Which LMS is best for Rise Courses?

Hi Leila,

There are so many LMSs out there that unfortunately, I'm not able to recommend a specific one for you. Hopefully, someone in the community will be able to point you in the right direction!

Hey Phillip!

Any LMS that supports AICC, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI (Tin Can API) standards will work with Rise 360. 

Are you having any specific issues with Rise 360 content in the LMSs you've tested so far? I'd love to help!

Having just completed an exhausting LMS selection process, I can honestly say that there are far too many considerations to selecting an LMS and that decision should be based on the company and possibly industry needs. Because you can publish your Rise courses to all the typical and standard industry outputs (Scorm, AICC and TinCan), your LMS choices would likely be in the hundreds. 

There's a lot more to LMS selection than whether or not it will play content: budget, number of users, number of subportals, whether the LMS vendor offers 24/7 support, whether you can sync active directory through Microsoft Azure, if you can send a learner link by email once the course is published, whether or not you have to reversion a course with each update, etc. etc.

Even once you have found an LMS, always conduct multiple reference checks with other clients. Ask questions such as how supported they feel, what was their onboarding experience like, what would they change about their LMS, Ask for a sandbox environment so that you can experience what it will be like when you publish courses to it. What's the reporting like? How easy is it to find courses? How does the course library work for users, etc.

It is most certainly hard work - I've spent the last 3 weeks in a "spreadsheet comparison coma" but the good news is that I'm happy with the result!  Never be afraid to put the time in and get what you need. What works for someone else may not work for you and, yes, some of us have found things out "the hard way" by putting in the legwork or making wrong decisions. Never leave a critical decision like this to a vendor that doesn't know your specific situation/business/industry. 

The advice given by Janette is excellent. 

Take the time and effort to make your LMS selection decision based on your actual requirements and try it out before you enter into an agreement if at all possible. 

Having been through the LMS selection process several times, I don't see the value if Articulate providing a list of LMS's that work with RIse.

The way to do it is to prepare a list of training, business, infrastructure and IT requirements and then do the research to find the best fit. 

In previous jobs the company selected the LMS simply because it was an add-on module to the software suite that they were already using. No consideration was given to any other requirements which was a big oversight. 

Where I'm working now one of the considerations (of many) was the requirement that the LMS should have the ability to communicate with several of our IT systems that are all provided by other vendors.

I've been in the unfortunate situation where a previous employer did not do due diligence and a few years into one LMS found it was necessary to switch to a different one.

The learner data migration was an absolute nightmare. 

So there is no quick and easy way to select a LMS. 

There are of course LMS Consultants that can be hired to assist an organization to identify their  LMS requirements, find the best match, and also assist with LMS implementation, 

I deleted my last two posts because they didn't seem to be hitting the nail on the head, based on the replies that were coming my way.

I asked for a list of LMS's that Rise 360 could hook up to without incident. I just want to sell courses, not ream out cylinder heads.

Now, aside from art work, I would expect that an LMS could and would simply perform as it should...meaning interact with quizzes and tests. That's all I need.

I'm seeing things like, LMS's not reporting all of the time, sometimes reporting incorrectly, etc. This shouldn't be, period.  

All motor vehicles are similar in that they perform the same basic function...getting people to their destination. But why don't LMS's perform this way all of the time and why isn't there a list of lousy LMS's and great LMS's...ESPECIALLY from a company (Articulate) that provides a software that is supposed to "talk turkey" with an LMS?

I just want to sell my courses to people, I don't want to spend 10+ years doing homework...I'd need 5 more lifetimes.

So far all replies to my question have been way off the mark or they were matter of fact in that they basically meant "well that's the way it is, too bad"...which never answered my question...at all.

Bottom line is...it WOULD be TREMENDOUSLY beneficial to me and others I'm sure, to be able to peruse a comprehensive list of tried and true LMS's that hook up to Rise 360.

And like I said...come on, true or false, hot spots, drag and drop...minimal variables.

Let me give you a for instance here...

I like TalentLMS except for the nagging and confusing envelope that Articulate needs to reside in if embedded. They have a nagging button message at bottom titled Course completed or Reset Unit and all that good stuff...that is aside from MY stuff. I had a half dozen people start a sample course and they were all confused. They couldn't wrap their head around the idea that that bottom message wasn't a part of what I created.

So yes, it would have been so much better if Articulate had TalentLMS on a list of possible LMS's and some of the pros and cons of them....instead of me investing so much time on it. BTW, the people at TalentLMS wrote that this couldn't be hidden, etc.

Bottom line again is that nothing will come of this because there doesn't seem to be a need from the people who don't see a need, lol.

Regards,

Harry

Same boat here, Harry. We have prioritized the use of Rise360, as it is so simple to use. Creating eLearning is a secondary function for our group, and it's more important for us to get the content out there quickly and in a way that is usable. 

Many LMSs seem to be playing catch-up when it comes to delivering a friendly mobile experience with responsive content like that exported from Rise.

I would love to hear of some examples from the community where they have had the Rise360 mobile courses display properly and in a user-friendly fashion. 

Anyone on this yet? I tried Learnworlds, but their player overlaps with the steps in Rise.

The only one that I have found is Firmwater.  In fact, their demo lesson are made from rise.

Thanks Taylor!