A decent academy-building tool
April 25, 2025

A decent academy-building tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Thinkific Plus

Overall Satisfaction with Thinkific

We use it for an external partners academy, training resellers on how to use our platform in the same way we train our internal teams. We create the content outside of Thinkific and then upload SCORM, in order to give a variable amount of sellers access to the content. The number of users is changing every month, and Thinkific handles this well

Pros

  • Works smoothly and quickly with no lag
  • Manage different landing page URLs
  • Customize landing pages

Cons

  • Weak reporting
  • No grouping of users for assignment
  • Content video upload and management is not intuitive
  • We could manage multiple courses easily at no extra cost
  • We wasted countless man-hours having to re-upload content that got lost
It started off higher but the more we used the platform and tried to meet our different use-cases, the more obstacles we ran into. A lot of what we wanted around reporting and assignment of content wasn't possible, which kept throwing us into upsell talks which after a while we realized would still not solve the problems we were having.
WorkRamp is paid per user and also a platform fee, making it a less financially viable option

Do you think Thinkific delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Thinkific's feature set?

Yes

Did Thinkific live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Thinkific go as expected?

No

Would you buy Thinkific again?

No

For selling courses it could be good, or for managing multiple landing pages for example a course in multiple languages. It is more suitable for use-cases which are self-serve training, and not in the case that you want to manage different groups of learners, track their progress and ensure that they have completed assigned training. The reporting was rigid, and we experience multiple issues with the flow of uploading videos and using them in multiple courses- we were constantly having to re-upload videos

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