edX for Business vs. Ideagen WorkRite

edx is really helpful for learning and growing your skills in both personal and professional aspects. It helped us learn all the business concepts which were required for our company. We chose certification after auditing a number of courses. It was definitely a terrific tool for professionals who were self-learning.

Incentivized

When government guidelines suggested staff work from home, the home working course was enabled on our user accounts and it created a timely [way] to gather data and react in light of the pandemic. Certain health and safety training is not covered specifically to our company policies in courses, but we have recently received the legionella risk course and are aware of a course builder which could also house this need.

• Provides certification after completion of course
• Provides eLearning from home
• They have a broad variety of courses for all business owners

Incentivized

• Houses CPD accredited training which can be used to train our employees.
• For our organization, the use of single sign on allows our users to easily access the platform without any hassle and it works on different devices which allows for flexibility when completing a course.
• Provides great tools for achieving completion from our employees on the training assigned to them such as a clear training course with attractive infographics to keep our users engaged when using.
• Unique and pro-active work force: our account manager Bianca has always displayed care, support and professionalism during every conversation with timely actions turned around from any meetings.

• Following forum posts when there are thousands of participants is clunky
• The feature that is supposed to bookmark your progress and start you up back where you left off is rarely accurate

Incentivized

• The reporting system can be initially confusing to use unless you receive training - which we did with our account manager and are now confident in getting reports.

edX for Business seemed to be quite similiar to other competitors in terms of methodology and formats. In our case, courses themes availability were very important, because the challenge was to find relevant content to support pre-defined learning tracks. We found most of them on edX for Business catalog. The posibility to integrate them into other platforms was also an important decision factor.

Incentivized

• There is no way to try the course for free to check if the content is interesting
• Valuable certificates for the cv and linkdln
• Well renamed certifications in the job market

Incentivized

• The course has allowed users requiring any reasonable adjustments to come forward with these in the DSE course.
• The system has allowed us to record DSE assessments in a timely manner compared to our documentation used in the past which required us to file each assessment separately - now we only see reports with risks and this saves us time.
• The WorkRite platform demonstrates [that] we are committed to the health and safety of our people by providing training and minimizing risk.