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Which LMS do you use and why?
Craig Wiggins said:
James Starr said:
We use SkillSoft. If you threw your custom courses down the toilet and caught what came out the other end, you'd have something better than SkillSoft.
i have a feeling that you've just saved me a bunch of research (that I'm going to do anyway, but still).
With that being said, SkillSoft is the only LMS I've ever used besides Blackboard, but Blackboard is definitely geared more toward higher-ed use. There could be worse that I don't have any experience with.
We've had a lot of issues related to functionality with the product, but to SKillSoft's credit, they have gone above and beyond in most instances to work with us while issues were being addressed.
I'd say my biggest complaint is that SkillSoft is very Java intensive so your machine configuration has to be spot on to be able to flawlessly run custom content. Also, it's 2012, and I cannot believe SkillSoft has no support for ALL browsers. If you run a course that was made in Captivate using Google Chrome for example, lesson scores simply do not get transferred to the LMS. Luckily we do not have any LONG courses created in Captivate at the moment, but imagine a user who takes a 2-hour long module and takes the test to complete it, and the score never registers...