It's important to note an LMS is composed of two components: 1. the authoring tool used to create SCORM, xAPI, cmi5 packages, and 2. the learning management tool. Authoring tools are typically installed on servers for multiple licensing or pc's for single licensing and compatible with Apple OS or Windows OS depending on the user preference. Contrastingly, learning management tools are typically cloud based so they are OS agnostic and allow SCORM, xAPI, cmi5 packages to be imported into them so instructors can manage enrollment, student scores, and feedback. Devin uses Articulate 360 (desktop pc software) to create a course and publish it as a SCORM package so that he can import it to Talent LMS (cloud based software). Many non-LMS users who are not familiar with these tools, often don't know this. For example, Easygenerator is actually a cloud based LMS authoring and learner management tool unlike Articulate 360 an other authoring tools which are OS dependent. The drawback of using Easygenerator LMS is you cannot actually import any SCORM, xAPI, cmi5 packages into it, rather you must use it's authoring tool to create SCORM packages and then you can export them out as SCORM packages which makes it much more like an authoring tool than a true cloud based LMS. I hope this helps
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Great video, just a quick note because I see it in so many informational videos. An actual definition of LMS at the beginning would be great. It's just that we started with some examples of LMS and that "it's exactly what it sounds like." And personally, it didn't seem as obvious of a definition as implied. Great video! I just found myself stopping the video, looking for a real definition of LMS, and then coming back. Same with scorm and xapi. Even a reference to another video would be nice.
Great informative video on LMS functions! Expecting more Devlin! I will be joining as LMS Associate next week. This might help me prior the probation period!!❤️🎉👍🏼
Hi Visakh! Thanks for checking out the video :). I haven't done much LMS admin work to be honest. I just wanted to help beginners with the basics that an instructional designer may be expected to do. If there is enough demand, though, I am always happy to learn more and create tutorials for LMSs :)
Hey Devlin, thank you so much for all the help. I was wondering if I could get some quick advice. What LMS do you think is best and that you like the most? I have to choose an LMS for a fast growing company for their internal training. I will be the first ID they have ever hired, so preferably something that is user friendly. I would also like the LMS to handle the growth of the company and track xapi. Most importantly, something that is compatible with everything. Sorry if this is long. I just wanted to give you an idea of where I am at with this.
@@SpeakingEnglishToday & @invisiblecirkus are your respective companies hiring for Onboarding roles? I have an interview at the end of the week and figured "what the heck" why not respond to some comments in search of potential opportunities.
Great Video as always Devlin! Which LMS would you recommend for a start up company that wants a course : 1. With less than 10 hours of content plus ability to embed videos and 2. An option to print a certificate at at the end of the course?
Hi Devlin, thank you making this LMS familiar, before i had a different impression all together. I have a question here, by any chance can you help in learning Cornerstone OnDemand LMS a plus. Thank you in advance.
This is a great video Devlin! Do you have any experience with Workday LMS? I am not able to see a scoring report even though I published a SCORM 2004 package to the LMS.
If you'd like to get a sense of multiple LMSs, you could find a few with free trials and see how it feels to complete some of the basic tasks! Thanks for watching :)
Good question. There's no right answer to this, but I would suggest trying to manage package size and make it short enough that someone can complete in one sitting (depending on how much time they have available in their context)
Hi Devlin, Thank you for the video, it's very useful as always! Which LMS would you recommend using with some data tracking features? I am looking for something that can communicate with Storyline files: show quiz results, submitted answers, possibly text entry field, and interactions like clicking on an object. Would you do / keep track of these via a LRS or LMS? Is there an LMS which can collect all this data or would it need to go through an LRS? Thank you!
Hi Zsolt! I don't know of an LMS that can track all of that with SCORM...you will need xAPI for some of the more specific stuff (like question responses, open text responses, etc.)
Hi Devlin, great video! As usual... :) I´m just getting familiar with TalentLMS. Is there a way to make the course fullscreen while it stays embedded or only as a pop-up window? Btw, that´s a cool feature, having a pop-up window while you can add some animations in the background... In general I´m wondering how much customization is possible in terms of interface design with talentLMS. The dashboard is kinda too simple, not that bad but would be nice to be able to customize it a bit. Is there a way to do some minimal back end development, or it´s all fixed? Can you share your experience about that?
Thank You for this video, I was really not aware that there are free trial LMS's available. Is there any upper limit to the no. of users that can be added on this free trail LMS portals ?
You’re welcome! I’m not sure, but I would expect that some LMSs limit the number of users during the trial. If you reach out to their support, they may be willing to accommodate a larger number of users so that you can test it more thoroughly for your use case.
Hi Devlin, it is really very helpful. Thank you so much for this video. I am just beginner of LMS. May I get any free trail LMS where I can practice the LMS tools. I need to create enrollment report ,create course content and training and management system. How to create this ?I am just eager to learn all of this. How can I learn and practice this in any company ?Could you please help me ?
Of course! I'm glad to hear that this video was helpful. Did you try using the TalentLMS free version like we did in this video? That should be what you're looking for :D
I understand Talent LMS from the administrator side, but I am not understanding Talent LMS from the user experience side. I enrolled myself into a course that I created using a different email address. What happens on the user's end? Do they receive a link to the course sent to their email? If that is the case, I did not get anything. I tried creating an account on Talent LMS using my other email address. I did not see myself enrolled in the course. What am I doing wrong as the "learner"? What do I need to do to be able to take my own course?
Hi Alan! I think that you can choose the settings surrounding emails generated and the like. Please ask this in the eLearning development space in the community and I’m sure people will be able to help 😃 www.devlinpeck.com/id
I'm a bit confused with scorm vs xapi. You mention that xApi doesn't work well with an LMS. Why do I need the LMS? Can't I just send the xApi request to an LRS? What does the LMS have to do with this? Isn't SCORM vs xApi the standards of communication between different programs. So if I can embed a Storyline project into Canvas LMS.... does it matter if canvas doesn't support Api as long as I can send them out (if I don't care about canvas storing data)? Should it matter?
You got it! You do not need an LMS to send custom xAPI statements. However, some LMSs are xAPI-compliant and will host the default-published xAPI packages from popular authoring tools. This gives you less control over the data that gets sent, but it's enough for some teams (the data is very similar to that which you can already get from SCORM). Check out cmi5 as well...this is how xAPI will replace the LMS to eLearning module communication.
@@DevlinPeckYT How will cmi5 replace lms to elearning communication? I checked it out, seemed like it was just an addition of must use verbs and thats about it? But this whole thing is confusing so thanks for taking the time to help everyone and make videos!!! From my understanding xapi is a standard of communication.... but its also a package that an LMS can host (or not) depending on if they choose to support it. If they don't, I can host the exported xapi package from articulate rise in an within an LTI? Is there a preferred or better method?
@@tal32123 Yes, xAPI is a standard of communication. When you publish an xAPI package from an authoring tool, it uses that standard of communication so that it works with LMSs that accept xAPI packages. One of the reasons for xAPI's slow uptake is because it's so flexible...so people are sticking with SCORM. cmi5 standardizes all of the communication that's happening with SCORM, but it does it with xAPI and comes along with many quality of life improvements. Hope that helps a bit :)
@@DevlinPeckYT Thanks for all this, Devlin. I have a question. Do you know if Canvas is planning to have real xAPI or cmi5? I'm NOT an ID--just a professor who does his own ID. Our college institutionally uses Canvas for all classes, and the instructors use the built-in tools of Canvas to put their courses online. So we have to do EVERYthing in Canvas. I think I'm the ONLY one (among hundreds of instructors) using an authoring tool, and putting SCORM packages into my courses. But that just reports a numerical grade and completion. You hinted in this video that the LMSs are not up-to-date on xAPI--but do we know if they are actually planning to get there? (It seems like they are content with regular SCORM, and even then, few are actually using it.)
Hi Devlin, I wasn't clear what was going on at the beginning with the "5 of 5 slides" that needed to be changed before uploading the slides to the LMS. Might you be able to re-explain? I didn't understand that. Thank you so much!!
Hey Shira, of course! The default tracking is that the course will be marked as complete once every single slide in the course has been viewed. If you have a course that is not linear (for example, there are two possible branches based on the choice that a user makes), then nobody will wind up viewing every single slide in the course (since they will only go down one of the branches). For that reason, we went with an alternate approach (using "Complete course" triggers so manually tell the LMS that the course is complete). Let me know if that clears things up :)
Hello. A great presentation. Glad I found you. I would like to use the "Using triggers" option of Storyline. BUT... in my version of storyline I do not have this option. Is it a problem of version or does the option appear only after you have created the trigger? I also do not have the "complete course" option in my dropdown box. Is there a setting that I have not selected for all this to happen or is my version just too old. I am using Storyline 3 but it is not the latest version.
Hi Andrew. Good question! I did not know that previous versions of Storyline didn’t have that option. I found this thread that has some potential workarounds linked in the comments: community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/completion-triggers-in-storyline-3
@@DevlinPeckYT Thank you so much. Yes. I checked in the latest version of Articulate 360 and the feature is there. I guess I would have to trigger it with JS (I have not yet visited the link you kindly found for me). Thanks once again.
I’ve had LMS wrong this whole time! I love London though so I like your interpretation better 😃. Well, I loved it when I studied abroad there in 2015…I’m sure it has changed a good bit since then.
