Existing customers have that in their customer portal today. So when they create a new site, they go into a section of our portal called sites, surprise. What happens after that is the WP Engine platform creates the WordPress instance on our servers. Facebook does beta of course. MORE

The problem here is that they developed a solution that is not made for 10,000 or more end users. While there is nothing wrong with seeking the golden goose, and even catching it a few times, if you do not have the server bandwidth to do so, nor the internal support and capabilities to handle it, how long do you think they will remain? You can share the content in Facebook with your Facebook friends. I am still hearing of problems with Captivate 5 and SumTotal. MORE

Whether you’re doing online corporate training or selling commercial training courses, the security of your eLearning portal is something you should take very seriously. your learning portal) can be broken into and/or have their operation disrupted. But even a simple “hacking” of your training portal can expose private employee information, leak business secrets, or wreak havoc with your training program. Facebook login, and more. MORE

Most important for instruction in information age paradigm: Think in terms of a task space (project-based learning, problem-based learning, inquiry-based…) – students work together on a task until they encounter a knowledge gap. Based on comments in article in 2008 published in Educational Technology -- 4 major roles or functions that tech has got to server for this new paradigm to be successful: 1. This week on Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. MORE

But it’s pretty clear that even Adobe sees the problem here. and on the test server here at BU, and I want to like it … I really do! Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”. A Learning Portal is Not an LMS - Getting Down to Business , May 18, 2010 I have been in several discussions recently with clients, partners, and many in the training industry, and I have been hearing a common theme emerge: “I need a learning portal, not an LMS&#. MORE

First of all, if a company uses a proprietary LMS, they must rely on the provider to maintain and service the LMS, as well as provide support when problems occur. As an example, your learners can chat, blog, connect to social network sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) eLearning portals: You can employ customized branding for each department in your university, school, company or institutions. MORE

TalentLMS , for example, is just there, available and working 24/7, waiting for you to open your eLearning portal account. And it’s really as easy as that to get started with eLearning — like registering for a Gmail or Facebook account. Sure, you could add another PC to your datacenter to beef up your self-hosted services, split the database into its own server, maybe build a small cluster — but, unless you have Google’s or GM’s scale, why bother? MORE

Sometimes, it could be a problem related to your hosting company’s server. Expert Advice: When you take a backup of all your content, you have the option to save it on the same server or on a remote server (such as your Drive or Dropbox). It’s always advisable to backup your site on remote servers, so in case something goes wrong on your server, your website can be rebuilt with ease. . MORE

The problem though is that there is a crisis going on in the K-12 sector and it is tied in part to e-learning (with wins and losses) and LMS vendors who serve that sector. 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. Facebook like design for social – YUCK. Private server. MORE

OmniSocial is a social learning platform, with learning management capabilities and with the ability to select individual apps in the system and only use those you select to install onto your web site or learning portal. One of the biggest problems I always saw in the products was the back end, i.e. what the administrator sees and has to use. No problem. As mentioned earlier, you can select a specific app or apps and then integrate them into your web site or portal. MORE

The only problem is that not all corporate training systems are made alike — which makes choosing the right corporate training LMS a real challenge when a business attempts to make its first steps into online employee training. authentication protocol, as well as federated authentication through its Facebook login integration, although we mostly recommend the latter for public facing eLearning portals. MORE