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Skillsoft vs My Music Staff: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 2nd, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 4,888 reviews from Learning Management System users.
% Fit
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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
4.7
Learner Portal
NA
Access Controls/Permissions
NA
Content Management
NA
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
4.8
User reviews745
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.8
Customer support
4.8
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Monthly subscription
Free version
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Best for

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.

Individual music teachers, and studios with multiple teachers, who need affordable, easy to use software, to manage the core aspects of their teaching business.

User reviews
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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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Adam K
School Director
5.0

Adam: Hi, my name's Adam. I'm a music school director, and I would give My Music Staff a five out of five rating. For more reviews like this, click below. So before I was using my music stuff I was using a mixture of Trello and also a mixture of Google Sheets. And to be honest, I needed a software that could do everything. So organized teachers' timetables, but do some of the accounting and some of the invoicing. And so those really weren't cutting it, and also the timetables were just super messy. And so actually to have a software that had everything all in one was awesome. Another reason and feature I really liked about My Music Staff was the online resources. The fact that we could stick all of our resources and books and all our music material on those places that our students had access to all the time. No more kind of running out of sheet music or homework getting eaten by the dog, we now had a chance to just send digital sheets to our students so they always had access to those resources. So the transition, moving away from what we were using for My Music Staff was pretty simple. There's lots of FAQs on their website that really helped. And they also had really good support staff that could answer questions as and when I had them. So, it was pretty seamless. So yeah, it's great. If you are an independent music teacher or if you are even just a small school like us, I would highly recommend My Music Staff. It's just got all the resources you need in kind of one package, and that's why I love using it. I don't have to use different setups and different programs and different softwares to do the one job that I can do with My Music Staff.

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Skillsoft

Top Features
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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My Music Staff

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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
My Music Staff
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
My Music Staff
  • By Port 443
  • Located in Canada
  • Founded in 2004
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