For anyone who has some familiarity with the eLearning scene, we need an LMS that is affordable for very small scale companies or even individual entrepreneurs. Some of these LMS prices are crazy and clearly designed for businesses (one charges $850 a month, one charged 25K…). Or they’ll be like $150 a month- still pretty high- but only allow 40 students. None of these can even be a consideration for us. There must be options for people who are still kinda new to the space.
Can anyone suggest an LMS that is actually affordable and allows a decent amount of enrollees- or is at least respectably scalable?
Alternatively, I guess we could use a site like Teachable or whatever, but I think those are more designed for individual sales and it also wouldn’t allow us to use the SCORM file, so we’d have to build a whole new course.
Disclosure: I am a co-owner of LifterLMS. My Speakonlinelearning.com account is older than a few days. LifterLMS is one of the oldest LMS solutions for WP (or in general at this point). It’s definitely the best free option for WP.
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Just a tip for your own research. Not that you have done this, but instead of searching with words like “free” or “cheap” just search for “open source” and you will find a lot of free tools. As others have mentioned sometimes you may end up with costs in other ways like time spent customizing or money spent on hosting fees etc. but it should give you more than enough options to sort through and find something that works for your needs.
I created a demo project on Adobe Captivate Classic (2019) two weeks ago. Hosted it on AWS on EC2 instance running LAMP but couldn’t get the damn thing to run. Quiz results folder and file weren’t showing up. After struggling for 4 days moved on.
This a no brainer … has free version for testing without any expiry … super easy to setup and use … and pretty cheap (with overage per registration):
Thanks. This was recommended as a tester, but can I actually host the class on this? In other words, is this its own LMS? If so, if I may ask, is there a business side to it (i.e. you sell the course)? I’ll check into it, thanks for the suggestions!
You can host. That is why it has unlimited
number of registration limits. I am not sure if they have Payment Management Integrated into the platform.
Also look into TrainerCentral. I use that and it is really good except I don’t know if it integrates SCORM courses. You can create and sell courses with TrainerCentral.