Need help with LMS decision....is Moodle that great?

Hi Loyics:

Having 150k+ users in registered in the system means you will have millions of records in the DB. Typically that may also equal 1 or more thousand simultaneous users (users using the system at the same time).

You need some serious horsepower behind that requirement. I would recommend whatever LMS solution you find, that it be an enterprise distributed type of system.

An example that I have worked with technically is Saba. Although I'm not a fan of the many user interface aspects of Saba, it has all the right architecture for a high performance AND distributed system. Any LMs will NOT be free at this level. Even free LMS software would require a great deal of computing hardware, network infrastructure, planning, purchasing, installation, and configuration costs. You will also really need to look at the life cycle cost of operating such a venture, planning the user workflows to minimize user confusion and lower support costs, tailoring system notifications and related triggers to also minimize support costs, then hiring a support desk to assist the remaining users learners when even all that up front planning did not help the person who has a poor internet connection and insists it is your platform at fault, etc.

Other important aspect of this type of LMS are location(s) and certainly bandwidth. An example of these aspects would be to consider using multiple access point around the world (multiple portal located in your highest traffic areas). So if your analytics tells you Europe is an a region you have 30% of your registered users AND of that 50% of them are actively using courses simultaneously (25,000 simultaneous users in the system downloading content and uploading SCORM or Tin-Can records, you will need to plan for Gigabyte bandwidth, massive amounts of Session activity,  and a very high performance database.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Dennis Hall