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Need help with LMS decision....is Moodle that great?
Greetings fantastic elearning Heroes and Heroes in training! I need to pick your wealth of experience as related to LMS options. Right now all of the buzz with Open source is Moodle. I've never h...
Hello everybody...
I'd like to bring some contribute here...
An Lms selection is very very important; especially if you have to deal with a large number of users.
You shall consider a lot of requisites, and analyse pro and cons of each different solution.
Costs are a key point; Open-source solutions cannot really be used without experts... and often, Commercial and Open source Solutions have similar costs, either if you go for a in house installation, or if you go for a cloud/SaaS or hosted installation.
We use a Moodle distribution with an IT company focused on elearning and we are happy with it, but I wouldn't call our solution Open Source; we have customized it so much and added so many features you wouldn't say it's Moodle. This cost was very high, though!
My advice: note down a list of features you absolutely need.
I did this lately for another LMS selection, and Totara (Moodle commercial distribution) , Litmos and Docebo were the finalist, due to some features they have at reasonable costs.
@Kimberly: take a look at SharePoint LMS, it could fit your SSO needs and it has improved a lot, recently;
@Tommaso: the new Docebo 6.2 is ok for blended learning, too. If you want to have a clearer idea of costs involved in a Moodle project just PM me, we are in Italy and there are things to consider if you choose a Totara or Litmos or Avsorb hosted installation, for instance...
hope it helps
