McGraw-Hill Connect vs. Relias Learning Management System

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
McGraw-Hill Connect
Score 8.1 out of 10
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McGraw-Hill Connect is an e-learning platform offered by McGraw-Hill Education. Features include course and assignment creation, grading, learning aides, e-books, and student portals.N/A
Relias Learning Management System
Score 6.9 out of 10
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The Relias Learning Management System is a corporate e-learning platform for healthcare, insurance, and education industries. Features include: automated training enrollment, a library of over 3,000 pre-built courses as well as customizable courses, live training management, and tracking and reporting.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
McGraw-Hill Connect
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Ratings
Relias Learning Management System
8.0
12 Ratings
2% below category average
Course authoring00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings6.310 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings7.612 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings6.68 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
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User Ratings
McGraw-Hill ConnectRelias Learning Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(12 ratings)
7.0
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(2 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
2.9
(4 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
McGraw-Hill ConnectRelias Learning Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
McGraw-Hill Education
For institutions and students who do not want to own books or engage in a majority of in-class only lecture material. Ideally it makes course material cheaper as digital assets, but some people still prefer the more tangible assets. Participants will like the product if they want a more online learning experience.
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Relias LLC
Good for an organization who are in health care and in ABA. Not so good everyone else. There are courses specific to the industry, however, the glitches and the lack of support from the customer service staff makes it hard to recommend the product.
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Pros
McGraw-Hill Education
  • Integration with Canvas is seamless and easy to use.
  • Assignment completion, for students, is straightforward and easy to use.
  • The SmartBook allows students to read as they are tested with questions and this helps them learn the material easily without having first trying to read, memorize a chapter and then answer questions.
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Relias LLC
  • Relias Learning Management System has a massive catalog of pre-built trainings available for employees to take at their leisure
  • Relias Learning Management System has many compliance & hr related trainings based in the system already based on laws and regulations
  • Relias Learning Management System makes it easy to record & build your own trainings to add into their system for specific employees in your company to take as you require
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Cons
McGraw-Hill Education
  • The ebook is not a real ebook, it's really just a web page, or a series of webpages. It can only be accessed through MH Connect, therefore, when logging into the system. A real eBook would be able to be accessed as such-- on a Kindle or other e-Reader, or on a desktop eBook reader. The interface for this is also not very dynamic, just kind of obnoxious and Web 1.0.
  • Limited learning tools beyond simple exercises, at least from what I saw.
  • Terrible customer service. Long wait times with representatives who do not seem to understand their own product and cannot seem to answer very basic questions.
  • Hard to get resolution for basic problems.
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Relias LLC
  • Reporting is abominable, hasn't been updated in over 4 years.
  • Organization of courses, modules, training plans, skills checklists, manuals, and tests— a lot of options and very challenging to differentiate
  • Their mobile application is not user-friendly, it crashes, doesn't load certain courses, doesn't play audio on other ones, and has very poor performance.
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Likelihood to Renew
McGraw-Hill Education
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Relias LLC
RMLS have become an important component of our agency's support systems. It provides consistent context for education and trainings as well as being flexible to allow staff to access it on their time. We have found many of the content sessions to be very useful for staff development and supportive of our overall agency goals and strategies.
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Usability
McGraw-Hill Education
There is quite a steep learning curve in effectively navigating the site and using the resources. MGH seems to discourage integration with other sites, by only allowing links to their site rather than full assignment integration with grade pass back. Resources for teachers and students is good, but presentation format is different than many other programs, forcing both to learn another system.
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Relias LLC
I enjoy the ease of setup. It has a large course library and selection filter to choose by
profession and/or module type. Even though it has a generic user
interface and navigating tools, but it gets the job done. It offers the
basic and simple delivery, tracking, and reporting.
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Support Rating
McGraw-Hill Education
Personally, I did not encounter McGraw-Hill support. However, I worked with colleagues who needed support and were able to receive in a timely manner. Overall, McGraw Hill Connect is user-friendly (at least from teacher interface) and easy to navigate, which minimizes the need to reach out for support. The help button is useful and provides plenty of immediate support.
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Relias LLC
Our implementation specialist was second-to-none, and upon 'graduating' from implementation, we were underwhelmed by the support after that. Due to the thoroughness of our implementation, we have had few occasions to contact support. We've been passed among several different contact persons, but have always received answers to our questions.
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Implementation Rating
McGraw-Hill Education
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Relias LLC
It was very easy to implement. It's cloud based, so the most difficult part was getting users loaded.
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Alternatives Considered
McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill is the most user-friendly and teacher-friendly for students and teachers. McGraw-Hill provided the online portion of learning that helped teachers provide the resources to students that were needed. Additionally, even though McGraw-Hill is wordy in its descriptions in the workbooks it was the least "wordy" of the other options provided to teachers, such as, Go Math.
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Relias LLC
Relias has significantly more and higher quality training courses and video offerings than any competitor in the space. At the end of the day, it's about the caregivers receiving as much information they can to be successful.
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Return on Investment
McGraw-Hill Education
  • Improved efficiency from analysts looking to speed up the time it takes to do certain tasks.
  • Less waste on searching and researching how to do certain concepts.
  • Negative impact is use by individuals that can learn better through other methods that don't require activities.
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Relias LLC
  • We have been able to manage a large amount of training for a diverse work force more efficiently.
  • We are adding functionality to be able to use the system to circulate materials to our workforce where documentation of knowledge/understanding is needed,
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