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DaveNewgass
Community Member
15 years ago

Which LMS do you use and why?

Hey all, Just a quick question to you....what LMS do you use and why?  I use Moodle 2.1.2 currently.  Why?  It seemed like a good idea at the time!  Now I'm frustrated with the SCORM reporting...
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KarynAberts
Community Member
14 years ago

MIke - Here is what I have learned as the LMS admin for our Absorb system.  Of course my pros and cons may not be the same for you

Pros:

  • Very easy implementation
  • Learner side pretty simple to use and navigate, also customizable
  • Can add custom certificates to courses
  • Learners can only enroll in one session of a course - so they cannot hold seats in mutliple sessions of the same class
  • Can schedule reports to run and have emailed to anyone
  • SCORM and AICC compliant
  • Can create basic quizzes and surveys within system
  • Dicsussion boards - but very limited

Cons:

  • Reporting - isn't as comprehensive or easy to pull data, can only use their out fo the can reporting
  • Doesn't track absent or cancellations
  • Learners can only enroll in one session - meaning if they do want to repeat a course for such things as remediation they can't enroll; the admin has to do a lot of workaround
  • Customer serivce/tech support - no onsight support during implementation or training
  • Many of the features do not work intuitively and you have to find ways to manilpulate them: autoenrollment doesn't put people in to actual specific sessions; not easy to set up organization hierarchy

While there are a lot of really great features and they are always doing updates to these, the reporting is really one of the areas that isn't acceptable for us.  I have to often use three different reports from them to be able to pull the data I need and still have to then manipulate it in excel.  We have also had quite a bit of technical challenges that are taking significant time to get resolved.

We only implemented this system in October 2011 and I already want something else.  I was not part of the decision team to bring this on as I was hired just after they did the contract, so I believe that we may have gone a different route if I were on board sooner.  No one on my team has significant experience with and LMS as they did not have one prior to this.  Right now we are looking to integrate systems with our sister organizations so that is really the only reason I can contemplate a new LMS.