Item: Seismic Learning
Rating: 9
Author: Richard Avenius

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Kerauno we currently use Lessonly to distribute electronic training materials to our internal sales teams as well as our sales partners. As the need for training grows in our organization, we will undoubtedly use the system to distribute training across the rest of the organization as well. This tool allows us to distribute training, track performance, and ensure a consistent onboarding experience with our users.

Pros and Cons

Tracking user performance - This tool allows you gather very granular data on learner performance, and lets you slice this data in a variety of different ways.
Content Creation - The Lessonly system comes with a host of content creation tools that allow for quick and easy training development. Regardless of your skill level with instructional design, you will be able to create effective, professional looking training very quickly.
Support services - The Lessonly team is engaged, knowledgeable, and committed to helping your organization do better work. Not only do they provide quick and effective answers to questions, but they support you consistently throughout the stand-up process.

There are limits to what you can do with the system. As with all pieces of software, there are limits to what the product can do. For most organizations, the chances of encountering these boundaries are pretty low; however, if you have experienced instructional designers who may want certain types of uncommon types of functionality ( Ex - multiple graders submitting grades on one assignment), you may encounter these edges more often. None of these limits are game-breaking, but they do exist.
Search tracking - Lessonly does not keep track of learner search attempts that yielded no results. Again, this is a very minor thing, but some competitors do offer it. Essentially, keeping track of this information would allow you to see what information your learners have been searching for and not receiving, which would let you create new content accordingly.

Support Rating

Our customer account specialist is fantastic, and the support specialists that I have talked to via chat were absolutely stellar! Occasionally, there is a bit of a lag in email responses from our customer support specialist, but overall this has never been a real issue. I can't say enough good things about the customer support team at Lessonly!

Alternatives Considered

SAP Litmos, Looop, Brainshark and Adobe Captivate

Lessonly offered several advantages over these competitors. They offer comparable functionality to industry leaders like Adobe and SAP, while at the same time offering far more responsive and friendly customer support. At the same time, they offered a more robust and feature-rich experience than other similar-sized organizations like Looop and Brainshark. For companies of their size, Lessonly is definitely the leader in LMS tools.

Other Software Used

Articulate 360, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Captivate

Likelihood to Recommend

Lessonly is the perfect tool for a team where you need to quickly design and implement professional-looking training and seems particularly suited to teams who maybe have limited instructional design experience. As the level of instructional design experience grows, you can on occasion run into situations where you want functionality that is not there. That said, this tool provides all of the features of some of the larger LMS tools out there, with a much more responsive and friendly support team. Lessonly is great!

Lessonly helps our business do better work!

Overall Satisfaction with Lessonly