Explore the Major Characteristics of Learning Management Systems and their Impact on e-Learning Success

Today, there are many educational institutions and organizations around the world, especially the universities have adopted the e-learning and learning management system concepts because they want to enhance and support their educational process since the number of students who would like to attend universities and educational institutions is increasing. This paper has many objectives, the first one is comparing between different types of most popular learning management system (LMS) software such as Moodle and Blackboard based on their uniqueness features. The second objective is presenting the learning management systems and their benefits in e-learning. Finally, this research paper presents a proposed model, which consists of six independent variables (application and integration, communication, assessment, content, cost, and security), and one dependent variable which is e-learning success. A questionnaire has been developed and distributed to 450 respondents, and then data was collected from 418 valid questionnaires. The result showed that there is a statistically significant impact of learning management system major characteristics on e-learning success.