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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

Configuring Login Methods

When creating users, remember that Adobe Learning Manager does not ask for any user password. This is because Learning Manager does not have any authentication mechanism of its own (except for authenticating external users).

When an internal user tries to log into Adobe Learning Manager, the system relies on an external authentication mechanism to authenticate that user. The default authentication mechanism of Adobe Learning Manager is an Adobe ID.

Relying on an external authentication service to authenticate users has several advantages:

  • As an organization, you can use a single external authentication service to grant a user access to an unlimited number of applications. This technique is called SSO. The idea is to authenticate once against a central authentication service, which, in turn, gives users access to all the services they are allowed to use. This avoids the need for users to authenticate individually to each service. It also saves...