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Organizations providing employee, customer, partner, or member training. Absorb's clients range from a few hundred learners right through to hundreds of thousands of learners.
SmarterU LMS has features & pricing plans to fit your Corporate to Enterprise needs. Perfect for Certification Training with dynamic Training Plans and over 8,000 "ready to launch" video courses.
Compared to other LMS, the platform itself is easy to use while providing a good breadth of features for our use. It's a mature product, with a solid backend.
And due to the acquisition, we unfortunately had no choice.
I love the ease of access with everything in absorb. The customer service is best in class, and there are always resources available to support.
Difficult to manage blended learning. Some factors in course management could use improvements.
The company itself is great to work with. Their customer service staff is so nice and friendly, and the project manager and account manager I worked with helped me every step of the way.
Limited assessment options when it comes to answer types. Reporting structure takes a bit to get used to.
A great example is working with Absorb's support as we transitioned to a new HRIS platform. I had the pleasure of working with [sensitive content hidden] and he was fantastic.
When assigning courses you can only assign to a whole or sub-department, you can exclude.
Our team were super happy to see their colors and brand implemented throughout. Thank you to SmarterU's design team for the effort.
They always get back to us. One thing that they refuse to change, that drives me crazy, is how limited Admin rights are.
Any time I talk to anyone with SmarterU, I'm truly blown away by the positive attitude and willingness to help. I love working with you all.
Removing a course from someone's profile can be a little difficult.
Loving our SmarterU LMS. Thanks very much to the team for consistently responding to and resolving our issues quickly, and for continually growing and improving the user experience.
We've given managers time back with videos, and we now know that employees are getting the right information. It's hard with young or inexperienced employees to teach them all of the skills.
With a full list of great features and their commitment to excellence in everything they do SmarterU is a SMART choice.
At the time their course builder design was not responsive which was the biggest frustration. Also it did not allow just cutting and pasting... so it was time consuming to retype everything.
Craig C.: Hi, my name is Craig. I am a consultant. I would give Absorb LMS a five. And if you want more reviews like this, please click below. My company really wanted to focus on learning and development, but we didn't have a tool to kind of disseminate that across the organization. So we did an analysis, a vendor analysis and we arrived at Absorb LMS. And the problem that it's solving is solving the ability of departmental and unit training. And then also giving employees across the company access to learning and development tools. I like how easy it is to use and integrate into HMSA systems. It also plays nice with the different types of software that we use. So for example, we use Salesforce for a lot of our business processes. All of our employee information is loaded into Salesforce. Every time we get a new hire, that information goes through Salesforce and Salesforce coordinates really well with Absorb and cuts down the process work on our end. So I just like how easy it is to use. I wish there were more customization options for the user. I wish they were able to speed up or slow down a video, for example. That's a big ask that we get from our employees and other customization things that will make their lives easier.
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