Our company is about to change LMS and I was wondering if all e-olearning modules available in our current LMS, can be migrated to the new LMS keeping all completion reports of users having completed the course.
That would need to be a conversation between you and your new LMS provider (get it in the contract). A previous employer I worked for migrated from Pathlore to SumTotal. Since both are owned by the same parent company, migrating user completion data from one platform to the other was possible.
Regarding the course files themselves, that will need to be a contracted conversation between you and the new LMS provider. While we WERE able to easily migrate our internally-developed AICC courses, for some reason migrating the internally-developed SCORM 1.2 courses proved to be more squirrely. It ended up becoming an opportunity to NOT migrate the courses which were either out-of-date or with no traffic. Since we had the original source files, we WERE able to re-upload the still current and/or in use courses to the new LMS.
In fact, the majority of modules won't be migrated, it's the good moment to clean our contents. But just now I was wondering how to proceed with e few that have been recently launched and asked to all the company to complete.
Unfortunately we've already signed the contract and the new supplier is not related to the old LMS.. let's see if we can find a solution.
Thanks a lot
Loredana Marchetti, Global Training Coordinator
BALLY | Via Industria, 1, Caslano, 6987 | Switzerland
Office: +41 91 612 92 30 | Mobile: +41 79 249 37 24
SHOP.BALLY.COM
We announced a "drop-dead" date to all employees, providing them with enough time to get any outstanding courses on the LMS complete before we cut over to the new LMS. After that, courses would need to be started over on the new LMS. There was enough "overlap" provided for users to wrap up activity on the old LMS before access was suspended.
We took a snapshot of the database well in advance of cut-over to begin loading the new LMS with completion data; we took a second snapshot after access to the old LMS was suspended, and updated user data in the new LMS as needed.
I'm glad that Joesph was able to pop in and help you, Loredana.
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That would need to be a conversation between you and your new LMS provider (get it in the contract). A previous employer I worked for migrated from Pathlore to SumTotal. Since both are owned by the same parent company, migrating user completion data from one platform to the other was possible.
Regarding the course files themselves, that will need to be a contracted conversation between you and the new LMS provider. While we WERE able to easily migrate our internally-developed AICC courses, for some reason migrating the internally-developed SCORM 1.2 courses proved to be more squirrely. It ended up becoming an opportunity to NOT migrate the courses which were either out-of-date or with no traffic. Since we had the original source files, we WERE able to re-upload the still current and/or in use courses to the new LMS.
Thank you Joseph.
In fact, the majority of modules won't be migrated, it's the good moment to clean our contents. But just now I was wondering how to proceed with e few that have been recently launched and asked to all the company to complete.
Unfortunately we've already signed the contract and the new supplier is not related to the old LMS.. let's see if we can find a solution.
Thanks a lot
Loredana Marchetti, Global Training Coordinator
BALLY | Via Industria, 1, Caslano, 6987 | Switzerland
Office: +41 91 612 92 30 | Mobile: +41 79 249 37 24
SHOP.BALLY.COM
We announced a "drop-dead" date to all employees, providing them with enough time to get any outstanding courses on the LMS complete before we cut over to the new LMS. After that, courses would need to be started over on the new LMS. There was enough "overlap" provided for users to wrap up activity on the old LMS before access was suspended.
We took a snapshot of the database well in advance of cut-over to begin loading the new LMS with completion data; we took a second snapshot after access to the old LMS was suspended, and updated user data in the new LMS as needed.
Very helpful, thank you!
Loredana Marchetti, Global Training Coordinator
BALLY | Via Industria, 1, Caslano, 6987 | Switzerland
Office: +41 91 612 92 30 | Mobile: +41 79 249 37 24
SHOP.BALLY.COM
I'm glad that Joesph was able to pop in and help you, Loredana.
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