Acorn PLMS vs. Totara LMS

As a real estate services company with properties (& employees) in six states, Totara LMS is well suited for implementing and our employee learning platform to our many team members that work remotely and cannot benefit from regular in-person learning courses. Totara LMS's comprehensive and customizable reporting system also allows us to accurately review and tell the story of employee performance and talent development, while tailoring this reporting to the needs of different internal stakeholders.

Incentivized

• Easy user interface with good ability to brand to your own environment.
• Relatively easy to administrate yourself.

Incentivized

• The expansive capabilities of Totara LMS out of the box can be intimidating to those first starting out with an LMS.
• Cost of deployment is high and the ramp up is time consuming.
• Help documentation is limited, but we hear it will be improved in the future.

Incentivized

Easy to access both local support and support/advice from other Totara LMS users as we keep in regular contact as a part of the totara government users group. Our vendor also keeps in touch with this group and a lot of knowledge is shared. It's easy to access the Totara LMS users academy, and one of my administrators has also set up a local forum where they ask each other questions and share knowledge as well. Our vendor is easy to access via our support plan and we have monthly catch-ups with our account manager where we hear about anything new coming up.

Incentivized

• saved frontal training
• more employees passed training and faster

Incentivized