edX for Business vs. Ideagen Workplace Training

edx is really helpful for learning and growing your skills in both personal and professional aspects. It helped us learn all the business concepts which were required for our company. We chose certification after auditing a number of courses. It was definitely a terrific tool for professionals who were self-learning.

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When government guidelines suggested staff work from home, the home working course was enabled on our user accounts and it created a timely [way] to gather data and react in light of the pandemic. Certain health and safety training is not covered specifically to our company policies in courses, but we have recently received the legionella risk course and are aware of a course builder which could also house this need.

• Provides certification after completion of course
• Provides eLearning from home
• They have a broad variety of courses for all business owners

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• Houses CPD accredited training which can be used to train our employees.
• For our organization, the use of single sign on allows our users to easily access the platform without any hassle and it works on different devices which allows for flexibility when completing a course.
• Provides great tools for achieving completion from our employees on the training assigned to them such as a clear training course with attractive infographics to keep our users engaged when using.
• Unique and pro-active work force: our account manager Bianca has always displayed care, support and professionalism during every conversation with timely actions turned around from any meetings.

• Following forum posts when there are thousands of participants is clunky
• The feature that is supposed to bookmark your progress and start you up back where you left off is rarely accurate

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• The reporting system can be initially confusing to use unless you receive training - which we did with our account manager and are now confident in getting reports.

It is an excellent tool for remote setup team. The universities are well respected, and the course depth adds a lot of value. The upskilling has become convenient. Progress can be tracked easily, and it offers customized corporate training needs fulfilled. The compliance training courses are helpful in particular as they meet growing demand.

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It would be 10 but for the fact that sometimes, the transition from training to test is not smooth. The user can finish the course but not be prompted to proceed to doing the test. This makes us have incomplete Profiles on the system sometimes. The issue with this is that some people might not receive their DSE equipment.

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edX for Business seemed to be quite similiar to other competitors in terms of methodology and formats. In our case, courses themes availability were very important, because the challenge was to find relevant content to support pre-defined learning tracks. We found most of them on edX for Business catalog. The posibility to integrate them into other platforms was also an important decision factor.

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• There is no way to try the course for free to check if the content is interesting
• Valuable certificates for the cv and linkdln
• Well renamed certifications in the job market

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• It enables us avoid waste by narrowing down staff DSE needs.
• The ability to monitor the number of licenses used is clear and enables us to spend according to our needs.

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