I know this was talked about recently, but can't find it here to vote.
What's odd is that Absorb does not offer ability to provide Blended learning apart from setting up a curriculum to contain both an ILC and Online courses. This then limits ability to package more than one blended course together.
My suggestion is that it's imperative to offer ability to create a course that can contain course objects for online learning, as well as an ILC course, or even a session as an Course Object.
That way, L&D teams can offer Course A - Online and ILC, and Course B Online and ILC, and put them into a curriculum of just course A and B.
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Low Probability of Delivery
Disappointing to see a low probability of delivery. Could be a lead driver in exploring other LMS providers. If not in a single course, Absorb has to come up with a better way for clients to deliver blended learning other than curriculum.
Thank you for sharing your suggestion regarding blended learning. While we appreciate your idea, it doesn’t align with our current product strategy. However, we do see the value and we’ll keep it in mind and explore opportunities to revisit it in the future if our focus shifts.
A hybrid learning experience that combines asynchronous and synchronous learning should be a standard offering in our LMS. We have a reoccurring in-person lunch & learn series that we record for employees who cannot be in attendance. We need the ability to include a recording of each session as a learning object on the ILC or create an online course that allows for a live instructor-led session. We'd like to be able to pull one completion record that indicates if an employee either attended the live session or reviewed the recording of this session.
Would significantly help us in designing our course catalogue.
YES, YES, YES! I had to create extra courses to accomplish this. Going from 700+ courses to over 3,000 to have a "course curriculum" to choose between an ILC and OLC, and then a separate OLC to house the exam/quiz that everyone will take. Now, I just found out I can't have a curriculum within a curriculum. Which means the settings, which have to be entered manually, from each curriculum have to be re-entered when I put multiple curriculums together.
This is also important for us when reporting in Absorb Analyze. Right now, we cannot connect ILT session enrollment data to online course assessment data, even when these are in the same curriculum. Updating Analyze to include this and having blended courses would solve this.
Very much needed. It is very unusual for an LMS to limit its content capabilities to a course type rather than having one course type with the choice of multiple blended 'lessons' or activities within it.
We need to be able to have nested curriculums, primarily because there is no hybrid/blended course option. We have ILTs that also include course objects, requiring us to create a Curriculum for each of those instead of a single blended course. But if we have multiple blended courses to include in a curriculum, it is impossible to create a curriculum containing the other curriculums.
Our company recently signed up with Absorb, and we are having the same challenge; we need an option for blended learning courses.
I would also suggest an instructor-restricted section where we can upload facilitator material and guides.
Hoping Admin's catch that there's multiple voted threads on this
https://ideas.absorblms.com/ideas/LMS-I-504
https://ideas.absorblms.com/ideas/LMS-I-864
Creating the ability to have ILC and Online be one blending approach course, the transcripts would be clean and less overload.
As we evolve and expand our learning deliveries, this is becoming more an more a critical need for our LMS.