Learning management systems have become increasingly attractive in recent times. Modern education is highly technical dependent and this has redefined teaching learning process. Learning management systems have positive implications in education. Learning management systems are considered to be largely applicable for natural sciences as they enable representation of phenomena, foster experimental study and enable the creation of models and problem solving applications (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).