TalentLMS Reviews

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.

TalentLMS is a great learning tool for small businesses

Comments: My overall experience with TalentLMS is that it is good for smaller businesses since it is simple to setup and being able to have quizzes are nice and I like the Library. Overall it seems to be a very good platform but could use some updated designing.

Pros:

This platform is super simple to setup. It was also super easy to navigate through the platform when going through the courses and watching the videos.

Cons:

It needed to have a more up to date type of interface but nothing on a "learner" side of things nothing major.

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Pros:

Easy to use and put together courses quickly

Cons:

Limited "accessories" to customize content. Not much better than a google powerpoint and google forms , together

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.

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.

TalentLMS for Business

Comments: TalentLMS is noteworthy, as many businesses use this platform and therefore the interface is familiar and intuitive. I found it easy to use right out of the box, but some of the AI auto-suggestions got in the way of an otherwise seamless experience.

Pros:

TalentLMS is very intuitive and user friendly. It is easy to sign in and locate content, which plays fast and seamless.

Cons:

TalentLMS features AI generated content options, which can be useful but in my opinion creates a cookie-cutter experience rather than one that is as unique as each individual business.

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

Great for training staff

Comments: Works great when training new staff or having the team do quarterly product training on new features

Pros:

Really good for product training and training new employees on processes

Cons:

Should have the ability for guests to register for courses and programs you create without being a part of the company

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

TLMS: Quality

Comments: Love it.

Pros:

User Friendliness and Customer Service allow anyone to manage their training.

Cons:

Could have more authoring options and customization in general.

Alternatives Considered: aNewSpring and Udemy Business

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: Price, customization and during the demo the customer service was fantastic.

Easy-to-Use Learning Management System

Comments: Overall, TalentLMS is a great learning management system. It's easy to use, offers a variety of features, and is highly customizable. The only downside is the cost, but it's still an excellent option for those looking for a reliable way to manage their learning environment.

Pros:

TalentLMS is an incredibly easy-to-use learning management system. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to create and manage courses, users, and content. The platform also offers advanced features such as gamification and custom themes, allowing you to create a unique learning environment.

Cons:

TalentLMS is a bit pricier than some of its competitors, and it's missing some features like automated grading and exam scheduling.

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.

Great platform for creating a basic course structure that fits your training needs

Comments: Overall, TalentLMS has met our needs and allowed us to create a custom online course and expand the reach of our organization's education programs.

Pros:

The product is pretty user-friendly, and if you are struggling with how to do something while creating/editing your course, you can easily find answers to most issues in the knowledge base. I also liked the various types of content that can be added to a course. For example, I've utilized text, PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, images, videos, tests, surveys, web links, and more all in one single course - and I probably haven't even explored half of the available features!

Cons:

Working with a user's course expiration date can sometimes be tricky and could definitely use some improvement. For example, to change the expiration date for a user, logically I would go to the "Users" page, go to the user's courses, and extend the date there. Instead, you have to go to the course page, go to course content, go to course users, and extend it from there. Also, I've found that sometimes you can't extend a user's deadline without resetting their progress for the entire course. I haven't quite figured out why that happens. I also think the navigation on the user's end could use a little clarity. An automated "course tour" would be beneficial.

Alternatives Considered: Blackboard Learn

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: An annual subscription to TalentLMS was less than half the cost of an annual Blackboard subscription.

TalentLMS for online courses.

Comments: I have found it very beneficial for the particular course that I have designed.

Pros:

TalentLMS is very easy for the instructor to design courses and to track the progress of the learner. The features such as quizzes and assignments are excellent. Courses can me made very interactive.

Cons:

Learners have told me that they find it difficult to download videos. Also I feel that it would be better to have to pay a commission per user as it can be very expensive if there are not enough learners.

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.

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Comments: Technician training relocated in all part of the world

Pros:

Teams Integration and quiz management and the flexibility about the component you can add in the course

Cons:

In the quiz it is better to add more type of question type

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.

An ideal LMS for corporate training

Comments: Efficient system

Pros:

Mobile learning and diversity of learning content types accepted

Cons:

Course assignment to users take many steps

Alternatives Considered: isEazy Author

Reasons for Switching to TalentLMS: The system runs well on desktop & mobile

Has been great experience

Comments: I'm developing courses to be licensed to facilities for them to deliver to their own clients. The dedicated support has been invaluable for helping someone with no previous experience take on this rather large effort. They always have good solutions for when I run into hurdles as I've been beta-testing this with prospective customers.

Pros:

I entered this world with no experience in online training, and started at ground zero in just researching different options then learning how to create courses. I have no idea how it compares to other options, but the bottom line is I've been able to create a platform that impresses people. The word that comes to mind frequently is that it's "robust." The under the hood capabilities seem to be really good as far as administrative stuff that I heaven't even scratched the surface of yet. As far as a few particular things I like: The test options include attractive features like drag and match, fill in the blank, and ordering. The user's interface is fun and attractive for tests. The other thing I really like about it is the support. For the plan I have, I have a dedicated support person who works with me as closely as I need in helping developing courses, etc. And on weekends/off hours I email support and they always respond within a few hours and are really good about helping me solve any issues.

Cons:

Every once in a while I bump up against a feature it doesn't have, or the text editor can be a little funky to get used to. The other thing is being based in Europe, the hours of availability with my dedicated support person is a bit limited—7am meetings. But there hasn't been any question that the pros outweigh the cons.

Scalable from Free to Enterprise with support at every step

Comments: We have only been TalentLMS customer’s for a short time but the personal support is. Right from the initial system demo that convinced me and my partners that this was the eLearning platform for us. The fact that we could start for free with support and have the potential to expand to an enterprise-level solution was exactly what we were looking for. The Platform is very intuitive, the initial video tutorials and the in-platform knowledge base are all very concise and helpful. Further. the personal support from a nominated individual that gave us the demonstration has really elevated the service above my expectations. Knowing that, when i hit a problem that i can’t solve, i can email and thet will have a personalised solution that works for me within 24 hours is phenomenal customer service. In less than 2 weeks we have uploaded some of our content and shared with of our partners. The feedback has been that the platform brings our content to life in a way that we simply could not have achieved on our own. We will soon be linking to the e-commerce element and hope to be processing payments early in the new year. We plan to scale very quickly and i know that with the the TalentLMS support team, the technology will not be the barrier to expanding our business. Thanks again and please keep up the excellent support.

Pros:

Loved the usability and time to implement. We are content creators and within a 2 days we have uploaded our content using nearly all of the features. Love the look and feel and simplicity. The different content types keeps it fresh and interesting and keeps learners engaged. As the admin i have great visibility of who is doing what on the system and that is excellent for tracking and audit trail of the learning journey. We provide compliance training so the certification is really important and it is simple to customise your certificates to your brand and words.

Cons:

Sorting out fonts and pasting text into the system can be a little fiddly to start with. That being said the support is excellent and it appears the system is completely customisable. Other WYSIWYG systems i have used at a similar price point simply say 'you can't do that' and you have to accept the limitations. So far, every problem i have encountered or request i have made, has been met with a custom piece of code to paste into system within 24 hours. I did not expect this level of service at $120 a month!

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.

User Friendly Learning Management System

Comments: I will be happy to recommend TalentLMS to other Early Learning Coalitions.

Pros:

TalentLMS is a user friendly learning management system that has reshaped the way our Early Childhood Training Department offers training. We are now able to offer a variety of training platforms that individually meets the needs of our learners.

Cons:

It would be nice to have a user introductory course to help our learners improve their user abilities on TalentLMS.

My experience using TalentLMS has been wonderful. It's simple to use, yet also very sophisticated!

Comments: We host video learning content on TalentLMS and it works great for this purpose.

Pros:

The design of this software is well thought out. Although TalentLMS has many sophisticated features (everything one could possibly need and more), it's designed in such a way to minimize user complexity. As an admin and instructor, I'm able to get things done quickly without much time and effort (with limited technical knowledge). The visual look and feel of an LMS is important to me. Many LMS systems look "techy" and are NOT a pleasure to use. TalentLMS is clean and elegant and provides a great experience for admins, instructors and users. I think of TalentLMS as the Apple computer of LMS systems. Another big differentiator is that TalentLMS enables instructors to create courses quickly without a painful learning curve that kills productivity. Learning content is placed into buckets called learning objects. Any kind of content hosted anywhere can be used. Making changes to courses is a snap. Also, I found the white labeling and customization of TalentLMS to be surprisingly easy. Support documentation is thorough and well written. I was able to quickly customize our learning portal without doing any HTML coding whatsoever in about 30 minutes! No help from technical experts needed. Before deciding on TalentLMS, I reviewed dozens of LMS providers (a hair-pulling experience) and found most to be very expensive, complex, lack-luster on feature and visual appeal. I just don't have the patience or the time to deal with those handicaps! We are very glad to have discovered TalentLMS.

Cons:

After about a year, I haven't encountered any problems using TalentLMS. Of course, there's always room for improvement on the way to perfection. There appears to be a little overlap in the learning objects - Content, Web content and videos are really just "content". However, this could be by design. Maybe there should be a universal content object that accommodates all content types. The only videos accepted for the "Video" object are YouTube. However, we use another video hosting platform to protect our content from download, among other reasons. However, this is not a real problem because we just embed our videos using the content learning object, which looks sort of like a WordPress content box. Just copy the embed code from the video provider and paste into the content box. That's it; works great. The only other thing I can think of is that the default HTML video player could use a few more control bar options such as view quality selection and a way to set download video or disallow download video. However, this is not a problem for us because we use embed video codes from our video hosting provider and therefore the provider's video player is used instead of the default HTML player. We control the features of this video player on the video hosting side.