If you have ever worked with a Learning Management System before you probably have noticed that uploading content from any eLearning development tool can be an arduous and confusing task. For example, check out the blog posting I did several months ago on uploading content to Moodle. When working with an LMS you will quickly realize what a pain it is to upload content to a Learning Management System.
The typical workflow for uploading content to a Learning Management System is as follows:
- Start your authoring tool of choice - Articulate Presenter and Quizmaker recommended :-)
- Select the LMS standard that your LMS uses, either AICC, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004
- Set your tracking options
- Publish your content as a zip file
- Log into your Learning Management System
- Upload your content to your Learning Management System
If you are unfamiliar (or even if you are familiar), publishing to a LMS can be very confusing.
Questions you might ask yourself:
- what LMS standard does my LMS use?
- what does AICC or SCORM mean?
- how do I upload content to my Learning Management System?
- why are there so many damn acronyms?
When we designed Articulate Online we definitely saw this as a problem that we didn't want Articulate Online users to experience.
That is why we created a simple one click publishing process for Articulate Online.
At this point I was going to create a presentation that compared how easy it was to publish content to Articulate Online as opposed to Moodle or Breeze, but then I realized how much work that would be, and Alli Starr's presentation documents pretty well how easy it is to publish to Articulate Online.
But, if you want to see an example of how easy it is to publish to Articulate Online compared to Moodle, check out Alli's presentation to see publishing to Articulate Online, and this blog posting for publishing to Moodle.
So if you haven't done so already, sign up for a free trial of Articulate Online to check it out yourself.
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For 200 $ a month (that's the cheapest version!) I think most of us would be quite willing to learn how to put stuff on-line. The price is just absolutely ridiculous.
I am sorry you feel that way. If you compare the costs of Articulate Online to the cost of implementing an LMS (even the free ones such as Moodle) or using an alternatice such as Breeze I think you would find Articulate Online's pricing more than competitive...and I think that Articulate Online is a much better tool for tracking than either of those.
But I do appreciate the feedback. If you would like to discuss this more with me please feel free to email me at dmozealous at articulate.com.
I agree completely - 200 $ a month is ridiculous high priced for this. You dont even get any forum or student interaction site, so whats the use... I use surveys to track my clients knowledge for now...