Item: iSpring Learn
Rating: 8
Author: Tom Kenny

Overall Satisfaction with iSpring Learn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I teach in the Department of British & American Studies at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, in Japan. At this time, I am using iSpring Learn in tandem with Quizmaker 8.1 to produce mobile learning material for students in my seminars and in other classes. If this trial is successful, I plan to recommend the use of Quizmaker & the Learn LMS on a department-wide or faculty basis. As a higher-ed educator, it's a problem creating learning materials in an elegant and efficient fashion, but iSpring's products make quizmaking a snap, and give my student-users a more appealing experience than they had when they used the materials I had created via ProProfs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

First, I like the feel of Quizmaker, especially that it's a robust, stand-alone piece of offline software. I disliked creating quizzes with online, web-based input because the creation interface was too clunky and unattractive. But Quizmaker makes creation as easy as making a PowerPoint and has a WYSIWYG style.
Next, I like the feeling of the Learn console and the report-generating tools at my disposal. Presently, I'm using Learn for a select group of students, but I see how I could easily expand that to a wider, online education market, given the tracking data implementation that could be used.

Cons

When students take quizzes in class, I'd like to see the results rendered into a multi-colored pie chart of scores, so that as students complete the test, they can immediately tell how they ranked compared to their peers.

Return on Investment

I do not have enough experience with the product yet to answer this question.

Alternatives Considered

Articulate Storyline, Blackboard, Moodle and ProProfs LMS Software

When it comes to creating materials for learners, Moodle is a real drag to work with, and ProProfs is not much better. ProProfs' LMS is pretty good, but they don't have a good way to create good-looking materials offline. iSpring's Quizmaker seems to have great promise.

Other Software Used

Moodle, ProProfs LMS Software, Articulate Storyline

Likelihood to Recommend

I think iSpring Learn would be an ideal LMS for any institution serious about delivering students instructional material that has real appeal to students, compared, say, to Moodle. The interface will also appeal to instructors teaching in a coordinated program.

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Polina Khizhnyak
commented 7 years ago
Hello, Tom! Thanks a lot for reviewing iSpring Learn here on TrustRadius. We greatly appreciate it :) Also thank you very much for your feature request, I will forward it to our Product Development team. Keep it up and hope iSpring serves you well!

New to iSpring Quizmaker + Learn LMS