LMS Advisor vs 360Learning: which one fits your training?

Two ideas of how a course gets written

360Learning is built around collaborative learning. Experts co-author courses with versioning and a private author forum, learners discuss and upvote inside the course, and the AI content builder turns a PDF or slide deck into cheat sheets and questions. Paths add classrooms, assessments and quizzes with start and end dates. For internal expertise that changes often, that model is hard to beat.

LMS Advisor’s authoring is browser based and single-author: interactive modules with required blocks, interactive video with timestamped questions, a Recording Studio, and AI that drafts courses, lessons and questions for a person to approve. There is a discussion forum with mentions and solutions, but no co-authoring or author forum. SCORM, xAPI and cmi5 packages upload as lessons.

Exams and proctoring

360Learning has ten question types including video pitch and screencast demo, reuses questions between courses, serves a random subset per learner, and sets a minimum score and attempts per path step. Its help pages state no timed-exam setting, no identity verification, no lockdown browser and no proctoring partner. The video pitch records a webcam answer for a human evaluator.

LMS Advisor’s question bank has 14 types with pools, difficulty levels, negative marking, a server-enforced time limit and nightly item analysis. Proctoring is configured per exam: periodic webcam snapshots, AI face monitoring, fullscreen lockdown, logged tab switches and copy or paste, ID photo capture, device lock and violation limits that can end an attempt. The Test Center examines candidates who are not enrolled anywhere, with an appeal step and a results page you control.

Standards, identity and integrations

Both products import SCORM 2004 and cmi5. 360Learning accepts xAPI and AICC but recommends against them, holds one file per imported course and cannot play xAPI or cmi5 offline. LMS Advisor keeps xAPI statements in a built-in LRS and forwards them to yours. On LTI the roles differ: 360Learning embeds external LTI tools, LMS Advisor is the tool other platforms launch.

Both offer SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning; 360Learning’s SCIM is an add-on, ours is included. 360Learning’s HR connectors cover Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, Oracle HCM, UKG, Personio and HiBob, with a Salesforce app. LMS Advisor syncs BambooHR, Zoho People and Keka with CSV for the rest, pushes events to HubSpot and Zoho CRM, and sends signed webhooks for 15 events.

Pricing, hosting and certification

360Learning publishes a Team plan at $8 per user a month, billed monthly with no annual commitment, up to 100 users, with a 30-day trial and add-ons at $2 per user a month; Business and Enterprise are quoted on annual contracts (October 2026). It runs only on Microsoft Azure and states SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Selling is an optional, separately priced BigCommerce storefront capped at $50,000 a year.

LMS Advisor is quote-based on learner numbers, modules and hosting. The cloud is a subscription; a standard self-hosted install on ordinary cPanel or VPS hosting can be bought on a one-time license. We hold no attestation and will say so on your questionnaire. Selling runs through your WooCommerce store with our plugin and has no revenue cap.