SkillPort scores very high as well on satisfaction. SkilISoft SkillPort Skillsoft 12 8.03 Update, Nov. 2007 - I've created a series of posts around Learning Management System (LMS) Selection: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time Learning Management System RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process I thought I had previously wrote about this, but I realized when I was posting Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas that I'd not previously talked about the results from participating

LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.) Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't normally get very excited about LMSs but these awards attracted my attention, because in amongst the Sabas and the SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market

Right? --------------------------------- Project: Create an Intro to SkillPort program Participants: Sid (not her real name) , Sally (not her real name either) , the Veteran (our senior trainer and an absolute PRO at teaching folks nervous about computers, not his real name) and me. So I managed to get Google Wave invites for the other 2 members of our LMS Administration team. I figured that Wave would help us improve our collaboration process - which currently consists of Elluminate or Virtual Classroom when we have the license space + teleconference (because not everyone

Our initial project - developing a draft outline for an Introduction to SkillPort class. (Oh Sound advice from the nice folks at Funny Eye for the Corporate Guy The picture has nothing to do with the thoughts below - but with the way my past few weeks have been going, it's a good reminder. --------------------------------------------- My current thoughts on Google Wave - A Wave needs to be focused focused focused. I am finding the broader waves become very disorganized and hard to follow very quickly. - Start small, then go larger.

I also give them the SkillPort location since we are training our end users to look there first for materials in the long-term. I am making extensive use of a feature in SkillPort that allows me to link to what they call "External Learning Objects." It's gotten to the point where the first question out of my mouth when someone wants to put a tutorial in SkillPort is... Do you need reporting? I was at a local learning/technology conference yesterday and one of my peers (who I'll keep anonymous) did a great presentation on some short, just-in-time videos/screencasts that her department had done.

• Output of tool must be able to easily publish to SkillPort / SCORM-compliant output. We are starting a new project with our Firewall group (not their real name) this month. The Firewall group has money. The Firewall group is interested in gaming.

So if any of you happen to know someone who works on Skillsoft's Custom Content team (or better, someone who works with both SkillPort LMS and Captivate) - please contact me via the blog or wwickha1@gmail.co The feedback I've received from my little "pinging the network" experiment has been quite informative. More for what is missing than for what I received.

Miller is an all-around computer guru who has worked in the eLearning industry (WHERE he worked escapes me right now). Miller: So what are you trying to do? Me: I'm trying to pull information out of Banner (Sungard product with an Oracle back end) and SkillPort to create reports where I can actually measure whether our training works. Miller: And your ERP won't let you do that? Me: Have no idea. You all are awesome! I am still taking advice.

Also aggregate as well as broadcast) - Resource library - Subscription options (can get messages whenever response in room) - Chat and virtual classroom (not turned on yet) - Tagging with full text search capability - Training centers - Wrapped and transitional learning - Enables push and the pull (people should be able to get what need on demand) (need to think about this in my context with Skillport - what systems / supports will need to be put in place with the tools we have at our disposal) (Whole point is to put together the tools and resources to make learning accessible and available).

Especially as we move to SkillPort and start converting ILTs to eLearning. (Grrr...computer Presentation: Collaboration in a Multi-Department Training Organization Presenters: Bruce Baumgarten and Shane Verheyen, California State Automobile Association I find myself now working with multiple training departments. computer gets lonely without power......)