We currently have an extranet customer portal written in C#/ASP.Net and would like to integrate LMS functionality for customer training. I have developed commercial LMS software in the past, so I know what's involved and that developing this solution from scratch is most likely not going to be feasible for us from a resource perspective.
The integration requirements are fairly simple at this point... the portal needs to be able to launch the content for a given user, and to be able to access the customer's score & progress. Of course, the marketing folks will need to create and publish content to the LMS, but that's a feature of the LMS itself rather than our portal. So, I believe all our portal will need to do is:
1. Pass the currently logged in userid to the LMS
2. Launch the content
3. Have some way of accessing the most basic scoring/completion data, or at least directly launch the scoring page for that user
So my question is -- can anyone *who has done this before* recommend an LMS system which would be ideal for this? I am not looking for links to various LMS vendors, I can find those on my own. An open-source, .Net based LMS that works well and is easy to integrate would probably be ideal. A low-cost vendor solution that offers a webservice interface to get at the scores might be even better. Higher priced LMS systems might be an option as well. What I am really looking for here is someone who can give me a technical overview on how they integrated with the LMS - not code snippets or anything that detailed.
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