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Absorb LMS vs Totara LMS

Absorb LMS
11 Ratings
Totara LMS
1 Rating

Absorb LMS

11 Ratings
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Score 6.9 out of 100

Based on 11 reviews and ratings

Totara LMS

1 Rating
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Score 9 out of 100

Based on 1 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Absorb LMS

Absorb is very well suited for any company looking to standardize training for all employees. It is also best suited when paired with a course vendor to pick specific courses aimed towards employees and their interests. This makes orientation very simple. We used to have a 2-hour orientation conference to cover everything these courses can cover.

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Drew Randles CSSR, CSMR, CIR | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

  • Pretty easy to use and loads plug-ins that can give you some useful functionality - also the fact that everyone who uses Totara LMS can create plug-ins as they come up with new ways of using the LMS makes it a dynamic environment. If you need a piece of functionality, ask around - someone may have developed it already as a plug-in, or you can work with your vendor to create it yourself. It's not expensive to add new plug-ins, although creating them costs a little more, it's well worth it for the end result — lots of support and user groups available to share ideas and learn from.
  • Easy to add your own courses, quizzes, and resources, and easy to add external courses using the integration options.
  • In my experience, you have to bring the reports into Excel to properly analyze the data, so they do need to do a bit more work on reporting.

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Andrea Lambell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Feature Rating Comparison

Learning Management

Absorb LMS
9.0
Totara LMS
8.1
Course authoring
Absorb LMS
8.0
Totara LMS
9.0
Player/Portal
Absorb LMS
8.0
Totara LMS
8.0
Mobile friendly
Absorb LMS
7.0
Totara LMS
6.0
Progress tracking & certifications
Absorb LMS
10.0
Totara LMS
8.0
Assignments
Absorb LMS
10.0
Totara LMS
7.0
Compliance management
Absorb LMS
10.0
Totara LMS
10.0
Learning administration
Absorb LMS
9.0
Totara LMS
10.0
Learning reporting & analytics
Absorb LMS
10.0
Totara LMS
6.0
Course catalog or library
Absorb LMS
—
Totara LMS
9.0
Learning content
Absorb LMS
—
Totara LMS
9.0
Social learning
Absorb LMS
—
Totara LMS
7.0

Pros

Absorb LMS

  • Clean interface for learners
  • Logical organization of courses
  • Admin portal is OK

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Ron Massicotte | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

  • Easy user interface with good ability to brand to your own environment.
  • Relatively easy to administrate yourself.

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Andrea Lambell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

Absorb LMS

  • Automated creation of manager groups.
  • Easier way of seeing who employees report to so we can create manager groups.

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Drew Randles CSSR, CSMR, CIR | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

  • Reporting can be a little inflexible - sometimes, the report cannot be customized to have all the columns you need as they are not available from that area of the LMS.
  • Graphic reporting needs some more work to be a bit more professional looking.

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Support Rating

Absorb LMS

Absorb LMS 9.0
Based on 4 answers
Poor response time and generally poor responses.

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Ron Massicotte | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

Totara LMS 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Easy to access both local support and support/advice from other Totara LMS users as we keep in regular contact as a part of the totara government users group. Our vendor also keeps in touch with this group and a lot of knowledge is shared. It's easy to access the Totara LMS users academy, and one of my administrators has also set up a local forum where they ask each other questions and share knowledge as well. Our vendor is easy to access via our support plan and we have monthly catch-ups with our account manager where we hear about anything new coming up.

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Alternatives Considered

Absorb LMS

At the time of selection, we went with Absorb as they were one of the few that could handle online transactions for courses. We are in the process of migrating to Skilljar and will be discontinuing our subscription to Absorb in 2018.

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Ron Massicotte | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

No answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Absorb LMS

  • This has been a positive ROI as we can track all course completions for audits as well as cutting costs for travel and training.

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Drew Randles CSSR, CSMR, CIR | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Totara LMS

  • Compliance risk has noticeably decreased as we are now sitting at about 96% compliance.
  • Overall training spend markedly decreased as we can give people access to online alternatives

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Andrea Lambell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Absorb LMS

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Totara LMS

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Absorb LMS
8.0
Totara LMS
9.0

Support Rating

Absorb LMS
9.0
Totara LMS
10.0

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