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LMS Do and Don’ts – Isn’t it time to do what’s right?

eLearning 24-7

Meet my friend, the RFP. If you are going to use an RFP, I recommend using the one I created for each and everyone. LMS RFP Template (click the link). Part of the problem with today’s RFPs, usually the ones created by folks, is that it contains too much stuff. There isn’t any hidden server secrets here.

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2009 Predictions, Remembrance and Challenges

Kapp Notes

Professionally Finding new approaches to teaching my RFP class. Try Dissecting a Frog #2: Top 5 Funny and Semi-Learning Related Videos (My favorite) #3: Help, I have an Instructional Design Master's Degree and I Can't Create E-Learning What are your biggest challenges for this upcoming year? with time management.

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The potential pitfalls of a custom LMS solution

LearnUpon

I’ve seen these scenarios and sometimes when I read through a set of requirements or an RFP I am the first to say “This company needs a custom build, no LMS will do all of this off the shelf”. The vast majority of these situations require a behind the firewall/locally installed LMS. Pitfalls of a custom LMS solution. of days, etc.

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Halloween Edition – Tricks and Treats

eLearning 24-7

Deployment type – SaaS, Client-Hosted; if SaaS this means in the cloud, if Client-Hosted it means the system can sit behind your firewall on your servers. To RFP or not RFP. Some vendors offer only one option, some offer two. Pricing – A price range. Articles include. What is an LMS? What is an LXP?

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

eLearning 24-7

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. Private server. behind the district’s firewall) is nearly universal. Another vendor showed me a school district whose RFP was 36 pages in length.

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LMS vendors: R u hearing us?

eLearning 24-7

Dozens of LMS vendors, had typos on their web pages, zero screens of the system, links that went nowhere and two kicked up my Firewall warning of possible privacy collection and one had a Trojan Horse (I use a hardcore firewall and A/V). on their server. Please tell me, what other big expenditure would you allow this to happen?

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