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Smart Trady vs a generic LMS for trade apprenticeships

Your LMS excels at theory, enrolment, and gradebooks. It was not built to assess whether an apprentice wired a consumer unit correctly or brazed a joint to your college standard. Smart Trady complements the LMS with photo gateways, AI marking triage, and on-demand coaching on the workshop floor.

Why trades teams add Smart Trady beside their LMS

Generic LMS quiz tools accept file uploads as an afterthought, a drop box at module end, not a sequential gateway that blocks the next step until work passes visual review. Smart Trady is a different category: apprentices photograph hands-on tasks, receive coaching grounded in your rubrics, and build audit trails regulators expect. Department Pilot runs standalone; Campus Rollout syncs progress when IT is ready. The LMS stays; the practical gap closes.

What the LMS still owns

Health and safety legislation modules, blueprint reading quizzes, attendance, and announcements belong in Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard. Procurement and IT already know how to operate those systems. Smart Trady does not ask you to migrate course libraries or rebuild enrolment. It adds the workflow where instructors currently walk benches with clipboards.

Frequently Asked Questions

Complement your LMS with photo-based practical assessment