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Seismic Learning

Score6.8 out of 10

198 Reviews and Ratings

What is Seismic Learning?

Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021), is a learning management system (LMS). The vendor emphasizes eLearning for client-facing skills, as well as a drag-and-drop interface. Lessonly supports customizable learning paths and corporate onboarding processes.

Top Performing Features

  • Progress tracking & certifications

    The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Compliance management

    Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Learning content

    The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Assignments

    Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7

Seismic Learning - Valuable for what it provides

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Seismic Learning helps us to effectively roll out new products, tools, and processes internally. We use Seismic Learning to create short training programs, as well as certificate programs to adhere to regulatory compliance. All of this is internal to our organization. We have heavily used Seismic Learning to familiarize users with a new system or product, and ensure that they comprehend the features before providing access to the new system or product itself using Seismic Learning's quiz -like features.

Pros

  • Ease of set up
  • Ability to easily restructure existing learning content
  • Customizability in how lessons are assigned

Cons

  • The UI of Seismic Learning is clunky at times, especially for content creators
  • Seismic Learning is missing an automated reminder feature
  • I'd like to see more "knowledge check" features that ensure comprehension of the material covered

Return on Investment

  • Seismic Learning has helped us roll out new tools quickly once they're developed, reducing time to ROI on other investments
  • Seismic Learning has decentralized our ability to create training, improving knowledge sharing across the organizaiton
  • Seismic Learning has helped us maintain compliance while more than tripling the number of people who have direct access to data

Usability

Other Software Used

Tableau Cloud, Salesforce CMS, Atlan

Usability of Seismic Learning

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Seismic Learning in our organization to take our new lessons in regarding about our processes that we use on our daily work. Seismic Learning is user interface friendly it's easy to navigate throughout the lessons and there are various types of lessons that you can take for example videos or slideshows that will help the user learn more.

Pros

  • Lesson Plan
  • Process learning
  • Interactive learning
  • Additional learning content
  • Will help the user hone their skill

Cons

  • Being able to change the text on the platform
  • Changing theme on the platform
  • Being able to customize or organize the template of the lessons

Return on Investment

  • More productivity on specific tasks
  • Helps on avoiding mistakes
  • Makes the user's knowledgable
  • Sharpen the user's skills

Alternatives Considered

Guru and Partner Portal

Other Software Used

Kustomer, Google Analytics, Seismic Knowledge, Partner Portal

Lessonly: Teach? Train? Onboard? Does it all!

Pros

  • Providing training
  • Onboarding
  • Raising procedural knowledge across the project
  • Knowledge tests

Cons

  • Increasing active users per month for a lesson/quiz
  • Making it more efficient with informing users when the limit is about to be breached for active users

Return on Investment

  • Successfully used to onboard new employees
  • Successfully used to train/uptrain employees
  • Successfully used to measure results of onboardings and trainings
  • Assured projects procedural knowledge is up to date and on a passing mark

Other Software Used

Playvox, Scorebuddy, Verint Community (Telligent)

Lessonly Has Great and Unique Capabilities: A Great Learning Tool

Pros

  • Helps our team to find answers to various questions
  • Helps our team to practice
  • Helps our teams to learn new skills
  • Helps our teams to share knowledge

Cons

  • Lessonly has been an incredible tool. Therefore, I think it is a complete tool the way it is.

Return on Investment

  • Lessonly allows our teams to learn new skills and practice them every day.
  • Lessonly is easy to use when it comes to sharing knowledge.
  • Lessonly has impressive features.

Alternatives Considered

GoSaaS Employee Training System (ETS)

Other Software Used

Join.me, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Dropbox Paper

A great investment

Pros

  • User-Friendly.
  • Admin Friendly.
  • Easy to use searchability.

Cons

  • We would love to see more design ability when building lessons.
  • Updating the admin panel is not easy, as it's not easy to search in the admin panel.

Return on Investment

  • Time saved due to in-person training.
  • Further productivity.

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive

Other Software Used

Greenhouse