TalentLMS

The e-learning platform that has transformed the way we train our team

Comments: Everything is clearly organized, making it easy to navigate and find resources. I also appreciate the wide range of tools and features available, from testing and assessments to tracking and reporting.

Pros:

Its incredible ease of use and intuitive interface helped me start creating and managing courses quickly and easily. But in addition, the platform offers a wide range of tools and features that allowed me to customize the learning experience according to the needs of my team.

Cons:

The lack of customization options regarding the platform design should be improved. While I can add my logo and adjust some colors, I would like more control over the visual appearance and the ability to fully adapt it to my company's identity.

Good Customer Service

Comments: The product works, customer support is great. There are some rough edges that could be improved, but some of those will only apply to specific use cases.

Pros:

The team at Epignosis have been great to work with over the year that we have been using TalentLMS. Our pricing tier doesn't give us a dedicated customer success manager, so all our support queries are handled by their general support team. Both their frontline and technical support staff have been amazing at helping resolve any questions that have been raised. As an LMS, TalentLMS does the job. As an organisation, we didn't know exactly what we wanted and so picked TalentLMS initially on price point from a shortlist of other much more expensive systems that offered similar functionality. We particularly wanted a multi-tenant solution. We don't see ourselves changing in the short term. The LMS is super easy to get started. The free option lets you get started and evaluate whether it will work for you, and there is no time limit on this. I also loved the fact that you can just get in and do things - so many vendors insist on demos before they give you access to a system and layer on the hard sell in that process. The team at Epignosis are not like this, they are not in your face at all. Set up your domain and try it, so much more simple and easy. In terms of the features of TalentLMS, I particularly like how much customisation you can do with Javascript and CSS. I understand that the TalentLMS+ system that is being developed won't have that same degree of customisation - I understand why, but it will be a real loss for teams like ours that have very specific requirements that are not easily met without writing customisations. Overall, the system is easy to set up and use. The learner experience is perhaps not as slick as it could be out of the box, but we have addressed that with our customisations. There were some challenges getting SSO set up, it wasn't quite as easy to do as the TalentMS knowledge base suggested - but we got there in the end. Course and user management are fine and it is possible to create custom user types and access permissions to a very fine level of detail. Mechanisms such as groups and branches work, but perhaps could be a bit more slick. We've ended up not using branches for that reason which has gone away from our original multi-tenant brief. Some things that don't work as well as you might hope can be worked around because the integration with Zapier lets you set up your own automations.

Cons:

The branches mechanism could be improved. It basically works fine, but the process of manually adding users to branches is a bit painful and switching between branches is ok but not perfect. The real pain for us is that each branch needs its own SSO configuration and login portal. What I would really love to see here would be a single login screen and then using the SSO credentials to send learners automatically to a given branch, for example based on their email address. That would make things so much more slick for those of us offering to other organisations. I think that I can work around this using Zapier, but using an integration engine to link TalentLMS back to TalentLMS is a bit ridiculous (even through I do that for a few things). Something that is really important for us as we are training software developers is to present highlighted code snippets. The page editor in TalentLMS is not great, and the default style for code is just preformatted HTML. It is easy to work around, we inject custom CSS and Javascript from the prism.js library and it works a charm. However, our concern moving forward is that the TalentLMS+ product is not going to support that degree of customisation. So code formatting using prism.js or highlight.js really needs to be incorporated in as standard functionality. There are other issues with the editor - pasting from other applications produces really messy html. Even if you "paste as plain text" it doesn't work well. Most people probably won't notice, but I am editing the html to make our other customisations work and am always cleaning things up. The product doesn't deal with images and media shared across courses. I would love to see a central library of content (currently it is per course). You can work around the per-course organisation of files if you know html. But what I would love to be able to do is set an image in CSS that then applies across all pages. For example, we have icons that we add into the blockquote style - I need to do each and everyone manually, whereas the whole point of CSS is to do it centrally.

Very disappointing

Comments: We have felt duped by the sales people at TalentLMS. Our account manager is unhelpful and unengaged. We are disappointed that we cannot create true learning paths and curricula for certain learners and groups. The platform is clunky. Reporting is a disaster and requires exporting to Excel or Google Sheets and hours of manual work to generate useful analytics.

Pros:

The people we have worked there with have been friendly. Support is responsive.

Cons:

For implementation and setup, you are largely on your own. You can open tix w support but they will not get on a live call with you. You will be directed to their webinars/knowledge base to solve your own issues. The platform UX for admins and users is poorly done. Limited features. Difficult to manage courses and users. Sales was not honest with us - overpromised to get our sale.

Easy and customisable

Pros:

The ability to customise the platform to fit your business branding makes it great and very welcoming to new beginners. A wide range of content being available to be included in training courses is very beneficial.

Cons:

The inability to submit different types of responses for activities isn't great. For example, you are unable to submit a file and a text response

Easy-to-use LMS

Comments: Absolutely recommend TalentLMS to any business which takes little time to setup, easy to complete mass-enrollments and mass-registrations of learners. Administrators hardly ever hear of technical issues on the system, but rather technical issues found on devices that doesn't allow them to do something on TalentLMS.

Pros:

Easy to setup and use even if you are not a HTML/CSS expert. Can manage courses and learner progress easily, and works for our business processes. The support team is wonderful, and it's easy to be a part of any Beta testing and provide feedback and recommendations to be considered. Development done on TalentLMS are included in the annual license fee.

Cons:

Because I'm not an expert on the HTML/CSS field, it is difficult for me to figure out if views can be changed even after some research. But the GUI works for our learners, in most cases they prefer to keep it the same look and feel with a slow switch-over to the Beta version.

Years with Talentlms

Comments: The overall experience is awesome. Team is professional and super helpful. The free access you get in the beginning is super encouraging to play around and make up you decision after a real look and feel experience.

Pros:

Talentlms has been my shadow in my years of success as a director of learning and development all over the world starting in Dubai and ended to the USA. What I recently like most is that they are upgrading to AI Powered LMS in a smart way. This will enable us to move faster and at a better quality in designing courses.

Cons:

I wish they have a plan to embed live chat on courses and instant feedback to promote communication between learners under each course lesson.

Amazing LMS that offers ease of use and quick deployment.

Comments: From the Trial start, TalentLMS was easy to start testing courses and assigning.

Pros:

The Progress Reports are crucial to our Mgt and you can create Custom Reports so you find stats within a few clicks. Plus, the simple easy to understand interface allows Developers quick course building. Then Learners quickly can navigate to their course.

Cons:

Still working out bugs with Adobe Captivate Class & "All New" versions.

Good Courses Assignment Tool

Pros:

"The report-generating function provides all the records I need for users' completion of course assignments. As for data analysis, it helps a lot to track records and participation rates.

Cons:

It would be better if the platform provided more 'mass selection' options for different purposes. If they allowed multiple selections for the same action, such as resetting user course assignments, it would be more efficient.

Easy to use!

Comments: Used as a learning management system!!!!

Pros:

I liked how accessible it was, and how easy it was to navigate!

Cons:

I did not have any problems with talentlms

The training best place

Pros:

TalentLMS is a nice software and it really helps campanies to deal with important trainings a powerful pool for upskilling employees in workplace

Cons:

What i like least is the starter level payement it is easy to pay the amount of 69$

A year of language teaching with Talent LMS in a Japanese university

Comments: It has been very easy for me to get this moving and I feel motivated to continue. It is easy to have students upload audio and video assignments, and there have been no complaints from students at all.

Pros:

Very easy to get started, stable and reliable, excellent support and receptivity to feedback.

Cons:

I’d like text formatting to be easier and more flexible, and it could be easier to integrate audio files into language teaching exercises. The software has not been designed with language teaching in mind, but there is a lot of potential for it to be so used. It could perhaps be easier to check exactly what the learners themselves are seeing on different devices and with different language settings.

Alternatives Considered: Claris FileMaker

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: I’ve developed a lot of Filemaker tools for producing worksheets, and even developed a prototype LMS using Filemker, but haven’t had the know-how or resources to go further.

Great value and tool to guide your first steps into virtual learning.

Comments: Overall I'm able to offer a one-stop shop for our staff to access important training material, which is especially helpful for mandatory company-wide trainings we have to have staff complete and report on completion.

Pros:

Easy to use to drop in existing content and also absolutely love all the reporting is has already built and ready to go.

Cons:

I think the test and assignment options could be more sophisticated so that answer keys or scoring rubrics can be built in for instructors to easily manually grade certain assignments and also for certain questions in a test format to allow the student to video and audio record their responses and limit the amount of time they have to answer each question.

Alternatives Considered: UKG Ready and Docebo

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: It really had to do with price and also based on us using an LMS for the first time we didn't want to overinvest and buy something way to complex when we didn't have all the resources to maintain. TalentLMS is easily maintained by an individual or a full team. It gives enough valuable features to get the job done well without the enormous price tag.

TALENT LMS - The best in class

Pros:

I like that it's available on mobile devices and can be easily accessible when you're on the move. The interface is user friendly and it encourages learning. Interaction between learners and the tool are easily tracked and recorded.

Cons:

I have not yet encountered any features that have been unfavorable

Alternatives Considered: Moodle

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: Price. Design. Functionality. User friendly interface

This is a good LMS I would recommend

Comments: We have about 25o students enrolled at any one tome across about 10 different courses. Easy to track activity and provide student assistance.

Pros:

Easy to compile courses, update and modify them. Student access very straightforward.

Cons:

Needing to toggle between administrator and instructor to get different tasks accomplished.

Good mid-range platform

Comments: Overall a great product that we are happy with after over two years of use. Use for both our staff and training of external clients with great success.

Pros:

An easy platform to set up and start using quickly. Easy to absorb existing information in PowerPoint or similar formats to get up and running quickly. We've used all types of registration for internal and external users along with Group Keys for access and all work really well.

Cons:

Some aspects of integration are hit and miss - PowerPoint with sound originating on Apple products don't always load even after contacting helpdesk.

Best LMS system in the world

Comments: Best experience ever

Pros:

Extremely easy to use, very interactive and great support

Cons:

I wish they have Amazon servers in India. It is not a huge deal though

LMS tools

Comments: Very good. Customer service is excellent. In my case, live support is unavailable due to the service chosen, however, reply time to my questions and requests is very fast.System setup and deployment is super easy.

Pros:

User-friendly 100+1%. Setting up the whole LMS is amazingly easy. In 24 hrs you can understand and get the system up and running.

Cons:

The changes made about branches and also set up the background. For the latter, you need to know a little bit of coding.

It works

Comments: Excellent!

Pros:

It’s user-friendly, it is easy to create your courses and it works!

Cons:

The price, since this is a recurring monthly charge it should be more affordable.

Best Learning Management System for Businesses

Comments: We have had a great experience with TalentLMS. The software is very user friendly and the support we have received has been top notch. Overall, we are extremely happy with the platform and would recommend it to others.

Pros:

TalentLMS is a very user-friendly learning management system. I love how easy it is to set up and use. Additionally, the customer support is excellent. Whenever I have had a question or issue, the TalentLMS team has always been very responsive and helpful.

Cons:

There was nothing that I particularly disliked about TalentLMS. I thought it was a very user-friendly platform. LMS platforms can be kind of confusing sometimes, and I appreciate that this one wasn't that way.

LMS platform with a multitude of resources at a very competitive price.

Comments: Excellent platform for the cost it has.

Pros:

Enabling user notifications and reminders.

Cons:

Integration problems with systems and poor reporting of courses.

Excellent learning tool for development

Comments: We use LMS in combination with our F2F monthly continuously education program

Pros:

Easy to implement, many features, track & trace, EXP date management

Cons:

language. Dutch would be nice for users

Overall it is good.

Pros:

I was looking for a LMS solution for our business. We are a product marketing consulting firm. I tried many other LMS, but eventually I chose the TalentLMS as our LMS solution. I'm going to talk about a few things I really like about it: 1. The notion of hierarchy/branches: It is really important for us, because we are have different clients/customers. They are different companies. With TalentLMS, we can set up branches for them if we want to. And for a client, within their organization, you can set up groups for them. 2. The price is reasonable compare to other companies offering same product. However, single-sign-on is only available for Basic Plan and up. I contacted the team asking about if it is possible to do "Starter Plan + SSO paid feature", they said that's not an option. But you can do "Starter Plan + SSL (if you white labeled and mapped your own domain)". It does not make sense for us right now to upgrade straight away to Basic Plan just because we want the SSO, because we don't have that many users. 3. It is good that you can setup to automatically deactivate a account after a certain time, for example, when their subscription of your course is up.

Cons:

It is quite a lot of work to change the signing in/ signing up page, you have to make things from scratch with HTML, CSS and Javascript. It would be nice if there are some easier way or some out of box option for that. For Starter Plan and below, to contact support team, the only way is send them emails, there's no live chat options. It would be nice if they can do that. The price is reasonable compare to other companies offering same product. However, single-sign-on is only available for Basic Plan and up. I contacted the team asking about if it is possible to do "Starter Plan + SSO paid feature", they said that's not an option. But you can do "Starter Plan + SSL (if you white labeled and mapped your own domain)". It does not make sense for us right now to upgrade straight away to Basic Plan just because we want the SSO, because we don't have that many users.

Helped us pivot to virtual training as a result of the pandemic

Comments: We previously did the majority of our training in person. As a result of Covid, we switched everything to online learning, both synchronous (with Zoom) and asynchronous. TalentLMS easily connected with Zoom to allow us to do both, depending on the course and the people being trained. And thankfully our users have found it easy to use the platform.

Pros:

TalentLMS is fairly easy for non-technical users to set up and maintain courses. In fact, I've taught many of my colleagues to do so. The process for setting up new courses is pretty straightforward and well documented. While the default process doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, there are some customizations available for those who look under the hood a bit (such as with custom CSS and Javascript).

Cons:

In order to make the software easier for non-technical users, aspects like branding can be challenging to customize. For example, the size restrictions on the logo image are pretty hard to work with. Not only that, they aren't published anywhere (at least not that I could find). I finally contacted their support and was able to have them override the defaults so our logo would look normal. Worth nothing is that because their support is in Europe and I'm on the Pacific Coast of the U.S., it often takes 12 hours or so before I'd hear back. This made working with support take a long time when compared with other similar companies.

Don't buy into the hype. At best...it is only OK.

Comments: Frustrating...mostly because they are slow and unhelpful when dealing with technical issues.

Pros:

It is inexpensive and intuitive to use. It is good for adding videos, articles, and quizzes within the LMS.

Cons:

I have had nothing but problems trying to get Articulate 360 courses to communicate course completion with this LMS. It works most of the time, but it still misses 15% or so of my users. Having over 2000 users, I cannot be hunting down everyone that did not show as completed, especially when they tell me they did it! Honestly, there have been a myriad of other technical issues that they cannot fix, or do not know how to fix. At this point I have to figure out if I just live with the limitations of their program, or go through the hassle of switching to a new LMS.

Alternatives Considered: Docebo

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: It was cheaper.

Great LMS!

Comments: Excellent. Sadly, mid-2021 we switched to a comprehensive Coalition Management System which includes and LMS among other management systems. We are phasing out of TalentLMS and I'm sad! Many features in TalentLMS have spoiled us for other LMS's where features and flexibility are lacking. Our customer support at TalentLMS are phenomenal!

Pros:

TalentLMS is easy to use for learners, instructors, and admin alike. The ability to import not only users to TalentLMS but also to import user changes and assign courses, groups, branches, etc. by import is excellent. The user-interface is top-notch as well. Navigation throughout is smooth and intuitive. Creating course certificates was clunky at first, but compared to other LMS's TalentLMS offers more flexibility. Data and summary graphics are great in TalentLMS, too. A deciding factor for us was also no minimum annual membership. I also must say customer service was great -- both when we had the basic 500-user plan and when we bumped up to the 1000-user plan. Always professional and friendly and knowledgeable.

Cons:

We preferred user registration for courses external to TalentLMS and importing learners as opposed to direct registration by users to a course in TalentLMS. One reason for this was a user creating an account and filling in loads of custom fields only to be told at the end their email/userID already existed in the system. Branches were a bit confusing to learners and others. Certificates being tied to courses without the ability to tie a certificate to a learner was frustrating for us because various learners completing online learning might each have various output for their certificates. We ended up with loads of courses just for the purpose of certificate issuance. Event automation and notifications was somewhat complicated to learn and many an automatic email was sent in error.