Forum Discussion
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 and interface.
Any thoughts?
-Dave
301 Replies
We have been using Articulate Online for the last year and are just now in the process of moving over to Totara.
Hi Guys :
I think ILIAS is one of the best LMS Open Source and works great with Articulate. The first LMS open souce certified SCORM.Check it out : http://www.ilias.de ( SCORM 2004 (3rd Edition) )
You can test here : http://demo.ilias.de/
Saludos amigos !!!
Hi, I'm currently testing ILIAS. I managed uploading a SCORM 2004 e-learning module created with Storyline. The module works well with the ILIAS player. The only thing is that under the tab "Tracking data", I can't find the specific answers the user selected in the quiz. How do you make it appear? I only have the overall score tracked.
Thanks!
The State of South Dakota chose Desire 2 Learn a few years ago but I am not aware of instances of people trying to incorporate Articulate within D2L here. We are working on this though.
Wendy Stubbs
Ron Pagliarulo said:
We currently use Absorb by Blatant Media. We have a pretty huge user base with over 16,000 users.
I have gone through two other LMS implementations, and was willing to drop them and change and so far Absorb seems to be our favorite.
I can tell you this though. There isn't a perfect one. You just want to find one that meets most of your needs, then be prepared there will be errors, and bugs.
The two common factors in all of our endeavors is the Articulate suite. Articulate is awesome and there really isn't anything out there that we have found comparable, but part of the bugs we have to look at might not just be the LMS provider it may have to be with how a published Articulate course or quiz works within the LMS.
And then you have the ever changing, ever updating Adobe flash player that gets updated every week. Sometimes we have courses that work perfectly, then Adobe comes along and does one of their updates, and a course goes haywire.
Be prepared. There will be errors. There will be complaints. There will be bugs with all LMS providers.
Just be very clear on your outcomes and needs, and then go for it.
Hope that helps.
... sacred words, Ron. I do agree with everything you said...
We use Moodle 1.9x and have it working just the way we want after a lot of hard work. We are holding off about another year or so before upgrading to Moodle 2 just because I don't have time to deal with the upgrade right now. Moodle is great but not turn-key in most situations so unless you know the in's and out's of Moodle you'll definitely want to get help from a Moodle partner or independent consultant to get over the hurdles. My biggest criticism is reporting like others have mentioned so we have had to develop our own custom reports. That being said, what I like most about Moodle is that everything is customizable. I'm no PHP developer but found most of the "Hacks" I needed in the Moodle forums. Much like the Articulate community there are a lot of great moodlers in the forums at moodle.org ready to help.
yes, right the same for me...
anyway, I'm really curious to see a TOTARA LMS Demo, which is a customized version of Moodle, suitable for enterprise environment... many necessary features, it really deserves a demo view. Like docebo, too....
I had a demo with Totara a few weeks ago. I would call it Moodle +. The reporting is great and some of the layout 'features' of moodle that would drive me crazy were resolved. They are really helpful. They do have a sandpit you can play with on their website.
I have also used Docebo, one thing I didn't like was elearning and classroom course are completely separate and you can't put scorm content on the classroom course resources, or put a session on a classroom course so I would end up with 2 courses.
I am currently using Virtual College - its only been a week but there are some great features but not as 'pretty' as Docebo or as customisable as Moodle.
We do use ILIAS cause of different reasons
* Very good LMS with superb role-management
* Good community: higher education AND companies
* Implemented SCORM2004-Editor, and works fine with Articulate
* Guys from ADL Working group develop and support the ILIAS SCORM-Tool
* ...
Yours, HJL
We have used the same LMS for 14 plus years. It is now owned by SumTotal and is no longer sold. The product is Pathlore. We have the ability to customize as needed. We use it both for our employees and our customer continuing education classes. It has a few little things that bug us but overall we are very happy. We have currently opted to not switch over to the SumTotal product as of yet. It does not offer the same rich features as Pathlore and we just don't want to have less options. We were looking to switch but then they extended the shelf life of Pathlore so we stayed with the product that has served us well for many years. I was not here when they chose this originally so I can't tell you why it was chosen.
My company has used Cornerstone OnDemand for almost 6 years. Articulate works like a dream with this LMS, in fact I recommend using Articulate to all of our content authors.
That said, I have reviewed several other LMS's over the years, and there's lots of great stuff out there. Make sure you have your priorities in order and you know what you can't live without, then list the "nice to have's" as well as your "functionality wish list". There are many great companies out there, but to echo what Ron said, none of them are perfect. There isn't one LMS out there that will solve 100% or your problems (although if you find one please let me know!). Good luck!!
We have been with CSOD since 2015. I don't know what drove the decision, but I was handed it immediately after the implementation. We had endless issues with Captivate courses and went shopping, finding Articulate 360. (Reporting, courses locking, crashes, you name it...we eventually banned all Captivate-based quizzing and put all quizzes in the test engine) So far, it's worked extremely well in early testing. We're jamming every variable we can think of through the system and so far it's all green lights.
I work for a healthcare organization, and we use NetLearning by Cengage. We've used it since 2005. We can use Articulate with it. However, if we choose to use Quizmaker, the only thing that gets recorded in our LMS is Pass/Fail. Why do we use NetLearning? It was what was available in 2005 for healthcare organizations. It was the LMS/e-learning first system our company ever used. It's not bad - does have limitations, but they all do.
We're looking to move to Halogen systems or another LMS. Why - our corporation wants to move some HR functions, such as performance review, to an electronic format. We, Education, are looking for a better way to electronically "do" inital and ongoing competencies. Our current electronic competency system leaves A LOT to be desired! By combining our, HR and Education's, efforts, we will be able to do more with our LMS - such as education being automatically assinged based on an employee's job position or based on their performance review. In reviewing LMS for this more, it is a give-and-take game. Each system is not the same - what does your organization want to do with their LMS? What do they NEED to do? What governing / accreditaiton bodies might need reports from your LMS? Take your time in evaluating the options.
Best of luck!
Alicia
