TrustRadius Insights for Thought Industries are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy-to-use School Configuration and Course Authoring: Users appreciate the partnership with Thought Industries and find the overall school configuration and course authoring to be easy to use. Several reviewers have mentioned that they were able to quickly set up their learning platforms and create courses without any difficulties.
Highly Personalized Learner's Experience: The platform allows for customization of the learner's experience, making it highly personalized. Many users have praised this feature, stating that it helps them deliver tailored content to their learners, resulting in a more engaging and effective learning experience.
Impressive Presentation and User Ease: Users find the presentation, look, and user ease of the platform to be impressive. Numerous reviewers have commended the modern and user-friendly interface, emphasizing that it enhances the overall user experience and makes navigation intuitive.
We use Thought Industries as our primary customer learning platform. We deliver a variety of training modalities through Thought Industries including - Live webinar-style training for each product we sell (vILT) - On-demand courses for products and best practices in sales, recruiting, marketing, and operations - Certifications for products - Learning pathways for self-service implementation and training. Our business challenge when we purchased Thought Industries was to scale our learning programs to our growing customer base. Now, we use it as a way to distinguish the modalities and, based on the customer's package, determine eligibility for different styles of training.
Pros
Excellent and modern UI with ability to use .css to customize experience
Reporting including a BI connector tool
Integrations with Salesforce (managed package), Zoom, and a robust API
In-app authoring tool
Continued education for customer education professionals
Cons
More integrations with data warehouses and data lakes (out of the box)
Likelihood to Recommend
Thought Industries is perfect if you are trying to scale your customer education business for a growing customer base. It is more expensive than their competitors, but the price is worth it based on the product and experience. Thought Industries is likely great for smaller customers, although we are an enterprise-level customer. If you are not offering multiple modalities for your training program, Thought Industries (or any LMS for that matter) might not be the best investment.
We use Thought Industries to sell courses to our customers. It is primarily being used by the IT and Marketing departments. We now can create and sell courses based on our quarterly and annual content. This enables us to give customers interactive media and it also gives us a way of creating more revenue by subscription than just single product sales.
Pros
Ecommerce: The eCommerce options on Thought Industries are far better than any other LMS. You can sell subscriptions, one-time products, and even physical products.
Note-taking: The ability for users to take notes and journal is a key feature as a lot of our customers are teachers and they are learning the Bible and may want to go back and integrate their notes in other lessons.
The ability to handle video and audio is exceptional, especially how the video files can be stored in Wistia.
The panorama feature is helpful as we have many products that we white label and now, we can create courses for those customers as well.
Cons
The SCORM functionality needs improvement. In my opinion, it's clunky and not mobile-friendly.
The layout needs more flexibility. Our business has unique customers and a wide range of customers so being able to change it according to their needs would be helpful.
There is no image library. You have to upload each image every single time.
Updating changes can be slow.
It needs a drag-and-drop functionality.
Likelihood to Recommend
Thought Industries is well suited for a business that wants to do courses for an external audience and has design and video resources. It is also helpful for a business that does resell and white labeling of courses. If you are a super small business, then it would not necessarily be the right fit.