Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Are you a SharePoint administrator?  Does your company lack a Learning Management System?  Do you wish they did?

Guess what?  SharePoint has a FREE lightweight Learning Management System available for it.  It’s been around for a quite a while but a lot of folks don’t know about it because it’s essentially open source.

It’s called the SharePoint Learning Kit for SharePoint Server 2007 or 2010 and it’s pretty amazing for a free tool.

• E-learning delivery and tracking application built as a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution
• Supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and Class Server content, allowing users to store and manage this content in SharePoint document libraries
• Supports learner-centric and instructor-led (assigned) workflows
• Allows assignment, tracking and grading of both e-learning and non-e-learning content
• Certified SCORM 2004 compliant

This means that Microsoft eLearning downloads made by administrators should be able to import them into the SLK LMS for internal training purposes, negating the need to use the online facilities at http://www.microsoftelearning.com.

Download the entire module from the Codeplex site at:
http://slk.codeplex.com/

(The lead coordinator for the project has a blog here about the work he’s doing.  He’s pretty active and last posted late April.  http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk/)