TrustRadius Insights for Seismic Learning are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently praised Lessonly's user interface, with many stating that it is extremely intuitive and easy to navigate. The clean and simple design allows users to quickly understand how to use the platform without any learning curve.
Various Test Types and Rich Media Support: Many reviewers highly value the ability of Lessonly to create various types of tests, including multiple choice and freeform. They also appreciate the inclusion of videos, images, and slides in their lessons, which makes onboarding and training more engaging and interactive.
Quick-Burst Learning and Task Assignment: The quick-burst learning feature of Lessonly has been widely praised by users. It allows them to access bite-sized lessons and easily assign tasks to individuals. This feature is beneficial for monitoring completion and tracking the performance of both teams and individual students.
We use Lessonly from an HR and Sales training perspective to ensure that we have full transparency and accountability with our employees when we deploy something for them to work on. It's been a game-changer because it's allowed us to react extremely quickly to the current COVID-19 environment due to the intuitive nature of the software.
Pros
Video-based lessons
Self-paced content creation
Extremely intuitive layout/design
Amazing internal team
Cons
Response time for support requests
Self-serve support resources
Likelihood to Recommend
In my experience with Lessonly, I would strongly recommend this product to anyone who has a team who needs the ability to have insight into where they are and accountability if pieces of training have not been met. This is my third company where Lessonly has been implemented and I would use it again and again.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Corporate (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)
We use Lessonly for training and continued education. The platform allows everyone in our department to have the most up to date information and to stay on the same page. Whether it be a large policy change or a small internal tool, Lessonly makes it easy for us to disseminate the information easily and effectively.
Pros
Makes training easy: Allows us to focus on the content.
Good customer service: Fast & friendly problem solving.
Clean user interface: Simple to make Lessonly content, easy for agents to digest the info.
Cons
The search feature sometimes doesn't pull up what I'm looking for.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lessonly is easy to use and makes learning fun. The simple user interface allows us to create new content quickly, track our agents' progress, and make sure everyone at the company has access to the tools they need to do their job. Max Yoder spoke to our team and was very inspiring as well!
VU
Verified User
Manager in Customer Service (Music company, 51-200 employees)
We started to use Lessonly in our Operation department to mainly deal with the onboarding process of our new employees. It really reduces our repetitive work. It's also a platform we use to retain our knowledge. We felt the benefits and impact so now we just started to expand the usage to the marketing and sales department.
Pros
Search function on the Learn page is very helpful.
It's very easy to use the platform.
Cons
The content page is very hard to organize; just using tags is not enough when there is a lot of content.
Sometimes we want to have discussion ability under a lesson, which for now is not available.
Likelihood to Recommend
For new employee onboarding Lessonly is a very nice platform to use. It can also be used as a knowledge base inside the company because of the support of search capability. Sometimes, we have really small reminders to share with everyone, but to build a lesson is too much for that. If there could be some feature to accommodate such a scenario, it would be great.
Lessonly is currently used only in our department, but other departments plan on using Lessonly as well. We use Lessonly for a few purposes: 1. Onboarding process 2. Knowledge retention 3. Teaching new technologies at work
I use Lessonly both to create content and as an end-user. Every person in our department was assigned to create a few lessons. Those lessons are primarily for the onboarding process but also used by all of us to refresh our memory about processes that we don't use often.
Pros
Easy to use.
Good customer support.
Cons
I would like to have an option to disable the "rate" window after each lesson completed.
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect for the onboarding process. The knowledge is standardized and does not depend on the personal knowledge of the person that is teaching you. There is no need to waste work hours teaching others, you can learn at your own pace, and the knowledge is there for anyone who needs it, whenever they need it. Also, unlike in other methods of onboarding like studying from reading slides, Lessonly allows you to actively study with quizzes. The progress in the onboarding process can be monitored. I personally didn't do my onboarding with Lessonly as we still didn't have it, but from my conversations with co-workers who did go through this process, they find it very convenient.
We build all our knowledge structures in Lessonly - from onboarding up to expert levels. We also use it for tips, knowledge retention, and onboarding lessons on a department level and for other company departments. We can keep track to see that we transfer all our knowledge to everyone in the team/department. We had a problem with knowledge leaks and many people asking the same questions all the time, and Lessonly really helped to solve that problem.
Pros
Searchable content.
Visual aids.
Cons
Sharing a conversation on a lesson.
Ability to load a DOC/slide that will transfer to an automatic lesson recommendation.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lessonly is one of the top platforms in its class. I do believe it could be improved by listening to customer suggestions, however.
Used by my department only, used to create a central organized professional content for new and old employees alike.
Pros
Encourage engagement: many different types or content.
Easy to edit: simply keys and structures.
Cons
Connecting several lessons to one course or expertise.
Several keys are hard to find, such as change lesson name.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited: a dynamic and growing company or anybody working with content and knowledge. Even schools and colleges for some purposes. Less appropriate: Areas requiring deeper understanding or hard topics.
VU
Verified User
Program Manager (Internet company, 51-200 employees)
Lessonly is used by one department to help with the onboarding of new operations managers. Our current operations managers create lessons to save and handover all their knowledge of the diverse tasks of our department. We also use it as a tool to share issues we had in our daily work and what lessons we got from them.
Pros
I like the search option.
The questionnaires are an amazing option to test the understanding of new employees.
Cons
You should be able to save whole sections to the Element Library to add them to a different Lesson.
There should be a chat function that will stay visible in the lesson. If one person had a question, chances are high the next person will have the same question.
Likelihood to Recommend
It helps with the onboarding of new employees. It helps with the sharing of knowledge between different team members. Helps to share instructions for new tasks in a big team.
We use Lessonly when launching new features. We go through feature training, and a follow-up test is sent to us via Lessonly. It is also used during new hire onboarding to learn about the company and our product.
Pros
Lessonly allows you to create various types of tests (I.e multiple choice, freeform, etc.)
You are able to include videos, images, and slides in Lessonly, so onboarding can take a self-service approach.
Cons
Lessonly is a robust tool with a lot of features, so it isn't always the most intuitive. I'd love to use the tool more, but it can be intimidating and time-consuming to create tests.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lessonly is well-suited if you are a hiring manager responsible for onboarding new team members. It is a way to save time by adding a self-service component to your onboarding approach. It is also great for continuous training. If you work for a company that has a constantly changing product, this is great to ensure everyone is well trained on the changes. For example, we use it to ensure our customer-facing teams are prepared to talk about new software features we release.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Customer Service (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)
We use Lessonly in our operations department for on-boarding and knowledge retention. We hope to expand use to other departments as well. The operations role is very knowledge- and learning-intensive, and individual training can be extremely time-consuming and resource heavy, so Lessonly fulfills a great need in the organization.
Pros
Very user-friendly interface
Ability to add all different types of elements to the lessons
Cons
Lesson visibility can sometimes be a challenge (must assign to learners).
The flow of clicking on a lesson from the content page sometimes seems not intuitive. It takes you to a lesson summary page rather than the lesson itself.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lessonly is great for engaging, easy-to-create, and e-use content. I have not come across a specific situation, when building content, where I felt Lessonly was not useful thus far.
Lessonly usage has spread across our organization as teams have come to experience what a powerful tool it is. It is most heavily used for onboarding, documenting company processes, product training, as well as the training program for our customer service agents. In the past few months, we've also begun using it for compliance training. Ultimately, Lessonly has made it easier than ever for us to meaningfully disseminate information across the organization while also ensuring that employees receive the same quality of training no matter where they are located. Additionally, it is helping us to foster a more self-serving employee base by providing information at their fingertips. We've found this to be especially helpful for teams/roles that receive the same questions repeatedly (like our IT team). Now, they can spend less time being reactive and instead focus on core responsibilities.
Pros
Content creation is incredibly intuitive and they offer an array of element options that can be created natively (text, flip cards, reveals, video, quiz questions/knowledge checks, etc.), cutting down on additional tools you may need. Of course, if you'd like to bring in external content, that can be done seamlessly. All of this also means being able to provide training that touches upon various learning styles— a huge win for learners!
Lessonly also has a Chrome extension that allows learners to pull up content in-browser so that they can learn side-by-side or simply access information within seconds. I don't know what I'd do without it.
Excellent service! If you need help, you can contact the Lessonly team from the chat widget while continuing to go about your work. Every interaction I've had with their team has been nothing but friendly, helpful, and just incredibly positive overall.
Cons
Lessonly does market itself as being a tool that simplifies training. While not a bad thing at all, if you're looking to incorporate things like gamification, then that's not something that is offered at present.
While Lessonly provides helpful data dashboards to admins, I'd love to see the 'Insights' feature continue to grow. You can currently download a CSV of all activity, but as the sole trainer at my company, it can be challenging trying to sift through that. That said, they've made many updates in the past year and am hopeful that they'll add more insightful dashboards as they continue to grow.
Likelihood to Recommend
Lessonly is an incredible tool for any company looking to offer an LMS that is super user-friendly & intuitive, both on the content creation side and on the learner side. Especially if you're looking to work with various SMEs at your org, Lessonly provides a low barrier to entry for them to share their knowledge. Onboarding is another area where Lessonly has been a revelation for us. Previously, we had an intensive onboarding that was completely led in-person by myself. Instead of front-loading new hires with information, I now use Lessonly to set an assignment schedule so that information is being shared at a better, more meaningful time. In turn, that has allowed us to shorten the initial onboarding and get new hires acquainted with their teams sooner. Because my company offers a product and we believe that all employees should experience it, we also use Lessonly for product training. This used to be a full-day, in-person training. Now, it's more engaging, incorporates different learning styles, and has made it easier for me as a trainer. If you're looking to have a tool that allows you to author courses in greater detail (think Adobe Captivate) or provides gamification, then it might not be the right LMS.
VU
Verified User
Program Manager in Human Resources (Music company, 51-200 employees)
