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DaveNewgass's avatar
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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MartyBlevins
Community Member
14 years ago

Aileen Ruder said:

 
Marty,

Great suggestion. We currently have ForceTen but are in the process of looking into adapting a new LMS. Would you mind sharing what 17 LMS you vetted and what their price ranges were? Also, what where your requirements that TaleoLearn was able to meet?

It's been couple of years now, and the players have changed a lot (not that I could remember them all anyway), but we looked at vendors like IBM, Sumtotal, Saba, Plateau, and, of course, Learn.com along with some others that were smaller or more specialized like PureSafety.  We looked at vendors we already had other business accounts with and those in the Gartner magic quadrant at the time.

We started with over 400 requirements and boiled them down to ask for demos on the top 75-80 tasks that would best showcase the system's ability to meet our need. We had each vendor demo those tasks in the same order for the afected users and asked the users to rate what they saw 1-5 on 2 dimensions:

1) How important is this to me and 2) how well did this vendor perform

I won't subject you to the full list, but here are the user groups we identified and a sampling of what we asked them to do for each.

    Importance Rating
Role Functionality / Scenario Please Rate 1-5 Please Rate 1-5
    1 = Of some interest 1 = Unsatisfactory
    5 = Necessary 5 = Superior
End User    
   Demonstrate the self-enrollment process    
   Log in as a new user of the system / as a temporary service provider / as an existing user of the system    
   Go to the help menu    
   Follow the steps in the event the end user needs to ask a question    
   Demonstrate how a user would reset his/her password    
Manager/Supervisor    
   Enroll an employee in a specific course    
   Enroll a group of employees in a specific course    
   Approve/Deny request for an employee's enrollment in a class.    
Registrar    
  Assign a course to a group of employees in a specific job category    
  Track an employee's course completion    
  Run a "gap analysis" report showing all employees who have unmet requirements.    
  A training session is assigned to all employees. One week later, 120 new employees are hired. Demonstrate how they would be enrolled (if not automatic)    
Administrator    
  Set up an email notification/escalation process when a course is scheduled, when a course is overdue, when a course is failed    
  Design a report to view course completion by different variables, such as company-wide, location, job title, etc.    
  Set up a learning plan for all employees in a specific job title (e.g. Analysts must have met requirements for Excel, Access, etc.)    
Course Developer    
  Upload an existing PowerPoint presentation and a word document (content to be provided prior to demo .  Make edits to it such as deleting/adding slides and adding T/F question within presentation.)    
  Upload AICC/SCORM courseware and customize.    
   "Publish" the course to the system.    
   Set the criteria for successful completion of a course.