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    NovoEd

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANovoEd offers their eponymous online learning platform.N/A

    Thought Industries

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Thought Industries platform enables enterprise organizations to create, manage, distribute, monetize, and analyze their end-to-end customer education and external training initiatives. The solution addresses the unique needs of customer education, and aims to make it easy to handle complex learning operations at scale to empower growth. Its administrative capabilities include native tools and thirdparty integrations, businesses boost learner engagement, operationalize processes, and…N/A
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    NovoEdThought Industries
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    NovoEdThought Industries
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    NovoEdThought Industries
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of NovoEd and Thought Industries
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    NovoEd
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    Thought Industries
    7.4
    4 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings2.33 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    NovoEdThought Industries
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    8.5
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    NovoEdThought Industries
    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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    Thought Industries
    Thought Industries is perfect if you are trying to scale your customer education business for a growing customer base. It is more expensive than their competitors, but the price is worth it based on the product and experience. Thought Industries is likely great for smaller customers, although we are an enterprise-level customer. If you are not offering multiple modalities for your training program, Thought Industries (or any LMS for that matter) might not be the best investment.
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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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    Thought Industries
    • Built in eCommerce pages and purchasing options.
    • Data to drive real-time decision making.
    • Customization options.
    • Team to work with our needs and custom scope.
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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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    Thought Industries
    • Lacks the ability to make courses required
    • Cannot pull a report for a course(s) to show who has not started the course
    • Cannot reset gamification or run specific gamification campaigns
    • Although SCORM compliant, SCORM courses often break or do not show as complete on the learner side even when the module is marked as complete on the back end
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    Support Rating
    NovoEd
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    Thought Industries
    The customer support and customer success teams are really great. BUT, it is their product team that sends them into a super high rating. The product team has worked with me on several occasions to try to solve the business challenges that I have.
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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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    Thought Industries
    Thought Industries is better on the financial side and as far as ease of use. It is more affordable than Docebo and is more aligned to an external customer use case. Docebo and Tovuti seemed to be more for internal training. Tovuti was less expensive, but it was a little harder to use although it had more quiz features.
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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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    Thought Industries
    • Multiple Months with $20,000 in eCommerce Sales.
    • Site Up Time and Engagement has remained steady for all 4 years.
    • Course authoring is faster and more efficient.
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