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Lessonly by Seismic is a cloud-based learning management system that allows users to build, share and track training materials and activity from a singular interface. It is primarily used by customer service teams, sales teams,...
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- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Lessonly Is The Best Training Management Software
Lessonly has been a great experience for our company and we continue to use it. It has allowed our employees to learn more about the recruiting industry and it is easy to access all the lessons that you have been given.
Pros
It allows you to easily access and complete assignments fast and it has a great design and an excellent support system.
Cons
I can't think of anything as I am just a user listening to lessons
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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The Goldilocks of LMS Software
Before committing to Lessonly, I looked into quite a few LMS solutions. I found this to be the perfect middle ground in terms of price and features. It's really suited for a smallish (under 50 employees company), though I believe they have other plans for larger businesses or teams. Beyond just features, I couldn't be happier with their support. I never found their sales team be pushy which is always a wonderful bonus. They also have quite a few meetup events with company reps which I'm a big fan of.
Pros
-From the pitch to implementation, their support was fantastic. They really helped to make sure this would suit our needs and after signing the contract, they followed up to set up a few meetings to make sure we fully understood how to use it to its full capacity.
-It's extremely straightforward and easy to use for both administrators and learners. It was so simple I felt like I was missing something, but they assured me that wasn't the case :)
-It offers a lot of information and lessons on how to actually train and improve your training process at no additional cost. This has proven to be a really invaluable resource and has improved our training program and saved time in developing it.
-I love that it integrates with Zendesk.
Cons
-I wish it allowed for some more customization or formatting variation.
-Though you can easily embed videos, you can't host them through Lessonly. We knew this going in so it obviously wasn't a dealbreaker, but it would be nice.
-As an administrator, I really wish it was possible to create a grading key. I find I create a lot more multiple choice quizzes because it's just too hard to grade written answers.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Lots of functions in a single LMS
Pros
Excellent for small and medium companies, it is a great tool oriented to corporate training, but not so for online institutes or schools,. You can get started very quickly without a huge learning .
Cons
Make sure you have all the content and workflow well organized before using this tool, sometimes it is very difficult to look for information in the LMS, definitely need more customization in terms of formatting the content. They should improve the use of templates.
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- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Lessonly is amazing
Pros
I like how welcoming and friendly lessonly is to use. It's easy to dive in and experiment with modules without feeling overwhelmed by customizations. It's easy to see what you've created, give profiles to authors and reviewers, and stay organized with a massive staff roster.
Cons
Specifically user management can be tricky. Depending on how you import or create users, sometimes after an inactive period, access is archived to free up a license which can create frustration during times of company wide learning.

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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LLamazing
We have had a wonderful overall experience with Lessonly. Our implementation team has been wonderful, supportive and helpful.
Pros
Lessonly is so very user friendly and easy to navigate. It does not take a lot of product knowledge to be able to create a lesson, which makes it ideal when you have a large amount of content that you need to get added.
Cons
I would love to see some sort of integration with Teams and Knowledge. If someone were to ask a question in Teams it would be great if a lesson or content could be suggested!
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Amazing product for employees!
Training new hires and tenured employees. Testing employee company/product knowledge.
Pros
I use this product for all my new hires and sometimes tenured employees for additional training. The ability to built lessons within different paths is perfect for staying organized and making many different trainings to use continuously. I love that I am able to track my employee's progress within each path too, as well as the ability to test them on their knowledge.
Cons
The technical aspects of moving lessons from path to path is a bit long and could be made easier, maybe a couple of shortcuts could be made to make it a quicker process.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Lessonly is a Lifesaver
I am a sales manager and I use Lessonly almost every day. I build lessons to review sales best practices and to test their knowledge. I also use the video recording feature for the reps to record their elevator pitches or any role playing scenarios.
Pros
-Ability to make lessons to review best practices
-Video recording for sales pitches
-Quizzes and test over sales training
-Continued training
Cons
Needs to fix a couple of bugs with copy and paste feature, but other than that it is great!
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Lessonly Works!
Lessonly works very well for our training systems. Our information is updated/can change a lot so being able to easily go into a lesson to update is a benefit. Lessonly also provides 'house' lesson/guides for it's administrators including tips on when to put information into video, what might work best content-wise or how much content. This is very useful for those creating lessons for the first time.
Pros
Your can add videos, images, and quizzes to the lessons on any slide. You can create lesson paths which clump certain lessons into one flow. You can track when employees begin and end lessons, and the 'grade' they get for each lesson (if you have quizzes in lessons).
Cons
Can be cumbersome to add a new administrator for auditing the lessons if there are a ton of lessons, as it seems you can only add an editor one lesson at a time.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Learning/Training made easy
Pros
Great online training and learning resource for remote or in-person teams
Cons
love everything so far customer service has been great for any small questions or assistance
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Excellent tool of training
Organization of classes for training teachers
Pros
For the course of educational training, the tool is very usefulness and allows to share videos and projections of images dynamically
Cons
The cost is a little bit high and the explanation for the functioning results something complicated
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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Good concept, not so useful for managing large numbers of learners
Pros
I like that Lessonly allows our company to create custom training modules that can be sent out to our network.
Cons
I wish that Lessonly had more user-friendly reporting of completed assignments. Our team monitors completions by regions, with different managers being responsible for learners in different areas of the country, yet there is not a convenient way of sorting completions by location on the platform - one must manually enter the location for each user, then download the reports as a spreadsheet in order to sort by the location field. Sending invitations is also far too manual of a process - needing to type in the name of each learner (as opposed to being able to auto-invite by location or date added) is tedious and can be problematic when two users have the same name but only one needs to be sent an invitation. There's no additional information, such as email address, available in the invite flow to easily differentiate users. Also, many of our learners have reported that the navigation of lessons is not the most convenient. When reviewing previously completed modules, the navigation menu is limited, forcing them to click through numerous pages in order to get to the one they wish to review. As an admin, I also found the chat box that pops up in the corner every time I visit the site to be annoying, with no option to permanently disable it.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great platform and great people!
I love Lessonly. I'd like to see improvements to the gradebook and have pre-made content available, but neither of these things are dealbreakers. The LlamaNation community is a huge "pro" and one of the biggest differentiators between Lessonly and other LMS platforms. I am proud to be a llama! I highly recommend Lessonly to anyone looking for an intuitive LMS for creating custom content.
Pros
Lessonly's platform is super easy to use to create custom, engaging L&D content. And if you ever get stuck, they have fantastic employees ready to help and a customer community for additional support.
Cons
The ONLY downside to Lessonly is that everything must be created. There is no (to my knowledge) out of the box content. Lessonly should hire us to create that for them!
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Super user friendly
We launched a new training program with Lessonly. Their onboarding with us was excellent - super supportive and patient with our long decision making process. Their customer support is super responsive and great to work with.
Pros
Really easy to build lessons without a lot of technical know-how. It is quick to get content in, publish, and assign out to users.
The interface is very clean and self-explanatory to use.
Cons
Some of their texts options are limited (colours, sizing).
You can't copy and paste whole sections of content from one course to another easily.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Easy to use with a great support team.
We looked at a few tools to help us provide better training to our new hires and existing employees. None were as easy to use and nicely designed as Lessonly. The user experience is our main priority, and that's where Lessonly has a huge leg up over their competition.
There are some features we'd like to have, and we've had an opportunity to share our feedback during the entire sales/onboarding process. We even had a chance to share feedback directly with members of their leadership team. Everyone has been friendly, responsive, and seem to genuinely care about our overall experience.
Their customer support has been top-notch as well. Extremely helpful and speedy in their replies. Recently, a bug I submitted was fixed within hours, with a nice follow up email to confirm. So where certain features lack, they make up for in a great experience. I feel like I can trust them to keep improving their software.
Pros
UI/UX design. Customer service.
Cons
Would love a more intuitive experience navigating around the gradebook or managing existing lessons.
PDF export of grade data is also something we'd love to see.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Love Lessonly!
Pros
We love using this for our learning platform. It’s simple & employees like the ease of use
Cons
Some of the applications aren’t very user friendly
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Solid tool for training your employees
Pros
It's a nice tool that lets you set up learning tools for your end users to use and go over learn from.
I set up a whole IT course for new users to do as part of their onboarding process. We also use in conjunction with our broader company-wide onboarding set up
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Cons
the only thing I can think of could use a little work on is the user management, i think it could be a little better and easier to add users and as well as remove them too.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Excellent e-learning platform
Pros
Lessonly allows us to share content externally with teams that sell our products in an easy and fun way. Not only people can learn about our products but they can also receive extra tips and training. This is important for us to maintain great working relationships with our external partners. We also use Lessonly internally to ensure our staff stay up-to-date with industry compliance requirements.
Cons
There is nothing I don't like. The tool is excellent and the customer success team amazing!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Great Product!
In the almost year I've been using it I've found it very easy and useful. I honestly have no complaints.
Pros
It makes for quick training sessions and allows individuals to self serve. Working in customer service we don't always have time for everyone to be together at the same time for an update or training refresher. But we can all find 10-20 minutes to complete a lessonly applied to us.
Cons
There is nothing that has really proven to be a problem. The search option is helpful, the layout makes sense, the features are easy to use and find. LOVE IT!
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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A learning management tool that will never let you down.
We use Lessonly for our training for internal employees. Lessonly has lately been our go-to tool for all our learning needs.
Pros
The beauty of this tool is, the ease of creating the courses.
Integration with third party software like Slack and Salesforce is good.
Cons
I experienced few formatting issues initially and over a period of time I learnt how it solve it.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Great product but very expensive
Pros
The setup is very easy and the UI looks professional and slick.
Building new content is relatively easy to do and to assign to users.
The customer service is generally very good and the service is professional.
Cons
It is very expensive software, and although it is effective - I am not sure the price can be fully justified.
Annoying we have issues assigning some lessons to people - the software seems to have issues with certain email addresses which is unhelpful.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Helps with Training new and old reps
Pros
I like how easy it is to create a quiz and to monitor results. We use lessonly to quiz our sales floor after weekly lunch and learn trainings and it helps us keep everyone certified.
Cons
No issues at all. It does exactly what we need it to.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Excellent platform - Ease of use, affordable price and visually engaging enough for my team
Great tool for a small to mid size business.
Pros
Easy to get creating and understanding the core functionality. Seeing as it is a relatively new tool it matches the needs of our younger audience who will be using it most often.
Cons
Although it is visually engaging, I wish there was a way to use custom images for the Lessons / Courses. Occasionally a little buggy with formatting, but overall not a huge problem.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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An Easy-To-Use Content Delivery Platform
We've used Lesson.ly for around 2 years and been very happy with their product. Lesson.ly makes it easy to deploy engaging self-led training to our employees and vendors.
Pros
User interface is intuitive.
Content creation is very simple.
Cons
Lack of import/export functionality
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Simplicity
We transitioned to Lesson.ly from another, more complicated, LMS and have been very happy with the transition.
The team are extremely helpful and always on call to troubleshoot any issues. (Despite the time difference between us, we're in the UK). The training materials provided are extensive, but unnecessary sometimes as the it's very intuitive to use and implement. The integration with OBIQ (haven't tested the latest Slack integration), has been very useful and setting it up was easy.
The Reporting function has been very useful in seeing where learners are struggling and reassessing our approach.
Overall, we're very happy with Lesson.ly!
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Lessonly effective for Content management
Lessonly wasnt created for content management as I use it, but it gets the job done. Tagging allows me to add metadata to my 'lessons', and html format makes it easily accessible across devices and platforms. This also makes it easy to add content from other places and file types.
Pros
It gets the job done.
Cons
Tagging questions/adding question types/font more customizable