Overview
What is Seismic Learning?
Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021), is a learning management system (LMS). The vendor emphasizes eLearning for client-facing skills, as well as a drag-and-drop interface. Lessonly supports customizable learning paths and corporate onboarding processes.
Lessonly Makes Training a Breeze
Lessonly: Teach? Train? Onboard? Does it all!
Lessonly Has Great and Unique Capabilities: A Great Learning Tool
A great investment
Lessonly is great for compliance and training!
So far, Lessonly stacks up!
Lessonly is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
A game-changer for the sales industry
Lessonly is a must-have for any Customer Service team. It makes learning fun while saving you time & money.
Worth your time!
Lessonly is definitely a leader in learning!
Highly Recommend
A Great LMS for Customer Service Teams
ThirdLove is a big fan of Lessonly!
Lessonly for Business
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Popular Features
- Course authoring (106)9.797%
- Learning content (102)9.696%
- Assignments (105)9.494%
- Course catalog or library (104)9.292%
Pricing
Pro
Contact sales team
Pro + Coaching
Contact sales team
Enterprise Learning for Global Teams
Contact sales team
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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.
- 9.7Course authoring(106) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 9.2Course catalog or library(104) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 9.3Player/Portal(83) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 9.6Learning content(102) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 9Mobile friendly(57) Ratings
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
- 10Progress tracking & certifications(94) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 9.4Assignments(105) Ratings
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
- 9Compliance management(61) Ratings
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
- 9.4Learning administration(98) Ratings
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
- 9.6Learning reporting & analytics(93) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
- 9.3Social learning(70) Ratings
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
Product Details
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- Competitors
- Tech Details
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What is Seismic Learning?
Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021) is training software with an ecosystem of partners, strategy and services that are aligned under the mantra of Do Better Work.
The vendor has worked with over 800 companies to help them train their teams. The vendor says they've learned that the highest performing organizations build their training on the same six pillars:
- Assess (Gather Needs & Inputs) Listen to people, data, and the market; identify successes and challenges; and accurately assess your sales team's training needs.
- Plan (Prioritize for Impact) Identify the most essential objectives and outcomes, and intentionally set milestones for creation and delivery.
- Build (Create Quickly & Collaboratively) Work with teammates at the front lines of the business to develop and iterate on bite-sized training/content.
- Learn (Meet Learners Where They Are) Push training content to teammates-- anywhere, anytime-- so they can quickly solve problems in their moment of need.
- Practice (Rehearse, Refine, Repeat) Reinforce skills and information with realistic practice scenarios and receive feedback to fuel improvement.
- Perform (Doing Better Work) Empower the organization to continuously improve, deliver and quantify results.
Seismic Learning ultimately aims to help organizations to achieve faster onboarding, higher NPS score, more closed deals and a superior customer experience.
Seismic Learning 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: In-person learning
- Supported: Micro-learning
- Supported: Video learning
- Supported: SCORM-compliant
- Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
- Supported: Social learning
Seismic Learning Competitors
Seismic Learning Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | North America, South America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia |
Supported Languages | Filipino, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese |
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(192)Community Insights
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Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently praised Lessonly's user interface, with many stating that it is extremely intuitive and easy to navigate. The clean and simple design allows users to quickly understand how to use the platform without any learning curve.
Various Test Types and Rich Media Support: Many reviewers highly value the ability of Lessonly to create various types of tests, including multiple choice and freeform. They also appreciate the inclusion of videos, images, and slides in their lessons, which makes onboarding and training more engaging and interactive.
Quick-Burst Learning and Task Assignment: The quick-burst learning feature of Lessonly has been widely praised by users. It allows them to access bite-sized lessons and easily assign tasks to individuals. This feature is beneficial for monitoring completion and tracking the performance of both teams and individual students.
Slow and Inefficient: Many users have found the product to be slow and inefficient, causing frustration and significant delays in completing tasks. These issues persistently hinder their productivity, leading to dissatisfaction with the overall performance of the product.
Frequent Crashes: Numerous reviewers have reported experiencing frequent crashes and technical issues while using the product. These recurring problems not only disrupt their workflow but also result in a loss of valuable time and effort.
Lack of Customer Support: A significant number of customers have expressed their disappointment with the lack of customer support provided by the company. They feel that their concerns are not adequately addressed or resolved, leaving them feeling unsupported and frustrated.
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(51-75 of 112)Lessonly is a ROI Machine
- Train
- Ramp
- Ease of use
- content
Lessonly at a Store Level
- Gives feedback to the content writer at the end.
- Updates employees when they have a new training and when it's due.
- Can't think of anything right now.
- n/a
- Customer service. As an admin, when I have a question, the team literally responds in minutes via their chat tool. I've never seen something so quick or helpful.
- Customer support. Lessonly can provide everything from strategic support to content creation. As a small team, this is incredibly helpful and has allowed us to scale and make a bigger impact on the org.
- The video upload feature could be a bit more reliable.
- The search function could be better. Often you have to search for the exact title, which can be a bit cumbersome when you have a lot of lessons!
Simple and Powerful Platform
- Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and sharing success stories
- Allows people to effectively practice their sales skills to drive better business results
- More up-front awareness on implementing -- a roadmap to success
- Exporting lessons and paths
Lessonly - the LMS with unbeatable service
- Customer Support - The chat feature on the platform provides instant help when you are troubleshooting a problem. Their staff are informative and a pleasure to talk with.
- Implementation of the platform - During our implementation of the platform, the customer service representatives provided step by step instruction and suggestions for best practices across our process. The soft launch of the platform went very well.
- We are currently using the beta mode on publish or unpublished draft on lessons. We are finding bugs in some of the features, but this is why you have "beta clients."
- Some features like roles and preview options for edits on lessons can be difficult to follow. We like the option for sharing ownership in a lesson for editing purposes with users that may not be an admin or manager, but rather a SME.
Lessonly is a great LMS for lean L&D teams
- Implementing new features and use cases that we suggest.
- They make it easy for anyone in our company to make trainings without a background in instructional design.
- They help us build a learning-first company.
- The elements you can build within a lesson are very limited, so the lessons all start to look the same and lack user engagement if you have a lot of trainings.
- The user rights can be hard to navigate and understand.
- The UI looks outdated and could be updated.
I love you Lessonly :)
- Responds to user experience feedback and is transparent about their development road map.
- Supports clients in a collaborative creative way, gaining insight into business practices and providing thoughtful suggestions and guidance.
- Practices what they preach. They use their product for training their own staff and for sharing information with clients. They naturally lead by example. But they also aren’t flawless (occasional typos or formatting errors) and that humanness is really refreshing and authentic.
- Integrated time estimates -- rather than making creators write out an estimate every time a lesson is created, why not build that into the architecture of the lesson (as a module at the top of the lesson page). It could even adjust automatically based on actual completion time.
- More formatting capabilities. Totally get the need to keep it simple, but just a few more features would make a world of difference. A slightly larger title font, the ability to underline with a built-in button.
- Another user interface idea -- offering an alt text option so image captions don’t have to be super long. (We try to provide text descriptions for images, and this limits what you can do with a caption.)
- User permissions update. A class of user that can assign freely, but have limitations on creator / editor permissions (able to edit specified lessons, but not all or nothing).
- Ability to edit image names in the image library.
- Ability to specify the order in which a learner sees the lessons you’re assigning if they’re not all in one path. Right now it auto-sorts by lesson age. The suggestion is typically to create a path, but our experience has shown a demand for something that looks more like the learn library, rather than a vertical list, which strongly implies order even if you’re not literally locking learners into it.
- Sorry so many things! I LOVE Lessonly I just also have a lot of opinions :)
Lessonly's Customer Support is World Class
- Lessonly's customer support is unrivaled. They are the single best vendor relationship I have ever had.
- Lessonly's interface is intuitive, requiring little help to get new users feeling comfortable.
- The practice features are easy to create, and simple for users to access.
- Lessonly seems to have an API integration with nearly every software. They make it extremely easy to integrate their product with other tools.
- Their reporting has gotten much better, but Salesforce has spoiled me. I would like even more granular details on interaction within lessons.
- The question/testing creator is simple and well-designed, but the practice creator is much less robust. I would like to see more flexibility in the practice feature.
Lessonly does not provide pre-written lessons, which is something I prefer, but it does require more work by the person running the account.
Lessonly is Dolly Llama approved!
- Ease of use for the user
- Really great internal builder
- Integration with Bamboo HR and Humanity works well
- Triggers need more options. Currently, you can only trigger "when" something happens, not "if". This means that if someone has completed a task before you create the trigger, it will not work.
- Lessonly does not have an "undo" button, and it is always saving. So if you accidentally delete something, it is gone forever.
Great for internal use, could offer better features for external use
- The product is easy to use
- The company is good at taking feedback and updating their product accordingly
- The company makes their users feel like they're part of a community
- Their editor often malfunctions on the backend and I often have to fix things in html
- It would be nice to be able to duplicate entire lessons
- In Lessonly University, they use an image on every lesson page which is nice to look at, but the images are sometimes arbitrary and don't seem to add to the content
Lessonly and Me
- Interactive
- Easy to navigate
- Consistent
- No need for a background image in lessons
- Could be easier to retake tests
- Maybe add a "favorites" folder for people to get back to lessons quickly
New to Lessonly, but I'm in love with it!
- Quick-burst learning.
- Search function.
- Interactive learning.
- Better function lesson to PDF function.
- I miss the search function in chat.
Lessonly makes learning approachable and fun!
Our biggest business problem is that our growth is creating difficulties and obstacles in properly training our employees consistently and on time. We span over 28 states, and we need to create connection and cohesion in our learning. Currently, it is disjointed or non-existent.
- The support of the employees is like no other vendor I have ever used. They love their product and their company, and it makes you want to do business with them. Everything they do is top-notch.
- The platform is simple and easy. They have designed it with humans in mind. I love that.
- The tracking of training and progress of training is awesome.
- I would love to see the free-form answers that employees give be printable. It would allow for many other uses that we would find beneficial.
- I would also love to have the training fit the screen a bit better.
We would love to be able to do employee reviews through the platform.
I couldn't do my job without Lessonly.
- Easy product interface
- Amazing customer support
- Strong culture
- This is a difficult one to answer, but reporting can be a challenge. We often go to customer support to get the data we need. The plus side here is that they have always been able to provide me with what I need in a timely and friendly manner.
Lessonly is the most intuitive and effective learning platform I've ever used. Plus, best customer support around!
- Lesson creation
- Lesson and training insights
- Lessonly customer partnership and support is among the best I've ever experienced.
- Product innovation
- Platform ease-of-use
- Live training event creation and tracking is an area Lessonly is currently adding and improving on.
- It would be nice to see certification program tracking
Lessonly is intuitive, versatile, powerful, and effective!
- Lessonly's lesson creation interface makes it easy to create new learning content and is much easier to use than our previous LMS tools.
- Learning content can include practice scenarios which which makes the material more engaging, memorable, and applicable.
- New Lesson invitations and email reminders work well and are reliable.
- I haven't used the user reporting tools as much, but I've heard from managers that it works much better than our previous LMS tool.
- Lessonly's team is fantastic to work with and very responsive!
- Their on-boarding process was very smooth and included an array of self-service resources.
- New lesson invitations and email reminders could be more customizable.
- Integrations are rough around the edges and haven't been as reliable as their main tools.
- We've had some small problems with user management, but this could have been due to a problem with the HR software integration.
Lessonly for Learning!
- on-boarding
- job training
- safety training
- continuous education
- policy training
- The user interface is very simple to use.
- Lessonly University is very informative and answers all of your questions.
- The ready-to-use content is great for starting templates to build from and tailor to your own needs.
- The gradebook could be improved upon with more filters.
- The Insights page could have better custom report capabilities.
Great for a learning library hub.
- Archive of past lessons
- Pathways for specific job roles
- Easy to update and maintain
- Search function for key phrases within the lessons, not just searching tags
Lessonly helps us scale our training and development
- Extremely user-friendly interface for both the administration side and the learner side.
- Being able to track events so we only have one tracking system of T&D engagement.
- Knowledge checks allow for immediate reinforcement of key ideas.
- I would like to have the ability to create tests by using a question bank.
- I would also like to be able to provide partial credit on test questions. At the moment, I can only mark a question correct or incorrect, so if I provide partial credit to an answer, the final record in Lessonly is not accurate.
- Badging - I would love to be able to create badge programs and track completion of them.
Loving everything about Lessonly
- Smooth on boarding process, our customer success person is great.
- Fast support for my silly questions.
- Clean design, very intuitive program.
- The integrations could use some help. I'd like to integrate BambooHR myself instead of having to request help, for example.
Lessonly Love!
- I like the layout of being able to see all assigned activities easily on one page.
- The email notifications are super helpful from a grader perspective.
- The UI in general is just really easy and aesthetically pleasing.
- I wish it were a little easier to see completed assignments. I also wish there were a way to reject assignments that aren't really relevant so the assigner gets pushback. Working at such a large organization I sometimes get assignments from people that are totally arbitrary and then it's annoying to have them just sitting there.
Easiest way to learn something new everyday!
- Easy to create content.
- Individualized tracking of completion and mastery.
- Detailed analytics.
- Interactive and engaging lessons.
- Have more of the features of real Zendesk tickets, such as how to submit and include custom fields.
- Be able to break an existing lesson down into smaller lessons more easily.
- Easier access to Lessonly University lessons would be great.
Lessonly Gets Training Done Quicker!
- Scale learning.
- Creating new training content.
- Testing core competencies.
- Real time user data.
- Encouraging teammates to be subject matter experts.
- Tracking attendance for live events.
- Customer user roles with specific permissions.
- No free PPT to Lessonly conversion services.
Llamas rock!
- Open to feedback and ideas and constantly innovating and iterating on their product to serve new needs that arise
- Making me feel like more than just a customer: They aren't transactional and focus on building the relationship and making me feel heard.
- Extremely easy to use product so building content takes little time, and I can leverage other subject matter experts to build content as well.
- For democratizing content creation, it's difficult to make sure that other creators follow the same tagging system. It would be helpful, if when creating a lesson, everyone were prompted to add the tags, pictures, descriptions, etc so that I don't have to follow up with them to do it.
- We're trying to make Lessonly our one-stop-shop for internal training, and we need a more robust registration system in Lessonly to make that happen. Things like events with multiple sessions, linking to relevant lessons within the event, seeing a calendar view of upcoming events, etc, would be helpful for that.
- Blended learning: as pre-work, in-class worksheets, and follow-up post-work to reinforce what they learned
- Engineering training, even though we try to use it for this, because people can't code within Lessonly. An embed feature could help with this.
Lessonly Lover
- Customer Support
- Learner Analytics
- Ease of use
- Gradebook is difficult to manage
- Information is in different places, (ex: completion rate is in the individual lesson overview where as performance is on the main library page)