#1 most frequent
United States of America
61.4%89 installations of 145
What is LMS365?
ELEARNINGFORCE in Edgewater brings learning management to Office 365 and SharePoint. LMS365 blends with the Microsoft infrastructure and is designed to eliminate expensive integration, time-consuming development, and unwanted complexity. Learners access learning plans, courses, personal progress reports, and certificates from within the SharePoint business process.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Learning administration
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
Category average: 8.4
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning
Utilizes SSO technology to ease the login process for users.
Category average: 8.8
Compliance management
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Learning content
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
Category average: 7.2
Social learning
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
Category average: 6.9
Course authoring
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
Category average: 8.5
Who Buys & Uses LMS365
#2 most frequent
Canada
7.6%11 installations of 145
#3 most frequent
Germany
7.6%11 installations of 145
LMS365 Simple Yet Effective LMS Software
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As the Manager of Professional Development, we consistently use LMS365/Learn365 to develop and publish all of our learning content. I find the software to be easy to learn especially since it sits on top of SharePoint so many users find it familiar. In addition our staff finds it easy to navigate through the catalog and identify courses they wish to take. Overall it's an easy and wonderful tool for our needs.
Pros
- Creating an easy to navigate Course Catalog
- Enabling the training team to assign training easily and send out email reminders.
- Create sample training in the Sandbox to test thoughts and ideas.
Cons
- I would like to see LMS365 add more dynamic tools for the content creation such as recording, editing and AI software.
Return on Investment
- LMS365 is an overall positive experience. My only "negative" feedback is that I wish it didn't rely on the Azure directory to set up teams as our organization does not use Azure so that I can create teams within the LMS.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
iSpring Learn and Absorb LMS
Other Software Used
Camtasia, iSpring Suite
Basically just works, but a little outdated.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
LMS365 was used at Ryman Healthcare to centralize, publish, and distribute eLearning and facilitated learning courses across 45 aged retirement care locations across New Zealand and Victoria, Australia. LMS365 provided a platform to create course shells to customize depending on the need of each course and the ability to upload score files for learning.
Pros
- SCORM compliance.
- eLearning publishing.
- Active Directory-based user groups.
Cons
- No inbuilt user group management.
- No eLearning authoring tools.
- No standalone app- requires SharePoint.
Return on Investment
- Improved compliance.
- Scalable learning.
- Reporting
Usability
Alternatives Considered
EdApp, SafetyCulture, Totara LMS and Moodle
LMS365: 50% awesome, 50% not so awesome
Pros
- Course library is highly intuitive
- Completed courses are obviously graded
- The video player is embedded properly.
Cons
- Clarify the process for enrollment into courses
- When the user clicks into a different portion of the file library and then needs to return to a previous class the software forces you to go all the way back to the beginning of the coursework, this isn’t that painful just annoying.
Return on Investment
- Employees cannot work until they are Hippaa certified, LMS 365 makes it possible for us to expedite the process of certifying many employees at once.
- LMS 365 Does not easily support any training for software such as Excel or SharePoint despite the course catalog offering classes for these subjects.
- LMS 365 could stand user interface redesign if nothing else to update it to a more modern appearance
Other Software Used
Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics), MS SharePoint, Notepad++
A long term happy customer
Pros
- Easy to setup and manage.
- Lots of configurable settings and behavior controls.
Cons
- Nothing comes to mind as it covered everything we needed and much that we did not use.
Return on Investment
- Quite positive as we had more than 15 classes of which various job functions and roles were required to take classes based on those roles and it was very easy to manage at a lower cost than any other portal we received quotes for.
SharePoint LMS - A Microsoft SharePoint based Training solution made right!
Pros
- From an operational point of view (if you have SP already):
- Leverage your Investment
- Familiar, already implemented core technology (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL)
- Minimal software license investment
- Existing Hardware / Software (can sit on top of your current SP environment, add servers when needed)
- Utilize established processes (Disaster recovery, backup, indexing, authentication)
- Minimal expansion of support staff
- Save training and retooling cost
- Familiar interface, tools and ability to leverage existing content
- If you do not have SharePoint already:
- A broad, feature reach core product which can be used almost everywhere in the company
- Flexible Design
- Supports multiple LMS setups, delivered out of one SP farm
- Easy to setup, scale, maintain and support
- Low support needs
- Used by almost everybody in all industries
- Some specific LMS features which stand out:
- SharePoint LMS has a very rich and mature feature and function portfolio
- Same if not more functions and features are available in SharePoint LMS,compared to industry leading pure LMS solution providers
- Easy to extend. From end user changing look and feel, or creating apps to super user capabilities to reflect business processes to full fledged development possibilities
- A powerful Quiz engine
- SCORM, AICC compatibility
- and so much more
- Connectivity to other system is always a must ...
- Active Directory Integration
- Inside and outside Firewall access
- Claims Based Authentication
- SSRS for Advanced Reporting
- Lync 2010 / 2013 integration for screen sharing, white boarding, presence
- O365 integration
- ADFS integration
- CRM and SAP integration possible
Cons
- There is more to do on the Competency and Skill management site of the product, to make the use even broader for a company.
- As soon as TinCan is quasi accepted, SharePoint LMS will have to adopt it in their core product as an extension to SCROM, AICC, LRM and of course their native course content and delivery options
Return on Investment
- Knowledge Management, Collaboration is a well used term today, maybe already to well used. However, without an effective Knowledge Management and Collaboration strategy with the company we find ourselves in an increasing difficult position to be successful in the market. Training as a company strategy becomes more and more important as only through training:
- We can increase knowledge of employees
- We can ensure certain information is distributed and understood
- Compliance is being established, delivered and measured
- We can maintain knowledge and spread it to others
- The company becomes more agile
- Training might be as well of a company interest as a tool used outside the company
- Training can be offered to others (e.g. customer and clients) as a support or sales tool
- Training can be sold to others (partners)
