NextThought

Avantages

My favorite part of this software is how simple it is to use. We were able to get our online courses created quickly. It's easy to re-enter courses and edit them if needed. We were also able to integrate NextThought into our own software and make a seamless login transition for our current users. The NextThought team was really great to work with throughout the entire process, and we are happy with the end result!

Inconvénients

The only con is that we are not able to choose the order in which our courses display for our learners. I understand that this is something that the NextThought team is working on developing, so we are hoping this will be a possibility in the future.

Avantages

Our small team was able to build out and implement our virtual conference quickly and easily from the administrator side. The learner experience was seamless for the most part with NextThought receiving very high ratings in the post-conference survey. The scalability of the platform is brilliant giving us the ability to build one simple course or a multi-day virtual conference with 80+ sessions. Learners are able to track progress and download certificates within the platform which is critical for our audience.

Inconvénients

The discussion feature on videos is not a real time chat therefore losing engagement and we can't track CEUs for individual sessions when using the platform as a multi-session conference module. Surveys were a little tricky. We look forward to the full Zoom integration, but we will utilize the LTI in the meantime.

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Pourquoi passer à NextThought

Avantages

Simple to navigate. Lots of options. Great support.

Inconvénients

Just the learning curve of moving training to a virtua platform

Avantages

Everything about this system was easy during the evaluation period. Easy to build courses, easy to take them, easy to track results. We needed an LMS that allowed for unlimited users as we are promoting a CDC healthcare initiative to every healthcare worker in Maryland. Many of these learners will return in the future for additional training. NextThought offered everything we needed at a very reasonable price.

Inconvénients

I have yet to encounter any functionality problems.

Avantages

The fact that Next Thought very easily allows us to integrate learning assets from a variety of sources has been terrific. We can grow our catalog of courses pretty rapidly as we bring them in to this environment. It is very straightforward and easy to use.

Inconvénients

A missing feature is the ability for learners to keep a repository of documents they develop or work on associated w courses in the LMS. This would allow learners to continually access and work on a project (doc or slides) over the duration of a course - and choose when to have a course facilitator review and provide feedback.

Avantages

The collaboration component is easy and fosters spontaneous conversation and teamwork and increases information sharing throughout the organization

Inconvénients

The reporting features could be better but there has been much improvement and the responsiveness to request more functionality has been great

Avantages

The platform is user-friendly, modern, and is backed by a world-class support team.

Inconvénients

We would like additional user access controls and permissions.

Avantages

I love being able to communicate with other learners/teachers from directly within the app. It allows learners to ask questions about the lesson as they are going through the lesson.

Inconvénients

I don't have any complaints about the software.

Avantages

We love how easy it is to get content on there! We can use Youtube or Vimeo just by adding the link and everything populates itself. It's also a colorful and customizable site which makes it appealing for our students (11-17). The platform also has built-in analytics which is very useful for us to see what students are gravitating to versus not, which helps us continue to shape our lessons to be the best that they can be.

We've seen students just intuitively start using the site and we rarely get questions on how to use the platform.

Inconvénients

I wish I could embed pictures directly to assignments, but knowing the NextThought team, they're probably already working on this!

Avantages

I love how the platform is built around community and engaging students.

Inconvénients

I would like to see some updates to the community board, assessments, and mutual library of content.

Avantages

Ease of use and support staff, very open to dev updates

Inconvénients

Need more customized features. More use of the space when inside of the course (see the boarders)

Avantages

Features and cost and that we were connected quickly

Inconvénients

Took me a bit to understand how to build a course but the support was so inviting and non-judgemental so I got it done.