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What is Absorb LMS?

Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.

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Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of a company's unique identity with a training interface that is custom-designed for the brand.
Screenshot of a company's image and values with a training interface that is tailored to the brand's specific needs.
Screenshot of the course creation workflow, that offer a diverse set of formats, including instructional videos, quizzes, and assessments.
Screenshot of Absorb's course details page, accessible from the course catalog dashboard, used to give learners an understanding of the course material.
Screenshot of learners' progress insights, used to make data-driven decisions with the reporting capabilities of Absorb LMS.
Screenshot of course creation with Create AI Beta.

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Screenshot of a company's unique identity with a training interface that is custom-designed for the brand.

Absorb LMS Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Absorb LMS has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 150 ratings of Absorb LMS's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Progress tracking & certifications

    The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Assignments

    Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Compliance management

    Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 6.9

  • Mobile friendly

    Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Gamification

    Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.

    Category average: 7.2

Who Buys & Uses Absorb LMS

Absorb LMS Reviews

What users are saying about Absorb LMS.
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Pros

  • Responsive and helpful customer support
  • Customizable features to tailor training programs and reporting
  • Reduces administrative burden and saves time

Cons

  • Reporting and analytics capabilities need improvement
  • Content creation prompts lack clarity
  • Limited ease of incorporating various media types

Great Experience Implementing Absorb LMS

Belinda Hingston (Martin)View profile
National Business Support Manager in Product Management at Scope Aust (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Absorb LMS is our business to business eLearning solution for external sales of eLearning modules, as well as management of learners piloting training through grants and projects. Pre-existing SCORM content is managed as courses and curriculums and made available for purchase through the fully branded, self-service checkout. The platform is extremely customisable, and very accessible - which was a key factor in determine which platform we would provide our content through.

Pros

  • Thorough training and support throughout the build.
  • User friendly and intuitive for both admins and learners.
  • Customisable look and feel - right down to language used within the site structure.

Cons

  • Greater flexibility with Zoom set up for instructor lead courses
  • Alt text added to all image uploads

Return on Investment

  • Improved learner engagement
  • Improved accessibility
  • Empowered admins who can manage more elements than they could in the previous platform

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Go1, Litmos and TalentLMS

Other Software Used

monday.com

Excellent product support and user experience

Incentivized
Nina Stilabower
Director of Employee Development in Human Resources at Markey's (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The previous LMS platforms we used were clunky, difficult to navigate, and we had to purchase content to put in the LMS (no authoring tool). Absorb LMS, while pricier than our previous options, contains so much added value. We love Absorb Create and have use it to author over 75 courses since our implementation 6 months ago! It has cut down the time to create learning resources significantly, while still maintaining a high quality. We needed to be able to track learning (which wasn't really possible in our previous LMS's) so the admin experience solved pretty much every problem we had in that regard - we love the ease of use of the reporting feature. I can't say enough good thinks about Absorb LMS and how it's benefited our organization.

Pros

  • Customizing the user interface was fairly simple and our learners WANT to use the platform because it looks so nice.
  • Admins have so many tools at their fingertips to pull reports, create new users, author new courses, and more!
  • Absorb LMS has been the solution to so many problems we had experienced in our previous LMS: ease of use, course library, course authoring, tracking, reporting, etc.

Cons

  • Building out competencies is a long and arduous process we have not tackled because of what's needed to be done beforehand.
  • Career pathing should be way easier to build out.
  • Some reports are hard to find.

Return on Investment

  • We used Absorb LMS to track Annual Safety Training to ensure compliance with inspectors and ensure our teammates understand the risks and how to mitigate them safely. We were never able to track this before and thus, we simply didn't have mandatory annual training.
  • A huge drawback prior to implementation of Absorb LMS was our inability to offer more than our 40 purchased e-courses to our employees. These were mostly safety and equipment based courses, so we didn't have any soft skill development happening. Now we have hundreds of courses available from the Absorb library that cover the safety aspects, but we also have dozens of leadership courses, communication and influence courses, etc. It has been a huge gamechanger for our employees and their development opportunities! When I look at our course library, there are 400 courses, which over 300 being available through Absorb library (the other 80+ were made using Absorb Create).

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cornerstone OnDemand and Trakstar Learn

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

Lauren Hayat Training Review

Incentivized
Lauren Hayat
QA Training Specialist in Quality Assurance at Gilead Sciences (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm an administrator of the LMS and use it to create curricula and courses (ILCs and online courses). It solves problems of our Learning & Development team having courses scattered across different systems. It also helps us automate our work by being able to send automated enrollment/completion messages and certificates. We serve 4,500 customers and provide courses for different subsets within that group.

Pros

  • User-friendly with icons for course creation
  • Checks before we publish courses to ensure we don't make mistakes
  • Track completion metrics for courses
  • Ease at which we can upload various types of files into courses, and the ease at which we can create curricula combining multiple courses

Cons

  • The "And" and "Or" rules for self + automatic enrollment could be spelled out more to clarify who we're enrolling into courses
  • The thumbnail and poster "Upload photo" section is confusing. There should be a "Favorites" folder where we can easily find most commonly used posters and thumbnails
  • more education around Absorb analyze essentials
  • How the Featured courses section ranks courses is confusing on the back-end. I need to switch the primary one to second place to feature the new one first. But if the previous one now becomes second place, what happens to the old course that was in second place? I've noticed the order you select on the back-end for this isn't always reflected on user side
  • Same comment as Featured Courses but for appearance of billboards. Hard to position each in the right order

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact in terms of metrics reporting
  • positive by spreading our courses to a wider audience easily
  • improved engagement!

Usability

Absorb LMS Client Support Management exceeds expectations

Christina Carter
Learning and Development Consultant in Engineering at JEO Consulting Group (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[...] utilizes Absorb LMS to connect with employees through learning and content management. Absorb LMS Collaborations allow our users to connect as working and learning groups, supports mentoring, and ongoing learning. Absorb LMS offers features such as CREATE to support our goal of designing our own trainings along with a supportive CSM and Senior Account Manager.

Pros

  • Collaborations (working Groups)
  • CREATE (designing and customizing trainings)
  • Customer Support - Maggie Stillman - CSM II

Cons

  • Transcript features
  • Voice Over implementation

Return on Investment

  • Streamlined Intern onboarding
  • Increased team connectivity
  • Provided company growth statistics

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cornerstone OnDemand, Cornerstone Software, LearnUpon and Articulate 360

Other Software Used

Articulate 360, SAP Concur, Deltek Acumen

Absorb review by long-time client

Jennifer LeesView profile
Senior Global Training Specialist in Marketing at Tektronix (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Absorb as our Learning Management System to serve both Tektronix employees and our distribution partners who sell our products, operating as two separate instances. We also now use Absorb Create to develop training courses.

Pros

  • customer support
  • ease of use
  • AI content creation tool

Cons

  • More Absorb Create AI training modules for new users and/or a team of experts to ask questions

Return on Investment

  • streamlined new hire onboarding
  • improved learner engagement
  • reduced costs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SumTotal Talent Development

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Sales Navigator, 6sense

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