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Which LMS is best for Rise Courses?
Hey people! I need an LMS to run courses created in Rise. Here's a list of features. Any recommendations?
e-Commerce:
Learners can purchase course and watch it right away.
Paypal or other e...
After exploring many options I have settled on Thinkific. I was also able to do some custom CSS to remove any duplicate player bars. The content looks great, native, and best of all leaps and bounds less expensive then and other LMS. Firmwater works well, but does not offer any kind of gamification. I was going to do a custom setup with Badgr but it ended up being too much of a pain. TalentLMS was better but still, the experience left something to be desired.
If you are interested in setting something up similar feel free to shoot me an email at augert@me.com. Right now I am designing course curriculum, training, website, gamification, etc. for Qube Masters. www.qubemasters.com
We hope to have over 10,000 users at launch!
Also, to the Rise team, could you please give us the ability to remove the "Course Start Page"? If you did that, it would make Rise the perfect tool.
As a university educator designing and writing a freshman-level course in Personal Finance, I settled on Thinkific as well. For its ecommerce ability, for no extra cost.
By way of explanation, my educational institution desired to recoup the platform (and other costs incurred) by charging students a modest fee ($20 or less); hence, ecommerce functionality at reasonable cost was required. While not a perfect solution, it beats having students purchase traditional textbooks at $75 to $250 each, or undertake eLearning texts through the traditional textbook publishers (typically $55 to $125, for a limited-in-time eLearning subscription). While separate eCommerce solutions existed that could be paired with Articulate, these solutions would have driven the price up for students beyond the maximum $20 target we desired.
However, I do believe Articulate's RISE 360 platform has several advantages over Thinkific, having worked to set up several modules for a course on each. I would encourage corporate trainers, especially those doing microlearning, to use Articulate, for its user interfaces (especially for learners) are exceptional.
Modern pedagogical techniques - including spaced interval learning, retrieval practice, interleaving, microlearning, combining text with pictures and videos and graphics - can all be well-achieved on the RISE 360 platform. I hope to return to the RISE 360 platform, for future course development, once the ecommerce functionality is improved.
I agree. I am just living for the day that a full virtual classroom to really run, not just show, Articulate Content.It’s the best but my platform will not yet support it. Firmwater worked great. It’s expensive by some standards, affordable by others. I did test on Firmwater with perfect results.
Hey Taylor,
I've been using Thinkific for a while now and no probs at all. The double player is annoying, but if you turn off the side bar prior to exporting it removes that issue (but also the navigation). For me that works well as what I end up doing is breaking into small courses and separate lessons in thinkific. The SCORM issue will be for me a future problem, from last contact thinkific are not planning to include due to the API costs
That sounds good but I can only see the option to add material from Rise360 into Thinkific in a specific lesson. I have built a whole course in Rise360 and will sell it to learners through an LMS and I don´t want to rebuild the course again, is it possible to upload the whole course to Thinkific or do I need to divide it up into lessons to upload?
