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LMS Recommendations
Hi everyone,
We are looking for a new LMS and I thought I'd reach out to the community to see if anyone has one they absolutely love. We need to track ILT, and we are a franchise system so we nee...
I would not recommend Cornerstone; its back-end is chaos. TalentLMS wasn't terrible. In general, I think we are moving towared xAPI and LRSs, so you may want to seriously consider that industry trend before investing in an LMS.
Hi Pierre,
Not the OP, but intrigued by your comment. Do you mind explaining in simple terms what an xAPI is? We primarily use our current LMS to track compliance training renewal dates, and are just now getting into creating and loading trainings into the LMS. However, not a big fan of the LMS experience for our learners.
Any insight you can share would be much appreciated.
Cheers!
I am not well versed in this at all, and am going to beg that somebody notices my floundering to correct me and to better inform you, but let's give it a go! #DunningKruger :D
So Articulate Storyline has for a long time provided us a way to track users completing training using SCORM. Usually, that looks like a "completion" based on viewing so many slides or getting a score. You need the LMS to unpack that SCORM-reported data. If you don't have the LMS, a person might complete the training, but the trackable data doesn't go anywhere.
A growing practice is to put bits of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in an interactive training that leaves a trail of what behaviors the user took to complete a training. That JSON has 3 keys: actor, verb, object; and they combine to make an xAPI statement: "the actor acted on the acted". This statement is sent to an learning records store (LRS).
It is my understanding that many LMSs have an LRS built-in. Cornerstone has an LRS, so if I put an xAPI reporting course on Cornerstone, I can go to the LRS and see the actions a user took as they navigated a course. Meanwhile, I can still use my LMS to do all of those other things that the LMS does, like assign training.
Rumor has it that there is a way to provide a training without the LMS, and still be able to find the trail if you have the training linked to an LRS. I don't know where it goes. But still more rumor has it as possible to have person take a training at multiple locations, and route all of the behaviors from the various locations back to a single LRS.
The primary benefit of an LMS, as far as I understand, is the "management" of your learners. If you are training, but don't need to control the people, you could do with just an LRS... maybe.
So, if we were to use just an LRS (no LMS), would we need to embed JSON in our Storyline files?
