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Best option for hosting a course.
Hello,
What are my options, I have a client looking at redeveloping a free course that already 135,000 people have enrolled in. They do not want huge costs for hosting? I am skilled in developing courses, but not so much the hosting always just had a LMS to work with.
Hi Lynne,
There are lots of options out there, but it is hard to recommend an option without knowing the full requirements. I would recommend the client put together a detailed specification of what their requirements are. For example, are they selling the course, what kind of reporting is required, are there any specific enrolment requirements, what kind of tracking are they doing, is the course SCORM compliant or just published for Web.
There are more questions here than answers at this stage, but the client should definitely develop a detailed specification and then approach LMS or CMS providers with those specifications to get a quote.
There is free software out there such as Moodle, but it would require somebody with the technical know how to set-up and would also require decent hosting to service 135k enrolments.
Thanks,
SamHow did they host before, 135K in a significant number of users and if they are concomitant the server needs to be robust.
If we were hosting that I would be looking at charging a reasonable;e cost for hosting. You could look at something like Thinkific which has unlimited students
