Degreed vs. Seismic Learning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Degreed
Score 6.4 out of 10
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Degreed is a workforce upskilling platform boasting users among one in three Fortune 50 companies. It connects learning, talent development, and internal mobility opportunities to intelligence on the skills a business needs next. Degreed packages the capabilities in what the vendor provides as a simple, fluid, skill-building experience that’s powered by the user's own people’s expertise and interests to transform the workforce from within. Degreed is a learning…N/A
Seismic Learning
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly, acquired by Seismic in August 2021), is a learning management system (LMS). The vendor emphasizes eLearning for client-facing skills, as well as a drag-and-drop interface. Lessonly supports customizable learning paths and corporate onboarding processes.N/A
Pricing
DegreedSeismic Learning
Editions & Modules
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Pro
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Pro + Coaching
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Enterprise Learning for Global Teams
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DegreedSeismic Learning
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDegreed for Enterprise provides SaaS based pricing with annual contracts aligned to an organization's size. Degreed is free for individuals.
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Community Pulse
DegreedSeismic Learning
Considered Both Products
Degreed
Chose Degreed
We did enough research to figure that Degreed was better. We did a free demo with both and decided to go with Degreed based on reviews and the way their system worked. The website is also easier to use, and more user-friendly. We do not regret our decision to have chosen Degreed.
Chose Degreed
You can't just buy a certification at Degreed.
Chose Degreed
It's not a fair comparison as they do different things. For what it is, Degreed does a great job of being a one-stop-shop.
Chose Degreed
I think that in a business setting, Degreed is more streamlined to benefit us than almost any other tool. Canvas is great in higher/lower education where the learning is the actual product. In a business setting, tools like Degreed and Bridge do a wonderful job helping our …
Seismic Learning
Chose Seismic Learning
The primary reason why Seismic Learning stacks up against them is that one of the features that Seismic Learning that they don't have is being able to watch lessons and secondly there is a progress tracker in each of every lesson that you ever took in which will help you …
Chose Seismic Learning
We selected Lessonly over in depth evals of Trainual and Rise (not sure if that Rise is the correct link above) and all three are great tools. This came down to intuitive UI and the price point for us. As a growing company, they were willing to work with us to gradient up a …
Chose Seismic Learning
I think Lessonly is unique and [more] reliable than its alternatives because of its ease of use. Every team member in our company loves Lessonly because it is easy to implement and navigate. It has an organized interface that everyone in our team understands. Moreover, Lessonly …
Chose Seismic Learning
Lessonly was already chosen by the company and I was introduced to it. Very quickly I really liked it. It made it so easy to watch and manage training videos for employees. I feel like Lessonly is one of the leaders of LMS platforms on the market. I'm very impressed.
Chose Seismic Learning
Skyprep was very limited in how you could add and edit lesson modules. You had to upload documents where the formatting changed from how you had it set up to how it appeared on Skyprep. It was very hard to use and didn't offer a lot of features to make training less monotonous …
Chose Seismic Learning
We selected Lessonly because it was more comprehensive than many of the other options on the market, and more specifically geared toward customer service than some others. The flexibility and customizable options were also incredibly appealing--being able to fully create our …
Chose Seismic Learning
I haven't really used or evaluated any other product like Lessonly. I found Lessonly in searching the apps associated with Zenefits, which we have used as an HR/onboarding platform for our clients and our own internal staff. I researched it and found it to be a platform that …
Chose Seismic Learning
  • Easy to use
  • Capabilities, especially search and video recording
  • Price is relatively good
Chose Seismic Learning
I haven't used other products like Lessonly!
Chose Seismic Learning
We went with Lessonly for its:
  • Searchable content.
  • Ability to ask an expert privately and immediately.
Chose Seismic Learning
Better instruction features and flow.
Chose Seismic Learning
Again, not really relevant here. I haven't used other products, and wasn't part of the decision process in choosing Lessonly.
Chose Seismic Learning
Not true! I haven't used any but I can't leave the field empty.
Chose Seismic Learning
Lessonly is more user-friendly and easy to use!
Chose Seismic Learning
Lessonly was our top choice because it was the only one who had all the features we were looking for.
Chose Seismic Learning
MindTickle was hated by our users - company switched to Lessonly before I arrived.

Allego and Docebo both seem to have fundamentally different uses - mostly for hive-mind knowledge collection among salespeople, which may be helpful, but can't be scaled to the entire …
Chose Seismic Learning
I cannot answer this question as I have not used any other programs. I tested a few as demos while searching for Lessonly and it made my choice very easy. The others were clunky and outdated. Lessonly is sleek and user friendly.
Chose Seismic Learning
I have used one other similar software in the past, and Lessonly is much more user-friendly. The previous software was extremely clunky, and even after going through training on it, I never fully utilized it because of how overly complicated it was.
Chose Seismic Learning
Not Applicable. I had to choose a platform in order to move forward. I have not used any products like Lessonly. I have always trained staff the old fashioned way: spending several days to a week showing the new hires the ropes, getting them settled, sitting with them while …
Chose Seismic Learning
Lessonly offers a feature that was critical for us, which was a full search feature (within content as well as tags, titles, etc.). This really put Lessonly over the top for us.
Features
DegreedSeismic Learning
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Degreed
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Seismic Learning
6.8
Ratings
18% below category average
Course authoring10.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Player/Portal10.00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Learning content9.20 Ratings3.10 Ratings
Mobile friendly10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications8.30 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Assignments8.00 Ratings2.30 Ratings
Compliance management10.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Learning administration8.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics4.40 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Social learning7.40 Ratings2.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
DegreedSeismic Learning
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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6.3
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.0
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Usability
-
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8.0
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Support Rating
8.8
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9.7
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User Testimonials
DegreedSeismic Learning
Likelihood to Recommend
Degreed is a software that is undoubtedly worth integrating in companies that plan or require the teaching of new topics and material to their employees. This platform is very easy to use, the interface is easy to use and provides detailed information on the learning that each of the employees has had, these learning details can be viewed by accessing the profile section of each employee. Degreed allows you to share strategic material with employees in the form of a "playlist" so that they can learn in an order of all the information. In addition, it allows you to create all kinds of certifications to provide employees with certificates based on behavior, evidence and approvers. These three certification phases make it possible to verify the information learned by the employee, in addition, they allow it to be known how much he has learned and what skills he has developed during that learning period. Without a doubt, Degreed is the best option for all companies that want to add learning content for their employees.
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Lessonly can be used anywhere a digital learning system works. We use a mix of hands-on training and curriculum. For training our photographers, they go through the lessons with a camera on the desk to test with and tangibly learn what they are reading. Same with our production teams, we have physical representations of the camera cards and order forms that they will be dealing with on a daily basis to help solidify the training they are receiving from Lessonly. It frees up our full-time staff to get prepared for the new season. Once the new hires are done with their assigned lessons, they are ready to start shadowing staff. All of the training and shadowing is done in one day and they are ready to hit the ground running on day two! Lessonly has greatly increased our productivity.
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Pros
  • Enterprise-wide provisioning of required and/or optional trainings.
  • Clean presentation of anything our admin's need to show with great feedback opportunities and participation rates.
  • Accountability and progress tracking is pretty spot on as you progress through a course.
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  • Open to feedback and ideas and constantly innovating and iterating on their product to serve new needs that arise
  • Making me feel like more than just a customer: They aren't transactional and focus on building the relationship and making me feel heard.
  • Extremely easy to use product so building content takes little time, and I can leverage other subject matter experts to build content as well.
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Cons
  • Keeping in touch with co-workers in the same team is a little hard.
  • The news feed can be distracting with too many articles thrown at you.
  • Hard to keep track of most popular courses.
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  • When editing a reveal or flip card, the image and text are backwards. The text is on the top and the image is on the bottom when you are editing. But when you publish the lesson, they switch and the photo will be on the top and the text will be on the bottom.
  • Their customer service agents are incredibly friendly and helpful, it will just often be a while before someone is able to respond and assist you.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Worried about its acquisition by Seismic and hope that they don't change the product or the terms drastically.
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Extremely easy to use. I was up and running with my team almost instantly. Working at a small company, we didn't have a lot of dev/engineering resources. Having a tool like Lessonly helped me instantly export information to my team without any additional delay from internal departments
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Support Rating
While it's great for the management and tracking of employees learning, there is still room for growth. It could use more courses and content developed by Degreed rather than relying on external platforms content.
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This is one of the main reasons I keep going back to Lessonly. The customer service is some of the best I've ever experienced. From the sales process to the work with your customer success rep, Lessonly by far beats out the competitors in this area.
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Alternatives Considered
We did enough research to figure that Degreed was better. We did a free demo with both and decided to go with Degreed based on reviews and the way their system worked. The website is also easier to use, and more user-friendly. We do not regret our decision to have chosen Degreed.
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MindTickle was hated by our users - company switched to Lessonly before I arrived. Allego and Docebo both seem to have fundamentally different uses - mostly for hive-mind knowledge collection among salespeople, which may be helpful, but can't be scaled to the entire organization, and not suited to top-down training requirements. We may eventually purchase to supplement Lessonly, not replace it
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Return on Investment
  • It has allowed employees to keep track of their learning progress, as well as allow them easy access to all courses across available platforms.
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  • Lessonly has allowed for easier dissemination of information which has helped with employee engagement among our remote employees.
  • Finding creative ways to use Lessonly has allowed us to keep everyone aligned on our cultural values.
  • Using Lessonly within a live training event allows for higher learner engagement.
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