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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Frontline Professional Growth

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFrontline Education offers a learning management system focusing on the development goals of teachers, in Frontline Professional Growth.N/A

    Seismic Learning

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ASeismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021), is a learning management system (LMS). The vendor emphasizes eLearning for client-facing skills, as well as a drag-and-drop interface. Lessonly supports customizable learning paths and corporate onboarding processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Pro
    Contact sales team
    Pro + Coaching
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    Enterprise Learning for Global Teams
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Considered Both Products
    Frontline Education
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    Seismic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Frontline Professional Growth and Seismic Learning
    Feature
    Frontline Professional Growth
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Seismic Learning
    6.7
    110 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Course authoring9.02 Ratings9.7108 Ratings
    Course catalog or library9.04 Ratings9.6106 Ratings
    Player/Portal10.01 Ratings5.485 Ratings
    Learning content9.02 Ratings3.0104 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.24 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications10.04 Ratings9.996 Ratings
    Assignments9.02 Ratings2.2107 Ratings
    Compliance management9.74 Ratings9.763 Ratings
    Learning administration9.03 Ratings7.1100 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics9.03 Ratings6.495 Ratings
    Social learning8.03 Ratings2.072 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    6.3
    (114 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (97 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Frontline Professional GrowthSeismic Learning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Frontline Education
    This is perfect for the district looking to convert older physical forms to digital copies, and mitigate the tracking of forms from desk to desk. Frontline will do it all digitally. Those in the approval process can approve or deny, or even ask for more information, which sends the form back to the user who submitted it. This is also good for those looking for a way to manage professional development in their district and all that comes with it, including tracking workshops, awarding hours, etc. Most districts use Frontline programs somewhere, so this is another piece to that. However, this is cost-heavy.
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    Seismic
    If you are onboarding new employees or consultants and you have a complex product, solution, or your business is layered and complex, this can help distill down the layers into basics so that new team or partners can build their knowledge base up the right way. This ensures they are learning what needs to be learned, and not what they surmise or assume, which can be incorrect and cause issues down the road - this is especially sensitive in our field. Training of all kinds can be done easily with this tool.
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    Pros
    Frontline Education
    • Frontline Professional Growth is set up to organize and document all aspects of a teacher's evaluation. Artifacts are archived and can be used in multiple areas.
    • SGOs, observations, PDPs, and documentation logs can all be shared between the staff member and the administration.
    • The forms are easy to fill out, can be saved as drafts in progress, and can be referred to from year to year.
    • The Professional Development Workshop section offers a calendar of workshops in catalog format as well as calendar format.
    • As a workshop presenter, enrollment tools are easy to use and offer multiple ways to access your roster.
    • As a workshop participant, workshops are listed as in progress and completed. Hours are tabulated and saved each year.
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    Seismic
    • Open to feedback and ideas and constantly innovating and iterating on their product to serve new needs that arise
    • Making me feel like more than just a customer: They aren't transactional and focus on building the relationship and making me feel heard.
    • Extremely easy to use product so building content takes little time, and I can leverage other subject matter experts to build content as well.
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    Cons
    Frontline Education
    • Confusing sign-on processes.
    • AESOP (absence management) is not integrated with Professional Growth as advertised.
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    Seismic
    • Media import (audio, video) are still in infancy. Reliability of uploaded content isn't 100%.
    • The Events function lacks some features that are more built out in other platforms.
    • Reporting interface has a bit of a learning curve, but overall isn't bad.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Seismic
    Worried about its acquisition by Seismic and hope that they don't change the product or the terms drastically.
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    Usability
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Seismic
    It's completely simple and intuitive, anyone can pick it up. The hardest part is looking for a save button and finally figuring out you don't need one. We don't provide training for users and never have complaints. For creators, we provide best practices, but using Lessonly itself requires nothing .
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    Support Rating
    Frontline Education
    Overall, Frontline Professional Growth manages observations, SGOs, documentation logs, and Professional Development Plans. In addition to these evaluation pieces, it allows our district to manage our Professional Development Workshops (in-house), Professional Development requests (for out-of-district), and many online request forms. The only real negative is that some of the menus are a bit cumbersome, and it takes several steps to get around the system.
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    Seismic
    The support team is very friendly and eager to help you learn the ins and outs of Lessonly. They can set up training for large groups or send links in a chat for individual help. They are quick to respond and if one person doesn't have the answer, they will collaborate with others to help find the answer.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Frontline Education
    I have only used this and GCN trainings. I think it helps having more choices that hold value to your work day.
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    Seismic
    I felt some of these products had more features than were necessary and needed for our team. Some of them were limited on the number of content creators that were allowed which to me forces you to use one or two people to create content where I would rather see it done by key members of each department.
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    Return on Investment
    Frontline Education
    • We have used a lot less paper over the past few years which leads to cost savings.
    • The time it takes to submit a form and get approval has sped up since this is all digital.
    • The time it takes to track and award professional development hours has sped up.
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    Seismic
    • We've had an increase in quality overall as a company, as we are able to continually train our employees outside of our New Hire Training program.
    • We've seen stronger communication as we are able to send out material to our stylists about products, policies, procedures, etc. and they are able to provide us with feedback. After all, it is their tool for learning and we want to know the best way to provide that information to our Team Members.
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