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LRS Platform Comparison Card Grid

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Learning Objective

Compare the four major LRS platforms across multiple dimensions and select the appropriate platform for a given deployment scenario.

  • Bloom Level: Evaluating
  • Bloom Verb: Compare / Select
  • Library: p5.js

How to Use

  • Hover or click a card to update the side panel with that platform's when-to-use guidance, when-not-to-use cautions, an example deployment, and the canonical link.
  • Click a scenario button ("Single school," "State-wide assessment platform," "Corporate L&D") to highlight the recommended platform with an orange ribbon and surface deployment-specific reasoning in the side panel.
  • Click "Clear" to remove the scenario highlight and explore freely.

Each card shows a 5-axis radar chart so you can see at a glance where each platform is strong and where it is weak. The axes are:

  1. Ingestion ceiling - How many statements/sec the platform can absorb.
  2. Query speed - How quickly analytical queries return.
  3. Operational simplicity - Lower ops burden = higher score (we invert "operational complexity" so that bigger is always better on the radar).
  4. Multi-tenant maturity - How well the platform isolates orgs/tenants.
  5. Dashboard depth - Out-of-the-box visualization and reporting power.

Specification

The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 7: LRS Platforms, Authentication, and Hosting Models.

Type: interactive-infographic
sim-id: lrs-platform-comparison-card-grid
Library: p5.js
Status: Built

Learning objective (Bloom - Evaluating): Compare the four major LRS platforms
across multiple dimensions and select the appropriate platform for a given
deployment scenario.

Layout: A 2x2 grid of cards on the left (2/3) representing TRAX, Learning
Locker, Ralph, Watershed; a side panel on the right (1/3) showing the selected
card's detail.

Each card shows: platform name in a header bar, hosting-model badge
(Self-hosted / Hosted SaaS), a 5-axis radar chart (ingestion ceiling, query
speed, operational simplicity, multi-tenant maturity, dashboard depth), and a
one-line summary.

Side panel shows: when-to-use guidance, when-not-to-use cautions, an example
deployment scenario, and the canonical install or signup link.

Interaction: Hover or click a card to update the side panel. Three preset
scenario buttons across the bottom - "Single school," "State-wide assessment
platform," "Corporate L&D" - highlight the recommended platform and update the
side panel with deployment-specific reasoning.