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Hosted LMS vs. SaaS LMS: Which One Is Best for You

ProProfs

Do you ever wonder what a hosted LMS and a SaaS LMS are and how they compare against each other? For the purpose of this post, let’s focus on hosted LMS and SaaS LMS. They are hosted on the internet and available on-demand. What is a Hosted LMS? Users only need to purchase the software from a vendor.

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Best LMS For Teaching Courses Online

Academy of Mine

If you’re thinking about offering a self hosted online course then you’ll undoubtedly come across the need for some type of Learning Management System (LMS). And thirdly and most importantly, we believe we’re better than free… because we actually make course vendors money. ATutor does this well.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle). Bonus – One commercial vendor, Paradiso, presents “Open Source LMS, “Best Open Source LMS”, you can find this doozy on any search engine. ATutor 2.2.4 ATutor’s first release by the way, was in 2001. Big difference. .

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Learning Management System Comparison: LMS Features Chart

Academy of Mine

Options like Moodle and ATutor are great for teachers, entrepreneurs or subject matter experts who have knowledge of coding and design. Not only that but the software is fairly complex so, depending on the features you install and activate, you might need a fairly expensive hosting platform to host your “free” LMS.

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Top 8 FREE Open Source LMSs

eLearning 24-7

Some free open source platforms, offer hosting for an additional fee. One of my favorites is browser check because while vendors say their systems are browser agnostic, I have found in many systems this not to be the case. So having a browser check is a good idea. #5 ATUTOR. Top 8 – Why 8? Well, that has changed.

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UPDATED: Other Open Source LMS Solutions

eLearning 24-7

A list of other Open Source LMS vendors, besides Moodle. Edu2.0 – Targets education.extremely simple LMS, hosted online. They are not in any specific order. These are the newest listings (6-2-10). Ectolearning – Open learning environment, with collaboration tools plus LMS – for Education/academia. Original List.

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Open Source LMS: The Free LMS that isn’t Free!

Paradiso

The cost we’ve mentioned above is the minimum cost a professional IT vendor would charge, given he’ll speak to you, gather the exact requirements and recommend a proper server architecture and configuration. Hosting your Free LMS (Recurring Cost – $3000 – $5000 / year). So, that leaves us with the second option.