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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 easy payment system.
- Direct payments to multiple payees
- Require course completion in order to see/take assessment.
Admin functions:
- Advanced reporting
- Learner data on time spent in each course
- Automated quiz grading
- Certificate awarding when student completes course with 75% or higher.
- Interactive exercises and assessments.
- Custom branding
SCORM and API compliant.
Quick help (phone or chat).
Cloud hosting
No banners or advertisements
- MargaretRich035Community Member
Leila (or anyone else) - Have any LMSes risen to the top for using Rise? I'm with Harry in that I know how to conduct the research and have done it before but I'm in a time and resource crunch. The part I don't know anything about is monetization (ie we want ppl to pay for our course(s). We are also a small nonprofit targeting a few hundred active users at most at any given time so many vendors are automatically out for us. I am trying to learn to speak API but also have limited time/ bandwidth for that as well. Thanks!
- CarriannLaneCommunity Member
I tested mine with Firmwater and it worked perfectly.
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- HarryCarterCommunity Member
But that is starting at $500/month or $6K per year. Is there anything else that works on a per user basis? That wouldn't work for me as we are small.
- LiselotteBje221Community Member
Thinkific! Not perfect, but to my knowledge the best fit. Now, Thinkific is not a SCORM platform. Then again, Iæm not missing it so far.
- RonRhoadesCommunity Member
I looked at Firmwater, but it is $499 per month, for 100 user starts per month. BUT ... I'm looking at more limited distribution, at least initially. For use for 150 students at a university the first year, then expanding after the first year. I'm looking to charge a very, very modest course fee to students - to cover the annual costs of the RISE 360 Teams software, and to incentivize other authors to improve the content of the course over time.
It would be helpful for RISE 360 to address this issue. I'm exploring RISE 360, and am very, very impressed with its functionality. But, without ecommerce functionality provided in some manner, I may not be able to use RISE 360, and I may have to move on to another platform (Thinkific?)
One way to do it might be to provide a login for users (students in courses), with a separate password available to each user. Not a perfect workaround, but it might enable sales through campus bookstores. (Often necessary so students may use financial aid awards to purchase course materials.)
There are likely better ecommerce solutions, however. I urge Articulate to explore this issue, and solve it / make recommendations.
Hello, Dr. Ron A. Rhoades!
Have you considered Rise.com? While Rise.com doesn't have an e-commerce feature, you can use other channels (such as a web landing page) to collect sign-up details and payment information before giving learners access to courses. For more details on how to set up a paywall for your Rise account, please reach out to the Rise team at sales@rise.com.
- TaylorAugerCommunity Member
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.
- RonRhoadesCommunity Member
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.
- CarriannLaneCommunity Member
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.
- NicThomasCommunity Member
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
- CeciliaAhrmanRaCommunity Member
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?
- HarryCarterCommunity Member
"TalentLMS was better but still, the experience left something to be desired. "
Please explain.
Thanks.
- TaylorAugerCommunity Member
The player bar and interface poped the content out into another window. This creates some confusion when using mobile. They have a mobile app as well, but not all content works.
- DavidEmmettCommunity Member
Hi something to consider might be Wordpress - then add the Cluevo LMS to it as a free plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/cluevo-lms/ seems to works well with Rise courses saved as scorm - although I have only just started testing - if you buy a theme with commerce included you can get most of the building blocks as open source Cheers Dave
- JessicaWard-cd5Community Member
Plus one for having Articulate staff gather research on this and help their users by sharing this kind of information. Rise is your product - you tell us which platforms you work with! I've done hours and hours of research on my specific case, but knowing which LMSs Rise works best with, which known bugs and quirks exist, etc. would really help. No amount of research on my part is really going to tell me, for example, that if I try to publish my Rise course on Thinkific I'm going to encounter a double player bar. And over time it seems to me that Articulate staff would be best positioned to gather that information (AND work with other companies to sort out the bugs).
Hey Jessica, thanks for your note! Are you looking for an LMS to host your Rise 360 courses? What LMS attributes are important to you?
If you're looking for a system that integrates seamlessly with Rise 360 that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage, check out Rise.com!
- RichBeckerCommunity Member
The Rise courses we developed play fine from the Articulate site, but when we run them from Premier LMS on an iPhone we have trouble. The most common problem is that the text size is inconsistent, and sometimes way way too big (see attached 1682). We are currently seeing the screen effectively cut off halfway down. As user scrolls down, text and images disappear when they get below the midline. (See attached 1680) Any suggestions?