Absorb LMS vs. Showpad Coach (LearnCore)

Absorb LMS is appropriate for any continuing education organization or company that wants a reliable platform to host enduring educational content. It has been a great experience in terms of building and designing courses, monitoring learner progress, and as another touch point for learners to access other resources our organization offers.

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It is great for perfecting sales skills and ramping up new talent via a library of videos. It is also great for creating sales competitions. This gets everyone engaged on the specific exercise that the firm is looking to educate its employees on

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• Usability - Both the User and Admin Experience is so simple and intuitive. The admin tools are clearly defined and laid out, yet the functionality makes it still powerful.
• Integration - We used the Scheduled Data Imports and Exports to connect with our HRIS tool. After the initial configuration, it has worked reliably and gives me all the custom data I need to make assignments and reporting a breeze.
• Design - I know it's covered a little bit in the Usability above, but the site just looks fantastic. There are a lot of options to customize and fit your branding requirements and all of the thumbnails/posters/billboards/etc give a very visual and appealing look to the LMS. Much better than I've seen in other products.

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• Provides analytical metrics
• Ease of creating/loading content
• Support by their people

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• Uploading documents is perceived as hard for employees, especially with video uploads.
• Sometimes the program lacks and then an employee has to start all over.
• Spacing courses is possible but not with a certain amount of time, which would be useful if the next course could open after a week/month instead of when the employee finishes the previous course.

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• LearnCore has lost videos that I have had my reps record. This is absolutely not acceptable.
• A couple months ago, you could not assign one employee to a specific exercise. You had a create a group.
• The platform is not as intuitive as one would think. Setting up an exercise is somewhat annoying.

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We have no plans to move away from Absorb at this time. It has all of the functionality we are looking for in a learning management system and we have a lot of info stored in our LMS system for trainings including all of our current and past employee transcripts. It is also getting easier to manager with being able to connect the LMS to ADP to update employee reporting/department/location/etc. We don't have a need or reason to move away from Absorb at this time.

Incentivized

It's a great place to house our trainings and keep things interesting for our associates.

I know the support team is hard at work! We are currently dealing with a confusing issue where our buttons don't connect to the pages we assign them, and they have been looking into this for a number of weeks. I hope they will unravel the issue soon so we can role out our modules!

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I meet and do training with my absorb support every week. and I have all my questions answered! it's great

Our organization previously used LMS365, which did not support eCommerce and had difficulties supporting external users. (My understanding is the issues with external users may have been directly related to our Microsoft implementation and not directly LMS365's fault, but it was nonetheless a deal breaker for us.) Docebo was the runner up in our LMS selection process and I spent significant time chatting with the team at Docebo. It seemed like a strong competitor to Aborb. Ultimately, Absorb was both slightly more cost-efficient for our scenario.

Incentivized

Ease of use by learners and admins, pricing levels, multi-year contract discounts

Incentivized

• Course enrollments and completions have increased by 500% since implementation
• Employee visits to our learning centre have increased by 300% since implementation
• Cost saving from a time perspective as we can automate a lot of the admin work we used to do.
• Pre Absorb we had about 3 or 4 e-learnings that were available. We now have over 100 that are accessible to all employees
• Ability to seamlessly integrate with Workday and Udemy allowing all learning to be in one place, people data to be imported from WD, and very comprehensive reporting

Incentivized

• It has improved sales reps in becoming audible ready on different topics via lots of practice via LearnCore.
• It has made the job more interesting by employing competitions.
• It has made our reps more polished and client facing out in the field and has reduced ramp up time on new hires.

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