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Lorna W. avatar
Lorna W.
owner
Executive Office, Self-employed
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
July 28, 2020

"Take the pain out of planning workshops"

Overall: There are so many ways to use this platform! Well worth the investment even if all you use are the interactive exercises and the library for those continually grows as it is a collaborative space where others can share their favourites.

Pros: This is an outstanding platform for planning not just workshops but events and presentations! There are plug and play templates for interactive exercises that you can just drag and drop into place. you can set the max time allowed and adjust the time for each module so you know exactly what will fit and what won't. You can organize multiple days or multiple sessions all from one dashboard. Download the list of resources and a pdf of the timetable or share directly from the platform with your client or event organizer.

Cons: There is no way to sort your saved workshops other than by date or name and you can't mark them draft or final.

Vendor Response

By SessionLab on July 29, 2020
Thank you for sharing your review, Lorna, it's great to see that you enjoy using SessionLab!
Huey C. avatar
Huey C.
Consultant
Management Consulting, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 30, 2022

"A great planning tool for facilitators of workshops and training programs"

Overall: SessionLab has been a great addition to my training and consulting practice. The resource library containing scores of workshop templates is worth the price alone. I also appreciate the regular email newsletters highlighting specific workshop templates and activities for different areas of interest. SessionLab helps me to quickly and effectively create working prototypes of future workshops leading to quicker rollout of offerings.

Pros: SessionLab has a rich database of workshop templates to choose from so you don't have to start from scratch. The user interface allows me to quickly create multiway workshops and I especially like session timings automatically adjust when new modules are added. Definitely much better and more enjoyable to use than working with a spreadsheet. Lesson blocks are draggable and you can add notes and activity information for the each block or the entire workshop. You can also print professional schedules for distribution and invite clients to view the workshop plan online for comments.

Cons: Moving lessons between days is a bit clunky. A drag and drop feature here would be wonderful.

Reasons for Switching to SessionLab: Clunky, difficult to adjust timings after additions or revisions made.
Terri H.
Freelance facilitator
Education Management, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2016

"Must have for any workshop"

Overall: I do between 4-10 workshops a month and TrainedOn has significantly help me streamline the process of communicating with my clients, planning the content and evaluating my sessions.

Pros: The tool is easy to use and offers a lot of content that helps when you need inspiration.

Aldo B.
Director
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
September 9, 2016

"Speeds up my design training design work for the whole team"

Overall: We started using TrainedOn with my team working remote in different time zones. The shared workspace of the Team version really makes our overall session design work easy to oversee, and the agenda planning tool makes the collaborative work really easy. I love how easy it is to start creating a new session plan and start iterating on it.

Pros: I find useful are the interactive environment, it's superbly easy to use. It's web based type so we don't have to install it on every computer. Real-time collaboration works just as well as GoogleDocs. I love how easy it is to just drag around my modules in a session plan while the timing always stays correct, so much easier than trying to do the same in MS Excel or Word

Cons: No offline version.

Abdelrahman A.
Used the software for:
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 20, 2016

"Online Training "

Overall: Am Abdelrahman Ali 22 years from Egypt , at 4th year of computer Science . Am Developer and i want Online Training in that company . I have experience in Web development (C# Asp.net, html5 , javaScript, CSS ) , Desktop application using C# and little mobile development ( Android Java Native ) . And i also know Technology like Web services , For Mark-up Language ( HTML - XAML) I have made projects in web based applications like ( web portal for travelling and booking like SkyScanner -local Chat System - Hotel WebSite ) and in Desktop Application ( Management App for Stock - Hotel Management - Detection Desktop App ) . I hope You will accept my request :) . Thank You

Stanley J.
Used the software for:
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 30, 2016

"A tool from trainers to trainers"

Overall: TrainedOn allows me to easily build up the facilitation plans for my training sessions: the drag and drop interface and immediately recalculating the timetable makes it so much easier to iterate on while tailoring the plan to the client's needs. Sharing my facilitation with client is really easy, no more need for endless emails and dozens of different versions of the same file. Why did nobody else build this so far? A great extra is the public library of facilitation methods that I can quickly search and directly add any exercise into my actual session design.

Christian W.
Used the software for:
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 27, 2016

"Excellent tool for planning your training"

Overall: TrainedOn helps you plan your workshops, organize your training materials and collaborate with your co-trainer. Using it is a pure joy as it provides easy way of doing the mess of organising your ideas when you start planning a workshop. And you can share your plans with others, print them, and so on. Their support is also great. They answer all my questions promptly.