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Absorb LMS

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What is Absorb LMS?

Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.

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Recent Reviews

AbsorbLMS is a solid LMS system

8 out of 10
April 15, 2024
We use Absorb LMS to provide Instructor Led and Video/On-Demand training for our external customers. We needed a public site to display …
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Absorb for the upskilling win!

10 out of 10
April 12, 2024
My company needed an LMS for Content Creation for upskilling current employees and onboarding new employees. We also needed a way to house …
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Absorb more with Absorb!

9 out of 10
April 12, 2024
We use Absorb LMS in multiple ways. Customer product training and certification both online and ILC courses. Internal Member upskill …
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Why you need Absorb

7 out of 10
April 10, 2024
It allows are customers to learn at an advanced pace. It also allows a new revenue stream for our business. It also allows our internal …
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Great tool for learning

8 out of 10
April 08, 2024
We use Absorb LMS for internal employees training (compliance, onboarding, updates). We also use it for our customers's training: we have …
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Gets the job done

7 out of 10
April 08, 2024
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was nice to have everything in one place and can track when each person completes a training session. Overall has helped make sure no …
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Popular Features

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  • Learning administration (59)
    9.6
    96%
  • Progress tracking & certifications (56)
    9.2
    92%
  • Course catalog or library (55)
    9.2
    92%
  • Learning reporting & analytics (56)
    9.1
    91%

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What is Absorb LMS?

Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.

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Features

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

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Product Details

What is Absorb LMS?

Absorb LMS helps organizations to provide employees, customers, partners, or members with the knowledge they need. The Absorb LMS interface was built to offer an easy-to-use and dynamic experience for both learners and administrators. Absorb LMS platform aims to combine the power of traditional LMS features and a core focus on user experience.

Some of its top features include:
  • Generative AI: Create AI Beta enables course creators to streamline the course creation process, saving the time and effort needed for research and design.
  • Engaging learner platform: To foster deeper learning comprehension and retention, Absorb LMS supports multimedia content formats, responsive design, social learning, and branded interfaces.
  • Support: 24/7/365 days support from anywhere. Plus, a Client Success Manager is also available to offer further support.
  • Actionable Reporting: To prove ROI for training programs with flexible reporting, including configurable admin dashboards and automated reports.
  • Turn-key learning content: Simplifies employee training with a ready-to-use content library. Fuels learner engagement with secure knowledge retention with expert-designed, video-based microlearning courses with Absorb Amplify.
  • Robust Security: Absorb successfully completed the (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination for Security and Availability. Absorb also maintains the LMS compliance standards for data security and privacy protection (GDPR).
  • Modern mobile-app: Leaners can train offline, then course progress automatically syncs when internet connection is restored. Available to iOS and Android devices.
  • In-the-flow learning: Absorb Infuse enables the user to integrate training into native systems and applications learners are already using - embedding training directing into existing workflows.

Absorb LMS Features

Learning Management Features

  • Supported: Course authoring
  • Supported: Course catalog or library
  • Supported: Player/Portal
  • Supported: Learning content
  • Supported: Mobile friendly
  • Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
  • Supported: Assignments
  • Supported: Compliance management
  • Supported: Learning administration
  • Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
  • Supported: eLearning
  • Supported: Assessments
  • Supported: Live online learning
  • Supported: In-person learning
  • Supported: Micro-learning
  • Supported: Video learning
  • Supported: eCommerce
  • Supported: AICC-compliant
  • Supported: SCORM-compliant
  • Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
  • Supported: Social learning
  • Supported: Gamification
  • Supported: GDPR Compliant Learning
  • Supported: Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning

Additional Features

  • Supported: Generative AI

Absorb LMS Screenshots

Screenshot of a company's unique identity with a training interface that is custom-designed for the brand.Screenshot of a company's image and values with a training interface that is tailored to the brand's specific needs.Screenshot of the course creation workflow, that offer a diverse set of formats, including instructional videos, quizzes, and assessments.Screenshot of Absorb's course details page, accessible from the course catalog dashboard, used to give learners an understanding of the course material.Screenshot of learners' progress insights, used to make data-driven decisions with the reporting capabilities of Absorb LMS.Screenshot of course creation with Create AI Beta.

Absorb LMS Videos

The Absorb LMS showcase portal is where the learner experience can be seen firsthand.
Absorb LMS delivers for customers in healthcare, retail, restaurants, and manufacturing by providing flexible learning, extensive customization, and reporting and analytics.
Absorb LMS's smart administration aims to automate processes for maximum efficiency and is customizable to fit unique needs and schedule.

Absorb LMS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesArgentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Frequently Asked Questions

Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.

Litmos, Docebo Learning Platform, and Adobe Learning Manager are common alternatives for Absorb LMS.

Reviewers rate Learning administration highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Absorb LMS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Absorb LMS Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)70%
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absorb LMS functions as our organization's platform for our healthcare professional continuing education system, PHA Online University. It is our primary platform for our members (healthcare professionals who work with patients who have pulmonary hypertension) to access CME/CE accredited enduring material courses to develop their clinical knowledge and skills. The product allows our members to access CE courses anytime, anywhere.
  • Customer support: any time we've ever encountered issues on the front end (from learners) or back end (reports, building courses, etc) our CSM Olivia are immediate in their response and helpfulness. Any questions we have are always addressed promptly.
  • Dashboards: very cool functionality to see (in real-time) course enrollments, completions, etc. and its easy to build them in Absorb.
  • Customization: the abilities to customize our platform homepage (with custom billboards, images, news and announcements, etc.) is a huge plus for Absorb.
  • Reporting: some custom reports we need have to be built on the backend and we can't do ourselves- e.g. have to put in a request to the client success team.
  • Surveys/Course evaluations/assessments: can't edit these after the courses go live without losing some data from learners who've already completed them. Also have to click 'submit' after each evaluation item instead of just once at the bottom of the page.
  • Character limits: some object lessons have character limits (e.g. the 'Description' box- only allows 4000 characters.
Absorb LMS is appropriate for any continuing education organization or company that wants a reliable platform to host enduring educational content. It has been a great experience in terms of building and designing courses, monitoring learner progress, and as another touch point for learners to access other resources our organization offers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My company needed an LMS for Content Creation for upskilling current employees and onboarding new employees. We also needed a way to house training and informational resources. When using our previous LMS, it was difficult to easily create beautiful and useful content and support from that LMS was slow and lacking actual help. 90% of learning content and resources is made in house. We needed a robust LMS to support this.
  • ease of use
  • robust and fast support team
  • beautiful content creation
  • robust admin tools and reporting
  • nothing is lacking so far
  • everything has been great so far
  • training and onboarding has been wonderful
  • no issues to report
Absorb is well suited to meet all of the needs of my company as an LMS, content creation tool, reporting tool for compliance and HR, resource library, and a wonderful tool for self guided upskilling of employees.
In our case, Absorb is not needed for any ecommerce or client learning or outreach. However, it is good to know that those capabilities are there if we ever need them in the future.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS in multiple ways. Customer product training and certification both online and ILC courses. Internal Member upskill training, personal development, compliance, D E & I, etc. online, cohort & ILC courses. We also use the Reviewer Experience internally. We use the reporting capabilities for learner development and for compliance reasons.
  • ILC registration & management
  • Reporting customization & capabilities
  • Certification/Competencies
  • Online course creation and uploading
  • Easier way for learners to find the courses they are looking for.
  • Navigational tips/videos on the learner side. AI Assist is coming and that should help.
  • When rolling out new products, it would be helpful to have use case videos setup when doing a trial run.
Absorb LMS is well suited as a vehicle for ILC registration, management and reporting results. It is also well suited for certification and competencies on compliance training both internally and for customer product certification. We love it for sales training. Using the system as a source of truth for all training reporting is also helpful
Jessica Webb | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS for training our employees as well as our clients that use our product. We also host webinars and are able to deep link resources. This product addresses our need for creating learning journeys and certification programs. We also use it for collaboration purposes through the user of forums and are looking at using it for ecommerce in the future. The number one problem this product addresses is our need for detailed analytics/reporting features. The amount of data Absorb provides our team and company is phenomenal!
  • Very user friendly
  • Detailed reporting and analytics
  • Curriculum journeys
  • More flexibility with Absorb Create
  • Better survey options
Absorb LMS is great for all your training needs, from online training and assessments to webinars and ILT/VILT.
April 10, 2024

Why you need Absorb

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It allows are customers to learn at an advanced pace. It also allows a new revenue stream for our business. It also allows our internal employees to have access to training materials so everyone can be well versed in the work that we do and will feel more confident with our software.
  • Customization
  • Absorb Create
  • Implementation
  • Features could be more detailed
  • Freedom to customize like wordpress
  • Course integration could be more seamless
As a learning database as a whole it is definitely helpful. It would not be appropriate for a company that has zero training materials. It is the last thing needed to get the L&D up and running. You need to come content ready but even if you don't, they are there to support.
February 29, 2024

Satisfied Customer

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The City of Roswell uses Absorb LMS for Compliance Training. This is important because it helps employees understand all the relevant laws, regulations and internal policies that govern the function of the City. With over 1,000 employees divided into multiple departments, we needed a learning management system that enables us to disseminate, track and report on a regular basis to ensure that we maintained 100% Compliance. This is complicated with ongoing New Hires, and Absorb LMS is so easy to use that we can easily keep up with the ongoing demand.
  • Creating Accounts (just a few steps)
  • Monitoring (easy to categorize)
  • Reporting (easy to set up)
  • Landing Page: I struggled to make that relevant
  • Absorb Academy: It is hard to track down specific information to a question
  • Help Desk: It is hard to share that time with others
I had never worked on an LMS before, but the team at Absorb did a super job working with us to get it right.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are training learners across the housing sector to become more inclusive of 2SLGBTQIA communities. We use Absorb to reach workers across the city, so we can be efficient in our training reach and ensure everyone has the same access to information. We will ultimately be training thousands of workers across the city to make shelter spaces more accessible for 2SLGBTQIA people.
  • Easy to navigate the admin platform
  • Reminders built in to ensure you activate your courses and avoid frustration
  • Vast amount of options in Absorb Create, so you can make your courses exactly what you want them to be
  • You don't have the option to make your buttons within an object skip to the next course (only the next page within the Create object), so people have to navigate using buttons on the bottom panel, which is not always intuitive
  • If you un-enroll someone and re-enroll them, they start back where they left off, instead of wiping the slate clean
  • I have not been able to figure out how to clean up the courses page (ie putting them into folders)
We have an over abundance of new people coming through our programs at my center and not enough manpower to give all of them an orientation session (the needs have tripled in the past 6 months). Absorb will be an excellent platform to get consistent training to many incoming people.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Absorb to distribute training to our internal employees, as well as to distribute product training to our client base.
Absorb is a fully functional LMS for our employees, but truly shines when it comes to our needed support for our client training.
Here, Absorb allows us to customize the messaging and training distributed to various segments of our client base. Our client-facing training takes the form of videos, PDF's, quizzes, and SCORM or TinCan files, all of which Absorb handles with ease and provides accurate tracking for. We offer a variety of free and paid training, with custom pricing for some of our larger clients. Absorb's eCommerce features are robust and allow us to meet all of these needs with minimal manual manipulation.
  • Up-time. (We have never experienced an outage that impacted us or our clients.)
  • Tracking and reporting.
  • Customization of the platform by Department
  • eCommerce
  • Zoom integration can sometimes be a bit wonky (and auto-course attendance does not seem to work consistently, but our application with clients is unique)
  • The admin interface could use a UX redesign - It's not quite as pretty or as self-explanatory as the learner interface
Absorb is a well-rounded LMS. With a competitive price point, it makes a great entry point LMS for smaller companies who haven't used an LMS. And with it's robust feature set and stability can grow with you into a large multi-national audience.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absorb LMS has been great to use. Our organization uses Absorb LMS for internal and external courses about our product functionality and new releases. This is the starting point for all new client training to take at their own convenience. When new employees are hired, they take online courses to get familiar with the product.
  • Easy to add users
  • Easy to enroll users
  • Easy to impersonate users
  • Uploading a new file for an existing course
  • Uploading a large amount of users at once
Absorb LMS has been great for internal and external training. It has been nice to upload courses and make curriculums as well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Absorb as our volunteer learning platform. 4-H volunteers complete mandatory and elective training through Absorb and maintain all of their credentials toward volunteerism. We currently have 1,400+ volunteers who will make use of the system. We are also working toward offering elective learning options for our youth membership. Youth will be able to engage with peers, complete courses, etc. through Absorb.
  • Comprehensive training for account administrators.
  • User-friendly content creation.
  • Wide varieties of module content options.
  • We would love to be able to have credentials expire on a stagnant date that revolves rather than a date reflected by course completion.
For our organization, Absorb is a fantastic choice. We are able to offer comprehensive learning opportunities for users and to do so in a system that is user-friendly, attractive, modern, and robust in its reporting capabilities. The fact that Absorb has the capability to manage communication with users surrounding expiry dates and outstanding elements to be completed is life-changing for our team.
October 09, 2023

Absorb LMS is a Win!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absorb LMS has completely transformed our business. I can honestly say that this has revolutionized the way we interact with clients in over 90 countries around the world. There are many providers out there, but Absorb LMS provides the customization that we need to do what we need to do to get real results for our clients. I highly recommend Absorb LMS!
  • Customization
  • User-Friendly
  • Modern Look
  • Ability to upload mp3 files
  • Multiple facilitators for one course
  • Ability to take notes on the platform
Any organization that needs to train and develop employees or clients should check out Absorb LMS. It is very helpful to produce measurable, long-term results. They provide customization to fit any need for you and your team whether it be selling development courses or for internal training in your organization.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As our company has continued to grow, my team went on a hunt for a learning management system to house all of our trainings, processes and update processes. Hands down Absorb LMS has been outstanding! We absolutely love Absorb Create to build engaging training courses, the reporting is easy to build and share wins with the team on how departments are engaging.
  • Building engagement from the team on training
  • Onboarding has become so much simpler for new hires
  • Tracking on educational and additional training
  • Viewing the scheduled reports would be nice. This would help redundant reports and be able to add or delete users receiving reports would be nice.
  • Inactivity report for users so that we can isolate users that are not meeting the training requirements.
Hands down 10/10 Absorb LMS and the Absorb Staff are awesome! Anytime I find myself stumbling with an issue and cannot find the answer in Knowledge base the Absorb LMS Support Staff is on top of getting me the direction to proceed very quickly! They are always so quick to respond and friendly.

The initial training and launch of Absorb LMS was well planned and [...] was super amazing!

Even building automatic imports from our payroll provider to Absorb LMS for user imports was handled amazing by [...]! He was always spot on with helping us through the process!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize the Absorb LMS to deliver required training and supplemental trainings to our 2500+ corporate/retail/warehouse employees across the globe. We wanted to have a user-friendly, engaging solution that would be easy to use and would encourage self-development and exploration of our training modules. It had to connect to our HRIS System (Workday) and have reporting tools available to managers across the business.
  • Usability - Both the User and Admin Experience is so simple and intuitive. The admin tools are clearly defined and laid out, yet the functionality makes it still powerful.
  • Integration - We used the Scheduled Data Imports and Exports to connect with our HRIS tool. After the initial configuration, it has worked reliably and gives me all the custom data I need to make assignments and reporting a breeze.
  • Design - I know it's covered a little bit in the Usability above, but the site just looks fantastic. There are a lot of options to customize and fit your branding requirements and all of the thumbnails/posters/billboards/etc give a very visual and appealing look to the LMS. Much better than I've seen in other products.
  • Reporting - The out of the box reporting is a little cumbersome when trying to view more than one course at a time.
  • Completed courses disappear from catalog - I know there is a setting, but it's also connected to the My Courses display so its either all or nothing. Would love to see that option split up
  • Training History does not show inactive courses - To keep an accurate training history, courses cannot be deactivated or else the records disappear to the user.
It's good for medium to large-sized companies that want an engaging and easy-to-use platform while still maintaining powerful admin tools. It might be too expensive for a smaller company that might not use all of the functionality.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company implemented Absorb LMS less than a year ago as our company's first-ever LMS. We reviewed several LMS systems and found that Absorb offered the features that we desired at a lower cost than other competitors. Prior to adopting an LMS, our training courses and records were decentralized and difficult to manage. Many of our prior training materials were PowerPoint presentations and not interactive for the audience. Adopting Absorb's LMS allowed us to centralize training records, provided easier access to training on-demand, and provided a more modern platform using video-based training. We were also able to create custom content with quizzes to confirm that learning objectives were met. Having the training records centralized in the LMS enabled our company to more efficiently confirm competency requirements for various industry and customer audits. We were much more efficient in transitioning repetitive training that had been instructor-led to video-based.
  • Easy to use interface for users
  • Implementation team very supportive
  • Absorb continues to improve on their tool with new releases
  • Ability to collaboratively suggest modifications to the platform in a forum and vote on other suggestions
  • The manager experience needs further development, including how access the manager experience from the user experience
  • There needs to be an easier search feature to find a course without having to use the filter option.
  • There seems to be a slight delay when completing a course before it shows as completed in the transcript.
Absorb is a great LMS for most applications. It was fairly easy to learn to configure and looks very professional. Our employees adopted the system fairly quickly and we had mostly positive feedback. The base Absorb platform provides basic reporting, so if you are going to need more customized reporting, then you will need to purchase the additional module for Absorb Analyze. The Manager Experience is still evolving, and managers may want to have more ability to do things in this part of the system than what is currently available. There is a connector that can be purchased from ADP to connect it with Absorb's LMS, although our company chose to develop our own API connector. We are currently using third-party course authoring software. The Absorb Amplify courses are good if you want to add immediate content to the system, although the courses are very basic.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absorb is used as our Learning Management System. Our employees take e-learning courses through the platform, and log external training that they've taken on their own. Absorb also allows us to customize and run individual reports and dashboards. We also use it to share some company wide communications. Additionally it lets us collect feedback on training through the platform, send communications, create entire learning programs, and so much more.
  • The reporting feature in Absorb is very strong. Reports are customizable to your company needs and the Absorb Analyze feature is very helpful. Having the ability to create dashboards right from your learning platform builds efficiency especially in our company where we don't have a data visualization platform i.e. PowerBI or Tableau.
  • Absorbs ability to connect to course libraries such as GO1 is an amazing feature that opens up the learning possibilities and creates a unique benefit for our employees.
  • The Absorb engage features are a useful addition for communicating with our employees and gamifying learning. The billboards let us share information throughout the company. Leaderboards create incentive to complete training. Polls let us quickly gain insights on employee opinions.
  • We've encountered errors with certain trainings not marking complete and we have to go in and do this manually.
  • Within Absorb analyze, it would be useful to be able to create visualizations & reports using 2 different data sources.
Absorb's customizable features makes it the perfect LMS for companies of all different sizes looking to train and engage their workforce. Our company has unique training needs and Absorb lets us create our own e-learning from scratch or upload relevant training from an external library. Absorb's advanced reporting features keep company leaders informed on training progress and integrates learning into their weekly priorities. It's been the perfect solution for all of our learning & development needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Absorb to support our internal learning centre to provide a centralized learning platform for employees. We use this to host company wide trainings, while also giving individual departments and business units the ability to post internal trainings to their employees.

Pre Absorb we had no LMS, which meant all L&D functionality was manual - reporting, marking attendance, scheduling sessions, targeted employee training etc. We also had nowhere to house all of the internal e-learnings that we had available. Absorb has helped us to fix this by centralizing all learning, providing in-depth reporting through Analyze, and offering e-learnings via uploaded SCORM files.
  • Our CSM has been fantastic. Very approachable and takes on all questions/concerns we have.
  • Analyze has allowed us to take our reporting to another level.
  • Robust support site where client feedback/ideas can be posted. This is reviewed by the product team to determine whether this can be implemented. The feedback is always taken on board and I have seen a number of suggested ideas move forward to the implementation phase.
  • Great knowledge base for admins with articles/resources to provide step by step work throughs of the different features available.
  • At the moment you are unable to schedule recurring sessions that are different durations and/or cadence to each other. For e.g. if you have 3 ILC sessions and the time between session 1 and 2 is 1 week but 2 and 3 is 2 weeks, then this can't be recurring. Meaning individual ILC sessions need to be set up and users having to enroll in 3 sessions instead of 1.
  • Auto enrolment for ILC sessions would be great. Would allow us to automatically new employees in to the required onboarding training without us having to do a manual file upload via FTP
  • Custom messaging options. In addition to the messages that can already be sent out, it would be great if custom messaging could be sent out to address a certain subject that is not covered in the existing messaging.
  • The option to send out resources at certain intervals after a training has taken place. We send out learning boosters for our programmes at 2 day, 2 week, 2 month intervals. This is a manual task as there is no way to automate this via Absorb.
The ability to scale up quickly while providing more in depth tools (engage, analyze) to provide more functionality. As these are add-ons, you are able to build a package that is best suite to your organisation. On the whole, we have very few examples where Absorb is not suited to us as an organisation, however I could see how if you were considerable smaller, then it could be quite an expensive option if you want to have access to the full suite of features.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Absorb is the LMS that powers our internal training site. We use it to house the schedule for all of our instructor-led courses, elearning (mandatory and optional) and resources. We have about 12,000 users on the platform. It allows us to automate onboarding, track engagement with all of our training mediums, and provide metrics and reporting via Analyze.
  • Analyze is a complete gamechanger. Has transformed our analytics and saved tons of time.
  • Auto-assignment of curriculums.
  • Custom curriculum/course pages
  • ILT set up; ability to have recurring sessions that are different lengths
  • Auto-enrollment at various post-intervals; ie 60-days post completion receive an elearning follow up
  • Only being able to enroll in one ILT session. Sometimes we have things people need to repeat and need to make new courses every time.
Generally the admin portal is very easy to use and intuitive. I had no experience prior but was able to pick it up quickly based on general LMS knowledge I did have. I think there is also room to grow in the design and being able to customize templates/pages that the users see.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Absorb LMS to track education and external training all in one transcript. We also track MSHA ceus on the transcipt.

Issues we had in the past was assigning manditory education to those in the same division and job title correctly. Before some were being missed. Tracking expirey dates of cpr cards and renewing them. We are also cutting down on in person new hire orientation by delivering it through Absorb electronically as a video.
  • Ease of impersonating others for troubleshotting issues
  • Uploading content and allowing for resources and multifunctional courses
  • Approval process for External Training and Course uploads
  • Learner dashboard navigation is easy for users
  • Spell check not only for Absorb but for Create too
  • making all reports have the same display columns funtions - locations - supervisor- filter to show inactive employees on all reports
  • pull all reports assigned to one department to see gaps.
  • Seperate divisions/departments via by loaction when drilling down on department progress
  • Show percentage of completion out of total assigned at the bottom of the report.
The client success manager, Jason M., has provided great service and quick turn around time. When we had a ticket open because we didn't know if it was the course not working or the vendor controlling the course Jason was able to investigate and keep updating us until we resolved it . Testing the issue and figured out it was an issue on the vendor side.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use Absorb LMS for training purposes. WE also have our own training recordings and make it available on Absorb so other user can go back to the training in case they miss or if they want to re-cap. The problem we were having was that trainings were done, and users were not able to participate, we then have absorb so solve this issue. It works well.
  • Simple and Fast access to trainings
  • Support our Business
  • Fast reach to tech admin support if needed
  • More automations
  • Automations with Partners, such as Go1
  • Less manual work on selecting users one by one, to give them credit for courses
There are few automations that needs to be done and I would like to see before I fully recommend to other partners.
Absorb is a great platform of training, where you can house our trainings and development. But it's not always automated where it speaks to different systems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am the system administrator for Absorb for my organization. Absorb serves as our comprehensive learning platform. We use the system to house and track online learning and are expanding to track in person training.
  • Updates and enhancements
  • Easy course creation
  • Data sorting and reporting - though limited
  • Reporting needs to be enhanced to allow for pulling data on multiple users and courses at once
  • There needs to be a curriculum component completion report showing the progress for enrolled users by each item within the curriculum
  • There needs to be a way to create a one-time enrollment in a course/curriculum that has a specific due date associated with that one enrollment.
  • There should be options for enrolling users in a course or curriculum from the course/curriculum level. Currently, when attempting to enroll users, you have to select them individually. It would easier to do this by group, dept., division, etc. directly from this screen as opposed to going through users, filtering the users, then bulk enrolling.
Overall, I am very happy with this system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to assign trainings, deliver, and track trainings. We also use the training compliance data from the Absorb LMS to report to our clients on a regular basis and during audits to indicate that we are training staff appropriately to handle the work. Managers at our company also utilize the training completion data to ensure that projects are resourced correctly and that their project team members are keeping up with assigned trainings as expected. We have integrated our Absorb LMS with LinkedIn Learning to expand professional development options for our staff.
  • Provides a user friendly way to deliver training content.
  • Provides an administrator interface that is easy to navigate.
  • Provides an easy method for enrolling users to trainings in bulk.
  • The default reporting and data export options from the administrator interface do not always allow you to report across all the desired data points. We have recently added Analyze and we think this might open up our options considerably.
  • There is not an audit trail available for custom fields. This would be a nice feature to have so we can see who made changes to data within those.
  • The ability to export an audit trail would be nice.
Absorb LMS has been a great platform for us to deliver and track trainings. I think the reporting has been a side of the system that hasn't always given us exactly what we need, but hopefully Analyze will help fill in any gaps we have.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In a heavily-regulated industry, we needed a product that could deliver and track a high volume of compliance-based trainings for our employees. Absorb has not only been able to meet our existing needs, it's allowed us to grow into new offerings to support our employees' development. Last year, we even expanded into being able to offer and track training for non-employees who were sub-contracting through our business. The product has continued to evolve and improve and we keep finding new ways to use Absorb to solve interesting new problems. Of course, none of this would be possible without the unbelievable service provided through the Elite Support package. Of all of the upgrades available, dollar-for-dollar none is as valuable as having a dedicated Customer Success Manager (and ours is the best!)
  • Customer service
  • product development
  • transparency of corporate practices
  • off-the-shelf/integrated reporting structures - currently focused on 'by course' or 'by person' but would like to see more ways to analyze data before purchasing an upgrade
  • training assignment matrices/matrix reporting - "show me all the trainings assigned to people who match this criteria"
Absorb does a great job of providing a baseline of services that meet the needs for a variety of industries at an unbelievable price. The ROI for our company has been incredible and a major reason we keep purchasing new modules and new services. With each purchase, we realize even more value. The only issues that we've experienced are related to the very specific needs for our industry, pharmaceutical trials. And every time, our CSM has worked with us to figure out how best to address our need.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Absorb for launching compliance training, professional development training opportunities and Professional Engineer License requirements.
We are able to successfully keep our engineers in compliance with their educational needs to maintain their professional license.
  • Compliance Training
  • Customer Service
  • Course Options
  • Additional Reporting
  • How to Videos
  • Integration Features. This may be a new user error than the company itself!
We are able to monitor and track our company compliance training effortlessly and ensure we are keeping up with policy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Absorb LMS as our online learning platform for clergy and laity leaders throughout our conference. Our conference area consists of 52 counties in West Virginia and one county in Maryland. There are over 900 churches and we currently have over 1,300 learners registered on our platform. Absorb allows us to provide training and leadership development to our learners we would never be able to do otherwise. We save the time and expense of in-person meetings, and our learners are able to take the courses on their schedule and not ours.
  • Help desk support! The best I have ever encountered.
  • Client Success Manager. Sherrie L. has been a wonderful trainer and partner!
  • Setting up a new course is very easy to do and does not take very much time.
  • The online learning courses for Admins needs to be updated.
Our Client Success Manager, Sherrie L., has been amazing! She has worked with us very closely to help new departments and new admins get set up and gives of her time and experience to all. We do not have anyone working full time on our online platform, so it has been very important to us to have an LMS that does not require a lot of daily interaction. This is definitely the case with Absorb. Our admins are able to set up a course quickly, and our learners are able to get right to taking the courses they want. When we have run into questions or minor issues (usually cased by us) the help desk at Absorb has been incredible. I don't think we have ever had a ticket go over 24 hours. In fact, most of them have been solved in an hour or two. Partnering with Absorb LMS has been a wise decision for our organization. One we would make again today. I cannot recommend Absorb highly enough. They have helped us move our learning into the 21st century.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Absorb LMS for both internal and external users that require specific auditable education regarding our products and policies. We deployed Absorb to over 5000 external users across the globe in multiple different languages and branding to engage the different demographics for both regulatory and marketing initiatives. The platform allowed us to build out a collaborative hybrid learning methodology internally which enabled individual business units autonomy in the system for their unique learning needs.
  • Customizability
  • Branding
  • User experience
  • Automation
  • Multiple Domains
  • Collaborations
  • Language Options
  • More robust integrations with larger HCM systems
  • More robust reporting out of the box
  • More mobile app capabilities
Without Absorb we wouldn't have been able to launch multiple learning campaigns for different brands. These ranged from product education to international resellers to our own internal sales reps. The ability to engage the user when they first see the platform can't be understated. The attention span of learners in 2023 is extremely short and having the ability to make notifications per course (and per brand) to look like a marketing email (w/ videos and interactions through HTML) is powerful. Other platforms allow for some customizability, but not to the level that Absorb does and people underestimate how important that is in a platform that can be used for so many user cases and demographics. Add in the ability to separate demographics in the platform, add collaborations, their own leaderboards etc. - it's something that has to be experienced holistically to appreciate fully.
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