Here are just some of the benefits to the ELMS platform
- Integration with central systems (PSU only)
- Faculty Empowerment
- Rapid Prototyping
- Course Content Separate from Course Communication
- Course Content Separate from Course Design
- System ownership
- Developed around sound instructional design principles
- Open Source, Built on the ever growing Drupal (6.x) platform
- Proven Content Outlining techniques allowing for rapid course outline creation (rapid prototyping)
- Schedule Builder to streamline course communication process
- Ability to "hyper"-prototype instructional design to see what a lesson of instruction would look like over a semester
- Ability for students and staff to self manage lists of what they've finished vs. what is important to them (bookmarking)