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    Skilljar by Gainsight

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASkilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. An external LMS for customer and partner education, it is a Gainsight solution since the 2025 acquisition.N/A

    Studio 360 (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AStudio 360 for PowerPoint, or formerly Articulate Studio, was a PowerPoint plugin used to develop elearning course content. It has been discontinued and is no longer receiving support.N/A
    Pricing
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Gainsight
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    60 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Skilljar by Gainsight and Studio 360 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Skilljar by Gainsight
    9.2
    26 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Studio 360 (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Course authoring10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.925 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.921 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management8.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics9.526 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning8.914 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Training Tools
    Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Skilljar by Gainsight and Studio 360 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Skilljar by Gainsight
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Studio 360 (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Customer Feedback Collection8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Training Library Curation10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissioning10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    iSpring Suite
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (78 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (53 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (52 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Skilljar by GainsightStudio 360 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gainsight
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Articulate Studio is constantly surprising in terms of what it can do. It is like a "Swiss Army Knife" of functionality. I've used it to build portfolios, whole interactive websites, authoring videos and I often discover novel ways to make it useful on a pretty regular basis. What would be a situation where you would not want to use Articulate Studio? Well, even though you can use it to author video and to publish websites, it's not a replacement for a video editing package or a web platform like WordPress, but there are times when it will do certain things in an astoundingly simple way superior to other tools.
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    Pros
    Gainsight
    • 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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    • They made it very easy to understand how to add new content to the courses, including images, videos or audio, of course, you are still able to do text-based content as well.
    • Creating quizzes has never been easier. The ability to add controls to each question and what actions each answer creates, whether an additional question or passing to the next section. Customizing these actions are very easy to learn and add to your course.
    • Being able to use your own scoring mechanism is awesome! I like SCORM but there are many options to use including a custom one of your own. This ability allows you to pass your students over to a proprietary system that enrolls them in the next course, or use the built-in utilities to provide the next course or quiz, the choice is yours!
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    Cons
    Gainsight
    • 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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    Discontinued Products
    • The audio editor is awful. Sometimes when you cut a section, it actually takes a different section that you selected. Especially when in zoom mode. You have to then undo the action, and re-do. Also, scrubbing through the audio is difficult. If you're exporting audio, it can glitch during the process. I avoid using the audio editor whenever I can.
    • After all these years, it's still a buggy program. You can be doing your recordings, and a sudden message appears saying that something went wrong and needs to close. I've done re-installs, contacted support, and I constantly clear the temp folder. Still happens. Also, it's a good idea to export your audio, and there have been times the program freezes up on me, and the audio file (in the .ppta file) gets corrupted and all audio is permanently lost.
    • The program can get slow when publishing, previewing or opening the audio editor.
    • The included Engage program is pretty good, but it needs more customization options. And I think they can add more modules that provide a little more engagement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gainsight
    I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
    Incentivized
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    There is very little chance that this software wold not be renewed. It has become an integral part of our standard software for elearning development.
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    Usability
    Gainsight
    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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    Discontinued Products
    This is very useable software even for novice eLearning authoring users. People with some PowerPoint experience should be fine with this software and even Excel!
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    Support Rating
    Gainsight
    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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    I've never really had any major issues with the product (Other than the registration loop error)and my ten out of ten rating is based on the assistance I got when we initially set up the extension in Power Point. I found the support folks to be professional, helpful and friendly
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    Implementation Rating
    Gainsight
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gainsight
    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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    Articulate Studio is very much a leader in the e-learning space. It stacks up well against other tools designed to quickly and easily build and update CBTs by managers and super-users versus needing to invest time and effort in dedicated e-learning developers. Process improvement initiatives and cross-functional departments are empowered to develop their trainings themselves and identify areas for future development.
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    Return on Investment
    Gainsight
    • 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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    • I only see positive impact since it is a very easy to use tool for rapid learning. The only point is to know what is possible to develop using this tool to avoid any kind of frustration afterwards.
    • Another positive impact is that we don't need a diversified development team. There is no need of technical professionals, and a creative instructional designer is enough to develop effective learning content using Studio.
    • The third positive impact is that Studio makes possible to realize short-term projects, mainly when there's already a PowerPoint presentation.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Skilljar by Gainsight Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Skilljar Dashboard, where all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal, which 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 some of the analytics to measure  and track learner progress, in the analytics suite where content success is analyzedScreenshot of content that 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 the built-in assessment & certifications engine that enables users to showcase their expertise, along with built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.