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Lessonly by Seismic is a cloud-based learning management system that allows users to build, share and track training materials and activity from a singular interface. It is primarily used by customer service teams, sales teams,...
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- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Excellent tool of training
Organization of classes for training teachers
Pros
For the course of educational training, the tool is very usefulness and allows to share videos and projections of images dynamically
Cons
The cost is a little bit high and the explanation for the functioning results something complicated
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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The Goldilocks of LMS Software
Before committing to Lessonly, I looked into quite a few LMS solutions. I found this to be the perfect middle ground in terms of price and features. It's really suited for a smallish (under 50 employees company), though I believe they have other plans for larger businesses or teams. Beyond just features, I couldn't be happier with their support. I never found their sales team be pushy which is always a wonderful bonus. They also have quite a few meetup events with company reps which I'm a big fan of.
Pros
-From the pitch to implementation, their support was fantastic. They really helped to make sure this would suit our needs and after signing the contract, they followed up to set up a few meetings to make sure we fully understood how to use it to its full capacity.
-It's extremely straightforward and easy to use for both administrators and learners. It was so simple I felt like I was missing something, but they assured me that wasn't the case :)
-It offers a lot of information and lessons on how to actually train and improve your training process at no additional cost. This has proven to be a really invaluable resource and has improved our training program and saved time in developing it.
-I love that it integrates with Zendesk.
Cons
-I wish it allowed for some more customization or formatting variation.
-Though you can easily embed videos, you can't host them through Lessonly. We knew this going in so it obviously wasn't a dealbreaker, but it would be nice.
-As an administrator, I really wish it was possible to create a grading key. I find I create a lot more multiple choice quizzes because it's just too hard to grade written answers.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Lots of functions in a single LMS
Pros
Excellent for small and medium companies, it is a great tool oriented to corporate training, but not so for online institutes or schools,. You can get started very quickly without a huge learning .
Cons
Make sure you have all the content and workflow well organized before using this tool, sometimes it is very difficult to look for information in the LMS, definitely need more customization in terms of formatting the content. They should improve the use of templates.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good for remote teams onboarding
We started to spend 60%! less time on remote teams onboarding, so it's got easier to adjust out business to changing technology demands.
Pros
Out onboarding plan had been a difficult to manage Excel spreadsheet for a long time.
Eventually, I was able to persuade management to use some more appropriate solution.
We compared Lessonly vs WorkRamp and lessonly was the winner because of more reach features set.
Thanks to feature that allow to track trainers activity, we were able to motivate experienced employees to create a number of training materials (most of people were able to use the app right away, without any training) and reward top performers.
Cons
Some of trainers reported they experienced formatting issues when creating complex training materials.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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LLamazing
We have had a wonderful overall experience with Lessonly. Our implementation team has been wonderful, supportive and helpful.
Pros
Lessonly is so very user friendly and easy to navigate. It does not take a lot of product knowledge to be able to create a lesson, which makes it ideal when you have a large amount of content that you need to get added.
Cons
I would love to see some sort of integration with Teams and Knowledge. If someone were to ask a question in Teams it would be great if a lesson or content could be suggested!
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Amazing product for employees!
Training new hires and tenured employees. Testing employee company/product knowledge.
Pros
I use this product for all my new hires and sometimes tenured employees for additional training. The ability to built lessons within different paths is perfect for staying organized and making many different trainings to use continuously. I love that I am able to track my employee's progress within each path too, as well as the ability to test them on their knowledge.
Cons
The technical aspects of moving lessons from path to path is a bit long and could be made easier, maybe a couple of shortcuts could be made to make it a quicker process.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Lessonly is a Lifesaver
I am a sales manager and I use Lessonly almost every day. I build lessons to review sales best practices and to test their knowledge. I also use the video recording feature for the reps to record their elevator pitches or any role playing scenarios.
Pros
-Ability to make lessons to review best practices
-Video recording for sales pitches
-Quizzes and test over sales training
-Continued training
Cons
Needs to fix a couple of bugs with copy and paste feature, but other than that it is great!
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Lessonly Works!
Lessonly works very well for our training systems. Our information is updated/can change a lot so being able to easily go into a lesson to update is a benefit. Lessonly also provides 'house' lesson/guides for it's administrators including tips on when to put information into video, what might work best content-wise or how much content. This is very useful for those creating lessons for the first time.
Pros
Your can add videos, images, and quizzes to the lessons on any slide. You can create lesson paths which clump certain lessons into one flow. You can track when employees begin and end lessons, and the 'grade' they get for each lesson (if you have quizzes in lessons).
Cons
Can be cumbersome to add a new administrator for auditing the lessons if there are a ton of lessons, as it seems you can only add an editor one lesson at a time.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Makes learning quick and simple
Pros
I love that progress is saved across lessons and completion is tracked. Wanting to have every lesson available from the company completed is almost like a game. You don't want to stop running through courses so you can keep up your 100% completion rate. Quizes at the end, interactive lessons are nice little bonuses.
Cons
The dashboard is a little weak for discovery and the search is presented in a manner that results in 1 lesson producing many search results.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very Easy to Learn and Implement
Pros
I never had any formal training, but was able to pick this up quickly and easily - that is the sign of great, easy to use software. Customer service is quick to respond and VERY helpful as well which is lovely.
Cons
More ability to do things in bulk (bulk upload, bulk tag) would make an easy to use software even easier to use!
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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Good concept, not so useful for managing large numbers of learners
Pros
I like that Lessonly allows our company to create custom training modules that can be sent out to our network.
Cons
I wish that Lessonly had more user-friendly reporting of completed assignments. Our team monitors completions by regions, with different managers being responsible for learners in different areas of the country, yet there is not a convenient way of sorting completions by location on the platform - one must manually enter the location for each user, then download the reports as a spreadsheet in order to sort by the location field. Sending invitations is also far too manual of a process - needing to type in the name of each learner (as opposed to being able to auto-invite by location or date added) is tedious and can be problematic when two users have the same name but only one needs to be sent an invitation. There's no additional information, such as email address, available in the invite flow to easily differentiate users. Also, many of our learners have reported that the navigation of lessons is not the most convenient. When reviewing previously completed modules, the navigation menu is limited, forcing them to click through numerous pages in order to get to the one they wish to review. As an admin, I also found the chat box that pops up in the corner every time I visit the site to be annoying, with no option to permanently disable it.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great platform and great people!
I love Lessonly. I'd like to see improvements to the gradebook and have pre-made content available, but neither of these things are dealbreakers. The LlamaNation community is a huge "pro" and one of the biggest differentiators between Lessonly and other LMS platforms. I am proud to be a llama! I highly recommend Lessonly to anyone looking for an intuitive LMS for creating custom content.
Pros
Lessonly's platform is super easy to use to create custom, engaging L&D content. And if you ever get stuck, they have fantastic employees ready to help and a customer community for additional support.
Cons
The ONLY downside to Lessonly is that everything must be created. There is no (to my knowledge) out of the box content. Lessonly should hire us to create that for them!
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Super user friendly
We launched a new training program with Lessonly. Their onboarding with us was excellent - super supportive and patient with our long decision making process. Their customer support is super responsive and great to work with.
Pros
Really easy to build lessons without a lot of technical know-how. It is quick to get content in, publish, and assign out to users.
The interface is very clean and self-explanatory to use.
Cons
Some of their texts options are limited (colours, sizing).
You can't copy and paste whole sections of content from one course to another easily.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Easy to use with a great support team.
We looked at a few tools to help us provide better training to our new hires and existing employees. None were as easy to use and nicely designed as Lessonly. The user experience is our main priority, and that's where Lessonly has a huge leg up over their competition.
There are some features we'd like to have, and we've had an opportunity to share our feedback during the entire sales/onboarding process. We even had a chance to share feedback directly with members of their leadership team. Everyone has been friendly, responsive, and seem to genuinely care about our overall experience.
Their customer support has been top-notch as well. Extremely helpful and speedy in their replies. Recently, a bug I submitted was fixed within hours, with a nice follow up email to confirm. So where certain features lack, they make up for in a great experience. I feel like I can trust them to keep improving their software.
Pros
UI/UX design. Customer service.
Cons
Would love a more intuitive experience navigating around the gradebook or managing existing lessons.
PDF export of grade data is also something we'd love to see.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Simplify your e-learning!
As a user of several large LMS systems, most recently one from Oracle, I constantly lamented the fact that I was spending more of my time managing and learning their HUGE system than I was thinking about the impact of the learning material I was creating. When my learners told me they "just wanted to know what they had to do" I wasn't able to act on that feedback and make learning easier within the bounds of the LMS world. It was just more difficult than it was worth. Lesson.ly has been a breath of fresh air for me! It has less features than an LMS (on purpose) because they have realized that if the learning isn't simple, the learner won't want to engage with it. I highly recommend checking them out if you want to simplify your learning strategy and increase your employee's productivity and on-the-job confidence.
Pros
Ease of use and helpful service team.
Cons
I have to use a lot of other software to manipulate images, videos, etc...because Lesson.ly doesn't include much in the way of content or design within the software.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Easy to Use and Manage!
Intuitive use, ease and simplicity are Lessonly's strengths. As a learner I appreciate the variety of ways curriculum is delivered (cards, screen shots, videos, etc), all followed with a quick comprehension quiz to help me retain the info. I look forward to lessons about new product updates from our training team every week!
Pros
Intuitive and easy to use.
Cons
As a product designed primarily for educating employees, there's not very natural way for me to administer training or lessons for my external customers, but we still get some great content out there using this system.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Easy, modern E-Learning Tool
Lesson.Ly is an incredibly easy and user friendly E-Learning program for both designers and learners. As an admin creating lessons and courses is a smooth process and enjoyable.
Pros
Easy of use is my favorite part.
Cons
When building lessons it a bit tedious that the "ADD NEW: Text, Question, Image, etc" bar does not scroll with the page, so you always have to go backup the page any time you need a new piece.
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Best customer service EVER!
We started using Lesson.ly over a year ago and the experience was amazing. The grading station is my favorite. You can sort out users through groups, courses, etc. You can even export the grade book to an Excell Sheet (super easy to do). The best part though, is the AMAZING customer service experience I had. When I first couldn't use it, two-three demo were scheduled by Jacey. We had some pricing issues and the team's approach was amazing as well. They truly put the customer first!!
Pros
Grade book and easy-to-make lessons.
Cons
If you're just looking for an assessment tool, you're getting too many unnecessary features.
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great Team at Lesson.ly
Lesson.ly has great customer service! Prompt and individualized service. Completely changed how we train our staff.
Pros
Very easy to use.
Cons
Reporting.

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Great to Disseminate Information
Overall, I like the tool. We have also used it to qualify for continuing education credits for certain certifications.
Pros
I like my company's use of Lessonly, they will send out compliance and HR information. At the end of the presentation there is a check for understanding. You can always go back to Lessonly to review the completed items. This is great!
Cons
There is nothing I dislike about Lessonly. It is very easy to use and is a good place to store important, but not daily data.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Lessonly was great during training at my new job!
Overall, Lessonly has been great! Would definitely recommend for any type of training
Pros
Lessonly was a great tool for training/onboarding in my current role. Since we are work from home, it was hard to have quizzes or lesson overviews with our group. Lessonly made it super easy. You could just go in and answer directly on your computer and you could see your responses after you submit for when you review the answers with the group.
Cons
There were a few glitches connecting the screen record and the audio record at times (I know a few people had these issues multiple times). I am not sure if it is because we use macs, but I had to restart my computer/chrome a couple times but then I eventually got it to work.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Lessonly Review
Lessonly is a great tool for teachings and trainings, and these can be made quickly and easily.
Pros
Lessonly is a great tool to use for trainings, when you are unable to do an in person training. You can customize with photos and quizzes to make the trainings more fun and pleasing to the eye
Cons
The site can be a little slow at times, but there aren’t too many downsides other than that.
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Lesson.ly is an awesomely cohesive product!
From a creation standpoint, Lessonly had been incredible easy to use and allows me to integrate creativity into my lessons. I have fun creating the lesson and enjoy receiving feedback from my colleagues. From a learners standpoint, I appreciate Lessonly because it allows for a different kind of learning experience. It also allows me to take my time and really absorb the information. I love that there is learning center Dashboard that I can access at any time. Lessonly has been a wonderful addition to my company and I would definitely recommend this product.
Pros
The speed and functionality
Cons
The limitations in overall script formatting.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Great Coaching/On-Boarding Tool
I think its a great tool and plan to implement at every company I work.
Pros
Great for on-boarding reps and creating material for ongoing coaching and training around new internal and external processes.
Cons
Time-consuming creating the lessons along with UI naviationg is often an obsticle
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Lessonly with Weave
We use lessonly for most of out internal training throughout every department in Weave.
Pros
Lessonly is an easy way to do trainings throughout the company. You are able to present the information in a number of different formats to help our employees learn no matter how they learn.
Cons
A lot of our Lessonlys are very basic but that might just be the way that we set them up rather than a drawback to Lessonly's features.