Which LMS do you use and why?

Marty Blevins said:

Dave Newgass said:

You guys are awesome.....thanks for all of the direction.  As we all know, each LMS comes with the good, the bad and the ugly.  My needs may be different that yours (as I am sure they are). 

Thanks again!

-Dave

We vetted about 17 license-based systems and ultimately settled on Learn.com (now Taleo Learn).

Our search was complicated by the fact that we had approximately 13 functional areas that each had a stake in the LMS and, as you said, different needs.

We broke our requirements down into "Must haves", "should haves", and "nice to haves" and rated each system on how well it met the identified needs.

Since we were looking at a commercial solution, we had several vendors come in for demo sessions. We gave each vendor a script that included the things that we were most interested in seeing (our "must haves") and asked them not just to tell us whether it could be done on the system, but to show us HOW to do it on the system. From our initial vendor responses to our checklist, you'd have thought that each system did everything. By asking to see the process, we were able to weed out some systems that would have made our day-to-day overly cumbersome.

So my advice - Get a reasonable idea of how you want your process to flow and then do a "show me, don't tell me" review.

Glenn Drysdale said:

Hi everyone,

I published a couple of articles about my journey to find an LMS, on Trainingmag.com. Perhaps they would be helpful to some.

Here's the link:

http://www.trainingmag.com/article/what%E2%80%99s-lms-part-1

We use taleo learn and it is our first LMS. So, Taleo bought Learn and now Oracle has acquired Taleo...at each step, functionality and pricing changes. But they have been very fair with us. These big enterprise systems require a big learning curve. I was told we should have two full time people running it, but we have two part-time people. We have done well, but due to very weak training offered by Taleo, it took us longer than I would have liked to get up and running. All they really had was out of date PDF manuals. Now, at least they have an online help guide, but it is still being populated. I have had very mixed results with their support portal. I will say that publishing eLearning to this LMS has not been a problem.

I developed a process for getting bids and deciding on a vendor. If that would be helpful to anyone, I'm glad to share. Just find me on LinkedIn.

Glenn Drysdale

Alberto Pastorelli said:

We use Docebo: it is more "corporate oriented" than moodle, very fast and user friendly both on user and admin side, and with a very powerful and customizable reporting system.