What users are saying about

PiiQ by Cornerstone vs Totara LMS

PiiQ by Cornerstone
64 Ratings
Totara LMS
4 Ratings

PiiQ by Cornerstone

64 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 64 reviews and ratings

Totara LMS

4 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 4 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • Totara LMS ranks higher in 1 feature set: Learning Management

Learning Management

6.6

PiiQ by Cornerstone

66%
7.7

Totara LMS

77%
Totara LMS ranks higher in 10/11 features
Totara LMS ranks higher in 10/11 features

Course authoring

6.0
60%
11 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Course catalog or library

6.8
68%
11 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Player/Portal

6.8
68%
10 Ratings
7.5
75%
3 Ratings

Learning content

6.6
66%
11 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Mobile friendly

7.9
79%
8 Ratings
7.0
70%
3 Ratings

Progress tracking & certifications

6.2
62%
10 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Assignments

6.7
67%
11 Ratings
7.5
75%
3 Ratings

Compliance management

5.8
58%
9 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Learning administration

6.6
66%
11 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Learning reporting & analytics

6.9
69%
11 Ratings
8.0
80%
3 Ratings

Social learning

N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
2 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • PiiQ by Cornerstone is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
  • Totara LMS is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

8.6

PiiQ by Cornerstone

86%
40 Ratings
8.0

Totara LMS

80%
3 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

3.0

PiiQ by Cornerstone

30%
2 Ratings

Totara LMS

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

8.5

PiiQ by Cornerstone

85%
37 Ratings

Totara LMS

N/A
0 Ratings

Availability

10.0

PiiQ by Cornerstone

100%
2 Ratings

Totara LMS

N/A
0 Ratings

Performance

7.0

PiiQ by Cornerstone

70%
2 Ratings

Totara LMS

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

8.8

PiiQ by Cornerstone

88%
71 Ratings
10.0

Totara LMS

100%
2 Ratings

Online Training

9.0

PiiQ by Cornerstone

90%
1 Rating

Totara LMS

N/A
0 Ratings

Implementation Rating

9.0

PiiQ by Cornerstone

90%
4 Ratings

Totara LMS

N/A
0 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.

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Totara LMS

As a real estate services company with properties (& employees) in six states, Totara LMS is well suited for implementing and our employee learning platform to our many team members that work remotely and cannot benefit from regular in-person learning courses. Totara LMS's comprehensive and customizable reporting system also allows us to accurately review and tell the story of employee performance and talent development, while tailoring this reporting to the needs of different internal stakeholders.

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Pros

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.

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Totara LMS

  • Distribute elearning
  • run exams

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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

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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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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
  1. per user per month
Additional Pricing Details
—

Totara LMS

General

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

Starting Price

—

Totara LMS Editions & Modules

—
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.

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Totara LMS

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

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.

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Totara LMS

No score
No answers yet
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Reliability and Availability

PiiQ by Cornerstone

PiiQ by Cornerstone 10.0
Based on 2 answers
So far 100%.

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Totara LMS

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Totara LMS

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Totara LMS

Totara LMS 10.0
Based on 2 answers
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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Andrea Lambell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Online Training

PiiQ by Cornerstone

PiiQ by Cornerstone 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We bought training provided by 3rd party – it was fabulous.

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Totara LMS

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

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Totara LMS

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Totara LMS

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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.

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Totara LMS

  • Totara LMS has helped increase our employee retention by 15%.
  • Totara LMS has drastically improved our employee learning and development processes that weren't in place prior to having this system.
  • Totara LMS has decreased the time the onboarding process takes by 1 day.

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Benjamin Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
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