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Based on 64 reviews and ratings
71 Ratings
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Based on 71 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Learning Management

6.6
PiiQ by Cornerstone
66%

Coursera
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
PiiQ by Cornerstone ranks higher in 10/10 features
PiiQ by Cornerstone ranks higher in 10/10 features
Course authoring

6.0
60%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Course catalog or library

6.8
68%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Player/Portal

6.8
68%
10 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Learning content

6.6
66%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Mobile friendly

7.9
79%
8 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications

6.2
62%
10 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Assignments

6.7
67%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Compliance management

5.8
58%
9 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Learning administration

6.6
66%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics

6.9
69%
11 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Coursera is rated higher in 5 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Usability, Support Rating, Implementation Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

8.6
PiiQ by Cornerstone
86%
40 Ratings

9.3
Coursera
93%
17 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

3.0
PiiQ by Cornerstone
30%
2 Ratings

10.0
Coursera
100%
2 Ratings
Usability

8.5
PiiQ by Cornerstone
85%
37 Ratings

10.0
Coursera
100%
1 Rating
Availability

10.0
PiiQ by Cornerstone
100%
2 Ratings

Coursera
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance

7.0
PiiQ by Cornerstone
70%
2 Ratings

Coursera
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating

8.8
PiiQ by Cornerstone
88%
71 Ratings

9.0
Coursera
90%
4 Ratings
Online Training

9.0
PiiQ by Cornerstone
90%
1 Rating

Coursera
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating

9.0
PiiQ by Cornerstone
90%
4 Ratings

10.0
Coursera
100%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
PiiQ by Cornerstone
Well suited for:
- A busy environment where you want learners to be self-sufficient and to be able to access learning solutions at a time that suits them.
- For anyone who wants to access learning using different platforms such as iPad, mobile, PC, etc
- Anyone who needs a more in-depth learning solution rather than an overview of key learning points.

Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Staffing and Recruiting Company, 51-200 employeesCoursera
The Coursera platform can be a useful part of your overall learning content portfolio if utilized correctly. It's fantastic for asynchronous courses that don't necessarily need a dedicated faculty member (though I'd highly recommend at least having some discussion moderators/student workers) and for offering MOOCs. The ability for the learners to contribute translations really makes it ideal for the international learning community - I am always amazed to see a course we launched with 2-3 languages to quickly have 10-12 more added. This feature really helps expand the audience reach and Coursera has such a large following already that it can grow seemingly overnight.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
PiiQ by Cornerstone
- Enables employees to draft work goals and collaborate with their supervisors on a final version - improves mutual understanding right up front.
- Combines performance goal ratings with competency ratings and provides a blended score. Simplifies the goal weighting so you don't have to do any calculations.
- 9-box matrix provides useful definitions and descriptions so managers can prepare development notes or plans for individual employees.
Director, Human Resources and Administration
Abode CommunitiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees
Coursera
- Interaction: the student learns by doing. For programming courses, this means programming!
- Assessments: the courses I'd taken ask students to grade each others work with a rubric. This is hugely effective and permits tests and quizzes to be other than multiple choice.
- Creativity and enthusiasm of the instructors. Some of the approaches demonstrated real out-of-the-box thinking by the instructors. For example, the Rice Python course was a self-contained website requiring no installation of IDE on one's computer, and the final project was a working version of Asteroids.
- Low cost of entry: most of the course I enrolled in were free, with an optional fee for certifications. This really gives people the freedom to explore learning. It's almost like a Public Library of Learning.
- Coursera forces a weekly discipline on the user with lectures and assignments and this really motivates one to put in the effort.
Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO
Federal Home Loan Bank of New YorkBanking, 201-500 employees
Cons
PiiQ by Cornerstone
- Would be good to have have a virtual "top level" (eg board) user built in to allow senior execs without a direct manager to be able to be set up with KPIs instead of having to create a dummy user
- Reports have difficulty downloading if pop ups disabled or in some browser environments
- When competencies are updated while a cycle is open, any changes don't effect that open cycle but only future ones. Would be nice to be able to have the option to apply changes to existing "open" cycles

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesCoursera
- Some of the courses (very few) have some old information (more than 2 years), and in some areas like technology the information has to be very new and updated.
- Some professors or people doing videos are not good in front of the camera, they should train their people a little bit more for those things.
Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi
Paradise Professional Delelopment SchoolHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
Pricing Details
PiiQ by Cornerstone
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
$1,000
Starting Price
$8 per user per month
PiiQ by Cornerstone Editions & Modules
Edition
PiiQ Performance | $8.001 |
---|---|
PiiQ Learning + Content & Performance | $15.001 |
PiiQ Learning + Content | $8.001 |
- per user per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Coursera
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Coursera Editions & Modules
Edition
Enterprise | Contact Sales |
---|---|
Team | 400.002 |
- none
- Per User Per Year
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 3.0
Based on 2 answers
It's not that CSB isn't a decent performance management system, but we have decided to go with just one vendor (Workday) for an HRIS/performance management/payroll system so we can directly relate pay to performance. We are more interested in having just one system that "talks" to the other pieces instead of having to work with several vendors. It reduces the hassle of having to communicate with different support teams, having different contracts, and so on.

Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employeesCoursera
Coursera 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Constantly renewing already. One of my favourite MOOC platforms.
Freelance Web Developer
Freelance/Contract Graphic Design and Web DevelopmentInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Usability
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.5
Based on 37 answers
There are specific things within the goals and competencies that are user-friendly. For example, the rating slider isn't great in my opinion. You can slide in between ratings which can create some odd scoring (if you use scoring). It seems a better solution would be a drop down where you select your rating.There are also some glitches in the system and have been told Cornerstone is aware of them but are focused on delivering new features. There are workarounds, but that doesn't seem to be a great answer.

Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Construction Company, 201-500 employeesCoursera
Coursera 10.0
Based on 1 answer
User-friendly and developer-friendly Web UI.
Freelance Web Developer
Freelance/Contract Graphic Design and Web DevelopmentInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Reliability and Availability
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0
Based on 2 answers
So far 100%.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesCoursera
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 7.0
Based on 2 answers
The saving process slows it down. It doesn’t auto save. If you leave a page, it will sometimes warn you, but not always. When you hit the save button, a window pops up that says creating/saving packets. It feels very archaic.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesCoursera
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 8.8
Based on 71 answers
My assistant could better address this issue. My perception is that there is not immediate assistance, and that there can be a wait for help. That is not a negative, just a perception. I have not used support in two years.
Director, Human Resources
Viewpointe Archive Services L.L.C.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Coursera
Coursera 9.0
Based on 4 answers
I’ve used it a couple of times and... that did great. They take their time, but in the end they solve your issues.
Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi
Paradise Professional Delelopment SchoolHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
Online Training
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesCoursera
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
PiiQ by Cornerstone
PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0
Based on 4 answers
I think we could have done a better job of rolling out the tool to our managers. We were under a tight timeline. In the training, we showed them everything and said go do it by this date. Looking back, I would have done it in pieces: for example, 2 weeks to write goals, 2 weeks to get sign-off from direct reports. I just let them go at it. Since then we’ve moved to agile development environment and are applying the technique to everything. In future would only do through change sprint. It is a big change I didn’t take it seriously enough.
I had a team of 3 project managing. You need a champion from every department to make sure you’re getting it right and to make sure what’s happening is communicated. It’s not something you can do without input from department heads
I had a team of 3 project managing. You need a champion from every department to make sure you’re getting it right and to make sure what’s happening is communicated. It’s not something you can do without input from department heads

Verified User
Vice-President in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesCoursera
Coursera 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Coursera is familiar, intuitive, compatible and easy to use and implement.
Freelance Web Developer
Freelance/Contract Graphic Design and Web DevelopmentInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
PiiQ by Cornerstone
Lesson.ly has been great to work with but it is a very clear and simple, user-friendly system that anyone can pick up with very little training as it is self-explanatory. It also has a great mobile interface and lots of different features that are easy to add for the admin but really impactful for the user.

Verified User
Administrator in Other
Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employeesCoursera
I think Coursera has the best overall interface. I think you will find that different platforms go in different directions, and have different specialities. For the most part the differences are more in the types of courses they offer than one being particularly better than the other, so it comes down to content for me.
DevOps Engineer
DexcomBiotechnology, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
PiiQ by Cornerstone
- It's tool and it's only as good as the person wielding it. The investment in PiiQ was accompanied by a quarterly cadence and manager feedback training. We feel like our employees are given regular feedback and bonuses are tied to objective accomplishment.

Verified User
Executive in Manufacturing
Construction Company, 201-500 employeesCoursera
- The greatest benefit of Coursera is access to quality courses on various subjects that you can either browse or dive in deeply. Customizable, flexible and accessible.
- Helps our department to recommend trainees courses on this website and gain important knowledge. Also, the courses are provided by big-name universities which helps students in their careers
- Developing and exploring professional skills.
Architectural Consultant
dormakabaBuilding Materials, 10,001+ employees