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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

Upside Learning

There are three ways in which you can use an open source LMS: Go to a vendor who has rebranded, modified the open source LMS as its own and provides managed hosting services on that or also deploys behind the firewall. This works almost like a commercial LMS arrangement – prices may vary. LMS is not free in this case.

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Creating Online Social Learning Membership Sites with Web Development Agency Owner, BuddyPress Expert, and StudyChurch Founder Tanner Moushey

LifterLMS

So if you want students to basically have the BuddyPress profile, and have their courses and their membership show up and be able to easily get into their courses and programs, or have forms specific to courses or memberships, all that stuff’s part of Lifter. Is it a firewall issue? That’s not terribly complicated.