There are several LMS available. Different LMS supports different set of features. Which LMS is best and why? What set of features mostly attracted you?
It might not be the best, but Canvas (Instructure Canvas) is quite usable and looks lightweight and overviewable compared to others from my point of view. It is easy to create course content pages and allows modification within a HTML range. The canvas community pages offer a lot of information (most of the time). Further customization is a bit more advanced, but not impossible.
I'd love to see more innovation in LMS frameworks in general. Most seem to more or less replicate a traditional classroom learning experience instead of taking advantage of technology to be more adaptive and engaging. I've worked in both Blackboard and Moodle as well as proprietary LMS and they all seem more or less the same.
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I would suggest to analyze the needs and compare them with the capabilities of individual e-learning platforms. Personally, I have been using Moodle for several years and it seems to me that I use its 5-10% possibilities. The opinions of others are always valuable, but you should take into account that their expectations may be different than yours. Hence, in my opinion, you should firstly select some e-learning platforms to meet your expectations, and then get information on which of them is the most reliable (constantly developed, the cheapest, offering support, etc.).
I have used Moodle as a student, professor and administrator, and from where I see, it is one of the best LMSs out there. It's open-source (and free), can be easely adapted for your needs (in order to offer MOOCs or different structures of courses) and has probably the biggest community.
Hello Sujan,
since I am working for the leading European Learning technology company (IMC https://www.im-c.com/) and doing consulting for LMS since many years I really trust in IMC's learning technology. Basically there is the LMS but around it are so many existing possibilities like responsive and adaptive learner frontend systems, mobile applications etc.
The main question is: what are your scenarios. Depending on that you can define the targets and based on that the best fitting solutions.
Sometimes you need formal learning solutions, in other cases informal learning. Sometimes you have to think about blended learning approaches (a mixture of classroom and web-based trainings) or you have to strictly fulfill requirements of some regulatories like IDD (insurance industries) for example.
Friendly regards, Thomas
I would also say Moodle. I use it for many years now, and there are unlimited possibilities to work with.
If you want to build and optimize your LMS, you should use open-source LMS system like Moodle etc. But if you won't build professionally or complicated systems, you should use Canvas Instructure LMS. Canvas is a cloud based LMS and quite useful for a simple learning management process. You can do almost everything with Canvas like in the other system.
With the experience I have had as a teacher, it seems to me that Moodle satisfies the needs of teachers and students.
Moodle is extremely versatile and plenty of options to fulfill most needs
Hello, in all my teaching experience, moodle has been a very important tool for the interaction between teacher and student, versatile to incorporate teaching resources and is compatible with LaTeX code.
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Canvas. Having worked with Blackboard, Moodle, etc. Canvas is by far my favorite and easiest to use by both students and faculty.
Hello, can anyone tell me the 5 important features that are available in Moodle but are not available in Canvas and blackboard? Thanks
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