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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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- 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: 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: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good for remote teams onboarding
We started to spend 60%! less time on remote teams onboarding, so it's got easier to adjust out business to changing technology demands.
Pros
Out onboarding plan had been a difficult to manage Excel spreadsheet for a long time.
Eventually, I was able to persuade management to use some more appropriate solution.
We compared Lessonly vs WorkRamp and lessonly was the winner because of more reach features set.
Thanks to feature that allow to track trainers activity, we were able to motivate experienced employees to create a number of training materials (most of people were able to use the app right away, without any training) and reward top performers.
Cons
Some of trainers reported they experienced formatting issues when creating complex training materials.
- 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!
- 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!
- 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: 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: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very Easy to Learn and Implement
Pros
I never had any formal training, but was able to pick this up quickly and easily - that is the sign of great, easy to use software. Customer service is quick to respond and VERY helpful as well which is lovely.
Cons
More ability to do things in bulk (bulk upload, bulk tag) would make an easy to use software even easier to use!
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Makes learning quick and simple
Pros
I love that progress is saved across lessons and completion is tracked. Wanting to have every lesson available from the company completed is almost like a game. You don't want to stop running through courses so you can keep up your 100% completion rate. Quizes at the end, interactive lessons are nice little bonuses.
Cons
The dashboard is a little weak for discovery and the search is presented in a manner that results in 1 lesson producing many search results.
- 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: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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A great platform for employee learning
Working with the Lesson.ly team has been fantastic. They are incredibly responsive to customer needs and concerns. They have helped me through every step of the development and roll-out process. Lessons are incredibly easy to build. They are also rolling out new features frequently. I've really enjoyed developing my content and sharing it with my employees. They've also enjoyed a new format for learning - one where they're not listening to me lecture all the time! Not SCORM compatible, but that's the only major inconsistency with other LMS platforms. I recommend Lesson.ly, especially for small education departments like me!
Pros
Lessons are easy to build. They frequently add new content for free. It is reasonably priced for small organizations. The staff is incredibly responsive and helpful. It works well with a lot of content which can be embedded.
Cons
Not SCORM compliant - this is common to other LMS platforms. Also, the gradebook could use some more views - but they're working on it!
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Amazing learning software with some of the best client support I've ever experienced.
Working with Lessonly has been one of the best vendor partner experiences I've had. In our search for a learning platform, I was pleasantly surprised to find this (relatively) small company innovating in a market where most others are falling behind. The Lessonly platform has gotten us excited again about capturing and sharing internal company knowledge. The support and partnership we have with the Lessonly team is one of the best experiences I've ever had. They have provided great guidance on building setup and launch, building engaging lessons, and best practices around driving adoption. Lessonly rocks!
- 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: Consumer Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Lessonly is a wonderful teaching tool!
Pros
Lessonly has a fantastic search tool to be able to reference specific lessons by keywords.
Cons
When you share lessons with team members via email, the lessons don't always make it to the team member or they end up out of order.
- 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: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great Team at Lesson.ly
Lesson.ly has great customer service! Prompt and individualized service. Completely changed how we train our staff.
Pros
Very easy to use.
Cons
Reporting.
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Easy to use for managers and sales reps
Pros
Easy to build additional lessons as needed.. Software is simple for reps to log into and complete the training as required.
Cons
Nothing really. Perhaps the software can add features that provides best in class lessons for users and their customers.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Why I like using Lesson ly
As a supervisor in Customer Service, we look for various tools that will help our cs reps do their jobs as efficiently as possible. We have been using Lessonly for nearly a year, and we have had excellent results using it. The reps are able to check their progress and work immediately and go back over any incorrect answers. The supervisors are able to assign and reassign as necessary. Lessonly has been a real asset to our department!
Pros
* Ease of use
* Can create a Lessonly on any topic
Cons
* N/A
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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I LOVE this software
Pros
User friendly, really effective.
I've used Lessonly in two different organizations and I love it. It's the easiest way to onboard new employees, and (as an employee who has been onboarded with it), it's way more effective than traditional methods. Also, super user-friendly.
Cons
I'm sure there could be more functionality, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
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Lessonly is great!
Lessonly has been a great way for us to help our shoppers become the best of the best! It's easy to use, and the customer support is fantastic.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Lesson.ly is a very good tool for corporate training
Our company uses Lesson.ly for corporate training.
The strongest points are the ease of use, great customer support, and constant improvements to the product. Every one of our new Lesson.ly users in our company found it very easy to figure out how to use Lesson.ly. They found it especially useful for distant learning and self-paced learning.
The customer support is one of the best in the industry. The tutorials are short and to the point. There is regular contact initiated by Lesson.ly to make sure that the software is fulfilling out company's learning needs. Feedback from customers is taken into consideration when deciding the evolution of the software.
The only negative comment would be that it takes a while to get used to the lessons & courses format that is at the core of how the material is organized.
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Lesson.ly for the WIN!
From day one, the team at Lesson.ly has gone above and beyond helping us scale our company and, most importantly, our culture across three different locations and a variety of teams here. With their help, we've seen success and an increase in onboarding, productivity and general team development. Whenever we have a question, Lucy is always availible to chat, offer suggestions based on other client's successes and problem-solving. We've been able to use what we've built cross-functionally to develop easier, quicker and more personal connections with new team members.