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Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport)

Score8.8 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport)?

Skillsoft Percipio is the company updated learning platform, replacing the former Skillport.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 32 ratings of Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 8

  • Course catalog or library

    Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Learning content

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

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Cloud-Based Content

    Learning materials are hosted in the cloud, allowing users anywhere, anytime access with an internet connection.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Automation & Integration

    The platform integrates with various other systems to allow for automation features such as adding or removing users from courses and auto-enrollment in courses.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport).
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Fast, easy and good experience overall

Milvia Morales
Incube Academic Director at InCube Academy (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) to educate our students on subjects that'll be useful when getting their first job, many of them have never worked in a company before and lack skills that Skillsoft have in their library. It comes in handy especially because they can take courses on demand, whenever they can.

Pros

  • Tackle on soft skills
  • Variety of Topics
  • Checking comprehension

Cons

  • Checking understanding needs variety
  • Different types of activities

Return on Investment

  • I'm not in charge of this area, but it was a big plus for our students to have the certifications.
  • It was positive on our staff to learn new skills with us
  • Companies hiring our students were pleased with their preparation on skills.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Absorb LMS

Other Software Used

Canvas, Moodle

Skillsoft Books are well worth the investment!!

Incentivized
Jennifer ClouserView profile
Talent Development Specialist in Human Resources at Penn State University (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • It provides most books in audio and eBook options.
  • You can download books for reading offline.
  • There are thousands of books available and they are constantly adding to their list.

Cons

  • Increase the number of books offered in both eBook and audiobook
  • Increase the catalog by creating a section for online articles not just books

Return on Investment

  • We have increased our usage by 300% and helped our employees develop new skills.
  • We have developed an online training program for new managers, those seeking certifications (SHRM, PMP and others) and looking to expand our programs even more.
  • There are so many books (thousands), it can be overwhelming for our employees.

Other Software Used

Workday Human Capital Management, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Cornerstone OnDemand

Usability

An expansive learning platform with large scale multi-channel content

Incentivized
Joshua MelderView profile
Customer Account Manager in Corporate at Quad (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Skillport offers a rather extensive range of topics for both personal and professional growth.
  • Skillport lessons are multi-channel and cater to a variety of learning styles.

Cons

  • Skillport's user interface is relatively dated compared to many of its competitors.
  • While the content library is large, much of the content appears to have come from at least 5-10 years ago.

Return on Investment

  • Access to quality educational content for employees to take advantage of and invest back into their work.
  • Technology training at scale - Users can access courses at any time apart from dedicated training sessions.

Alternatives Considered

Coursera, Udemy for Business, Udacity, Skillsoft Academy and LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Udacity, Coursera, Concur Travel and Expense, monday.com, Squarespace, Apple iCloud, Workplace by Facebook, Prezi, WalkMe, Google Trends, Google Drive

A useful platform to host a variety of training content

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Good capability to host all kinds of training types (PDF, Powerpoint, captivate-created training content, etc.)
  • Gives an easy way for me as an administrator to track completion of the training content through the reporting feature
  • Easy to add and remove users to certain training groups as needed

Cons

  • SCORM compliance compatibility with adobe captivate projects is sometimes difficult to get right. Projects sometime shows as half completed when they should be tracking as fully
  • I would like to see more kinds of reporting templates that can show more specific data to how a user has accessed a training project
  • Not a huge issue, but Skillport does take about 24 hours sometimes to track completion of training content

Return on Investment

  • Positively increased the number of staff taking the required trainings.
  • Positively allows us to have solid numbers on who takes the trainings and when.
  • Positively increased the general knowledge of our staff on workplace subjects through the diversity of training content we are able to host on the platform.

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Security Awareness Training (formerly Wombat Security)

Other Software Used

Skype for Business (formerly Lync), Adobe Captivate, Snagit

Skillsoft Percipio for All!

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Human Resources (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily used for personal (professional and leadership) development. We like to use Skillsoft Percipio as a true MOOC (open source content) that users can search on what they need when they need it whether on desktop or mobile app. The business case is to support aspiring and current leaders in their development activities by offering courses, books, book summaries, videos, video summaries, etc.

Pros

  • Refresh content
  • Easy to curate channels or learning journeys
  • Easy to onboard/offboard users
  • Dashboard
  • Account mgmt

Cons

  • Some of the course content is dated or set in an older studio
  • Termed licensed users ought to be put back into the pool of available licenses
  • My account team changes frequently, consistency would be nice

Most Important Features

  • User easy onboarding (data feed)
  • User UI
  • Dashboard - activity views at a glance

Return on Investment

  • Supports our leadership developmnet
  • Supports our aspiring leaders
  • Some technical use cases (project management, agile, etc.)
  • Learning as a career management tool and thus reducing term rate

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business, Cornerstone OnDemand and Degreed

Other Software Used

Chronus