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LMS Q and A

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Everything from which one should I pick, to what do I think of X or Y to whether or not, they should have use a RFP. When should I use a RFP? I’m in a camp of folks, who believe that the RFP is an unecessary document, that has outlived its usefulness. . A RFP is a time waster – for you and the vendors.

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Psst. You wanna buy some features?

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Parental portal, student portal, teacher portal (education systems). Multi-tenet, multi-portal and extended enterprise (basically it is all the same thing). SaaS – the norm, what no longer is the norm – hosted on the client’s servers only. RFPs and Features. Course templates.

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K-12 and LMSs are Broken, Who’s to Blame?

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Uptime – Most systems today who are in the cloud use server farms such as Rackspace and Amazon S3 – thus that “uptime” is tied to those servers. Student portal. Parent portal. Private server. Another vendor showed me a school district whose RFP was 36 pages in length. Accepts APIs.

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2015 LMS Rakings for K-12, HE and Report Criteria

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Secondly, areas were identified by which a point total would be assigned based on them achieving all those points in that specific section (varied by each section – using my LMS RFP template – newest version, not yet posted, but will be included in the report for anyone to use). Parent Portal is K-12. If yes, point city.

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LMS vendors: R u hearing us?

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Rather, you are expected to see their “demo&# and then based on paper based literature, maybe your RFP (if you did one), make your selection and purchase. They charge you to host your courses the ones you create in an offline authoring tool and then upload, materials, files, etc. on their server. Are you listening?

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

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Authoring Tool. An eLearning content authoring tool is a software package which content developers use to create and package eLearning course content using SCORM or xAPI standards. There are many popular authoring tools to choose from, including Adobe Captivate , Articulate Storyline , Elucidat , and iSpring Pro. Certification.

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The A to Z of eLearning Acronyms Part 2

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An LCMS can be considered to be an LMS that includes an authoring tool. If you need to create materials from scratch (rather than the upload of pre-existing materials such as documents, video, audio, SCORM or xAPI), you should choose an LMS and an authoring tool or an LCMS. It is usually a subset of Human resources.