Scorecard - How ShareKnowledge LMS Stacks Up Against
Other LMS Providers

Because your LMS will have such a wide reach with diverse "learners" who are your employees, we recognize that a deployment decision of this level requires a round-table evaluation process. So, what do we offer that other LMS standalone solutions can't?

1. Features: Beyond basic functionality, how many special and custom features does the LMS solution have?
2. Ease of Use: Do Learners, Administrators and e-Learning Professionals find the LMS easy to use and intuitive?
3. IT Integration: Is the LMS solution designed to fit in and work well with other systems vs. stand-alone functionality?
4. Scalability: Can I easily expand the LMS, such as adding departments. Does it scale from 200 employees to 20,000 or more?
5. Customization: Can I modify work flows, add functionality and tune the LMS solution to my corporate needs?
6. Target Market: Is the LMS designed for the education or academia market, or for education within the corporate environment?
7. Price Per User: Does the LMS offer low cost deployment and support? Does it offer low cost per seat and server licensing?

Here is some guidance to consider as you evaluate ShareKnowledge LMS and other LMS solutions. 

	ShareKnowledge LMS 3.1	SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK)	SharePointLMS
MUST HAVE LMS Functionality
Central Library for managing catalogs of courseware and learning materials
Distribute courseware to individual
Tracking and reporting of results for completed assignments
SCORM compatibility and integrated SCORM Player
Advanced group distribution controls
Rules-based auto enrollments
Bundled courses and materials for curriculum and learning plans
Personalized searchable unified catalog of all courses and materials
Gradebook (course records)
Transcripts (learner records)
Integrated email notification rules
Reports exportable in multiple file formats
MUST HAVE Architecture Requirements
Integration tool with HR and other IT systems			paid service
Installer wizard for premise deployments
Available as premise, hosted or SaaS
Web-based client accessibility
Built on extensible, scalable, customizable platform (avoid Standalone application)
Multiple client browser support
Multi-platform client support (Windows, Mac/iPhone OS, Linux)
Support for multi-languages*
NICE TO HAVE Functionality
Support for both manual and automatic grading
Support for sending comments and attachments with assignments
Support for custom grading scales
Quick Test/Quiz SCORM creation tool
Full-featured SCORM authoring tool included			option
Advanced branching prerequisites
Advanced catalog publishing management system
Blended e-learning and instructor led facilitation	3.2
Course certificates	3.2
Departmental accounting	3.2
ecommerce and credit card support	3.3
Mobile device support	3.3
Integrated web-based meeting functionality	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts
Wiki's, blogs, forums, whiteboards, chat, web 2.0, social networking	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts
Compatibility with advanced analytics and report tools	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts
Employee performance system synchronization or integration	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts	SP Web Parts
Corporate Environments
Managers as part of approval process
Managers as part of notification process
Team performance and completion reports
Time in position, title and org unit variable due date rules**
Leverages your Microsoft Active Directory
Academic Environment
Instructors as part of approval process
Instructors as part of notification process
Question pool
Plagiarism checking
Homework control
Unique Value
MS SharePoint 2007 MOSS and WSS
MS SharePoint 2010 and WFS
Free 1 Year/100 user trial
Simple per seat license model
Software upgrades included
Tutorial videos
Role-based documentation

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^*ShareKnowledge LMS support two languages (English and Russian); ShareKnowledge can host any content in any language because it's a SharePoint application.
^**Very important for regulatory compliance