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Inexpensive LMS that works well with Articulate
We are in the process of investigating an inexpensive LMS software for our company that we can use with Articulate. We are looking for something that we can purchase and download in house. Our budget is a one time payment of less than $1000. We looked at Training Manager from KZSoftware. Anyone use this one? Or have another that you can recommend. We are not looking for anything that you have to pay monthly and we want to be able to assign trainings and track them.
A lot of our clients use LearnShare (learnshare.com) as their LMS. LearnShare now offers a streamlined version of their LMS which is significantly cheaper. We also do a lot of LMS admin for our clients, and working in this LMS is very intuitive, etc. Good luck.
I've used Litmos.com with pretty good success.
Hello there..
as far as I know, Training Manager is not an LMS...
Litmos.com is really good, one of the best quality/price choice. Learnshare is very popular, too...
It really depends on whether you need an hosted LMS, or you have an IT dept wanting to run a LMS inside your company...
take a look to this forum discussion: http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/3469/18780.aspx#18780
Hope it helps
Hi,
I use Efront (efrontlearning.com) for most of my projects. They have both Open Source and paid versions. It works very well with Articulate. Many others use Moodle which is also a good Open Source solution.
Kind regards
Danny
Sorry forgot to add that I read this on wikipedia about Blackboard
"A survey conducted by CUNY's undergraduate studies program, involving 1,500 students across New York City, reveals that Blackboard online application is unfavorable. Students only use it because it is the only option, and claim the web application is bloated, not intuitive, and behind on the times in terms of website design. One undergraduate says, "Sure, it gets the job done. I get access documents and notifications from professors. But, there are features in Blackboard that we never use. Mainly because they are hidden within the website, taking as much as 4-5 clicks to reach. Secondly, they seem half-baked, and all-in-all unusable"
If you're an independant seller, this might be interesting. I'm not sure how long this pricing will last either, seems too reasonable and too good to be true ($39)
I don't need this type of thing and I'm considering signing up just to explore it.Moodle is open source with no licensing cost. It might require some initial investment to adapt to corporate requirements.
Totara is a Moodle distribution which is already adapted to corporate needs.
See here:
Its supports SCORM and AICC content published by Articulate, and enables reporting on e-learning results.
Hi Robert
You mentioned Litmos in your reply, we've been looking at that system. Have you any experience of using it to host elearning for multiple clients?
Hello all,
We are looking for an open source LMS that works well with SCORM 1.2 courses generated by Articulate. We don't need any group or learner-learner collaboration because our system provides certificate courses for individuals. Some courses need to meet state/federal requirements like the amount of time learners spending in the course, etc. We have strong software development resources that could customize the open source LMS. However, we would like to select the one that is easy to be customized to meet our business requirements. What LMSs do you think we should consider?
Many thanks,
-Ha
Hi, we use Moodle which works well with Articulate products. Supports SCORM 1.2 and limited 2004. The main investment is time in configuring and customising the LMS. With Module 2.x there are better themes (free!) to help Moodle look a little more exciting then it use to look!
Vispi.
