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Absorb LMS

Overview

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
Incentivized
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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Pricing

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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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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

8.5
Avg 8.2
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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Allows customization for different customers
  • Provides a way to sell training to customers
  • Provides ways to distribute learning keys to users
  • User interface needs more flexibility
  • Resource library needs more ways to exclude or include departments or users
  • Core reporting and dashboards need assistance
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
April 10, 2024

Why you need Absorb

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Customization
  • Absorb Create
  • Implementation
  • Features could be more detailed
  • Freedom to customize like wordpress
  • Course integration could be more seamless
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Course Management
  • Interface creations
  • Webinar tools integration
  • Assessment functionalities
  • Questions answers options
  • Webinar session set up options
February 29, 2024

Satisfied Customer

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Vera Schuurmans | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Create tool.
  • Allowing to organize and track all types of courses, not just e-learnings.
  • Overview of people skills in their profiles.
  • Uploading documents is perceived as hard for employees, especially with video uploads.
  • Sometimes the program lacks and then an employee has to start all over.
  • Spacing courses is possible but not with a certain amount of time, which would be useful if the next course could open after a week/month instead of when the employee finishes the previous course.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • integration with Storyline courses
  • Robust reporting capabilities
  • Engaging user interface
  • Multiple language equivalencies
  • SMTP support
  • Hierarchy built into reporting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Admin reports are easy to use and provide a lot of detail
  • Integrates with our HRIS software for hands-off, automated user management
  • Allows us to segment our staff to deploy trainings specific to our users.
  • There are rollouts of new features that seem to not be vetted enough by end users. This could be resolved by having more test groups review these new features first before sending it to all customers.
  • Some reports need improvement, where you can download reports for multiple courses for multiple people.
  • Absorb does not have the ability to assign courses based off hire date, so once a user is in added to the system (in our case, automatically), they are immediately assigned to content. Users are added sometimes a month in advanced thus training can be overdue on their first official date of hire.
  • Courses can not be scheduled to assign which causes us work the day of assignment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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