Which LMS do you use and why?

We officially use SAP LSO for our LMS. I don't recommend it at all. It's big, expensive, and isn't user friendly AT ALL.

With that being said, I'm working on moving us over to Moodle 2.1 now. A small segment of our company doesn't have SAP access so we implemented Moodle to track their courses. We like it so much more than SAP that I'm making the business case to move the entire organization to it. We had a custom SCORM report built by a Moodle partner to give us better reporting. I also hear that version 2.2 (due out in early 2012) will have more robust SCORM 1.2 reporting. They're still aways off on SCORM 2004 compliance. We run Articulate and Captivate courses via Moodle and haven't found too many problems. I love the community and, after dealing with the costs associated with SAP, love the accessibility and expertise of Moodle partners.Outside of the SCORM support, we love being able to include things along with the course package such as discussion forums, or even just job aids outside of the course. This is something we don't have with SAP.

I agree with others who have posted about needing to evaluate your needs and pick a suitable LMS. Moodle may be open source and "free" but you need to have support inside your organization for the administration. As with any LMS, there's a learning curve. Otherwise, hire a Moodle partner to help you with that.

I have been using Enterprise Knowledge Platform from NetDimensions and they set very high standards. Very happy with them. 

Meridian LMS is a good system also. 

It all depends on your requirements. 

It all dependson you requirements and budget. Moodle was the first LMS our company ever used.It was a matter of price totally. I wasn’t there at that time, but it is the onlyplus factor to choose the one I heard about. The same factor became a reason tochange Moodle to JoomlaLMS. You get Moodle for free but have to pay when youneed to solve problems or customize it. It turned to be too expensive for us.

For exampleour teacher creates courses/quizzes with Articulate products. Articulate comesup with update and then you face that your new created courses go haywire whenpublished. It is all about compatibility with your LMS. If you use Moodle noone is really interested to update it ASAP. You will find a folk to make thiscustomization, but it costs. Here is where we had a problem with Moodle.

Now we havebeen using JoomlaLMS for a year and satisfied.Why did we choose it? It is all about cost once again. JoomlaLMS is a goldenmean between free open source LMSs and proprietary ones. It is based on free opensource CMS. JoomlaLMS code is open, license files are encoded only. So you getthe solution almost equal to open source and free to find any external folk tocustomize the system. You just have to pay them more than reasonable price oncea year to prolong your license and subscription to updates and support.

When youuse a proprietary LMS you can expect it to be updated quite quickly as the teamis motivated. You have to pay extra for special custom development if you needit to be done urgently. Any way you save time at least and money while they arenot interested to charge you too much and kill your loyalty. One-source supportand updates matters!

Hi Stefano,

Totara LMS provide a demo site, so you can login and give it a try:

https://demo.totaralms.com/

Hi!

Where I work, we use Moodle 2.0.

When we've chosen it, the reasons were it's free, and we supposed  it should be a good option, because if not it would'nt be so largely spread.

In fact, that is true, and almost whenever I get a problem/question I'm able to find an answer.

What I don't like is that it is not very easy to work with and sometimes has irritating ways of working (for example, I can't realize how to update SCORM content with the same file name).

We are using Saba Enterprise 5.x Enterprise which is a fully featured SCORM-compliant LMS that provides the infrastructure for enterprise training and management needs.It is the best LMS which easily allows you to build courses, import SCORM content, deploy online learning, manage users, communicate with users, track training results.

Thanks!

We use Plateau v6.2.  By looking at the replies so far, I don't see anyone else who uses Plateau.  Does anyone have any comments about this LMS?  Has anyone encountered any problems with Articulate interfacing well with this tool?  So far, it seems to work OK, but we still have problems with the Attachment and Exit links working well once it has been published to Plateau.

We went with Docebo. Price was an issue with us, but not the only factor. We knocked a couple off the list because they used languages that out IT department does not support. The things we like about Docebo:

- Cost

- More corporate look than others

- SCORM

- Easy to modify for our needs

- Works well with Articulate

- Easy for Training to modify/manipulate with little IT support

- Strong reporting features

- Prints certificates

- Clean and uncluttered look

- Easy navigation for infrequent users

- Good support network

We looked at over 50 LMSs and Docebo and Moodle were our final two. We chose Docebo because of ease of use, clean look, and ability to modify it with less help from IT.

We have been using an LMS from a very small company named SyberWorks Inc. for the past eight years.  It has its own authoring platform that is Microsoft Word based, but is also SCORM compliant.  Our vendor has been very cooperative in building interfaces with SCORM courses that allow us to view such statistics as the percent of students who got each assessment question right/wrong, etc. - which was very important to us. 

Oracle with the OLM module installed for us.

We started with Moodle, but as our company moved across to Oracle HR, keeping all records in one place made sense, hence the swap to OLM.

We do need to adjust a couple of .xsd files from the Articulate published SCORM content, but then it plays and tracks smoothly.