Choosing a Learning Management System (LMS) is probably the hardest task for a teacher. It is like choosing a wedding dress, if you purchase the dress based on the design and price without trying it on, you will end up spending a lot of time and money. With an LMS, there are many details to consider when deciding if an LMS is a good fit for your district, and the ramifications of that choice are huge (Klsow, 2014). The best way to choose an LMS that will make you happy is by asking your friends and coworkers who have gone through the process before you. Below are seven tips of how to choose an LMS and then I will share with you a LMS that I highly recommend.

1. Clearly Determine Goals

2. Re-imagine Teaching and Learning

3. Get Community Feedback

4. Think About the Future
5. Demand Reliability

6. Find a Partnership

7. Try It Out!

If you would like to read a little more about these 7 tips, you may click the link at the bottom of this page.

Keeping in mind the 7 tips, the LMS I highly recommend is Canvas. Canvas is very user friendly. Canvas provides the instructor the option of creating a full online course or to complement an existing face to face course (Tutorials, 2014). Canvas also allows the teacher to create a flipped classroom and organizing assignments, homework, lectures, and quizzes come easy when using this as an LMS (Tutorials, 2014). Two features that I like about Canvas is the option of being able to record your lectures and attach it to the assignments. And the second feature I like about Canvas is how a syllabus is created right after creating assignments or modules. I

Of course, there is always a downfall. Unfortunately, the only downfall I see with Canvas is that your students need an invitation to enter the course, but the invitation takes a while to be sent out. So before a course begins, I highly recommend creating your LMS using Canvas a month in advance.

Overall, Canvas is one LMS that I highly recommend. Again, it is user friendly and easy to maintain and organize and save files for your classes. Enjoy!