Skilljar Customer Education Software vs. VAIRKKO

Skilljar brings a great user experience compared to our previous education software vendor. Customers have loved the look and ease of use when it comes to registering for courses and completing lessons. The software allows for multiple domains and they are all customizable to provide a unique experience based on the business relationship. Courses are easy to create and publish to one or more domains and allows you to do an additional setting customization for each domain you publish in. I have especially enjoyed working with the Skilljar customer success team as they have been very helpful when it comes to helping us find ways to use Skilljar at its fullest potential. With the good also comes the bad, we continue to have frustration around the lack of customized reports, live event enhancements - like cancellation notifications and registration deadlines. If you rely heavily on customized reports like I do, you may have a frustrating time getting this in Skilljar. I will say, they have been saying it is in the "works" so I hope this means we can have this option this year

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VAIRKKO is very well-suited to track HR information and scheduling. It is a bit more difficult to create training and disseminate it to employees, but once you get past the learning curve, it works nicely. It's easy to track your employees' certifications and credentials, with reminders for recertifying and the ability to update certs as needed. Scheduling is not difficult, and one can track staffing issues easily.

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• 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.

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• Certificate assignment
• Reporting
• Giving insights

• 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

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• When I update an employee's general information page - if they do not have Custom User name listed - it puts my name in there and my password - when this happens the information I added is not going to be saved. If I am working on the top of the page - I don't see this unless I remember to check. Please don't let this be an automatic fill in.
• Too many search tools - highlighting the most used would be great
• When a person's schedule is changed - you lose their previous schedule. So when we need to look back and see when a person worked but realize they changed shifts and we no longer have it in Vairkko - it becomes very challenging.

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

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The interface is clean and easy to use. It provides straightforward WYSIWYG editing and quick publishing tools. Analytics are fairly easy to navigate, as well. HTML code can be edited directly, but it can be a bit difficult as it appears as plain text with no color-coding or error checking. In spite of this, the code snippets feature is very useful in providing customizations.

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The support team is great at Skilljar. Not perfect, but that can't be expected. Everyone I've worked with has been friendly, attentive, and fairly quick to respond/act. They also have a pretty sturdy set of Knowledge Base articles as well to self serve.

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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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There is absolutely an ecosystem of products and solutions required to support and enable end users - one can think of them as an orchestra. Each part does a specific job or task and each has a varying degree of ease of use and compatibility. Skilljar is the container that holds all learning content that is developed through authoring tools such as rise and storyline. However this ecosystem is incomplete without a smooth way to collect user feedback or to have a proactive strategy of user engagement. Much of the lift is handled by a team of education professionals who understand this orchestra metaphor

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Certification Cloud is easy to use and stands out from a pricing point of view. It just does the job at a really low price point

• 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

• It's cleaned up our former filing process and simplified record access
• It's allowed management to perform at-a-glance training performance, and given us the ability to modify our training on-the-fly.

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