Litmos

Avantages

We are pleased that Litmos is virtual, which allows our employees to access the software from anywhere there is an Internet connection. It also has a low-budget mobile application. The design of the system can be tailored to integrate with the company's software, giving it the appearance of being more part of the organization than just machinery. The user feel is wonderful. The tiles look great and the system is simple to use.

Inconvénients

I would like custom reports to be sharable with other users of the system, rather than having to export them and then share them. The procedure for building the course could be more efficient. It is simple to package the contents into class and course packets. The question is where do you write effectively in the various memory blocks. There is no built-in spell checker. The window for making copy is small. We started developing our material in Litmos, but then incorporated it into the course.

Avantages

The user interface is very good on both the administration side and the learner side. It offers sufficient customization options to make it look branded and corporate, without making it overly complicated. With a large number of features and integrations available, you can simply turn on and off the bits that you want.

Inconvénients

Some large manipulations of data from the admin side are sometimes difficult to do. A good example of this is where the course certificates need to be updated in all courses. There is no global way of changing the certificate template without having to go into each and every course.

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

I liked Litmos ease of use for creating and delivering training content. It offered straightforward tools for managing courses and tracking learner progress, making it accessible for both creators and users.

Inconvénients

I feel Litmos UI design is quite boring with the outdated page-turning format. The system felt static and lacked the interactivity needed for a more engaging learning experience.

Avantages

Overall I find Litmos to be easy to use and relatively intuitive. When I've had questions I've been able to find the answer in the online help forums nearly every time (in the instances I've had to reach out help has been rather quick and efficient). The content authoring works well for the most part, and the content library covers nearly all of our general needs, which is great. Any Litmos representatives we've worked with have been great. The Dojo is helpful for teaching yourself the platform, and the seemingly endless list of features has been great so far, though I plan to utilize them even more as we grow with our LMS (Assign, Branding, etc.).

Inconvénients

There are some quirks, as with anything. If you copy a module and delete the original then you're unable to edit the copy (even though it's completely separate, per their descriptions online). Litmos has verified this quirk. I find the fonts/sizing to be somewhat restrictive within the content authoring tool, and in the same vein the assessments within the authoring can be difficult to manipulate at times, depending upon what elements you add on what page.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Litmos

Avantages

- The most important feature of the software which is very helpful for the administrators to upload new learning content for the new employees to be successful and get knowledge on company policies on network, security, behavioral, etc.
- The most important feature of the application is to conduct exams and score employees on the tests conducted and evaluate the next steps for the employee. The manager can then look into the next possible certifications the employee should be targeting and get certified in the area.

Inconvénients

- The tool can be more intuitive and make it more comfortable for all the new employees who are new to the tool as well.
- The product team can include more features on the tool like taking surveys, making content more strictly accessible for several teams based on the hierarchy model in the company.
- The tool is a little expensive than the one's available in the market

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Litmos

Avantages

The LMS has many features that I'm really happy with and somewhat easy to use, like setting up teams, content creator is great and met all my expectations. Manual bulk uploading new starts and leavers isn't difficult, looking forward to linking this to the HR system.The main feature for me was the number of courses available for everyone, via PC, Tablet or Phone.

Inconvénients

You are buying a shell of an LMS, in its basic form but SAP Litmos don't get it ready for you. The support given heavily rely on you watching the LMS learning courses that either don't always make sense or you find that you need software to make the changes you want.The SAP Litmos approach is, they are here to help provide you with the information on "How to do it", but the work is done by you. The "DoJo learning" is helpful and can sometimes save you from contacting support, but it isn't always clear and results in functions being left in limbo (like Gamification, LMS theme etc)

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Litmos

Avantages

Easy to use search and navigate. Quick to load

Inconvénients

Needs a refresh and graphics updated. Needs a preview mode

Avantages

Easy to assign and manage trainings, makes tracking required training straightforward.

Inconvénients

SSO can be finicky at times, searching for new training could be improved.

Avantages

Teaching our team how to use the website was pretty self explanatory and required minimal training. We love all of the Litmos training content that is available as courses for employees to complete and add to their achievements. It's also pretty neat having a customizable dashboard and personalized Litmos website.

Inconvénients

Litmos has badges and points but no one really seems to use or care about these features. Also, adding an external learning record seems to be more complicated than necessary.

Avantages

Litmos was price-effective, easy to deploy. Litmos provided Reports on adoption, Test Scores & track everything in one please

Inconvénients

Litmos was less user friendly & can offer better customer support

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Litmos

Avantages

What I like about Litmos is how it stores all of my training and development opportunities in one easy to use website.

Inconvénients

The look of the dashboard is not my favorite, but this might be the doing of the company we partner with that actually provides the training through Litmos. Other than that, no complaints.

Avantages

- Easy to add & assign courses
- Easy for learners to access
- Large library of content

Inconvénients

- Reporting is a nightmare and often views on screen show misinformation
- Reporting on Learning Paths is especially challenging
- Managers cannot easily pull clear, accurate reports on their teams
- Very buggy, we submit endless support tickets
- Support tickets are prioritized based on all customers' need
- Expect to go around and around with various levels of support
- Library of training is mostly text with images, not very engaging, the best courses are developed for the UK
- Everything goes on the dashboard and stays until course is completed, meaning users might open a course out of curiosity and it stays on their dashboard, cluttering their view
- It's not obvious to users which courses on their dashboard are mandatory vs. assigned vs. ones they opened out of curiosity
- There is no good way to organize courses beyond categories, you can create different course libraries, but to the user, it all looks like one library
- Our admin spends an inordinate amount of time investigating user issues, on the phone/email with Litmos support and we're hesitant to ever enable new features considering how many issues we have with basic features

Avantages

It is easy to use and customize. On the back-end, it is intuitive and laid out easily with lots of support to help along the way in the Dojo. For the user, it is simple as point and click. There isn't a lot of guess work or trying to figure out which screen to be on- which for a company that has a lot of people ho are not technologically advanced is a huge plus.

Inconvénients

The reporting. That is the one area that isn't as intuitive or clearly laid out. And some of the reports that I want are either not there, or not easy for me to track down and find to use.

Avantages

The software is much faster than previous software programs that I have used. This software allows me to see my progress within a course and it lets me see the modules that are part of a course that I take. This software also shows me what courses I am taking and when I click on start course, it will let me see what modules are in the course and as I complete them, it shows me the percentage of the course has been completed.

Inconvénients

There are no cons. I love this software and it is much more efficient and fast when I want to work on courses and trainings in a timely manner.

Avantages

We have been using this software for the past 3 years and the best thing I love about SAP Litmos is the different ways of training it provides; video, audio and text-based training. It also offers survey questions in relation to the trainings which are helpful.

Inconvénients

When we had just started using the software we encountered glitches and the support team was not quick respond but I am glad the support team is always available now.

Avantages

At my company, we use Litmos and I administer the exams and update the content. It has been great moving to this solution as we have increased user engagement due to the design interface, easy navigation and test/quiz setup. I love the reporting features. There are many reporting options that you can customize and then save for quick report runs. Creating exams is easy by using a spreadsheet (csv) template file saving you time. Making changes and adding unique features like randomizing the questions, adding certificates for completion and custom course images make Litmos LMS the go to solution for our training department.

Inconvénients

Manual grading of short answer questions should be done via an email notification of those specific questions to make it easier to grade more efficiently.

Avantages

We were looking for something easy to administer. When we implemented Litmos LMS, it was very simple and easy. It's also very intuitive and easy to navigate.

Inconvénients

Reporting and some UI functions for administration need improvement. However, on a positive note, I was able to join a website that allows us to report and vote on new issues and enhancements.

Avantages

Its ease of use. It is mostly intuitive.

Inconvénients

This isn't a big deal, but it is still a work in progress.

Avantages

We when first started our small business this was a good alternative for us. There were very few light users LMS plans available.

Inconvénients

The price. Their prices kept going higher and higher and we had no alternative other than discontinuing our subscription.

Not great customer support. We had to follow up more than once before our account was closed.

Avantages

Litmos is very easy to use for both learners and administrators. We doubled our course completion rate right after we switched to Litmos. We believe this is because learners were able to find training easily. Litmos is very responsive to our concerns and product suggestions. They follow up quickly. We've seen our suggestions in new product updates.

Inconvénients

We would like to be able to extract global data from our surveys. We use the same questions at the end of each course and it would be nice to draw some correlation between courses.

Avantages

Its scalability - can be used in a variety of situationsCloud based hence no requirement of app installation. Simple and easy to use User interface - which lends its higher acceptancefeature of hyperlinks to other website is a great feature and helps in reaping benefit of collaboration also in a way

Inconvénients

Reporting feature needs bot more of refinementAdd on's can be priced bit more moderately

Avantages

Cost - you are comfortably priced compared to other systems.
Support - your support has always been good, emails replied to within a day.
Certificates - pdf auto creation is a big plus.
Reports - reports are good.
modules that can be used in different courses is great. ability to email and communicate in system is good.
dashboard - is good, nicely planned and works well.
marking assessments - nice to assign tutors and let them mark online.

Inconvénients

Video having to handbrake is frustrating and even after video is slow. Embedding from you tube video is also slow, needs video and audio functionality.
FTP ftp upload for video/audio. having to manually upload each video is painful
assessment we'd love ability to weight questions. assessment builder is a bit clumsy. Provide a search for questions. a way to use them in more than one assessment. drop and drag to manage.
documents to download - i may be wrong but there seems a limit to how many documents can be available. We have big courses.
powerpoints many don't come out right.
Subscriptions payments monthly - a way 4 people pay monthly as a subscription - we need this urgently.

Scheduling - it would be great to be able to time the modules, schedule their release (not just the entire course). E.g. module 1 then a week later module 2. with each release an email is sent to notify the student. that way full distance learning courses can be set up and run automatically.

Avantages

It is extremely easy to use and requires almost no IT interaction at all. The new Branding feature allows us to improve not only the Learners experience, but improves our ability to organize different teams or groups within each Brand.

Inconvénients

The reporting module didn't allow us to report the information we wanted to see initially, but they have made great steps forward in creating a new reporting engine that is making life a little easier.

Avantages

Easy to use and set up for the first time. Lots of good features for courses and adding various media.

Inconvénients

Still really clumsy on selecting users in bulk and moving them between teams.

Avantages

It's very intuitive and easy to get up and running with very little training. No product/LMS has everything but Litmos has a LOT! The support team is pretty quick to respond when issues do come up.

Inconvénients

I wish there was more consistency in the admin interface. For example, some modules/features offer search functionality and some do not. Some text entry areas have the rich text editor/source toggle and others do not. Little things, but they can have a big impact on admin user experience, ease of use, and huge time savers.