My company has no global LMS. I'm not happy with our existing external LMS, and I don't have budget for another one.

So I was wondering: Could I just

1. purchase an Articulate license and post an Articulate RISE course online
2. Design the course such that it unlocks section by section – and only at the end / after passing, people can be directed to a link to an MS form in the internal system
3. Then on the MS form (which would register their company email or user ID automatically), they would fill in a field to confirm their completion?

I’m sure there are drawbacks to this, but I don’t know what they are.

For background

• I'm not an instructional designer. I've rolled out trainings in my role before but always with the help of learning experts. But with my new company, I'm pretty much on my own.
• So I only know how Articulate RISE works from a user and content owner perspective -- I never used the back end to design courses. But from what I’ve read it seems to be one of the easier platforms to learn. (At least easier than trying to work around the bugs on our current system).
• I’m also so far only a casual user of MS Forms, I’ve never used it for 4,000+ entries

Would something like this be feasible – as a general matter, and for me specifically to manage? What would the drawbacks be?

If training courses could pop up in your browser while you’re on specific pages, would you find that helpful or more of a distraction?

Hello, we are a construction company with just under 100 employees. We narrowed our search to include Bridge, Absorb, and 360Learning (Docebo seems too robust and costly for our needs). We looked at must-haves and wants and these three seem quite similar in their offerings.

The L&D initiative is newer for us and though we have SMEs within our company, we don't necessarily have true content creators (likely will end up being myself and one or two others). Any insight/experience with these options is VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

Any subtle way of transitioning from screen to screen on video tutorial?

I notice on video playback, you can audibly hear the click on the keyboard and sometimes two clicks (as I desperately try to get on next screen :) )

(I'm using Camtasia btw)

Hi & thanks in advance for any advice:

I'm trying to build a paid 3-hour education course and sell it on a WIX made website. The course needs to have certificate features and a course timer so certain course builders I already know won't work for me.

I tried to use the WIX course builder, but it seems really limited. Has anyone successfully built a wix course with the wix builder? Should I be using another platform to build the course and then integrate it into my WIX site? The course itself will be fairly basic...mostly text based, maybe some 5-10 minute videos to break up the text, and multiple choice quizzes.

I'm not super savvy with any of this tech and felt like Wordpress with the Learndash plugin was above my ability so I scrapped it and started rebuilding the site with Wix.

Thank you!

Instructional designer-project manager with 18+ years of experience. I am looking for a new job but lack experience in elearning/lms. What is the quickest way to get up to speed? Any trainings or certificate programs you all would recommend? Note: there aren't any opportunities at my current job to learn this. TIA!

I was talking to my friends who recently joined their company and realised the following things in the context of corporate training:
a) Companies don't actually care about their employee's learnings and is mostly a formality

b) For employees, it is sorta formality for them as well just to sit throught it, pass tests if any (most of them don't end up doing it if they don't have tests check in).

I want to understand to what extent this is true depending on the company's demographics (company size, industry, etc.) and I'm interested to learn more about the companies who actually care about the learnings of the employees at the job and invest in the resources?

I work at a small disability rights nonprofit and one of our programs is a free online training about civic engagement and legislative advocacy for the disability community. We currently pay $100/month for Talent LMS and have an active user base of <25. We are considering switching to a platform that better suits our needs and budget, what do you recommend?

Wishlist:

• User-friendly and disability accessible interface
• Reasonable monthly price/nonprofit discount, ideally more affordable than the $100/month we currently pay
• Accurately saves user progress across multiple courses
• Supports multimedia curriculum (graphics, PDFs, videos, embedded YouTube videos, written content with hyperlinks)
• Allows users to download course material PDFs and other resources
• Creates a straightforward and accessible training experience for a small user base that does not submit assignments

Thank you so much for your guidance!

Help from the hive mind? 

I am taking a Masters Class and need to get input on 4 questions from teachers with online teaching experience:

How do you envision your role in the online classroom? How is this different from teaching in person? What role expectations do you hold for students online? How, if at all, is this different from teaching in person?

💜 Sharing resources below for tax 💜 Thank you all 💜

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ed-tech-tools-2024/ 

https://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/

https://www.ikonet.com/es/diccionariovisual/

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Can someone recommed best yt tutorials for LTI? I am looking for deep understanding of what I can do with deep-linking and content item. I am comming from programming background. I don’t want to just launch one video from facebook as a tool consumer. I want to launch something that I developed from my own web application.

Question for the group…

Is it customary for an LMS to limit the number of xAPI statements that will be exported as part of their base cost?

We have asked for the full catalog of statements to be exported to our internal system, and there is an additional cost. We are asking for the raw score statement to be exported from an exam.

I am not fully aware of the business model of an LMS.

We need to understand

1. If coaches desire a blend of community + courses, as we feel this blends best.
2. Only courses, no desire for community

Feel free to send us your honest feedback, you can try us out on https://socially.so

Hi! to any reader. Making an online course seems to be one of the most challenging ways to make money. Does anyone know of a LMS that is actually visually appealing to end users? I tried Trainer Central, but the headers are poorly designed. My target audience are UX and UI designers, and this is why having too many obvious bad design practices is unacceptable. Any advice is well received and appreciated!

its important that I have an LMS that:

• is visually familiar to end users

-allows for monthly subscription pricing model

-provides support and tools specifically for individual course sellers

Hello all! I’m very new to this, so please excuse my lack of knowledge. I’m helping my company research some interactive training tools for new hires. We use a very complex software internally that a lot of users struggle with, so we want to create interactive modules to see if that helps users gain more familiarity and confidence with the software. FYI: the software does not have a very in-depth demo mode to play around with, so this is why we’re looking for a better plan.

Example: Using static screenshots of the software, and making it at least partially interactive in a way where users need to click in the right places to move forward until they have completed their objective.

Can somebody help point me in the right direction here? What is the terminology for this and what are some great user-friendly programs to try?

Hi. Is there a way to generate a curriculum report that displays the course percentage of each of the individual trainings within the curriculum?

I have generated a report that shows the course progress percentage of trainings within the curriculum. However it shows either 100% or 0.

In an e-learning programme, what are some surprising attributes required by the corporate / government market?

Most want reporting, that is an almost given, but what else?

For example, if you make an elearning training video, are subtitles necessary - what are those attributes the most first time elearning creators often forget about that the customers actually want?

I’m building a series of skill courses for salespeople at tech companies. I’m happy with my content outline, but I’m struggling with design elements.

Pictures of people in suits talking on the phone? Awkward stock illustrations of arrows in a circle showing “process”? An upward-climbing graph that’s gasp also a staircase?!?

I don’t want to add boring cliche images just to fill space, but it feels very dry without them.

Has anyone seen this done in a creative, or at least relevant way?

Hey there! I am a teacher, but very new to the e-learning community. We just designed a course for working professionals to learn some integrated techniques. This involves troubleshooting by identifying multiple issues and generating optimal solutions which draw from a list of 7-10 interventions, which can be applied to solve the multiple isses in an integrated manner. The optimal solution usually just requires 2-4 interventions to solve most of the issues. This is aimed at both high level decision makers and lower level implemeters. (It will be tailored and delivered accordingly).

This is a free course, designed and taught out of interest by a group of 3 of us. (I'm the only one who's heard of reddit, and can get a printer setup on LAN, so I've been chosen to deal with this next part).

The idea After training, which will be offline (I know I'm on e-learning, please hear me out), we would want to give a few simulated exercises to assess them. It would be an evolving scenario with multiple steps of defining the problem, identifying the causes, designing strategies to tackle the causes and so on- with some mathematical questions, the answers of which will inform the selection of interventions in the next steps. And when done, it will tell the participants which options were right and which ones were wrong and what would be an optimal solution etc.

Here we envisioned two things -

1. This simulation can be in a training mode, where at each step the answers are discussed (as in the wrong ones are explained) and they are allowed to redo the part multiple times till they get it right, and then they are guided to the next steps. So they kind of rehash their theoretical sessions in a simulation.
2. We would want to have a final testing session, where all mistakes will progress into their own branches and only at the end will they know where they went wrong, and the appropriate score is calculated. (Even if they choose a wrong option in step one, they will still be graded based on the correct responses in the further steps, although the overall score would be affected). This score will be used to generate a certificate of course completion. (We can do it manually too, if it's not possible otherwise).

The simulations are similar to the interactive exercises we usually conduct at the workshop sessions for this course.

Currently, this is our 'exciting' tech-based plan to turn boring workshop sessions into fun home-learning exercises.

So, having read my ramblings, please suggest what is something that I can use to achieve this? I am no good at coding, but I can navigate a program and search wiki or help groups to learn how to do stuff. And we also do not have any funds for this, so unless I can show this works I cannot get a single penny for it. And even then, the total grant would be in a few hundred dollars at max.

So, what would you suggest I invest my time in learning and developing these training simulations for beginning and the certificate at a later stage.

Please help me out with your suggestions... Thanks in advance

Hey fellows of reddit I need help. I work for an organization that has no training. They outsource it from another company but it's focused only on our teaching staff, and even then it's hardly used and the teachers are bored of the same content.

My current thought process/solution is i buy an Udemy account for soft skills and in some cases certifications for those who may want to transition to an in office role. Then I use our LMS for IP training and instructor led via it's calendar system so it that integrates with the HRIS.

If you have a better solution let me know but somethings to note:

1. It seems I'm allowed to buy a different lms than the one our hr partner offers so open api may work.

2. This is for 160 souls in a non profit space.

3. Price is a factor.

Thank you.

What are the key features and benefits you should consider when selecting a platform for creating and hosting your online courses? Please share your thoughts on user-friendliness, marketing tools, pricing, and any experiences you have with specific platforms.

Hello all :) I am looking for an open source LMS for building certain self-paced training within my company. Few features that are required:

1. Training structure: Course Topic > Modules > Sub-module/content
2. Dashboard for all types of users with required metrics (Gamification is plus)
3. User Management (Integration with 3P Internal Auth provider like Okta etc)
4. User structure (Super Admin, Teams/Sub-teams Manager, Users/Learners)
5. Training Assignment Management
6. Training Reporting (e.g. X users completed Topic-01)
7. Easier to customise

Any pointers will be appreciated. I have read about a few options like OpenEDX, Moodle, etc but not sure if they are can work corporate style self paced trainings.

If anyone has automated script which converts batch pdfs into scrom please help me building it. Also if anyone has Javascript in scrom which restrict the completion until and unless user spent specific time on it, guide me there also

Hi Everyone, I would love someone's help! I run a mostly in-person educaiton company geared towards school districts. We do skill development workshops. I am in the process of scoping out a new project and want to move some of our services online. I also want to open up some of the workshops where all school employees may have access to the content. Some of it may be "coursework" other just content, video presentations over powerpoint etc. Here is a rough idea of what I want to build. I would love to have a suggestion of an LMS and also if there are companies where consultants can help me figure this out (or someone here!).

a. Structure: i. I don’t know the exact structure, but I want the ability to have lots of different rooms with different access points. Maybe some of the rooms are paid content and some are free. Maybe some rooms are for union members and maybe some are for district management. Maybe some rooms are for specific school districts even. Bottom line, I want a platform that offers maximum flexibility. b. Education:

i. A place where my digital education content (see above) can be stored and consumed by those who purchase it (it will be groups of people that purchase it, such as a school district and unions within a school). ii. A place where groups can digitally work together on the education, including completing workbook activities. I want them to be able to discuss the education (maybe through a message board feature) iii. A place where I can even offer free webinars and education

c. Community i. I want to have the ability to create community among my clients and the public (for some of the free stuff). Message boards, chat groups etc.

d. Membership – I want some of the access to be free and some paid

e. App – should this be browser based on app based?

Hi, I am a Udemy course builder, focused on the economics side. I have started using ChatGPT and some other tools to help me build courses in some other languages, for example, French, Arabic, Spanish, etc. I just noticed there is an undervalued market for those courses. But I hope I can do this faster, and streamline this process.

Has anyone tried this?

update: I have tried a product called chatslides. and it is legit. I would recommend!

Hi everyone! I'm planning to launch an online course and am in search of the best LMS or digital product platform that offers the strongest video protection features.

Ideally, it should support dynamic, user-specific video watermarking.

Which platforms would you recommend?