot delete users, and so on. Only the administrator is allowed to access every corner of the platform.

In Learning Manager, authorization is role-based. This means you need to create roles and define what each role can do on the platform. Then, you assign users to these roles.

There are five basic roles already defined in Adobe Learning Manager: Learner, Author, Instructor, Integration Admin, and Administrator....