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Onur is the co-founder of Mini Course Generator. He started using AI for educational content creation in 2021, back when “ai agents” wasn't a LinkedIn headline yet; roughly two years before the ChatGPT hype. A father and a committed believer in the kaizen approach, he's more interested in small, continuous improvements that compound into something remarkable than in chasing the next big thing. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming (and chilling) in the Aegean Sea for long hours during summer, and waiting for summer to come during the rest of the year.
Sort any vendor’s feature sheet into four piles: year one, later, tier question and shelfware. Then turn the SSO, SCORM and accessibility checkboxes into a named protocol, edition and level before you score a single line.
An LCMS fixes one problem well: the same change repeated across dozens of copies of a course. It doesn’t fix re-uploading packages to every LMS. Here’s how to count both on your own catalog, and what to buy for each.
IT asks who hosts the LMS, and there are three answers: SaaS, vendor-managed hosting and self-hosted. Each one decides who patches it, whose certificate covers it, what uptime is promised and how you leave. A comparison table and a worked cost-line example in hours show which jobs land on your team.
A 90-day LMS implementation plan that goes live around day 57 and reviews at day 90. Every phase ends on a test someone can run, every task has an owner outside L&D where it belongs, and the checklist is on the page, not behind a form.
An eight-section LMS RFP you can paste into a document today, with a scoring sheet weighted to 100 and a ten-week timeline. It also tells you when to skip the RFP and run demos instead.
Forty requirements in eight tables, each with why it matters, how to check it in a demo or trial, and a must, should or could mark. Plus the vendor answers that sound like a yes and aren’t, rewritten so they have to be.
An LMS earns its cost the day a training record has to hold up for someone other than you. Here is what each part of the software does, what breaks without it, the signs you can wait, and the order to answer the buying questions in.
If a system has asked you for AICC instead of SCORM, the difference is not age. AICC posts learner data from the content server. SCORM sends it through the learner’s browser. Here is what that changes, what an AICC course actually contains, and the three questions to ask before you build anything.
Pick SCORM 1.2 unless you can name the reason you need 2004, and there are only three that hold up. Here are the six differences that are real, the line of text in your package that decides which runtime your LMS gives it, and how to check which version a package is actually running under.