Anandsoft Learning Management System LMS — Update

Vijay Anand
3 min readFeb 11, 2022

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Anand Software and Training, an innovative eLearning provider, updated eLearning software (Learning Management System called Learning and Assessment Software (LAAS)” aimed at providing eLearning tools for online classes and examinations. The software is a complete solution for offering content and assessment tests online for academic or personnel development purposes. Recent update is with collaboration software plugin that provides online collaboration. The software consists of four modules as mentioned below:

  1. Authoring engine
  2. Content delivery engine
  3. Exam engine
  4. Reporting module

1. Authoring engine:

Authoring engine flow chart, please note as we modify the algo with user inputs, the flow chart keeps updating with time.
Author engine flow chart (simplified)

The authoring engine offers authors a means to create/modify/remove users, groups, exams, and content. The author may import or create a list of candidates and assign the select candidates to one or more groups (say. classes). The groups may in turn be assigned one or more content/exam modules created by the author. Granular control of candidates, content, and exams is provided in the software. As may be seen in the figure above, it consists of Author options, Exam Options, Group Options, Candidate Options, Content Options, and Import/Export. In a typical flow chart, the admin creates authors, and then the author(s) creates content, exams, and add groups (or classes) to one or more exams. For complete features available with the authoring software, please check out the Author Engine home page.

2. Content engine:

Content engine delivers pdfs, videos, html files, and youtube video/audio files.

The Content engine delivers content in various forms, including plain text, rich text, pdf, and multimedia. The content may be organized hierarchically. It is also possible to embed youtube videos in the content, without the need for reproducing or reformating the youtube videos. Also, Microsoft Office documents may be delivered with the content engine. For more information, please visit the Content Engine home page.

3. Exam Engine:

The exam engine supports different question and answer formats including pdfs, html, and multimedia.

The exam engine is responsible for delivering assessment tests to the candidates as chosen by the author. Questions may consist of simple text/html, pdf, exhibit-based, or multimedia. Several exam configuration options such as disabling some navigation buttons (for example, you don’t want the candidate to go back or provide a review) are provided. As may be seen in the picture above, several features such as text resizing, full-screen view, night view, bookmarking, etc provided. For more information on exam engine features, please visit the exam engine home page.

4. Reporting module:

Offers in-depth analysis of exam results like evaluating time taken for correct/incorrect/unanswered questions for performance improvement.

The reporting module analyzes and provides the results in the format that is configured by the author. The overall pass, category wise or sub-category-wise scores may be displayed. It is possible to provide conditional pass criteria such as declaring an overall pass only if a candidate passes certain categories or sub-categories. The statistics are available on the server-side for further processing and analysis.

Note that the software is specifically designed for delivering content and assessments to students, and not a school attendance or staff management software that is widely available elsewhere. Rich features are built into the software for content creation, testing, and reporting. Download a free trial version of the software from the product home page, Learning Management System.

Disclaimer: Anand Software and Training Pvt. Ltd. , a Bengaluru based private limted company is not associated with any other entity or organization. All rights reserved.

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