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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGrovo's product included instructional videos and assessments, and the SaaS platform that they live on top of. The videos follow a microlearning methodology which increases learner retention. Grovo is now fully integrated into CornerStone's LMS.

    $149

    per month

    iSpring LMS

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AiSpring LMS is an LMS developed by iSpring Solutions. iSpring LMS automates corporate training and helps to improve employee retention through quality onboarding, on-the-job training, gamification and engagement mechanics. With iSpring LMS, training and development professionals can launch eLearning fast, without any technical skills. Also, account owners can customize or white-label the learner portal to reflect their corporate branding. iSpring LMS's features…

    $16,050

    per year for 300 users (minimum)

    Skillsoft Coaching

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Skillsoft coaching platform consists of enhanced content, human and AI coaches, and technology. It includes the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program powered by MIT Sloan Management Review.N/A
    Pricing
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Editions & Modules
    Light Academy
    $149.00
    per month
    Professional Academy
    $249.00
    per month
    Business - 300 users
    $16,050.00
    per year
    Business - 500 users
    $23,790.00
    per year
    Business - 1000 users
    $42,930.00
    per year
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConsulting and integration services are part of the product, not an additional feature.No fees for storage or bandwidth.—
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    Community Pulse
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Considered Multiple Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
    Grovo had the best content, cleanest looking website and most affordable pricing for our purposes.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
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    Skillsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS and iSpring LMS and Skillsoft Coaching
    Feature
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    iSpring LMS
    8.6
    37 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Skillsoft Coaching
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring8.32 Ratings9.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.02 Ratings9.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.02 Ratings9.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content6.62 Ratings6.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications8.32 Ratings8.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.01 Ratings8.935 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning5.01 Ratings8.422 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings9.331 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings7.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings10.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings7.824 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.317 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    9.6
    (44 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (30 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSiSpring LMSSkillsoft Coaching
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Grovo is fantastic for bringing a team of people up to speed and for teaching a few things to a large audience. We found Grovo to be lacking when specific training is required or when the training required a certain level of skill. Grovo is fantastic for broad training, less so for specific depth training
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    My specific scenario is, that I need to deliver courses in two languages to multiple departments, so iSpring helps me with that from beginning and creating courses, to translating, and then enrolling people. What could be better is how reports works. Right now you can check report either by course or by department/person, but I would need to see everything on one page, like every single enrolment.
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    Skillsoft
    They have a large library - make sure you clearly study the library offerings and choose the courses that are best for you as you will never be able to use all of them. Make sure you survey your user base before purchasing the licensing of the library courses so the courses are 'marked' with an employee in mind to keep costs minimized. Only purchase the Books 24x7 if you have a large IT department - otherwise you might want to lease a smaller content portion. Their Leadership Development, Project Management, business series and critical thinking and technical products are exceptional.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Ease to create trainings.
    • Ability to insert GIFs and photos to help with visual aids.
    • Ability to allow others to create trainings.
    • Ability to track trainings (who has done it and who hasn't).
    • Ease of tracking all training done.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • Automatically re-enrolling employees when a certificate expires. Set it and forget it!
    • If set up properly from the beginning, you don't have to do much, with the roles and groups settings, you can automate a large portion of the course management.
    • I can provide visibility to anyone about any employee necessary, allowing me to put more responsibility on my managers, instead of doing it all myself.
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    Skillsoft
    • Covers a wide-breadth of topics ranging from desktop / office skills to communications skills to leadership development
    • Offers knowledge portals (Knowledge Centers) around specific topic areas such as Management Development, Six Sigma, Professional Foundations, Sales, etc - that aggregate content from the large Skillsoft resources and present it in a way that is both meaningful and relevant to the learners. Plus, they have editors update the featured topic each month.
    • Include a wide variety of learning media such as eLearning courses, books, book summaries and videos.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Some videos/lessons leave a lot to be desired and could use more detail.
    • There's always more room for some more advanced skills.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • Some limitations where you can't create exactly what you want either in the design of interactions or lack of varied interactions
    • Images cannot be moved to where you want them on the interaction slides
    • Layout of interactions can't be adjusted and overides your powerpoint background
    • If you have to edit a course and delete it off iSpring Learn then the records of all the people associated to that course are swiped and there's not a way of retrieving the information.
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    Skillsoft
    • The platform does have room to improve their response time for assistance. Depending on the issue an internal "help team may be required"
    • They removed what was called "knowledge centers" which could be summed up as an accumulation of books, courses, exams, practice exams, articles and basically any asset within the platform surrounded by a particular subject. This was a great benefit to some of our customer. It was a one-stop-shop but now you would need to search independently for all of those assets.
    • Because the platforms library can be customized its a bit of a struggle to have certain assets changed or modified within Skillsoft. You basically are on their time when it comes to updates or any major changes you as a customer would like to make.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    iSpring Solutions Inc
    In the past I could not encourage my students to take online training. The results and the questions were hard to be given. When I used the iSpring Suite along with iSpring Learn, my dreams came through and most of the time my students are online and take good training with my programme.
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    Skillsoft
    I would recommend to renew as this is part of our employee development goals and we make a strong commitment to develop employees' people skills. I think SkillSoft has a very innovative approach to develop people's interpersonal skills other than traditional classroom learning.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Sometimes, things just aren't intuitive enough. For example, burying the catalog in the settings area makes no sense at all. The same goes for permissions and year reviews. It was a massive oversight that really caused a lot of confusion for all of our managers. It caused distrust in the LMS simply because someone who designed and developed it did not think that an employee review should be private to them, their direct supervisor, or the supervisor above. Instead, ANY manager could read ANY employee review. I have mentioned this several times throughout these questionnaires, and as you can see, I still find it incomprehensible that a company that wants to promote its software as a multifaceted solution could be so blind to something so critical, especially in terms of privacy.
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    Skillsoft
    There are things that could be easier. Having a more customizable carousel that can rotate relevant content in and out on a regular basis would be nice. They could also make some of the video content more engaging. Some of it is pretty dull and people can lose interest pretty fast.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    I never experienced any unavailability
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    Skillsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Everything runs smoothly.
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    Skillsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    When we have had issues with Grovo not working or a problem with report we have always gotten an answer quickly. We have a rep that we speak to often to make sure we are satisfied with the system and is just a quick email away. It nice to know we have support that will get back to you in a quick manner as we rely on this software.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring Learn’s customer support receives high praise for responsiveness. Live chat and tutorials are noted as highly effective in promptly resolving technical issues. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success.
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    Skillsoft
    Very responsive, knowledge and helpful. They are always focused on ensuring they are doing the very best to support our success.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    We can say that most of my students attend my classes twice a week and that's not enough for someone to learn. I put some training for them to do at home and they really enjoy doing them. The kind of progress they make is really satisfying for them and they are always learning.
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    Skillsoft
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    As a teacher, I used to spend a lot of time correcting my students' papers. Now with iSpring Learn, my time has been saved and everything is done automatically. All the time I can check my students' progress and I know which exams they have taken or they should take. On the whole, online training has really helped a lot of teachers
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    Skillsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    When I talked to my colleagues or informed them to search for a programme before iSpring Learn, they were not successful in designing and implementing a programme like this. I am sure they have done a lot to implement it in the best and educational way. That was not that easy as we thought.
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    Skillsoft
    Just that it takes a village. It cannot be done alone. Everyone needs to know what you are doing and what their role is in the implementation. Tightly managing the project management schedule and resources is important in ensuring that everything gets done on time, and with quality. Education is KEY
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    The elephant in the room for me, would be TreeHouse. Grovo is very similar to TreeHouse in the fact that they're both programs with lesson tracks, simple and short videos, as well as progress trackers. I would have to say that I enjoyed learning coding on TreeHouse over Grovo, based on the wide variety of native coding languages they have implemented. Grovo, although extremely similar and easy to use as well, doesn't stack up to TreeHouse in my opinion. Grove does, however, beat out Lynda in my humble opinion
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring is a more entry level LMS. It does not have the same level of features and benefits. For example, it does not have the same level of communication capability. It does not have the same level of reporting functionality. It does not have the same ability to build reporting. It also does not have the same level of communication capabilities
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    Skillsoft
    We chose SkillSoft for the overall ease of use for both our users and our administrators and have a great value proposition. We have continued our contracts for the same reasons and the relationship we have built with our Learning Consultant and Account Representative.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Awesome. We have 10+ department, around 10 to 100 people in each and it is still very manageable
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    Skillsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Zero impact. When we determined they were not a good fit for us, we decided to go another direction. I would certainly try them again however if they addressed my concerns as their service was excellent.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • iSpring has enabled me to deliver professional education to very high-level learners.
    • Due to the reviews of my users, many more learners have purchased my courses.
    • Several professional colleagues have inquired about my experience setting up online courses on iSpring Learn. I told them it was easy, logical, and no hassle; they will love the level of support.
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    Skillsoft
    • The ability to have on-demand training saves money in not having to have an in-house trainer.
    • Employees can complete training on their own time (even at home), so if they need more time for a training, they can complete it on their own time.
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    ScreenShots

    Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of The primary admin dashboardScreenshot of The library of Grovo contentScreenshot of The course building toolScreenshot of Assignment optionsScreenshot of Choosing an assignment

    iSpring LMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of iSpring LMSScreenshot of the native mobile appScreenshot of the user portalScreenshot of development plansScreenshot of the knowledge baseScreenshot of the AI assistant