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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Open LMS

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AOpen LMS (formerly Moodlerooms) is an open source learning management system for educational institutions, formerly supported by Blackboard, and now part of the Learning Technologies Group.

    $999

    per year

    Studio 360 (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AStudio 360 for PowerPoint, or formerly Articulate Studio, was a PowerPoint plugin used to develop elearning course content. It has been discontinued and is no longer receiving support.N/A
    Pricing
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Innovator
    $999
    per year
    Professional
    4,599
    per year
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Open LMS and Studio 360 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Open LMS
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Studio 360 (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Google Classroom
    Score8 out of 10
    iSpring Suite
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoology Learning
    Score8 out of 10
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    D2L Brightspace
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Open LMSStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Learning Technologies Group
    I currently use, talk about and promote all educators using Moodlerooms. The functionality that Moodlerooms provides is unmatched in most software. It is well suited in all educational realms. Teachers that teach all online electronic courses could use this to post assignments online, separate the classes and post a variety of assignments, tasks, and activities. Additionally, in blended situations where some students are face to face and sometimes working at home, the Moodlerooms makes it easy to education and be a hands-on teacher and a hands-on learner. Less appropriately, I find using Moodlerooms in some of the private sector industries could be tougher. Moodlerooms provides people and content management, and to use it in advertising or marketing and accounting, it could be difficult to find an easy use and function for it.
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    Articulate Studio is constantly surprising in terms of what it can do. It is like a "Swiss Army Knife" of functionality. I've used it to build portfolios, whole interactive websites, authoring videos and I often discover novel ways to make it useful on a pretty regular basis. What would be a situation where you would not want to use Articulate Studio? Well, even though you can use it to author video and to publish websites, it's not a replacement for a video editing package or a web platform like WordPress, but there are times when it will do certain things in an astoundingly simple way superior to other tools.
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    Pros
    Learning Technologies Group
    • Something that Moddlerooms does very well is that it allows teachers to structure their online classroom as one focused curriculum.
    • Moodlerooms also allows for customization of the layout. Being able to add and remove certain functions that Moodlerooms can perform definitely helps.
    • Moodlerooms is able to add different types of activities to the rooms for increased interaction.
    • Moodlerooms provides large chat opportunities to all students that are online at the same time.
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    • They made it very easy to understand how to add new content to the courses, including images, videos or audio, of course, you are still able to do text-based content as well.
    • Creating quizzes has never been easier. The ability to add controls to each question and what actions each answer creates, whether an additional question or passing to the next section. Customizing these actions are very easy to learn and add to your course.
    • Being able to use your own scoring mechanism is awesome! I like SCORM but there are many options to use including a custom one of your own. This ability allows you to pass your students over to a proprietary system that enrolls them in the next course, or use the built-in utilities to provide the next course or quiz, the choice is yours!
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    Cons
    Learning Technologies Group
    • Easier to change permissions.
    • Adding the ability to tweet.
    • Decrease bandwidth to improve back end loading times.
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    • The audio editor is awful. Sometimes when you cut a section, it actually takes a different section that you selected. Especially when in zoom mode. You have to then undo the action, and re-do. Also, scrubbing through the audio is difficult. If you're exporting audio, it can glitch during the process. I avoid using the audio editor whenever I can.
    • After all these years, it's still a buggy program. You can be doing your recordings, and a sudden message appears saying that something went wrong and needs to close. I've done re-installs, contacted support, and I constantly clear the temp folder. Still happens. Also, it's a good idea to export your audio, and there have been times the program freezes up on me, and the audio file (in the .ppta file) gets corrupted and all audio is permanently lost.
    • The program can get slow when publishing, previewing or opening the audio editor.
    • The included Engage program is pretty good, but it needs more customization options. And I think they can add more modules that provide a little more engagement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Learning Technologies Group
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    There is very little chance that this software wold not be renewed. It has become an integral part of our standard software for elearning development.
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    Usability
    Learning Technologies Group
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    Discontinued Products
    This is very useable software even for novice eLearning authoring users. People with some PowerPoint experience should be fine with this software and even Excel!
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    Support Rating
    Learning Technologies Group
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I've never really had any major issues with the product (Other than the registration loop error)and my ten out of ten rating is based on the assistance I got when we initially set up the extension in Power Point. I found the support folks to be professional, helpful and friendly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Learning Technologies Group
    I would select Moodlerooms over many competitors as a result of what it offers in terms of functionality and control. Google classrooms has a definite place in education; however, Moodlerooms provides significantly more control for authors. As the owner and manager of the content, and as someone familiar with technology, I can incorporate a lot more functions and create different layouts with functionality boxes
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    Articulate Studio is very much a leader in the e-learning space. It stacks up well against other tools designed to quickly and easily build and update CBTs by managers and super-users versus needing to invest time and effort in dedicated e-learning developers. Process improvement initiatives and cross-functional departments are empowered to develop their trainings themselves and identify areas for future development.
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    Return on Investment
    Learning Technologies Group
    • Moodlerooms has given classes of mine a positive ROI because it improves the educational experience for all students. It has helped all of our students, and with this, we can even help students who can not get to the classroom for some reason.
    • It helps to improve student scores, GPAs, and college attendance.
    • The positive impact can be directly correlated with the improvement of grades for students. Being able to access work in person and via Moodlerooms helps students to learn anywhere and any time. Grades have improved, and that is due to Moodlerooms.
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    • I only see positive impact since it is a very easy to use tool for rapid learning. The only point is to know what is possible to develop using this tool to avoid any kind of frustration afterwards.
    • Another positive impact is that we don't need a diversified development team. There is no need of technical professionals, and a creative instructional designer is enough to develop effective learning content using Studio.
    • The third positive impact is that Studio makes possible to realize short-term projects, mainly when there's already a PowerPoint presentation.
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