Which LMS do you use and why?

Marty Blevins said:

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.

Marty, I would love to see your compete list. We just are finishing the RFI process. Narrowed down to 8 or so vendors for demos and RFPs. I want to also drive the demonstrations to see exactly what the various stakeholders need to see. You chart would be invaluable.

Allen Wilson said:

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.