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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

The server takes your order and communicates it to the kitchen staff, who prepares your order and passes it back to the server, who then serves it to you. The server communicates the tab to the cashier, who prepares your bill and passes it to the server, who presents your bill to you and receives payment.

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The Worst Type of Question to Ask in Your Learning Management System Request for Proposal (RFP)

Absorb LMS

They copied most of these features into a RFP and sent it to vendors. Along with proposals, they asked for supporting documentation such as server security specifications, marketing materials, terms of service, etc. In response to one recent request for proposal, I submitted about 150 pages of information.

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Learning Systems RFP and Tier4 NexGen

eLearning 24-7

I note this, because this post covers my new Learning Systems RFP Template , which includes the latest NexGen Tier 4 feature sets. Why one RFP instead of specific ones for LXP and LMS? This is far better than them receiving a 20 page RFP or 100 page RFP. Where are their servers hosted – The most common in AWS.

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Buying a Learning System – Dread

eLearning 24-7

Stage Two Creating the RFP document These are the typical routes people go when creating the RFP (BTW, save time, use my template that said) Put in 90% that every vendor already has – but you are unaware. Write an RFP that is massive in size. Use Nobody loves or likes creating an RFP/RFI or whatever you do. It

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Locally-Installed Software About a decade ago, many organizations shunned cloud-based software and demanded that the LMS be installed on their internal servers. Now, even the most security-conscious organizations such as governments and financial institutions embrace software as a service (SaaS). Installed software was hot.

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

eLearning 24-7

Understand that a “Self-Service” system means you buy today and you could go live today. A self-service system is a “hands-off” approach, thus the vendor themselves do not play any type of role in your training or support (you get videos and other items instead). . How to spot a self-service system?

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Break it down! (No it’s not Hammer Time! Yet)

eLearning 24-7

If your goal is just to post the course on a server and let people access it, just for the sake of learning and you don’t care about tracking of any sort – then no, you do not need any compliance standard. Why would I want a SaaS solution over hosted on my own servers product? No, just kidding. Just a guess here!

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