{"id":1693,"date":"2013-08-02T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.efrontlearning.net\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-05-06T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:48:49","slug":"efront-a-usable-lms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efrontlearning.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/efront-a-usable-lms.html","title":{"rendered":"eFront: a usable LMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-classic-wrap\">Recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wyver Solutions Ltd<\/a>. reviewed eFront LMS. The following\u00a0article <em>has been reposted<\/em> from\u00a0the\u00a0Wyver Solutions blog. The <em>original<\/em> article may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/2013\/07\/31\/efront-usable-lms\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>For straightforward, content-based online learning eFront is hard to beat.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve been spending quite a bit of time recently with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efrontlearning.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">eFront<\/a>. It comes from the team at Epignosis who have also brought us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentlms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TalentLMS<\/a>\u00a0(a fantastically user-friendly, cloud-based basic learning management system).<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>eFront is the older brother of TalentLMS, and is designed to support a more tutor-led, social approach to online learning.<\/p>\n<p>Four key, stand-out features are:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A really clean user interface, which draws a lot on modern techniques like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajax_%28programming%29\" target=\"_blank\">AJAX<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Facebook-like chat box, that sits at the bottom of your screen<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.05.42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"eFront with chat box open\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.05.42-300x226.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>eFront with chat box open<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A search engine that really works. All the content you create across the site (except for SCORM packages of course!) is searchable \u2013 subject to your permissions to see it.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.08.45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"eFront search results\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.08.45-300x226.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>eFront search results<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to make comments against every piece of content or test<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.16.54.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"User comment about a test\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-07.16.54-300x226.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Delegate1 has made a comment about this test<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These days we would tend to look at eFront as a first port of call before <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; primarily down to its usability.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t do all the face-to-face event management and administration that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisestudy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise Study<\/a>\u00a0(a Wyver Solutions <a title=\"Partners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wyversolutions.co.uk\/cms\/about\/partners\/\" target=\"_blank\">partner<\/a>) is good for, but for straightforward, content-based online learning eFront is hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t get what you need out of\u00a0the Community Edition, which is released as an Open-Source product, you can upgrade to the commercial\u00a0Education or Enterprise editions. Neither of which are particularly expensive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efrontlearning.net\/functionality-matrix\" target=\"_blank\">Compare eFront editions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0Wyver Solutions Ltd. reviewed eFront LMS. The following\u00a0article has been reposted from\u00a0the\u00a0Wyver Solutions blog. The original article may be found here. For straightforward, content-based online learning eFront is hard to beat. We\u2019ve been spending quite a bit of time recently with eFront. 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