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Hosted vs. Behind-the-firewall LMS – How To Decide?

Upside Learning

Adding to this dilemma is another level of decision making – whether to go for an OnDemand / SaaS / Hosted LMS service, or for a behind-the-firewall LMS deployment. Let me try to break this decision down into a few factors that’ll make it easier and more objective: Are you allowed to use hosted services?

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

Thus, there is real attraction in being able to sign up for hosted services that provide these tools without Corporate IT being involved. For us to be successful doing this, we first need to make sure that the system will work with whatever firewall restrictions exist. Instead, we should have used Del.icio.us. That's its job.

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Worried About Course Security? Start With Your Website.

LearnDash

Customer service? When you consider your hosting options, there are three main services available: shared hosting, a virtual private server (VPS), and dedicated hosting. There are high-quality providers out there who offer good services with extra safeguards in place to protect sites that use their shared hosting platforms.

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9 WordPress Security Plugins to Protect Your Course

LearnDash

Two plugins performing the same function might conflict with each other, but you shouldn’t have any problems combining a plugin that specializes in firewall and malware detection with one that specializes in password controls. All In One WP Security & Firewall. iThemes Pro.

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Best Practices for Developing and Delivering Effective e-Learning Platforms

Hurix Digital

Experienced Custom e-learning development services can help you select the appropriate multimedia elements that will be most effective based on the end goals of your e-learning platform. This can include implementing appropriate security measures such as SSL certificates, firewalls, and data encryption.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

Interesting discussion in the chat about whether if you don’t pay for services if you can trust it. This is related to the trust issue–I’m more likely to trust services that let me get my data out to back it up somewhere. Social bookmarking sites are less often blocked by corporate firewalls. Categorize.

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How to Use Microblogging in Workplace Learning

Upside Learning

As a personal learning tool, Twitter is great but it’s a public platform and what you share on it is available to everyone, some organizations may need tools which can be installed behind their firewalls (Laconica, Yonkly) or that is available as a secure private service (Yammer).