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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.
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- Learning content (102)9.696%
- Assignments (105)9.494%
- Course catalog or library (104)9.292%
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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
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Seismic Learning Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Progress tracking & certifications highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Seismic Learning are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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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December 04, 2019
Lessonly, The Best LMS Around!
We use Lessonly among a few departments to train on case studies, consumer journey, internal tools, and our partner program. It helps bridge the knowledge gap we may have in these areas. I've also deployed Lessonly with another organization where we used it both internally and with our partner program as well. At that organization, we used it to give product updates and to educate our partners on the sales, implementation, and support of the product.
- Easy to use and create lessons
- Intuitive and sharp user interface
- Collaboration capability within tool
- Would like built in certification that would give user certificate upon completion
- A little better integration with Salesforce
- A little more robust reporting
December 04, 2019
We love Lessonly.
Lessonly is being used by our Client Services Team as a training and education platform. It allows us to send updates and keep all employees on top of policies and procedures.
- Create user friendly training material
- The possibility of automated Learning Paths
- Reduces Ramp Time
- Scheduling time for assignments are on American time and we are a global company, so it'd be nice for us to be able to work on local times.
- The dashboards with information and statistics about who is assigned to which lesson and which user has still lessons open are available, yet they could be more advanced based on our personal preferences.
- It'd be nice to have more customization or formatting variation for the texts.
December 04, 2019
Easy to use and administer and great CS and support teams
We use Lessonly primarily for Sales Enablement, though other departments have begun using it since implementation. We use it for two primary purposes.
- Weekly lessons: We send out a lesson each week, as a way to keep our team up to date on the most important topics. We focus on product updates, competitive updates, updates from the Marketing Team, new messaging, and pitch practices which the managers grade. Each section has questions to verify that the reps understand the content.
- Onboarding: We have a library of lessons that new reps take during the ramping process.
- Lessons are quick and easy to create.
- Simple user interface
- Administration is easy
- Syncs with Okta for user hierarchies
- User video recording functionality could be easier to use
- I would like the ability to record activities outside of Lessonly in the platform.
December 04, 2019
Love Lessonly and how it has evolved!
Right now, Lessonly is being used by a lot of departments, but not the entire org. It's good for testing learning materials such as onboarding, product updates, and general updates about how to use our software.
- Easy to use.
- Good snapshot of numbers and data.
- Getting it to users.
- Copying a section and pasting it to another page.
- More formatting freedom with text.
- Ability to break pages with a clear page break or text box.
As the Director of Sales Development here at Thomas, I was charged with the task of fully replacing our classroom style sales training with a completely virtual education platform. We started out by building lessons to replace the day to day classroom work. It then evolved into our new Product Delivery platform and now we use it to do all of our onboarding for internal and external people. We also use the data and analytics from Lessonly around lesson completion percentage and average lesson review scores to help us determine where to allocate resources.
- Makes it super easy to build and launch lesson content.
- Provides simple analytics to understand learner involvement and participation.
- Keeps my goals for the software on task as it relates to my department.
- Provides the best quality support and keeps me aware of future product offerings and insights.
- The Insights tab could be more comprehensive.
- Offer gamification.
December 04, 2019
A great way to help your Team Members continuously learn!
Lessonly is currently being used by our Customer Experience Department. It is used for our New Hire Training for self-instructed learning, as well as throughout the entire office for process updates, procedures and much more. The business problem that it addresses is being able to send out information to a mass group of people in a timely manner and being able to test if they retained this information. It has allowed us to continue training our team members outside of our 3 week training program and build them as Fit Stylists and Team Members.
- Creates an easy to use system for both the Creators and the Learners.
- Connects with their customers and listens to all feedback that is provided. You can tell that they work strongly off of what their customers are looking for with their tool and use that feedback to continue growing and bettering their system.
- Creates a fun environment for both the customer and their employees. You can tell it's a great place to work.
- When editing a reveal or flip card, the image and text are backwards. The text is on the top and the image is on the bottom when you are editing. But when you publish the lesson, they switch and the photo will be on the top and the text will be on the bottom.
- Their customer service agents are incredibly friendly and helpful, it will just often be a while before someone is able to respond and assist you.
December 04, 2019
Lessonly truly gets it!
We are currently using Lessonly as our Primary LMS. We have only kicked it off on a trial basis for refresher customer service training but are in the trenches for content creation. Since content creation, at least initially, has primarily been me, it has been quite the process. We intend to use this as our onboarding LMS as well as a way to kick off policy changes and new material. We also intend to use it as a space to house our development/ career paths and a mentorship program. We intend to use it across the entire organization. As a training department of one with 9 physical locations across Indiana and Ohio, the main business problem it addresses is that it will hopefully eliminate travel time for me as well as provide a way to consistently train and track feedback.
- Marketing and branding- Check out a Yellowship Conference. They have that whole thing nailed down to a science. And they think of everything. From branded Aspirin to water bottles to cookies. It was all so sharp looking and cohesive.
- Appealing to a younger market - They are a young, hip company that draws young talent. Their customer service is amazing and their communication strategy really speaks to the younger workforce. They get it!
- Clear consistent communication - They get to the point!
- Easy to use - Their software is very intuitive and easy to use.
- They host super fun events for prospective clients!
- You can tell their leadership truly cares about their team and the work they are doing!
- Add a spell check.
- The ability to upload a document. I would really love to be able to track credentials that are outside of Lessonly, so if I could simply have a tech upload a certification, it would allow me to house everything in one place. Seems like a simple fix, but maybe not.
- More fun events for current users outside of Yellowship.
- Partner with TrueU or make it so that users of TrueU can easily house content in Lessonly.
December 03, 2019
Why Lessonly is so great
[Lessonly is a] Platform where we can design and develop training for the whole organization. We also have used it for each employee to make an "about me" section to get to know each other a little bit more.
- I like that it has a multi media approach to learning, such as uploading videos, pictures etc.
- There's comment sections you can use to get feedback from your employees.
- It's simple to use, so employees who aren't especially technically advanced can use it with little, to no issues.
- I'm one of those people who aren't super great using computers so I really like how they have it simplified. I personally don't see where they can improve it much.
December 03, 2019
Lessonly Building Better Agents by the Lesson
We use it in two formats: 1) to train agents on the phones for our company and 2) to train our independent contractors who work in the field.
- Grades lessons and allows for retaking a a test
- Allows feedback for each section so we can make them better
- It's interactive which seems to be more valued by the learner
- Presenting mode. I find that even presenters at Lessonly use PowerPoint to present, and I thought that was weird.
- Alerts and reminders of unfinished lessons
- Better reporting on stats as a whole
December 03, 2019
Amazing LMS, best you'll find across the board!
It's being used by the entire organization for new hire on-boarding an ongoing training. It has helped us decrease our ramp-up time significantly by implementing hands-on training experiences.
I can't express enough how helpful the software is, how easy it is to build in, and how helpful everyone at the company has been.
I can't express enough how helpful the software is, how easy it is to build in, and how helpful everyone at the company has been.
- makes learning interactive, hence increasing the retention
- super easy to use and build in
- always improving the software in innovative ways
- excellent support from their team
- Some of the metrics are hard to pull — it's difficult to get a full picture based on the reporting options
December 03, 2019
Lessonly changed our company's educational structure.
We use Lessonly as the main LMS for our entire company. Employees use Lessonly in a number of different ways, from onboarding to self-directed learning. The content that's necessary for understanding Qualia is usually new to everyone who walks through the door, so we provide multiple mediums for consuming and understanding the content. Lessonly is a great option for us because it allows for easy creation of lessons and content. The user interface is intuitive and pleasing on the eye; we're very happy with what we've been able to do with Lessonly thus far and it's provided us with a platform that can scale with our company's growth.
- Content creation is very easy and quick
- User interface is beautiful and user friendly
- Management of users/content/insights is simple
- We are looking for more options to assess; grading and insights are available, but we'd like more reporting on cohorts or tracking milestones
- Some of the interface on the admin side of the application is a little cumbersome (viewing options, filtering, basic stuff)...this isn't a make it or break it drawback piece of functionality, but it's something that could be improved.
December 03, 2019
Excellent training tool
We originally started using Lessonly to help onboard new sales reps, but this year we expanded our usage of it to help us continually train our reps. This year we have also started using Lessonly throughout the entire company. Everyone now uses it for onboarding when hired at QGenda.
- Their Customer Support is excellent. They send us quarterly updates and always offer their services and insight into lessons.
- The CEO of Lessonly is very "visible" and sends out emails to his customers on what he views as better work and tips for bringing it to our own organization.
- Lessonly's service helps us to onboard quicker with more repetition in what we train on.
- Lessonly is a great tool for testing your reps' knowledge.
- A peer review feature
- Easier ways to copy a section of a lesson to another lesson.
December 03, 2019
Highly recommend Lessonly!
MediCopy currently uses Lessonly across our entire organization. We use it as an information hub for employees to reference, as on on-boarding training tool, and for continuing education for all employees. We are currently in an explosive growth period as a company, and Lessonly has helped to formalize the on-boarding training process and make sure all employees have access to the most up-to-date information on policies and procedures. Lessonly has really helped to maintain our culture throughout this explosive growth period.
- Lessonly allows users to personalize the theme to company logo and colors. This helps to keep consistency in all our systems.
- Lessonly allows Admins to create content from scratch, so there are very few limitations on what can be created.
- Lessonly's customer experience team is extremely helpful and makes sure to be available to answer any and all questions quickly.
- Lessonly takes pride in user involvement, they have regular events in our area that allow us to network with other users and gain additional knowledge on the system.
- There are some small limitations in the content creation process that can be addressed.
December 03, 2019
Lessonly is all you need in terms of a great LMS!
We brought on Lessonly almost 2 years ago because we did not have any training for our retail sales associates. We quickly saw value in the platform and since have built it out for our entire company and will continue to do so. It makes sure that everyone is on the same page and is following our processes accurately.
- Great Support - Can get answers to questions or issues right away
- Amazing Referral Program. I was blown away by how much they invest in people referring their product.
- Great platform. It is extremely user friendly and aesthetically pleasing
- I wish i had the ability to hide sections within Lessonly. Honestly that is really the only issue
November 29, 2019
Lessonly is the best!
Lessonly is being used across departments. Currently, we have implemented lessons for the HR team and working on lessons for two other teams. We really enjoy using Lessonly, it is a great learning tool.
- The library of lessons is very useful across all departments.
- You can create very detailed lessons.
- It's great to see how people are doing with the lessons.
- Open up the library with more useful lessons.
- Integrations with other platforms.
November 20, 2019
Lessonly Review
Lessonly is being used by all employees in our organisation.
- It provides a range of lessons to users.
- Has adequate time allocated for doing a course.
- Options for answering are both structured, with multiple questions while they also give sessions for general answers with explanations.
- Provide more and more courses for users.
- Certification.
- Reduce on courses that take a whole hour to finish, to avoid eating into staff time as they take the course.
November 16, 2019
Lessonly - the best software, services, & training network.
We use it for all our onboarding and promotions. Our entire company has access to it. It helps "certify" that the information shared is retained.
- Lots of bells & whistles. A ton of different ways to pull data.
- Their Services team is AMAZING. They'll build lessons for you and help make sure you learners are best set up for success.
- You don't just buy Lessonly, but you join their network. Their Llama Links connect you with other individuals in your area that also focus on enablement. They host events to share best practices and brainstorm ways to improving learning & deployment of lessons. YELLOWSHIP (their conference) is an AMAZING RESOURCE bringing all enablement folk from around the country to learn together...and of course do better work!
- Their Support team is also unreal. Their in-app chat is amazing because it's real time with a real person who fixes all your issues.
- none!
November 12, 2019
User friendly and easy to navigate!
We use Lessonly to train our high volume sales teams. We use it when they join as a new hire and for continuous development as well. Right now, it's only for the 1 department and plan to span it over more in the future. Before Lessonly, our training documents were rarely updated and spread across multiple systems. This is a great way to have our training information in one user-friendly system.
- User friendly. Little training needed to use the system
- Helps with specific lessons and the workflow is engaging
- The Lessonly content and articles are extremely helpful too
- Nothing really. It's on us that we don't use it to its full potential. It's hard for sales people to balance cranking out phone calls and taking a moment to go through Lessonly modules
November 11, 2019
Lessonly Review
We use Lessonly here at Klaviyo to support the e-Learning needs for our Sales organization. As we grow we plan on having the entire company use Lessonly as our e-Learning platform and we hope to do that sometime in 2020. As we scale we have added remote and international locations including LA and London. So we were up against a challenge of how to onboard and train these users. Lessonly has been the answer to that problem.
- Ease of use – You can create a lesson quickly and easily.
- Track the progression of your learners – See how they're doing and where there are areas for improvement.
- Customize a learning library by topics.
- Top-notch customer service.
- The way content is organized for admins could be a bit better.
- I would like a bit more flexibility around creating folders for different topics.
September 18, 2019
Lessonly for Learning!
We had a huge onboarding issue and turned to Lessonly. We needed to streamline processes and best practices. I also needed to communicate with my growing team and know that they were digesting critical information. Lessonly helped disseminate information effectively and helped me better manage my team.
- Distribute information
- Easy to use lesson creation
- Knowledge database
- Expensive
- Easier access to other teams content
August 17, 2019
No complaints about Lessonly--user-friendly and effective!
We use Lessonly for a few internal purposes. First, we use it to onboard new users and teach them about our policies. Secondly, we use it to make them subject matter experts in things like HIPAA and the health insurance industry. Third, we use it to enable our sales and client-facing organization on what we're building in the product and how to communicate it to our users.
- It's extremely easy to build lessons with little to no training. It has a very usable UI. This creates a low barrier to entry for those who want to teach their coworkers something.
- It's administratively easy to assign lessons, send reminders, grade them, and check their progress.
- I love that Lessonly is always improving and letting me know how they're doing it.
- I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
We've rolled out Lessonly for the sales teams and will soon be rolling it out to the customer success and solutions engineers teams. Eventually, we will roll it out to the whole company. It currently helps us address sales enablement needs, and it will expand to help us address all of our training and development needs.
- Ease of use – You can create a lesson in 30 minutes or less.
- Track the progression of your learners – See how they're doing and where there are areas for improvement.
- Customize a learning library by topics – You choose what's important to the teams you're training and who sees what.
- Their customer service team is unlike anything else I've experience – You're part of the family from day 1.
- The way content is organized for admins could be improved – It's easy to search for content, but I'd personally like to have more flexibility around creating folders for different topics on the back-end.
August 05, 2019
Do Better Work with Lessonly!
We use Lessonly to enable all of our Sales, Success, and Professional Services users, which makes up about 1/3 of our entire organization. We use it for onboarding of those roles as well as ongoing enablement and certifications.
- Lessonly is so easy to user, anyone can create a course.
- Lessonly has great practice elements, which is wonderful for hands-on learning.
- Lessonly has an amazing staff, they are so supportive and are truly a partner.
- Doesn't really work well with SCORM
- Reporting could be better
- Support in global regions could be better
August 03, 2019
A Lesson in Lessonly
Lessonly is used across our call center campaigns and is currently being implemented across our entire company and our parent company, Randall Reilly, as well. The Lessonly Platform fixes the issue we had of disseminating training and announcements across our many locations and at-home employees while being trackable, timely, and highly effective.
- Customizable lesson outlines.
- Easy to use interface.
- Fast assembly of content.
- Lessonly is always adding new features.
Lessonly is used across our entire organization. It is our internal training tool. We have online lessons on both internal training as well as industry background in general. We also use Lessonly as a repository of educational information.
- Remote learning. It is really easy to access the material online.
- Ease of use. A user can really quickly figure out how to use Lessonly. There is almost no learning curve.
- Integration with other software tools, such as Slack.
- A learner can not print the material in an easy-to-read way.
- A lot of its tools are geared towards sales people.