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Skillsoft vs CANVAS: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 6th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 4,888 reviews from Learning Management System users.
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Course Management
4.8
Learner Portal
4.1
Access Controls/Permissions
5.0
Content Management
5.0
User Management
NA
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Course Management
4.6
Learner Portal
4.5
Access Controls/Permissions
NA
Content Management
4.6
User Management
NA
User satisfaction
4.3
User reviews80
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.1
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.3
4.6
User reviews4,262
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.5
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.3
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Designed for leadership, tech, and compliance roles, Skillsoft is a cloud-based training solution that supports employee growth by identifying and overcoming critical skill gaps.

Available to institutions of all sizes and types, from individual K-12 classrooms to universities to companies with a blended or fully virtual environment.

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Michael L
Career Advisor
4.0

Mike: Hi, my name is Mike. I'm a career advisor. This review is for Skillsoft, which I would rate four out of five stars. For more reviews like this, please click below. Before bringing Skillsoft into our organization, we actually didn't have a formal training and development system in a virtual platform available for our employees and our candidates. So this was basically a revolutionary change for our learning and training and development environment. It was something where we weren't previously capable or understanding of all that a virtual platform would entail, so luckily, Skillsoft made it really easy. The main reason we chose Skillsoft was the library of trainings that were available. We did have employees that spanned all divisions, from technology to accounting, finance, typical business trainings. So having that broad wealth of resources available to us, let us really customize the resources that we were providing our employees for development. So that large library plus the ease of use and setup was definitely the strong selling points of Skillsoft. Getting started with Skillsoft was pretty simple. Relatively intuitive platform, and they have made changes to it over the years, so it's become easier to use as time's gone on. So overall, relatively intuitive, point and click for the most part. Everyone on the back end, within the IT department, said it was relatively easy to get set up within our system and our environment. And the users of Skillsoft have also said that the ease of use of the platform and, really, the ability to train at their leisure is a very open, really interesting, and helpful tool for them. So for someone considering Skillsoft, I would definitely recommend to ensure that there are the trainings and types of videos and topics that you'd be interested in having your employees develop and use. There is a lot on Skillsoft so it's not always the most focused platform, unless you're specifically guiding your employees towards the classes or the trainings that would specifically benefit them in their roles. So I would definitely recommend leveraging Skillsoft, but making sure doing a job analysis for each position to make sure that you're tailoring the specific trainings towards those positions.

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Jose L
Salesman - Engineer
5.0

Jose : My name is Jose. I'm an inside sales transferring to outside salesman at an industrial distributor company for all types of industrial parts, mainly conveyor parts for the agriculture industry. And I would rate Canvas a five out of five. So the other software or company I've used before is Blackboard. I used it for when I was at Cal State University. And the reason why we... Actually, [inaudible 00:00:28] we were only using that company for I think for one semester, and then it was always down. It always had technical issues, people [inaudible 00:00:36]. It was hard to onboard students, and that's basically why the university basically decided to ditch Blackboard and start using Canvas. And they've been using it. That's when I was a freshman. I'm already graduated, so they only use it for about one semester and they've been on Canvas for the past five years. I like Canvas because it's really easy the way it's laid out, whether you have your different courses, and then you get the link to your different courses and it shows you basically all the homework that's due or all the assignments that you still need to do. And I really like how everything's in one spot, so you literally just hit your class and then it shows you your grades, your assignments that you still have to do. And then what I really like about it is the fact that you're able to view old assignments. So it basically saves it onto its database. So if you ever want to look at an old assignment, you could just hit that assignment and then hit what you submitted so you could always see what you submitted. And instead of most companies where you submit something, and that's it. It's just like, "Thank you," and you can never really go back to what you submitted. So that's probably the biggest thing that I really like about Canvas. I think it's pretty easy to start using Canvas because like I said, everything's there, so it's not like you have to go looking for anything. It's all laid out. You hit the class link. Well, most [inaudible 00:02:01] professors will send you a link. You use the link and then it automatically signs you up to their course. You don't have to have a sign-up a code or anything like that. You can just hit the link, you're in the class, you've hit your class, and then everything is laid out to my grades, my assignments, to the [inaudible 00:02:21] that shows you what's going to be due within the next... Basically the whole semester, you just hit the week that you're in and it shows you is due that week. And then if you want to see what's going to be doing three weeks, or you can also check that. So I think it's really easy. One recommendation I would have for anybody that's going to be using Canvas is always double check your work because sometimes you might've forgot to attach a link or something and it'll still let you submit an assignment. So you always want to check that you actually submitted something because I know a few students who something would happen with their computer. I know it wasn't Canvas because it never happened to me, but they would submit an assignment and they would find out that they never attached the PDF or the link, so then there would... It still lets you submit an assignment, but you wouldn't have anything there. And I would just say double check your work because the one thing I really like about Canvas, too, is you can always go back and resubmit. So you can always resubmit an assignment. So you're not stuck where it's like most companies, you submit something, and then that's it. There's no... Can't even view what you submitted and you can't resubmit. So Canvas, really like that about Canvas where it's like you messed up, but you still have time where your assignment's due, you can still submit something else. That's what I really like about it.

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Academic/Education
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Skillsoft

33/46
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Discussions/Forums
  • eCommerce Management
  • eLearning Companies
  • Enrollment Confirmation
  • Extended Enterprise Learning
  • Feedback Management
  • Gradebook
  • Knowledge Base Management
  • Offline Access
  • Social Learning
  • User Management
  • Video Conferencing
  • Academic/Education
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • API
  • Assessment Management
  • Asynchronous Learning
  • Blended Learning
  • Built-in Course Authoring
  • Certification & Licensing
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Content Library
  • Content Management
  • Corporate/Business
  • Course Management
  • Course Tracking
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Reports
  • Gamification
  • Learner Portal
  • Learning Paths/Tracks
  • Mobile Learning
  • Multi-Language
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Reminders
  • SCORM Compliance
  • Self-paced Learning
  • Single Sign On
  • Synchronous Learning
  • Tests/Assessments
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Training Management
  • Virtual Classroom
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CANVAS

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Skillsoft
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
CANVAS
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Skillsoft
  • By Skillsoft
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1998
CANVAS
  • By Instructure
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2008
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