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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've used CSOD twice, Skillport (basically a bolt on to Skillsoft content and not great), and SumTotal (which was bought out by Skillsoft). CSOD, like others said, is kind of overengineered. I have a pretty high tolerance for back end complexity as long as the front end is clean for the users. The back end didn't drive me crazy, but it is easy to have it get messy if you have multiple admins and they aren't all careful. CSOD also seems to focus on rolling out new features before fixing bugs in existing features IMO.
I'm looking at Reach 360, a very "light" content hosting platform Articulate recently rolled out. We're only considering Reach 360 because it is inexpensive (12K/yr for up to 6000 licenses over the course of the year - users get counted on 30 day cycles, so if a user is active all year, they'll essentially count as 12 licenses). You cannot do ecommerce (charge external users for courses), and it doesn't host anything except SCORM files from what they tell me.
My biggest recommendation is doing a MoSCoW rating - what things do you absolutely need, what is nice to have, and what can you live without? Then lay out the LMS options you're considering (or alternate options to an LMS) to see if they meet all of your "must have"s.
