Consolidate the information about open and commercial LMS presented in this lesson. Select your favorite LMS.

Which LMS is best? 
I have used Pearson, Moodle and BlackBoard.  I’m most fluent with BlackBoard and have used it as an educator and student. I find it has the most features, including being easily customized to an organization’s needs and integrates with Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox.

The features also include testing, assessments, discussions and the option of setting up a custom user learning profile. The analytics feature could work in business and government markets. The solution can be deployed in three ways: cloud, self-hosting or managed hosting.

How does the selected LMS meet the needs of all stakeholders, including administrators, students, teachers and faculty, instructional technology, development, support, and parents?  
Teachers upload content material to the LMS and the material is distributed to all the students within the LMS that part of that class.  Students have access to assignments and keys to assignments as part of their remediation and homework assignments.  Administrators can monitor process and growth of students within the LMS.  Parents have the ability to view assignments, calendars, or other pertinent information from class. 

How does the selected LMS align with the initiatives, growth, and technological needs of your organization? 
There are numerous assessment tools within Blackboard which make it stand apart from the other LMS sites. Part of the benefit of the tools are the ability to measure performance across courses through survey data reporting functions. This data can in turn be exported to another software such as Excel. Another big advantage of Blackboard is the quality and availability of customer and online support. Other features of Blackboard are Ally for accessible content, Collaborate for engagement and conferencing, Analytics for student learning and SafeAssign for plagiarism detection service.