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Selling Courses
Hi everyone,
My company is looking to begin selling their courses to our clients. We have 2 options... they can use our LMS to view them, or we thought of providing the SCORM package to load to their LMS. Does anyone do the latter? How do you track usage so that say they can have the course for 500 users for $X? Then if they don't renew the license after the year, how do you turn it off?
Thanks!!
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An LMS is ideal for selling courses, tracking the subscriptions and turning off the access once the subscription has expired.
Modern LMSs offer different types of native subscriptions (date to date, date to lifetime, X days access, free trial).
In JoomlaLMS, for example, we can sell not just courses, but additional goods and services. And it doesn’t matter whether we sell SCORM compliant content or the learning materials uploaded one by one. Advanced system of tracking and reporting displays all the reporting data.
Also, we can limit the number of the course participants or add them to the waiting lists. if necessary.
Thanks. We have our own LMS, based on JoomlaLMS actually. however there
may be clients that already have their own LMS and would prefer to host in
their own LMS for reporting purposes.
I am having the same question as Vanessa. I want to give them a SCORM file that they put in their LMS, but I want to track usage to be sure they are not using it more then they paid for. Somebody has done it to me before, but I don't know how to set it up. Any ideas?
You might want to check out: https://www.coursecontainer.com/content/Default.aspx or https://rusticisoftware.com/products/content-controller/ for that. I'd be curious if there are other options out there too.
This is exactly what I've been looking for - thank you!
Thank you Holly! I totally forgot about Rustic having that solution. I found a slightly cheaper option through https://trainingvault.net/. Overall, both solutions are pretty expensive though in the long run. I wish there was a low cost alternative. I am looking into linking out to a google sheet or something. I have tried embedding a google form into the eLearning, but I have no way to make sure they fill it out because I can't trigger off the submit button of an embedded web page. I am going to keep working on it, and will update if I find a low cost alternative.
If your courses are created in Storyline, you can build in a course "license expiration".
See discussion here: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/setting-an-expiry-date-for-published-content?page=3#reply-656745
See example here: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/cd5668da-13c8-4304-ba4c-ca1acba0b3f2/review
You can 1/2 achieve this in Rise by creating just the expiration functionality in a Storyine banner/block (minimum slide height), placing this at the top of your course, and putting a continue after block above is completed divider in your Rise project.This results in the SL block checking the date and completing if valid. If the date is not valid, you stick on a layer so the block remain incomplete and the divider prohibits moving forward.
The reason I say this only 1/2 works is that anyone who has taken the course before will still be able to progress because of the way the divider currently operates (once completed, always completed). However, it will block any new students from accessing the course.
LMS hosting is one type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals or companies. To create, sell and make eLearning portals accessible worldwide. There are plenty of LMS providers available in the market.
I am happy to hear that your company SCROM packages to load LMS. But I also know the name of the LMS provider, which offers well-designed SCORM packages with excellent and affordable LMS features. And that is none other than DomainRacer Tutor LMS.
That enables you to reproduce your eLearning platform with more precision and efficiency. If you are talking about low-cost LMS hosting compatible with SCROM content. DomainRacer LMS Hosting is the best option according to me.
In addition to outstanding level SCORM based support, they provide advanced capabilities like private video platform, provision for webinars, accurate reporting, and tracking. DomainRacer is a secured self-hosted LMS program. Their high-performing multi-located datacenters allow your LMS to grow with your user base globally.
