Any LMS/Content Managers using Smartsheet to track their content? Do you mind sharing?

dhall

My team manages training content for a specific part of our organization and we have content that can be as old as 2016 to as new as of yesterday. For a few weeks now, I've been trying to figure out a way to track "content" (right now, just LMS courses) we own in Smartsheet so I can share with leadership "This is everything we have in this LMS".

The complicated part, the LMS has terrible reporting which is why I'm deferring to a tool I love, Smartsheet.

We currently track our content creation projects in Smartsheet, which has been great. I'm to the point where I want to take it to the next level and start connecting "This project is tied to this course in the LMS and this location on our data backend", but the thought of trying to piece something that will be

A) easy to manage

B) easy to understand

C) is scalable

has begun to overwhelm my mind and I think I have finally hit the point of "analysis paralysis".

I'm hoping someone here has some great ideas or solutions they've done with Smartsheet to really start connecting projects to learning content. I'm looking forward to the discussion!

Genevieve P.

Hey @dhall

I'm moving this conversation over to the "Show & Tell" topic in case others are able to show off their set-up in Smartsheet!

To start the conversation, here are some templates that may be helpful for you as a jumping point. They're all for different areas of the business, but perhaps have elements you can implement in your own sheets:

• Asset Management
• Team Operations and Sync
• Customer Onboarding

For your two pieces of data, I would personally have two extra columns in my sheet with the URLs out to each place (Course + Location).

Here are some other Community threads that you may be interested in as well:

• Smartsheet Dashboards for eLearning
• Smartsheet for Curriculum Planning & Execution
• Leslie - Joining the community
• Is it possible to develop a task list from multiple source sheets through automation?
• Product Idea to Vote on: Integrate Smart sheet with learning management system

Cheers,

Genevieve

dhall

Thanks @Genevieve P. for the information! I'll look at the resources you linked and update the thread with anything that comes to mind.

Looking forward to some additional discussion!

cnb

@dhall I currently use Zapier to communicate between my LMS courses and Smartsheet. When a user completes a course in LearnDash (our LMS). Zapier connects with Smartsheet, adds a row and the course participant information. I've then added some automation, that identifies if the student passed or failed the course. I'd love to hear more about other solutions. I am trying to identify the best way to recive and track assignment uploads from my LMS to Smartsheet.