Questions I take into an LMS demo

Key takeaways

Open a course that already exists in the product, not a mock.
Assign it to a team and show the people who were left out.
Export completion without a professional-services ticket.
Say who can publish, especially if AI is drafting the course.

LMS demos drift into content marketplaces and AI authors. I bring the demo back to four checks. They are the same checks I use before a name goes on the learning guide.

Show me a course

CourseAlready in the product
AssignmentA real team
ExportDuring the demo
PublishA named editor

I ask for a course with sections, a completion rule, and a way to see that a learner finished. 360Learning and Docebo both present themselves as learning platforms, so this should be the first screen, not a buried module.

Assign it to a team

Assignment by team only works if the team is real. I ask where the team comes from: the LMS, a CSV, or the HRIS. A team that is typed in by hand will be wrong next month. That is the same manager problem I write about on the directory side.

Export completion

I ask for a completion report an HR manager can download during the demo. If the answer is that analytics is a higher tier or a services project, I write that next to the price. I do not discover it after signature.

Who can publish

If the product drafts courses with AI, I ask who clicks publish and whether an admin can require review. I would not turn that on for a policy course without a named editor. The rest of the buying split is in a learning system is not a review form.