Item: NovoEd
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with NovoEd

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to deploy global programs in the organization. Allows our online audience to access virtual training programs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to upload content and videos and easy to edit and modify. Allows to program when a module or section can be launched and to schedule specific communication messages to audience. Assignments can be approved to review the quality of deliverables.
The peer-to-peer learning features in NovoEd are great. Discussions allow to connect with the author of the discussion and also with peers. Peers can see other peer’s comments and submissions and comment and learn from those.
User friendly, easy to navigate and structure easy to understand
Leaderboard so participants can see how they are doing compared to others

Cons

The options to design a page are limited: page width, navigation, margins, headers, etc. Design feels limited
Does not allow for a lot of customization. All pages flow in the same way so after a few courses, feels repetitive
I am not a technical expert, so I do not know how to embed html content to create other options to display content, in an example: sections that open when you click, etc.
To have different languages, you have to clone the course and translate and create a separate course.

Return on Investment

Very high participants engagement & participation (completion)
Social components allows to avoid an isolated experience

Alternatives Considered

Intrepid by VitalSource, Fuse, Cornerstone OnDemand and Saba Cloud

Much more user-friendly, easy to use. The LMS (Saba and cornerstone) are not user-friendly, tons of more clicks are needed to arrive at a course. We decided on Novoed because of the user experience for end users. LMS very focused on compliance and tracking and not in user experience. Fuse was much more social than our strategy, there every user can upload content. We wanted still to have the discipline of having instructional design, goals, etc, so Fuse was not an option.

Key Insights

Do you think NovoEd delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NovoEd's feature set?

Yes

Did NovoEd live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NovoEd go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NovoEd again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Degreed, Cornerstone OnDemand

Likelihood to Recommend

NovoEd is well suited for synchronous and asynchronous training. Best suited if you want to leverage social components, discussions, assignments and peer-to-peer learning. We run global cohorts to take advantage of the diversity and create community. That works great.

I think that when you need to leverage other design options, in an example, add features to display content in other ways, other types of design even in page layout, then you have limited options (but I haven't found any other better than Novoed in this space).

Reports are useful, but more options would be appreciated.

NovoEd Feature Ratings

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Great for social learning