edu-sharing vs Instancy LCMS

edu-sharing connects learning platforms and educational software so organizations can share learning content, metadata, and tools across connected systems. It combines an educational cloud, OER search, and cloud storage for learning materials, tools, and teaching scenarios. Users can create private, shared, and editorial collections and control who may use them. Listed plug-ins cover Moodle, ILIAS, MediaWiki, TYPO3, and OpenOLAT; connectors are available for OnlyOffice and ONYX Editor. Identity connections include LDAP, Shibboleth, and SSO, and a REST API follows the OpenAPI Specification. Organizations can install edu-sharing on their own servers and adapt it to their requirements. The product is open source and free to download. Service partners offer hosting, installation, configuration, updates, training, and support. Its Android and iOS app requires an accessible edu-sharing repository with rendering service and an account. The maker describes offerings for schools, universities, public authorities, businesses, and associations.

Instancy LCMS is a cloud-based learning content management and authoring system with a learning object repository and no-code tools for creating learning content. Teams can work in shared workspaces with multiple users, version control, reviewer comments and single-click publishing. Authoring options include course modules, microlearning, assessments, surveys, certificates, learning paths, chatbots and AR/VR content.

The repository accepts SCORM 1.2/2004, AICC, xAPI, Cmi5, documents, HTML packages, media assets and external references. Content can be published to Instancy’s LMS or exported as SCORM, xAPI, AICC or Cmi5 packages. Listed integrations include Zoom, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Microsoft Power BI and third-party learning record stores. It runs on Android, iOS and web, with content reuse, approval workflows and API access. A complimentary 30-day trial does not require credit card information. Pricing depends on user count, access period, selected modules and learning needs; initial implementation has a setup fee, and exceeding plan limits may incur fees.