Learning Management/Competency Management system?

October 7, 2014 1:22 PM

I am in charge of delivering/tracking training and compliance for 100 contractors at a government client site, and I'm hitting a point where I need a system to do it. With a new requirement to track employee achievement of competencies, I think I need something beyond a traditional learning management system (LMS). What am I looking for, and do you have recommendations?

My group of 100 people is kind of caught in the middle. We can't use the client's LMS, because we are contractors. We can't rely on our corporate systems, partly because the corporate office doesn't have a system set up yet, but also because we have about 30 subcontractors who cannot be entered in the corporate system as they are not employees. We do not have any access/visibility into the subcontractors' corporate systems.

Here are the features/functions I want:

• web-based (the client is not likely to approve software installs on their equipment/network)
• deliver short online training modules
• assign and track completed training/tasks, including offline courses/tasks
• record data on mastery of various standards/competencies
• track continuing education points
• low cost (of course)

Will an LMS cover all of this, or should I be searching something else? What products do you use, or what solutions have you hacked together?

posted by scarnato to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Yes, this is exactly the sort of thing that an LMS is meant to do, either independently or in conjunction with a human capital management system.
posted by evoque at 1:40 PM on October 7, 2014

Moodle, maybe?
posted by those are my balloons at 8:34 PM on October 7, 2014