For example, Todd Scott Bales from the “Thomas Kinkade Company”, the international organization established to distribute the works of the artist Thomas Kinkade, had this to say:

“The Thomas Kinkade Training & Education Group utilizes EZ LCMS to push quizzes and courses to it’s galleries around the world. Having done the research before signing on with EZ LCMS, we found that for the cost and for the ease of use, there was no other web-based product that offered such a quick return for such a reasonable price. We’ve recommended their services to several others in the training industry.”

On rapid development and delivery, Bruce Warner, the Director of Content & Quality Management at the Training Modernization Group had this to say:

“EZ LCMS has helped TMG respond rapidly to our customer’s changing needs. In response to an emergency situation, using EZ LCMS, we were able to create a course and distribute it to over 700 users in diverse locations, all within a matter of weeks. We are using EZ LCMS to develop multiple professional multimedia courses for many different customers, and we love the fact that we can develop, deliver and track our courses all from the same system. We plan to use EZ LCMS as our primary courseware development and delivery platform for years to come.”

To read more about what our customers have to say, check out our testimonials page.

The process of branding is extremely easy. You simply upload images of the proper size, and enter you own custom log-in and welcome message and submit.

In EZ LCMS, you can create multiple brands for the same organization. This means that you can add multiple different “looks” to the same system. So for example, if you have three primary customers that you provide training to through EZ LCMS, you can set up three different “Brands” to match their website design etc.

Each separate brand gets a unique log-in page, which is what determines which brand the user will see. A user that logs in through the “Brand A” log-in page will see a system that looks like “Brand A”. A user who logs in through a different branded log in page will see a different looking system.

This gives you as the administrator a way to provide a learning portal that is customized to your specific user’s needs, even if you are trying to appeal to more than one user group.

The Multiple Branding feature of EZ LCMS is another feature that sets it apart from other Learning Management Systems, and gives you the ability to do more with your training platform.
Learn more about branding by watching this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhLmk8C4sU or at http://www.ezlcms.com .

In case you have not heard of Moodle, it is an “Open Source” Learning Management System. In many people’s minds, open source is Synonymous with Free. However, in this case, that could not be further from the truth. There is a long list of expenses that go into installing, implementing and maintaining any type of web-based application, and the licensing fee (that Moodle does not charge) is usually a very small part of that.

The table below will illustrate some of the costs of implementing an EZ LCMS Learning Management System account, versus the costs of implementing Moodle. These numbers are estimates of course, and could be larger or smaller depending on your situation.

As they say “The Proof is in the Pudding”. In this case our “Pudding” is the fact that a significant number of our current, happy EZ LCMS customer are people who have recently attempted to implement Moodle, and now know the true value of the “Free” Learning Management System. Almost on a weekly basis, we are told by our customers that they once went down the “Moodle is free” path and are so happy to now have EZ LCMS, which is fully supported, and much more affordable and cost-effective than that “Free” solution.

Don’t get us wrong. Moodle is a well respected Learning Management Platform and a viable option in some situations. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking that it is “Free” (like so many others have).

Give EZ LCMS a try for Free at http://www.ezlcms.com/index.php/free-trial/

For example, many users are turning to Google Docs to do spreadsheets online, instead of using MS Excel. There are no source files to keep track of, and no software to install. Remember emailing yourself an excel file so you could work on it from home, and then emailing it back to yourself at the office the next day? With cloud-based applications, there is no need for such tasks. Just log in, and there is all of your “stuff” right in front of you, no matter where you are.

Sounds pretty cool, huh? So in order to allow for the creation of e-learning content in “the cloud”, many online training development software providers are scrambling to figure out how to re-engineer their development systems and make them “cloud-based”.

But here’s the really exciting part. At EZ LCMS, we have been doing this all along! From day one, EZ LCMS has included (for free, by the way) an online courseware development system that allowed users build e-learning content in an online, collaborative form-based development system.  For years our users have been able to upload media and materials, and create interactive courseware including quizzes and tests, from any computer with a web-browser, and time, 24-7.

We are not trying to pull an “Al Gore”, and imply that we invented Cloud computing by any means. We have just known all along that an online development system that that makes course files accessible by multiple people at once, from anywhere, was the most convenient, effective means of e-learning content development.

So while many vendors will soon be releasing new, untested, experimental cloud-based versions of their development applications, EZ LCMS already has a tried-and-true cloud-based development suite that has been used effectively by hundreds of organizations for many years. I guess you could say that our “Cloud” is a bit more mature than most.

As always, feel free to try it out for FREE at http://www.ezlcms.com/.

If you think about it, there are really a lot of reasons to use PowerPoint:

• Its very easy to use
• Most people already know how to use it, and if you don’t, there are countless hours of free instructions available online.
• Most organizations already have training content in PowerPoint that has been used for years and is user-tested and refined already.
• PowerPoint is an established force. Its not going anywhere, and its no “new kid on the block”

At EZ LCMS, as you know, we believe in keeping it simple. Anytime you can use training content that you already have in place, with some fairly simple modifications to get a training product fits the bill, we say go for it.

There are a large number of tools that will allow to convert a PowerPoint course into an elearning course. We offer one, and best of all, it’s FREE!. Its called the Adaptive Course Authoring PowerPoint Plug-in, and you can learn more about it here.

In the developer role, you simply:

• Create a course
• Add pages and questions
• Publish your course into the course catalog

Its as easy as that!

When creating a course, you simply enter a page title, type or copy-and-paste the textual content that you want to appear on the page, and upload a graphic, video file, interactive exercise or even embed a YouTube video.

To can also create multiple choice, multiple answer, true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions. Simply enter the question, the possible answers and the feedback for your students and you’re done!

Give it a try yourself with the EZ LCMS fifteen day free trial by clicking here.