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BizLibrary

Score8.3 out of 10

31 Reviews and Ratings

What is BizLibrary?

BizLibrary is a corporate-focused learning management software solution. The vendor provides a searchable library of prebuilt courses and materials that are mobile-accessible and include assessment and gamification capabilities.

Media

the administrator dashboard
the content library
a learner profile dashboard
training content
the bizlms learner homepage
a transcript report

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Top Performing Features

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7

  • Course catalog or library

    Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Learning content

    The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.

    Category average: 7.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Progress tracking & certifications

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

    Category average: 8.3

  • Compliance management

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

    Category average: 8.4

BizLibrary the way to go for content

Pros

  • Provide variety of topics to offer training for your employees
  • Notifying you of newly released content each month
  • Providing SCORM files that are easy to export and download into your own LMS
  • Responding to any requests for support

Cons

  • Notifying us of content that has been retired so it can be removed from our LMS
  • Exporting content, there are times when I can only filter one course at a time
  • Less account management, we will ask for help when we need it, so we don't need our account rep reaching out to us quite as often as they do

Most Important Features

  • Variety of available content
  • Ease of getting that content from BizLibrary to our LMS
  • Courses that work properly for students once they are loaded into our LMS

Return on Investment

  • Increase in employee engagement in training. Since adding BizLibrary courses, usage has increased from an average of 3 enrollments per month to 327 per month.
  • We now use it to highlight recommended training specific to each department.
  • The contact center uses it to train new hires on proper customer service etiquette.

Other Software Used

Intellum, Oracle Service (formerly Oracle Service Cloud), Wufoo, SurveyMonkey

LMS that does the job for a great price

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been able to add and expand learning opportunities throughout the organization and it has been very helpful in tracking and keep the organization's compliance in order. It has become the goto place for consolidation of company's documents, videos and other resources for our current training and development needs as well as offered us great content that we can use for training purposes.

Pros

  • User Management
  • Structuring E-learning content
  • Email Reminders

Cons

  • Bugs in backend flow
  • Retirement of training content once used

Most Important Features

  • Internal trainings
  • Customer Training
  • Partner trainings

Return on Investment

  • Positive Impact on ROI
  • Serves the purpose in reasonable cost
  • Helped in achieving the objectives

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Captivate Prime

Other Software Used

Adobe Captivate Prime

BizLibrary - Best service in the biz

Pros

  • Wide range of training.
  • Responsive customer service.
  • Majority of training has multiple accessibility features, closed captions and transcript.
  • Most training has interactions, resources, handouts and links.

Cons

  • Not everything training has transcripts and closed captions.
  • Interactions are limited to quiz questions.
  • Personalization tool for content is limited, but simple.

Most Important Features

  • Wide range of content topics, soft skills and specific training.
  • Content/learning path created for skill paths.
  • Accessibility features.

Return on Investment

  • This has been a large labor cost saver as we were able to meet most basic eLearning needs via BizLibrary, It has saved us needing some additional eLearning specific position.

Alternatives Considered

Cornerstone OnDemand, Grovo by Cornerstone and Adobe Captivate Prime

Other Software Used

Cornerstone OnDemand, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

BizLibrary is a fantastic supplement

Pros

  • Large variety of videos and full lessons.
  • Useful handout and transcript resources.
  • Responsive customer experience.
  • Easy to search for what you really need.

Cons

  • Staple lessons have been archived and not replaced.
  • Large amount of content takes time to sort through.

Return on Investment

  • Fantastic feedback from employees.
  • Time saved during development.

BizLibrary is a great time saver...

Pros

  • Great variety of content topics.
  • Client Success Manager assigned to help us.
  • Ease of use of the BizLibrary Platform.

Cons

  • Some content is archived and not available after we implement.
  • A lot of content to sort through.

Return on Investment

  • Time savings on module creation by using their video materials.