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
- About
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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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(1-25 of 72)Lessonly: Teach? Train? Onboard? Does it all!
- Providing training
- Onboarding
- Raising procedural knowledge across the project
- Knowledge tests
- Increasing active users per month for a lesson/quiz
- Making it more efficient with informing users when the limit is about to be breached for active users
A great investment
- User-Friendly.
- Admin Friendly.
- Easy to use searchability.
- We would love to see more design ability when building lessons.
- Updating the admin panel is not easy, as it's not easy to search in the admin panel.
So far, Lessonly stacks up!
- Very user-friendly interface
- Ability to add all different types of elements to the lessons
- Lesson visibility can sometimes be a challenge (must assign to learners).
- The flow of clicking on a lesson from the content page sometimes seems not intuitive. It takes you to a lesson summary page rather than the lesson itself.
Lessonly is a must-have for any Customer Service team. It makes learning fun while saving you time & money.
- Makes training easy: Allows us to focus on the content.
- Good customer service: Fast & friendly problem solving.
- Clean user interface: Simple to make Lessonly content, easy for agents to digest the info.
- The search feature sometimes doesn't pull up what I'm looking for.
A Great LMS for Customer Service Teams
- Lessonly keeps our content organized and consistent. We have a LOT of information for our agents to learn and know, so the consistency is a key factor.
- Keeping team members in the appropriate groups is incredibly easy, with the Smart Groups. Changing one thing in someone's profile easily pops them into the correct Smart Groups, saving time for me and other Admins.
- Creating engaging content is incredibly easy with Lessonly. Previously our content would be a Google doc with a linked quiz from SurveyMonkey and it would be informative, but not engaging at all.
- There are some functionality features with Roles that I would love to see changed - the permissions being more flexible, essentially.
- I'd like to see additional Insights, including who the least active users are.
ThirdLove is a big fan of Lessonly!
- Versatility. We can use for it darn near anything in any department across the company.
- Easy editing. You can change/update something on the fly no problem.
- Simple design easy for self- learning as a creator or admin.
- The Lessonly university is basically a tool store to use at your disposal. It has a lot of great information.
- Bugs. When there are some and we alert Lessonly, they reply with the problem will be fixed, but then no follow up on if or when?
- Self branding ability would be great but as of now you have to reach out to a 3rd party which makes it difficult to keep communication clear.
- Minor issues with the lessons themselves; such as the image and text being swapped in places once going from edit more to preview mode.
Love Lessonly!
- Extremely easy to learn - so we can allow HR to build their own trainings, engineering to build theirs, etc. with very little training.
- Extremely easy to edit - so we can make changes on the fly.
- API should include more comprehensive data.
- I'd like more sophisticated tracking of the learning program (they are working on this now).
1. Creating quick, simple training that may need changes.
2. Embedding videos, audio, documents, images.
3. Tracking who has done what.
4. Quick assessments.
Like any LMS, the efficacy of Lessonly depends on the quality of content added - garbage in, garbage out.
Lessonly is a great product for Customer Service Teams!
- Product Updates
- Customer Service Softskills
- More interactive/interactions
- More audio capabilities
Less appropriate for full hands-on learning where there is not a demo/test environment, and you're using live data.
Great platform to create onboarding process
We use Lessonly for a few purposes:
1. Onboarding process
2. Knowledge retention
3. Teaching new technologies at work
I use Lessonly both to create content and as an end-user. Every person in our department was assigned to create a few lessons. Those lessons are primarily for the onboarding process but also used by all of us to refresh our memory about processes that we don't use often.
- Easy to use.
- Good customer support.
- I would like to have an option to disable the "rate" window after each lesson completed.
Also, unlike in other methods of onboarding like studying from reading slides, Lessonly allows you to actively study with quizzes. The progress in the onboarding process can be monitored.
I personally didn't do my onboarding with Lessonly as we still didn't have it, but from my conversations with co-workers who did go through this process, they find it very convenient.
Great knowledge platform
We also use it for tips, knowledge retention, and onboarding lessons on a department level and for other company departments. We can keep track to see that we transfer all our knowledge to everyone in the team/department. We had a problem with knowledge leaks and many people asking the same questions all the time, and Lessonly really helped to solve that problem.
- Searchable content.
- Visual aids.
- Sharing a conversation on a lesson.
- Ability to load a DOC/slide that will transfer to an automatic lesson recommendation.
Beginner at Lessonly
- The organization
- The way of assigning lessons
- Better and more user friendly way to create a lesson
- More intuitive for creating lessons
Review from a fairly new user of Lessonly
- A good flow to a lesson
- The feature of quizzing
- I'd like to make it easier to change colors of text
- I'd like to more easily put in emojis / gifs
New to Lessonly
- Content creation
- User management
- Learn management
Lessonly should not be used to replace static information in spreadsheets or Drive/Dropbox folders.
Overall, this is a helpful and a great product!
- Great UI
- Accessible
- Requires internet for building lessons.
- Can't customize the UI.
Simplicity and Efficiency with Lessonly!
- Lessonly has a very user-friendly interface. Anyone can create content without an extensive html, etc. background.
- Lessonly presents material to its users in a convenient, simple manner, with just enough building elements to keep it interesting, but not enough to over-complicate or clutter a lesson or presentation.
- I'm a big fan of the Lessonly team. From our dedicated CX Manager to their support team and beyond, they are friendly, always quick to respond, and truly care about providing a great user experience from the organizational admins to end-users!
- I would like to see more text formatting options such as additional Font Sizes and Colors. I know that Lessonly's philosophy on learning is 'Simplicity' so I understand why they haven't done it already and I'm able to work around it with the options that they do have available.
- I would also like to have total control/flexibility of User Roles and Privileges so I have complete control over which users can view other users' grades, assign lessons to teams, create content, or simply browse content to learn. They've made improvements to this area just in the 6 months that we've been using Lessonly and I know that additional customizations are on the way, which I look forward to!
- One of the best things about Lessonly is their commitment to providing an amazing experience so they are constantly working on updates to the platform and release at least a couple of enhancements or new features every month!
I can't really think of any scenarios, relative to the intention of the platform, that Lessonly wouldn't be appropriate to use with. No, I wouldn't use it to create extensive reports or edit videos/images but that's not its purpose. It serves its purpose well and I would recommend it to organizations around the world.
Lessonly is incredibly intuitive and reliable
- The video recording and response function is excellent. It provides a similar uncomfortable environment outside sales reps often experience. It allows our sales leadership to keep touch with each rep's intangible skills and provide feedback from a remote destination.
- The user interface is incredibly simple to use. Within 3 minutes I and others in our department felt comfortable using the program. Extremely intuitive. Excellent job by the development team here.
- When someone does leave a thumbs down and constructive feedback on a lesson, the admin should be notified. We miss these if we don't actively look for them.
- There should be a feature to automatically set the Ask Button for lessons. You have to manually remember to turn the function on for each lesson and it's consistently missed. Both small issues, overall a great product!
Lessonly for New Hire Onboarding and Continuous Education
- Lessonly allows you to create various types of tests (I.e multiple choice, freeform, etc.)
- You are able to include videos, images, and slides in Lessonly, so onboarding can take a self-service approach.
- Lessonly is a robust tool with a lot of features, so it isn't always the most intuitive. I'd love to use the tool more, but it can be intimidating and time-consuming to create tests.
Lesson.ly, the Ultimate Sensei
- Lesson.ly does a great job of providing a way for learners to self-certify and test their knowledge on the content of the lesson. Both via Flip cards that provide a quick question and response. Learners can try and guess or answer and then immediately check to see if they were correct. You can also institute graded tests with multiple choice or written answers to verify knowledge of the user.
- Lesson.ly allows for both embedded video and image content which provides audiovisual learners to have a more effective and efficient learning experience. My favorite use of this feature was the inclusion of Gifs. Both to illustrate any simple concepts being taught and for the use of humor to keep the lessons from getting boring when going through several lessons in a row.
- Lesson.ly also does a great job of providing structure to your lessons. Building boards or modules allows you to group lessons together. It provides a clear way for clients or employees to proceed to the next lesson upon the completion of their current lesson.
- Navigating through finished lessons can be challenging especially if you have completed a large number of them.
Lessonly, the LCMS for learners by learners
- Content creation is intuitive and easy to manage with paths and tagging.
- User management is aided by integration w/our HRIS (BambooHR).
- Sales and support staff encourage user feedback and are attentive when issues arise.
- Media import (audio, video) are still in infancy. Reliability of uploaded content isn't 100%.
- The Events function lacks some features that are more built out in other platforms.
- Reporting interface has a bit of a learning curve, but overall isn't bad.
There are occasions where uploading audio or video content doesn't function very well, but Lessonly has been quick to offer assistance in resolving those issues.
Don't Worry, Get Lessonly!
- Organizing lessons into comprehensive paths for an effective work flow
- Easy to build/create lessons for all types of jobs that are engaging
- Lacks some flexibility in the type of items that can be used in a lesson
- When adding a new learner, the email response with the Lessonly link is slow
Love Lessonly!
- Tracking progress of training by individual
- Tracking results of responses, to identify the need for additional training, if necessary
- Individuals can rush through the classes by clicking through them. Not sure how to stop this.
Does not work as well for more detailed training.
Lessonly makes learning a breeze!
- User interface.
- Easy to use on admin side.
- Sometimes the practice function freezes.
Lessonly: Powerful, Intuitive, and a Game Changer
- Content creation is incredibly intuitive and they offer an array of element options that can be created natively (text, flip cards, reveals, video, quiz questions/knowledge checks, etc.), cutting down on additional tools you may need. Of course, if you'd like to bring in external content, that can be done seamlessly. All of this also means being able to provide training that touches upon various learning styles— a huge win for learners!
- Lessonly also has a Chrome extension that allows learners to pull up content in-browser so that they can learn side-by-side or simply access information within seconds. I don't know what I'd do without it.
- Excellent service! If you need help, you can contact the Lessonly team from the chat widget while continuing to go about your work. Every interaction I've had with their team has been nothing but friendly, helpful, and just incredibly positive overall.
- Lessonly does market itself as being a tool that simplifies training. While not a bad thing at all, if you're looking to incorporate things like gamification, then that's not something that is offered at present.
- While Lessonly provides helpful data dashboards to admins, I'd love to see the 'Insights' feature continue to grow. You can currently download a CSV of all activity, but as the sole trainer at my company, it can be challenging trying to sift through that. That said, they've made many updates in the past year and am hopeful that they'll add more insightful dashboards as they continue to grow.
Because my company offers a product and we believe that all employees should experience it, we also use Lessonly for product training. This used to be a full-day, in-person training. Now, it's more engaging, incorporates different learning styles, and has made it easier for me as a trainer. If you're looking to have a tool that allows you to author courses in greater detail (think Adobe Captivate) or provides gamification, then it might not be the right LMS.
Great LMS -- Very intuitive
We use Lessonly primarily for our revenue-generating and customer-facing teams (i.e. Account Executives, Sales Development, Customer Success, Renewals, etc.) On occasion, we also leverage it for training support and product role outs company-wide. We looked to bring on an LMS for a few reasons. First, to free up our bandwidth (with a small team of two training and developing 60+ revenue generating roles) -- an LMS system allowed us to create well-built out, self-paced trainings that did not need to be delivered in person. Second, we needed a tool to better track, train, teach, and gather insight into how our reps are progressing in their development. Lessonly has delivered in spades.
We are able to leverage Lessonly in so many different ways: new hire on-boarding trainings, product updates, marketing roll-outs, knowledge base, compliancy trainings, etc. It’s also a really simple format for our reps to follow, even when they are on sales/customer calls.
- From a usability standpoint, Lessonly is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. This was our first LMS product purchased, and it was really important for us to have a system that we could dive into head first without a large learning curve.
- What I've appreciated most about Lessonly are the people and teams within the company who support their clients. It was very evident during our sales evaluation that this was a team that aimed to grow and scale alongside their clients by listening to, and acting upon, feedback. They have proven this time and time again.
- This was not the most robust platform when we initially evaluated, and there are still feature gaps to be filled, but overall, we have been very satisfied with the experience.
- Customization for emailed communication out of the platform (i.e. assigning Lessons) is lacking, but not a huge concern considering that is not the main focus of the system.
Lessonly Llamas are fantastic business partners!
- Customer Service
- Ease of Use; modern, efficient user interface
- They are currently working on tracking live events in the system which is a need.