LMS Advice / Recommendation

I think of Brandon Hall as the "Consumer Reports" of all things related to organizational development. They have regular reviews of LMSs however you do have to pay (or your organization does) for the research. However an LMS is a significant enough investment I personally think it is well worth careful research: http://brandonhall.com/learning-management-systems.php.

I've used some of the larger LMSs: Cornerstone, HealthStream, GeoLearning (since purchased by SumTotal) and have been involved in a couple of LMS procurement projects. There are a lot of providers out there who would meet the requirements you have outlined. The challenge might be narrowing the field moreso than finding one that can do the job. Best of luck to you!

Matthew,

Nicole already mentioned Capterra, but there's a couple other resources you can use there to help find a good LMS:

• An infographic of the top 20 most popular LMSs.
• A free LMS buying guide eBook
• A bunch of blog posts that compare different LMSs to each other with pros, cons, and pricing.

Hope that helps!

Hi Bruce,

May I knock at the door?

I have been testing a couple of LMS's for a new project. 

I am right now working with a Docebo trial version. I must say I totally agree with your opinion about this product and will probably choose it. 

I suppose and hope you are still happy with Docebo. Did you meet any problems while integrating Storyline stuff?

Reports are really important for our project. I have a specific question about reports on Storyline objects: do you get the same "semi graphical" per question reports than with objects created in Docebo. Are you also working with iPad clients?

Many thanks,

Dominique

Hello,

We have an LMS, but we are getting requests to deliver some courses via email so users do not have to go to the LMS , register and sign in.  I have looked at SCORM Cloud which would work great, but since we drip feed separate lessons weekly, the ongoing monthly cost makes it out of reach for our needs. We have no need for any tracking or reporting on learner usage. Does anyone know a more cost-effective solution similar to scorm cloud? We don't mind development time either, just need to avoid a significant monthly expense associated with our courses which are usually 5-10 individual lessons/modules delivered separately. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions...not finding much when googling, but may be that I'm using the wrong terminology....thanks!

Hi Jean

If you don't need to track or report do you still need the LMS version to be published.  Could you just publish the web version and load it onto your webserver.  Send the users a link to story.html (sometimes your tech people may change this to index.html) and that should work.

That is helpful.  We do need to keep control of the usage, and we may not be able to get the ultimate end user's emails due to industry privacy issues.  But I will look into that as on option.  Still looking for scorm cloud alternatives if that exists.  But thank you for this idea, I appreciate it!  

I tried out other learning management programs and you can't get away from looking for alternatives. I give props to Articulate for providing a good learning management system. It's actually a good alternative to the currently LMS I'm using now, although I would still prefer it over Articulate.

Hey Matthew,

I recommend Beetsol LMS. This is a fully featured SCORM compliant LMS that provides the infrastructure for enterprise training and management needs.

It is the best LMS which easily allows you to build courses, import SCORM content, deploy online learning, manage users, communicate with users, track training results, and more.

It allows you to upload Articulate content very easily. Simply publish the content as Scorm 1.2 or 2004 and upload the zip file into a course on Beetsol - that's it!

The best part is its ease of use, scalability, reliable, Gamification, Multi-Tenant, Social learning, Social Wall, Chats, Custom Reports. Also supports integrations like SalesForce, Webex, eCommerce among others.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!
John.

We have people that are doing some pretty cool things with Rise on the Travitor's LMS. They seem to compliment each other quite well and the design matches nicely.

Hi! This post may be a bit off topic and contain a number of question but...

How specific result info can you retrieve from a scormobject (in this case from an SL3 export for scorm). is it up to the LMS how the statistics are presented (in terms of showing the exact title of the quiz or only an id ex. "slide 14")?

When i export for scorm 2004 and choose "track using number of slides viewed" my LMS (SCORM CLOUD) only shows that the course is incomplete, but not how many of my total slides are visited.. is this possible. 

And.. why do i have to choose one or the other out of "track number of slides.." and track "using quiz results" i want to do both! Track how many quizzes a user completed/not completed and how they scored. And i want to see how many slides have they done, so a client can see that one of their users has done lets say 112 out of 300 slides (or shown in procentage). 

And as far as i can see i can only get quiz results from one result slide? I got like 20 in this particular e-course.

Thankful for any input!