Every LMS provider promises responsive support. It's on the homepage, in the sales deck, in the contract. None of it tells you anything, because "responsive" is a word every vendor can claim and no buyer can verify before they've signed. The only honest test of...
Ignite gives your L&D teams something most learning platforms don't: complete, real-time control over how the platform looks and behaves, right down to the detail, without a developer needed at any stage. Branding, layout, navigation, promotional content, and even the emails your platform sends automatically,...
Ask ten LMS vendors what makes them different and it’s likely you'll get the same six words back, in some order: flexible, scalable, configurable, innovative, seamless, intuitive. But these describe the platform. None of it tells you anything. It's not that these vendors are lying....
For years, apprenticeship assessment came down to one thing: the end-point assessment at gateway. Train the apprentice, reach the gate, then hand them to an independent assessor for a run of exams, observations and interviews right at the end. That model is being replaced. This is...
Yes, Moodle is free to download, and no, running it will not be. Moodle is open-source software, so the code itself costs nothing. Everything that turns that code into a working, supported learning platform does. Hosting, upgrades, security, support, and the time to set it...
Every LMS is sold as highly configurable, and most end up looking the same: a course catalogue, a completion tracker, and a reporting dashboard the team has half-stopped trusting. Out of the box gets treated as the destination, when it was only ever the starting...
An organisation came to us recently under real time pressure. Their self-hosted Moodle platform had drifted several years out of date, its security had been exposed for longer than anyone was comfortable with, and a looming deadline meant the problem could no longer be left...
Healthcare is the sector where an LMS stops being a training tool and becomes part of the clinical governance infrastructure. A missed mandatory training deadline is not an HR inconvenience. A competency record that does not hold up under CQC inspection is not a paperwork...
What native commerce actually means inside an LMS, and how to test whether a vendor has it Most commercial training providers reach a point where they accept that their commercial layer has to change. The harder decision is what to replace it with, and that decision...
The Moodle partner directory lists dozens of companies. All of them describe themselves as Moodle experts. All of them offer implementation, hosting, and support. Most of them look similar from the outside. They are not similar. And for an organisation evaluating Moodle for the first time, or...