Forum .LRN Q&A: LMS pricing

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Posted by Rafael Calvo on
Has anyone seen a price comparison between LMS?
And how about $license/$implementation ratios?

I found some postings about prices of WebCT Vista but kind of old (http://archive.webct.com/docs/mail/mar02/0131.html).

Apparatently it was about $200K (USD) for 20,000 students and then $4K/year. Are this prices still valid. Apparently these prices are similar to Oracle Portal, is this right?
Also, would this prices for Vista include the cost of BEA and Oracle?

cheers

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Posted by Venkatesh Goteti on
Found this article from my previous work looking around at pricing models of BB and WebCT.

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031901u.htm

Blackboard has quite a funny pricing model though, different for each of its offerings

- Learning System Enterprise
- Learning System Enterprise combined with Community Portal System
- Learning System Basic
- Learning System ML!!

Blackboard 5: Learning System Basic Edition has a flat-fee license. I am not sure of the cost of deploying it, but per license is $7500 USD for renewal. The article I read this information on is at
http://e-learning.surf.nl/blackboard/berichten/447?batchnr=74&batchsize=12

For those of you who speak DUTCH, you may find this PDF ( http://e-learning.surf.nl/docs/blackboard/kostencase.pdf )  providing more information about their pricing model.

I was a bit confused about how they calculate their FTE pricing et al. Anyone who can throw some light on this ?

For example their higher education pricing varies per year with something like

2003: $ 7500 + $4/ FTE, 57500 maximum
2004: $ 1000 + $4.5/ FTE, 67500 maximum
2005: $ 12500 + $5/ FTE, 77500 maximum

and so on...!!

This apart they also have discount deals with organisations like the one here:
http://www.nercomp.org/licensing/bb/blackboard.html

Blackboard has an interesting model for setting one course on their site for a small price. They charge $295 to set-up a course Web site  and give 25 MB of storage space for course materials alongside.

Hope this helps...and I'l try and gather more information about this and post all I find as well.

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Posted by Kristen Alderson on
Does anyone have an updated information or links to LMS pricing? I'd also like to know what companies charge for specific services (like hosting, training, etc.)

Any help is appreciated!!

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Posted by Caroline Meeks on
I saw some average pricing data recently. I blogged about it here: http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=805903