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Many of our corporate customers have their own LMSs and want employees to
access training through one central learning system. We have
seamlessly integrated our LMS with many of the most popular enterprise-wide
LMS systems.
Please note that the option of connecting up with your LMS is only
practical and cost effective if you are a corporate customer purchasing 250
or more credits a year.
Your Server or Ours?
Typically we find that our corporate customers do NOT want to actually
host our courses on their LMS, but rather they want to be able to link to
our courses that are running on our server, but through their LMS.
On Your Server
The reason corporations do not want to host external vendors courseware
is because it can get to be a big course management hassle to assure that
the course files are up-to-date and to provide internal support for
courseware that they have not developed.
Another problem with our customers hosting our courseware on their server
is that we have no was of tracking usage so that means that we need to
charge for an enterprise-wide license which is always more expensive than
paying based on usage which is how we charge if we are hosting the courses.
In addition, because we need to provide you with updates of the course
files, in addition to the charge for the courses, there is also a
maintenance and support charge.
Our courses are developed in ToolBook 2004 and are SCORM and AICC
Compliant.
However, if this is the only option you wish to consider, we will be
happy to discuss possibilities with you. Please give us a call.
On Our Server
This is the preferred approach to working with customers who have their
own LMS. Using AICC (http post) protocol we will set up our LMS to
communicate with your LMS. When your employee launches a course
through your LMS, they are brought to our LMS and are presented with the
various course components including learning units, tests, and the PDF
reference guide. Learners can then move around between those
components within our LMS, but they will not be able to access any of our
other courses, even if they are already enrolled in other courses, until
they exit from our LMS, go back to your LMS, and launch a different course
from your LMS.
Data that gets passed back to your LMS includes course status (in
progress or complete) and course score.
After getting some basic information from your LMS technical team (such
as parameter names, etc.) we will create links for you to add to your LMS
for each course. If you provide us with a login to your LMS we will do
most of the necessary testing. If you do not provide us with a login
to your LMS (because of security restrictions), you will need to assign a
person on your team to work with us to do the testing.
There is a charge for this type of an integration - we just charge for
actual programming costs at the rate of $100 per hour. We usually
quote not to exceed $10,000, but most installations typically are closer to
$2,000. If your LMS is an LMS that we have worked with in the past, it
will likely be much less expensive because we have already gone through the
learning curve for that LMS.
The smoothest and least expensive integrations are those where a team
from our customers organization is focused on getting the task done - some
integrations have gone as quickly as a day or two and the customer is up and
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