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  • Hamish Charles Victor Bruce July 26, 2015 at 12:49pm

    Some good suggestions here. I suppose it depends on the size of your organisation and what you want to achieve with your LMS.
    We looked at a number from the pretty basic (LearnDash plugin for WordPress), through the separate social learning based systems like Ning (used here on DPG) through to bigger beasts like Claro. Here's a useful listing of the bigger ones: Top Ten LMS in 2015

    We are using Docebo, as it links into our other systems well. It's pretty good as a more formal course-based LMS, but there are some better (but more expensive!) ones on the market that are better at collaborative and social learning.
    One thing to look out for is how they charge for access. Docebo is good in only charging users that actually log in per month, rather than all who are signed up for the system. Can have a big impact on the overall costs.

  • Adam Rathbone July 23, 2015 at 11:54am

    Hi Rebekah

    I've had a few demos and the best one i've seen so far is Grovo.  Not sure if you've checked them but it may be worth doing and likewise if you have seen anything you think might be useful to me?

    Thanks

    Adam 

  • Alison Simmons July 21, 2015 at 5:07pm

    Simply Personnel LMS  is an “off the shelf” learning management system (LMS), designed for businesses to manage their site compliance training. It was recommended to us by the SGS auditor. We've looked at this as well as a few other more expensive options hoping to achieve the following points:

    The LMS system will enable the compliance training team to:

     

    • Consolidate our historical site training records, so we are holding them in one system rather than in several different excel spreadsheets
    •  Assign e learning, policies, SOPs etc and PUSH them to individual’s according to their job role/curricula/ individual needs
    • Manage compliance training
    • Review and report on staff progress with assigned courses/SOPs/policies/curricula
    • Set up courses on the system for staff to sign up to (or for managers to register their staff onto)

     

    The LMS will provide managers with the tool to oversee and manage their staff’s training by:

     

    • Providing managers with a dashboard of their team’s learning plans
    • Providing managers with a dashboard view of staff progress against their learning plans
    • Alerting managers ahead of forthcoming non compliances in sufficient time to ensure compliance can be maintained

     

    The LMS will provide individuals with the tool to manage their own training by:

    • Providing them with their own learning plans

     

    In addition the system will have the following functionality:

    • Provide a calendar so that admin team can see the training events that have been set up
    • The calendar could be viewed by all, so that individuals and managers could request training, or add their name onto a register for the training that has been set up  
    • Have an “e-signature” facility to confirm “read and understand” by individuals
    • A “task manager” for the admin team to deliver the “training cycle” automatically, especially sending out post training evaluation forms, 3 months after training has been delivered.

    We haven't bought into one yet, but Simply Personnel was a decent cheap option.

    Kallidus provide an impressive, but more expensive option which is potentially multifunctional (ie more than just an LMS as, if you wish, you can use it to manage performance and for talent management among other things).

    At the moment it seems as though everyone I speak to wants to provide us with a cloud based LMS, including nearly every provider of e learning! Good luck with choosing yours :)

    PS I have found that the cost is usually linked to the number of users that you need to set it up for.

  • Adam Rathbone July 8, 2015 at 3:53pm

    I've just had a meeting where this was being discussed for our business so thanks for posting.  If anyone has any companies they could recommend that would be fantastic for me to start my search.  If i find any good ones i'll also share with you Rebekah.

    Thanks

    Adam 

  • Michelle Appleby July 4, 2015 at 9:12pm

    Hi Rebekah, there's a great little cheap simple book that I have read and I think you might find helpful - LMS success by Katrina Baker.  It starts with selecting & implementing an LMS right through to realising the value of your LMS.

    Good luck

    Michelle

    • Rebekah Pearson > Michelle Appleby July 6, 2015 at 12:35pm

      Thanks Michelle, I will take a look at it.

  • Peter Daykin July 2, 2015 at 2:53pm
    Hi Rebekah,

    I've recently gone through the process. We had a decent budget however suppliers can give very big discounts, I got 75% off SuccessFactors pricing. When we were looking I was very impressed by the Totara LMSs that Webanywhere and Mind Click supplier, both companies also seemed very capable. If not for the discounts we got I would have gone with one of those if on a budget.
    Hope that gives you a idea of some to look at.
    Cheers,
    Pete
    • Rebekah Pearson > Peter Daykin July 6, 2015 at 12:35pm

      Many thanks Peter, I have arranged a meeting with webanywhere.

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