I think the closest you can get into LMS with IPS is use clubs as Courses and share videos and files with only members, sell the course access in the commerce and when they pay the will get instant access to the course. There won't be a progress view and some other LMS's specific features but I think it will be more than enough, I think.
Here's a few:
Rate courses.
Tests / scoring.
Enrollment (like joining a club).
The possibility of accessing lesson 2 only after finishing lesson 1, like Udemy does.
Embed videos (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).
Top students (highest score).
I consider a basic LMS a must in today's world. People need to share stuff. The pandemic ruined lots of face to face businesses, but e-learning courses increased massively.
Thanks,
Fernando
I'm sorry but despite what you say I'm still pretty confident.
A promising LMS application was released in the summer of 2018 and it's almost 3 years since it is still in beta without any real evolution at the present time.
The logic of things is that one should stop believing in it and be realistic in seeing it since its development is clearly neglected.
But it seems that very soon a version with the integrated Quiz should finally be released.
Frankly, an LMS is really nothing special, complicated that cannot be done on IPS.
It is just a matter of being able to present schools, subject categories, lessons in video or downloadable PDF format, and make the school or lesson categories payable.
Thing that IPS can do very well as they have Commerce.
Regarding the management of groups and members, IPS is its strong point, word press is far behind.
Lots of things also on word press can sadly only be done from the admin panel.
And what is done from the admin panel here, IPS is much better and more user-friendly
The big problem is knowing it and understanding what is blocking at IPS, why today in 2021, they are still not a progressive web app.
And I do not understand that we can write a blog post just to announce the possibility of being able to post anonymously.
Normally a monthly article should contain at least 5 new items of this type as this is not an extraordinary addition.
The future of IPS, and it's what seems to be happening, I only see it in the core of its cms, chat, group management, member, user profile, private messaging and interactivity (hopefully) between member: points, badge, trophy, ranking.
By having integrated Zapier, IPS accepted that we may need an external alternative specialized on a typical product because it is their specialty.
IPS has its members, its groups but offers the possibility of using Zendesk for customer service because Zendesk specializes in this and IPS is not its foundation to focus on a powerful database for customer management.
If all you need is simple customer service, IPS offers you something for that integrated and not very expensive in comparison, but if you want something more powerful, here is zendesk that integrates easily.
The same can be done with someone who wants to write a sales page using the word press environment, with a registration on thrive cart, and then registration and management of the member in the IPS environment.
There is a different vision of the web and its future.
Regarding this point, LMS, I do not think that the strong point is in the simple possibility of being able to make the environment also available on a mobile application because that is the real concern, difference, for me that I see here between learn dash and an LMS on IPS.
I do not see anything extraordinary, to present lessons by categories in video format or in download. IPS can do this very well.
Regarding the interactivity between member or group, I am convinced that IPS is stronger but also in the user-friendliness concerning the administration as well as the admin panel for the webmaster.
I do not expect much from the design to display video or pdf, except for simplicity so no comparison to make here.
If I had to compare two LMSs my question is which LMS achieves high engagement and result rate at the lowest cost.
This is because the dropout rate in distance education is extremely high.
Design and everything else is only secondary ... especially what's best and simplest today is what's uncluttered and heavy with a lot of unnecessary stuff.
I expect more real progress on a rate of engagement and success for the students and this at a lower cost, because it requires careful monitoring of each member.
It is not possible to make everything automated, at some point you need to be in front of a real human, a real follow-up, and to have encouragement from a real human and no more from a score given by a quiz.
I think that gamification through achievement badges, points, scoreboards, and collective mutual aid in clubs can relieve the costs quite well in order to make it easier to bring real things into remote teaching.
Without it, the teaching and study environment will be boring and dropouts extremely high.
