Resources

Selection Process

• Live Review Buying Guide
  Use this overview of the platforms and companies participating in Live Review to help learn more as you move forward in your selection process.
• Learning Platform Selection Discussion Guide
  We provide this discussion guide as part of our Learning Platform Selection Boot Camp. It can help you discover needed and desired features and functionalities.
• 7-Step Learning Platform Selection Process Infographic
  This visual represents the 7-step process we use when working with organizations to choose a learning platform.
• User Reviews on ReviewMyLMS
  You’ll find reviews of most of the Live Review platforms here. Please also help others my contributing a review of any platform you have used.

For additional resources, we encourage you to visit the ReviewMyLMS resources section and blog.

Vendor Resources

A number of vendors have provided links to resources on their Live Review profile pages. We encourage you to visit each of the profiles to learn more about participating vendors and any resources they offer.

Videos

A couple of videos to help you with your learning platform selection process:

• Understand LMS in 10 Minutes or Less
• An Introduction to LMS Accessibility

Understand LMS in 10 Minutes or Less

A brief primer on learning management systems to help you or people you work with understand what an LMS is and how LMSes that work well for learning businesses are different from those used by corporate training departments and academic institutions. (This can be expanded to full screen by clicking the arrows icon at bottom right.) Download the transcript (.txt file).

An Introduction to LMS Accessibility

We’re grateful to Samantha Evans, Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) for connecting us with inclusion, accessibility, and disability consultant Nicolas Steenhout (@vavroom). In this video, Nic discusses learning management system (LMS) accessibility – what it is, why it matters, and how to achieve it. Learn more about Nic and his work at incl.ca.  Download the transcript (PDF).

Related Links:

• Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG)
• Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

Note that these are both measures of accessibility that we ask vendors to provide information about as part of their ReviewMyLMS profiles.