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Overwhelmed with LMS options - Do we still need SCORM ?
Hi there!
I figured this would be the go - to community to ask. I haven't done freelance work for a few years and I feel out of the loop.
I'm trying to help a potential client who would like to sell courses and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with the LMS options out there. All of the LMS now feature built in course builders these days. Is it worth it to still offer her a course built as scorm? Does anyone have LMS recommendations that would allow clients to purchase courses either individually or in bundles?
Thanks for any help. :)
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Here is my situation. Our LMS is subscription based, which I imagine many of them are now. I'm not sure how many LMSs are housed internally any more. So that being said, I need to always consider 'Will my organization continue to pay the fee my LMS vendor requires to maintain access to the LMS'. Right now...yes. I'm 3 years into ours with an option to extend two more and we took it. However, in another 2 years will the org want to find something else....maybe. So, I need to ensure all the courses we use/create I can move to another system as I also can't see that we will be giving up distributing online courses anytime soon.
We don't typically buy external courses; most are made in house. I do not use the built in authoring tool, as the one there is access to is simply a method to distribute PDFs and multiple choice questions. I think my vendor might have a more robust tool, but again... more cost for that.
Hope that helps a bit and gives you one perspective.That does, thanks for the response. :)
