Skilljar Customer Education Software vs. Spekit

Skilljar is well suited to self-paced courses that need to be accessed by users in any location at any time. It hosts a variety of content that adult learners can use to upskill in the areas that are relevant to them. While you can host live virtual events through the platform, it is not ideal for situations where regular student interactions or instructor facilitation is needed, as there is not a discussion forum feature.

Incentivized

Good situation: when you have way too many tools hosting content, Spekit is great at bringing everything together so I don't need to remember where things are hosted. I just need to know ish how to search. Bad: I feel like it still doesn't help people discover content nearly as much. The nice thing about a Confluence or other systems like that is that there are resources right in front of you, VS having to know what to search for. Also, I hate the extension, stop cluttering up Gmail.

Incentivized

• The design is simple. If you're looking for a complex or beautiful platform, this isn't it. However, Skilljar makes things very easy to follow and build within.
• Navigating Skilljar is very logical. it is easy to set up a new course and navigate within that course.

Incentivized

• Spekit is quick and easy to install and start using.
• Spekit's customer support is second to none.
• Spekit offers a lot of flexibility for users to customize for particular situations.

• We've had one particular outstanding ticket for quite some time now
• There are some features that require custom code--it would be nice if this was a built-in functionality
• More flexibility to make widespread changes. Sometimes we have to go into every single course to make a change

Incentivized

• Wish it was easier to insert hyperlinks.
• Wish changes could be made once and duplicated to related pages.
• Would be nice to rearrange Speks on a user level.
• Do not seem to be able to share specific Speks.

Incentivized

I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work

Incentivized

I think it's great overall; so many things are easy to use. However, there is room for improvement. Navigating can be confusing at times - especially when it comes to domains, theming, live event courses and where certain settings live and what you can and can't do from each page

Incentivized

I’m fairly experienced with LMS’ and don’t usually require help or support on topics. The CSM team is quite good overall however more than often time between meetings and solutions (at least from my experience) can take time. Regardless, the team has been helpful and answers all questions - or comes back with an emailed solution

Incentivized

Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process

Incentivized

Compared to other LMS it has great features, plus a faster learning curve and is very easy to manage. Other platforms could be cheaper but are pretty limited, and others have way to much features that we were not going to use and with a very high cost, so complex that the company even would need a specific lms manager, something that we don't have atm

Incentivized

Spekit is fine, I just feel like it doesn't have the world's best upfront organizational tool. I like Atlassian Confluence due to the ability to have pages and have an organized thought. That does take significantly more effort to keep it organized and up to date which everyone doesn't really want to have. On the flip side, Spekit does have a great search tool, which is a lot like other enterprise search tools, this one just happens to be used by the sales team. Overall, I'm a fan, except for their chrome extension - stop invading my space.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• I've only been in my position for a brief while, so I'm not sure yet.
• I know it's helped longer tenured members of my team do very well!

Incentivized