We purchased this extension after reviewing a series of lms solutions on the market.

What we needed was a simple tool we could use for selling training content integrated into Virtuemart (to have all the shopping basket, billing, credt card payments etc. solved). SCORM compatability was not a must.

The LMS-Silver edition was not the absolute right solution, but a good base for further enhancements. We contacted the team around Mike.

As they reacted immidiatelly and very professional on some installation troubles we had (every ststem is a little different from others...) we decided to outsource the enhancement development to them.

They made a great job and after a couple of days we had an outstanding solution which 100% fittet to our needs.

We can highly recommend this team!

I purchased this extension a couple of months ago. Easy install and configuration. It provides what it says and what we need for our small continuing education service in the healthcare field.
I made of couple of simple mods to make it more specific to our field in terms of terminology. It was easy to do.
What is most outstanding is the support and the response time...it the best I've experienced with any Joomla extension provider!
This application gives our site a professional look and feel. It is not SCORM compatible, but not all education providers need SCORM.
The only suggestion I have for your next upgrade is to include a script which will generate the course title, date, user name, credit hours, and template similar to the Moodle certificate application.
Keep up the great work!

I purchased this system, hoping I would be able to use it on a site for offering courses on a pay by course or registration basis. I have complicated courses and this product was an incredible disappointment.

I agree with the last few reviewers about the poor quality of this component & the lack of support. Little bugs like images that disappear due to incorrect pathing get an indifferent response from the developer & I won't even go into the numerous other flaws; many of which have already been outlined by previous reviews. Thanks to the last poster for the tip on Moodle! That system blows JoomLearn away...

I should have taken the previous reviews to heart before ordering. But this seemed like the only solution at the time and I needed something that same day to satisfy a clients requirements.

I ordered this component on a Friday a.m. expecting the download to be immediately available. I submitted a support ticket requesting the download asap.

Over 24 hours later (Saturday) I received the download. At this point I figured out another alternative.

Out of curiosity, I installed the component to see if it was easy to configure and met my needs. - The help is lacking in any real details and you have to edit .php files to change the titles.

I don't appreciate that they don't have trial versions for Joomla 1.5 and that your only option is to purchase. They state that they will only issue refunds if the your server software is not compatible. I have never come across a company that is not willing to issue a refund -- who cares what the reason is. If the customer is not happy, then give them their money back. I have no interest in their source code which is another reason they won't issue a refund.

Do yourself a favor and go to moodle.org (Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.) and download a stand-alone version and then create an external link from your Joomla site. This may have a learning curve but the software has a lot of flexibility and well worth your efforts. You can also brand it to your site.

I bought this software after reading the first couple reviews and of course, the product description. When i finally got around to using it, I opened a support ticket (below) to list several complaints. I am posting this review, so that others like me would have a better picture of what this software does and doesn't quite do.

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My support ticket details:

I'm sure this software is great, but there are so many hurdles before you even get to appreciate what it can do. I think the usability is quite poor, but sometimes it takes fresh eyes to see that.

1. First, I was under the impression that that I can completely "turn off" the testing feature for each course. But it seems it is actually the training that is optional. It seems to me that this software was written with testing in mind, not training. My goal was to have several courses without training, and the last of the set will have the training. but it seems each course will still take them to this page that tells them there are no questions. That is kind of redundant.

2. Also, I would have preferred for clients to click on the notebook and get the screen with the course instead of clicking "training" and then a new window pops up. I wonder if this can be changed?

3. Also, every time a training window pops up, the main window gets redirected to the home page. I'm not sure why that is happening.

4. When I click your help link, i get a 404 error because it is looking for an en-GB folder that does not exist.

5. The version on my installation says version 1.5.1. I downloaded it in march. Your user manual, which i eventually opened by browsing there in my server, keeps refering to a version 3.0. My guess is that it was not even updated for the 1.5 version which is the paid one. Even your video tutorials were not updated for your paid version.

6. It would have been nicer if I didn't have to edit files on the server to change default text you have in those screens. They could be in the config section.

7. In the backend, in some of your edit screens, you dont have "close" button, only "main". "Close" in Joomla will take you back to the previous screen. That way i dont have to start over every time. Some screens dont even have "main"! So i have to go the admin menu all over.

8. Finally, very simple things like making the icons on the frontend as links, and not just the text below them because people will keep clicking on the icon.

We had a lot of back and forth which I would not bore you with, but the bottom line is:

1. None of the issues I raised can be fixed because the system is designed that way. So, no, you cannot use "training only" because your clients will still be taken to a page WITH NO QUESTIONS!
2. it is probably possible to fix my redirect issue, but the software is too poorly coded - at least for customers like me who are really interested in training, and not testing.
3. prepare for your clients to be frustrated clicking things that should be clickable but are not.
4. I would have thought you could edit your courses online using the usual joomla wysiwyg screen. Nope, you have to upload them - even if it's text only.
5. every time the training pops up, it is a small window, so you clients will have to resize each time!

If you're used to well thought out coding, you might want to put up the extra money for Joomla LMS.

Joomla is an open source project and, therefore, we use to look for open source extensions. From time to time, it seems that there's a commercial extension worth the price. The positive reviews encouraged me to buy Joomlearn LMS Silver Ed. Great error!

First. Joomlearn is NOT an LMS, it’s a test manager, with a link to an external piece of HTML to (optional) comments on the issue. There's no way of controlling the course pace or quantum advances.

Second. The help manual is not clearly visible and surprise!, the link is dead. So, no real support neither online nor inside.

Third. Joomlearn doesn't allow a preview of content. Once you get a real peek inside it, it's clear why not. The extension just manages the tests, not the course (if any), so it's impossible to show something not managed by the extension.

I could go on, and probably will do shortly, but right now I'm too frustrated for burning almost $100 in a useless extension.

Sorry, no real option for LMS on Joomla by now.

After waiting a long time for this component to be re-released I was not dissapointed. It is very well thought out and the abitlity to assign students to HR departments makes it perfect for providing training to companies as well as individuals.

Joomla Showroom is making a big effort to provide some pretty special components to the Joomla community such as this one and Registration Pro, so they really deserve our support. Their support was very responsive also. So all in all I think this component is well worth it for anyone who wants to add an attractive looking and fully featured academy to their web site.

I hope Joomla Showroom continues to develop new versions of this and their other components, as they provide Joomla users with such great functionality for their sites.

Judging from quaility of JoomLearn LMS Silver Edition and Registration Pro 2 I would say that Joomla Showroom has the potential to be up their amongst the best Joomla component providers. Definately one to watch.

Joomlearn works well with Virtuemart, a serious plus!!! This component allows users to register or purchase learning material, download it (or view streaming media), take a quiz, have the quiz automatically graded, and receive a certificate of completion automatically. The component nicely notifies specified email addresses as to those who have passed the quizzes. I've had success using this with an SSL ecommerce site using version 1.9 and plan to switch to version 3.0 soon (which I am using on my developer site).

Good support from the developer. They answer questions very quickly and have committed to working out a minor issue of needing to refresh the page to have the "buy now" button change to "take course" after a purchase. Other than that, it works seamlessly for ecommerce applications. For non-ecommerce applications, the component does not have this issue and seems to work perfectly.

It is very simple to control from the backend. Loading course materials, quizzes and questions, and other control parameters is a snap. One great value to this LMS is its integration with Virtuemart. I am running Paypal Pro with no problems.

I am happy to see that this LMS is back!!! Joomla is a great CMS and this is one of the only LMS's designed for Joomla. Some very minor knowledge of HTML helps to customize the user interface for the front end. Essentially, there are a few template files that can be easily modified to give the LMS the desired look and feel. On the wish-list, perhaps a more streamlined user interface that has less pages to click through to access course materials, certificates, and such. The other wish-list item would be a log of the questions that were answer right and wrong on each quiz taken per each user. I recommend this LMS look forward to seeing it develop with Joomla.