SharePoint Learming Management Systems (LMS)

[Tony Karrer]

One of the questions came up was what people were doing around learning management.

What LMS are people using associated with their SP content?

What are the available LMS products on top of SP? Integrated with SP?

What is the experience with these?

[Susan Burroughs]

I had a dream that I was having a conversation with Roger Mundell and Tony Karrer about SharePoint as an LMS...

oh no! it really happened!

Thanks to both of you for doing what you do.

I'm wondering if specific parts can be used to create drillable dashboards.... so many parts, so little time!!!

Susan

[Dan Medakovic]

Hi
It sounds like you are describing a great light weight LMS that leverages SharePoint. This would be ideal for clients that want to leverage their SharePoint investment and add some basic LMS functionality on top of that, at a low cost. As for LMS vendors reluctant to break out their functionality - it is not reluctance that requires us to license the full LMS. The reason our clients license our full LMS and integrate it with SharePoint is to get the full LMS functionality - things like learning workflow engine, resource management, advanced reporting features, competency based learning, etc. And since more than 60% of our customers prefer a hosted solution, IT only gets involved from a security perspective and to help with Single Sign On on the client side (if required). It really comes down to how complex (or not) the client's business rules are.

[Dan Pontefract]

Hello Roger - nice to 'see' you again as well.

I'm going to professionally augment your response with the following:

It's not just IT that is looking for simplicity (database, security, scripting reasons, etc.) but it's the end-user whom also is seeking simplicity.

If SP, Jive, Blogtronix, whatever, can be utilized as a window to the organization (I wrote about that here) then it's the end-user whom has a federated view of the corresponding and collaborative technologies (inclusive of the LMS) to create a seemless and sensical view.

To me, it's the panacea of a formal-informal-social learning paradigm.

Next time I'm in Victoria, or you're in Vancouver, we should hook up.

[Jody Baty]

We are going to be running a pilot of the SharePoint LearningKit over the next couple of months. A few database errors have been encountered during the install process, but a new version of the LearningKit is available that is supposed to correct these. I'm interested to learn if others have had install issues on a MOSS 2007 server?

SharePoint is the web application framework at my organization, so the Learning Kit (or third party SP LMS) is a natural fit. All of the security, Active Directory, disaster recovery, and larger IT issues have been addressed by other initiatives in the organization. It should, in theory, be a plug-and-play and we'll be up and going fairly quickly.

[Dave Campos]

Hey Jody, How did the Learning Kit work out? Any insight would be helpful to me. We will deploying Sharepoin internally and im looking to use the learning kit.

Thanks,

[Sergey Turin]

If you are interested in a SharePoint based LMS, you can visit http://www.lanteria.com/EffectiveLearning.aspx to know more about our SharePoint LMS called EffectiveLearning.