Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS vs. Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Grovo'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
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. Skilljar is an external LMS that is purpose-built for customer and partner education. It enables the user to build courses, design learning paths, monetize training, and improve the customer experience through actionable analytics. Turn new buyers into successful users: Skilljar’s external LMS helps onboard customers and partners and turn them…N/A
Pricing
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Editions & Modules
Light Academy
$149.00
per month
Professional Academy
$249.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsConsulting and integration services are part of the product, not an additional feature.
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Community Pulse
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Considered Both Products
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS

No answer on this topic

Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Chose Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Skilljar support is unparalleled compared to the above LMS platforms. They also allow us for more customization options than the above. We migrated from Absorb LMS and recently moved from Docebo LMS to Workday Learning for internal training.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
7.6
2 Ratings
11% below category average
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
7.5
22 Ratings
0% above category average
Course authoring8.32 Ratings7.318 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.02 Ratings8.521 Ratings
Player/Portal8.02 Ratings8.817 Ratings
Learning content6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications8.32 Ratings8.622 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics7.01 Ratings7.322 Ratings
Social learning5.01 Ratings3.711 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings9.117 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings4.613 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings9.520 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Customer Training Tools
Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Product A and Product B
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMS
-
Ratings
Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
7.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer Feedback Collection00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Customer Training Library Curation00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
User Permissioning00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
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User Ratings
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(10 ratings)
8.9
(76 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(53 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(2 ratings)
9.0
(54 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Grovo, now part of Cornerstone LMSSkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform
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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Skilljar
Skilljar is fantastic for structured onboarding processes. If you're
looking to streamline and standardize the onboarding experience for your
customers, especially for software or complex products, this platform
is a gem. It allows you to create step-by-step courses guiding users
through functionalities, reducing confusion and accelerating their
learning curve.When you need versatility in content delivery, Skilljar is spot-on.
Whether it's video tutorials, interactive quizzes, downloadable
resources, or live webinars, the platform accommodates various formats.
It's perfect for accommodating different learning styles and ensuring
engagement.
For scenarios that demand highly complex simulations or immersive
learning experiences, Skilljar's capabilities might fall short. While it
supports interactive elements, extremely sophisticated simulations
might require additional specialized software or platforms.
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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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Skilljar
  • Unlimited courses, learning paths, quizzes, pages, plans, and certifications
  • Ease of use for students, administrators, and content creators
  • Customer Success and Service are top notch. The CSMs are genuinely committed to helping you achieve your metrics and goals
  • Asking for and listening to customer feedback for enhancements
  • Developer Center where people with little to no coding experience can learn how to use and apply HTML templates and code snippets to customize your site
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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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Skilljar
  • Would love to see parent/child courses so that when something is updated in the parent course that change is automatically reflected in the clones of that course.
  • Features that allow for the translation of content to allow access to content across languages.
  • Re-onboarding process when the usage of Skilljar changes hands within out company in order to address knowledge gaps.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Skilljar
I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
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Usability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Skilljar
The learning curve for Skilljar is not too steep, and I've renewed our contract twice now. I've been able to add additional administrators and get them up to speed on platform functionality within a day. Plus, Skilljar provides awesome resources to help you learn how to use is. The Help Center has articles for almost everything, and when in doubt, their amazing CSMs (like ours, ...) provide exemplary support/advice.
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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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Skilljar
I have opened several support cases in the past and at times felt like little was being done to resolve the issues I was having. For example, when searching the use against a training credit, Skilljar said the code was fully used, yet only 1 had been used. The support team seemed to not have interest in learning why this was happening and ensuring it does not happen again. The issue was resolved with this particular case, but I have no idea if it was the only training credit having this issue. At times I feel like the issues we encounter do not seem as important to the support team
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Skilljar
Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process
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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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Skilljar
Skilljar provides stronger customization features, more code snippet options, more styling tools, and more effective integrations. These include Credly, Salesforce, and SCORM. Additionally, the catalog is all part of the same system, making it easy to manage. The analytics tools are also more robust, and the customer service is much more helpful and responsive
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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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Skilljar
  • Our customers seem to be getting onboarded efficiently. Giving our customers a good experience helps us retain them longer.
  • So far, we are still not able to come up with solid metrics that it provides evidence of ROI. If Skilljar could somehow come up with clear, actionable metrics about customer success and how that relates to ROI then I think it would be vastly better. To be fair, we roll the cost of using Skilljar in the overall price, otherwise, we would charge customers and have a revenue stream to measure.
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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

Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of From the Skilljar Dashboard, all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal is the URL where published courses will be located, and where trainees can register for, access and complete training.

This URL can be set up as a custom domain using a website, like training.yoursite.com. Or a Skilljar domain can be used, like yoursite.skilljar.com. The look of the training portal can be customized to match a company's brand and colors.Screenshot of Business impact can be measured and learner progress can be tracked, and content success analyzed with the analytics suite and integrationsScreenshot of A variety of content types can be offered with Skilljar’s authoring tools. Multiple learning pathways based on user role, skillset, or use case can be created, as well as native video and audio with embedding from external hostsScreenshot of Built-in assessment & certifications engine enables users to showcase their expertise with our built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.