We are currently using a customized version of Prosperity LMS. We’re pretty annoyed at this point with the way it’s laid out and the support team. We’re looking to switch sometime next year to a different online platform.
We’re a health care company with a lot of sites in the US but none outside the US. We create all our own content, so we don’t need a platform that provides any. (We’re accredited by ANCC, so our nurses can earn credits toward a license by taking our courses, and we’re looking into APA accreditation for our mental health professionals.)
What are your best suggestions?
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To start, you need to clarify your specific needs in much more detail than what you have described here. The specific content you have and the accreditation requirements aren’t nearly as helpful in narrowing down LMS options as criteria about the content format and user flow. What format are your current courses: self-paced SCORM, vILT, cohort-based with social features? Are you selling courses to individuals or organizations who buy a batch of seats? Do you need to set up paths of multiple courses with prerequisites and shared content in multiple paths? What tasks are hard for users right now in your LMS that you want to be easier? What tasks are easy right now that need to stay easy?
I collected a bunch of resources to help you figure out what questions to ask and how to get started finding an LMS. There are a couple of RFP templates there that can help you clarify what you actually need.
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Do you need xAPI feature in the LMS? That could be an important factor for the choice. Which eLearning authoring tools do you use? Do you need quiz features out of the box in the LMS or not? Apparently the reporting to the LMS is important, which type of reports do you want? I suppose you want it to be easy to set up to avoid needing specialists to manage the LMS. How many will need access to it? Lot of questions…
My favorite tool is Adobe Captivate, so it is natural for me to recommend the Adobe eLearning Manager of course.
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Can you tell me more about Captivate?
How hard is it to get the Course from Captivate to the Internet?
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You can publish Captivate to HTML5, which is necessary for an interactive course. The output can be compared with a normal website. You just have to upload it to a webserver. I use FileZilla to upload which is pretty straightforward, easy to use. You can install a webserver on one of your systems or you can use an external one like AWS where within limits you can upload for free. You only need to provide the URL to the index.html file for your learners.
If you have a LMS to manage the learner accounts, you have more features. Publishing to a LMS version is pretty much the same as publishing to HTML5, you just need to turn on Reporting and the output will have all the files necessary to allow communication between the course and the LMS.
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There are many good options for LMSs. I would recommend staying away from custom platforms, as it always results in more issues and unforeseen costs.
With regards to the content… many vendors currently try to get you to create courses in their LMS. That way you are locked in and switching to another LMS becomes very costly.
SCORM/tin-can courses van give extra flexibility. Hosting content and embedding the content into your (new) LMS gives you full control of the content.
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My company digs Docebo. You can partner with other companies or do content library ad ons but for a base package those aren’t included so you can probably get your price point because it’s a flexible system with different tools and levels of access.
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Customised Moodle or Customised Totara LMS.
You can reach out to folks at www . edvanta . com
They will definately help you.
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Knowledge Anywhere works a lot in medical/healthcare. I know they support Siemens
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I would totally go with Talent LMS!
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