TrainerCentral vs Easy LMS: Which is a better fit?

Carl P.: Hi, I'm Carl, and I'm a project manager extraordinaire. My rating for Easy LMS would be a five on the five scale. For more reviews, click below. We chose Easy LMS largely because everything we had been doing up to that point had either been via email or on paper. When it comes to dealing with dozens and dozens of students taking dozens and dozens of exams, that gets pretty darn tedious. So we had to go out and find a solution where we could actually give students the opportunity to take exams and at the same time, think that we were skilled professionals. The reason we selected Easy LMS, actually there were a number of them. One of them was they actually use their help desk. It's not hard to track somebody down to get help with using their system. The other vendors that we looked at, just getting through to their help desk was a major undertaking. Frankly, that wrote them off the books. The other reason we chose Easy LMS was the fine print. The fine print in their terms and conditions didn't grant them ownership or license to actually tap into our student base. That's important because they're our students, not theirs. I wouldn't call working with Easy LMS initially easy. The reason I say that is because we had literally hundreds and hundreds of questions with hundreds and hundreds, or even thousands, of different options for answers. As a result, loading all of that data into their system and getting it right, well, that took a lot of time and energy. But once we got it set up, once we understood how to make the system sing and dance, we were good to go. If you're going to go with Easy LMS, my best suggestion to you is spend a little time reviewing how to make the system work and how to input all the data properly. Also, do some practice tests. Create one giant practice test file and load in 20 or 30 questions into it, along with all the bells and whistles you want. If you don't try it out the first time, what tragedy is going to befall you is that you'll go ahead, load up a test, hand it out to a student, and then find out, oh crap, it didn't work the way I wanted it to. So try it on yourself before you try it on your clients.