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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NovoEd

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANovoEd offers their eponymous online learning platform.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
    NovoEdSeismic Learning
    Editions & Modules
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    Enterprise Learning for Global Teams
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    Offerings
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    NovoEdSeismic Learning
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    NovoEdSeismic Learning
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    NovoEd
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    NovoEdSeismic Learning
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of NovoEd and Seismic Learning
    Feature
    NovoEd
    -
    Ratings
    Seismic Learning
    6.7
    110 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings9.7108 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings9.6106 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings5.485 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings3.0104 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.996 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings2.2107 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings9.763 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings7.1100 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings6.495 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings2.072 Ratings
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    NovoEdSeismic Learning
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    Tovuti LMS
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NovoEdSeismic Learning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (114 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.7
    (97 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NovoEdSeismic Learning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NovoEd
    NovoEd is well suited for synchronous and asynchronous training. Best suited if you want to leverage social components, discussions, assignments and peer-to-peer learning. We run global cohorts to take advantage of the diversity and create community. That works great. I think that when you need to leverage other design options, in an example, add features to display content in other ways, other types of design even in page layout, then you have limited options (but I haven't found any other better than Novoed in this space). Reports are useful, but more options would be appreciated
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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
    NovoEd
    • Easy to upload content and videos and easy to edit and modify. Allows to program when a module or section can be launched and to schedule specific communication messages to audience. Assignments can be approved to review the quality of deliverables.
    • The peer-to-peer learning features in NovoEd are great. Discussions allow to connect with the author of the discussion and also with peers. Peers can see other peer’s comments and submissions and comment and learn from those.
    • User friendly, easy to navigate and structure easy to understand
    • Leaderboard so participants can see how they are doing compared to others
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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
    NovoEd
    • The options to design a page are limited: page width, navigation, margins, headers, etc. Design feels limited
    • Does not allow for a lot of customization. All pages flow in the same way so after a few courses, feels repetitive
    • I am not a technical expert, so I do not know how to embed html content to create other options to display content, in an example: sections that open when you click, etc.
    • To have different languages, you have to clone the course and translate and create a separate course.
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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
    NovoEd
    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
    NovoEd
    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
    NovoEd
    No answers on this topic
    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
    NovoEd
    Much more user-friendly, easy to use. The LMS (Saba and cornerstone) are not user-friendly, tons of more clicks are needed to arrive at a course. We decided on Novoed because of the user experience for end users. LMS very focused on compliance and tracking and not in user experience. Fuse was much more social than our strategy, there every user can upload content. We wanted still to have the discipline of having instructional design, goals, etc, so Fuse was not an option.
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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
    NovoEd
    • Very high participants engagement & participation (completion)
    • Social components allows to avoid an isolated experience
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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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