TheLearning Lab

New entrant in the LMS world focussing on UX and customization rather than backend

Opmerkingen: Overall very good experience

Pluspunten:

Attractive pricing model for a solution which can be tailored. Excellent user and admin experience. Very willing and flexible team to work with. Ambitious roadmap. Nicer design compared with a lot of solutions on the market. good positioning sitting between off the shelf (take it or leave it) solutions and extremely expensive fully customizable platforms.

Minpunten:

Still catching up on some functionalities compared with more established actors on the market

Overwogen alternatieven: LearnUpon, Docebo en TalentLMS

Redenen om over te stappen op TheLearning Lab: better fit with specific company constraints

Thoughtfully structured, easy to use LMS with clean design

Opmerkingen: TheLearningLab has been incredibly helpful for our non-profit organization as we move into providing more online trainings around the world. This LMS is allowing us to scale both our internal staff training and the external training we provide to youth sport program managers worldwide in a way that is low-cost and actually fun! TheLearning Lab team have been super great to work with, always responding to any questions we have and even providing training and support via video calls when needed. We highly recommend them!

Pluspunten:

We thought very hard before selecting our LMS, and what we liked about TheLearning Lab was that the platform provided everything that we needed to launch our very first e-learning platform, with very little customization needed or technical know-how in terms of content creation. The team at TheLearning Lab are really e-learning professionals and met with us to help us learn about the potential for the platform and how it could fit with our needs. They also gave us some good tips about content creation since they provide this service to some clients (though we are creating our own course content in-house). We like that the backend structure where the courses are created actually mirrors how the courses appear to users. This sounds simple but some of the other course authoring softwares that we tried were really not intuitive to use at all! The simplicity of this LMS means that we will soon train several people on our team to help with creating and editing courses, meaning we can create content much faster. Other things we really like are: - Unlimited users at no extra cost (no hidden or unknown costs as we scale) - Ability to assign users to different audiences, gives it versatility that allows us to easily provide different content for staff training versus external online courses - Ability to set up single sign-on from our website - Gamification such as badges - Several other languages possible via integrated DeepL API key

Minpunten:

Their LMS is missing a couple of the interactive features that a previous LMS had, for example the ability to give feedback for incorrect quiz answers (currently feedback is only possible for correct answers) and small things like flip cards with images (not just text). However TheLearningLab LMS is constantly being upgraded with new features and the Penceo team have been responsive to requests for additional features, which makes a big difference compared to dealing with a faceless software company.

Overwogen alternatieven: iSpring Suite, Moodle, Evolve en Opigno LMS

Redenen om voor TheLearning Lab te kiezen: Our original solution was an authoring tool called Evolve that we planned to connect to our existing Drupal website via the Moodle LMS. However we found Evolve to be too complicated to create courses in the backend, and with Moodle the courses were only available as pop-ups rather than being embedded in our website. There were issues with the Moodle customization overall as we found the default style to be clunky and much too complicated for our needs. We chose TheLearningLab because it is both an authoring tool and an LMS, and because we felt that their team are really forward-thinking and passionate about providing a great LMS solution.

Overgestapt van: Moodle

Redenen om over te stappen op TheLearning Lab: TheLearningLab provided all the key features we needed for creating attractive e-learning content, while not being overly complicated or very expensive. Some of the LMS options out there are extremely expensive, and the costs increase as you add more users which seemed like a big risk as e-learning is a new area for us. We also liked how it was easy to use in the backend, so we could imagine that our staff with little prior LMS experience could learn how to create or edit the course content.

An on-site development

Pluspunten:

An on-site interface and included tools make it easier to use and functional.

Minpunten:

I think the product is well but mobile can be improved.

Overwogen alternatieven: Meridian LMS, Opigno LMS, Adobe Learning Manager, eloomi, BRIDGE, LearnUpon en Docebo

Partners, Not Suppliers

Pluspunten:

As much as we like the platform itself for all of its innovative features, the aspect that has most impressed us is the customer service that The Learning Lab has given thus far. Granted, we are only just embarking on our project and as such can't comment on more than a few months' of engagement. Nonetheless, it is clear The Learning Lab are already more than simply LMS suppliers. Rather, they are our partners and will be plugged into our operation long term. In terms of the product itself, we really like the slideshow format of each lesson, with the ability to create really engaging multimedia for our learners.

Minpunten:

Ideally we would be able to upload our videos directly to the platform (this is possible though I understand better to use Vimeo when using large video files) and automatically generate subtitles in multiple languages. There are easy workarounds for these issues, though.

Overwogen alternatieven: Teachable, Podia, Kajabi en LearnWorlds

Redenen om voor TheLearning Lab te kiezen: We felt The Learning Lab's boutique solution and footprint in the sports industry suited our project a lot better. We also liked the ability to create extra 'layers' in our course e.g. have Course > Module > Section > Lesson, which previous LMSs didn't provide.

Overgestapt van: Thinkific

Redenen om over te stappen op TheLearning Lab: For the same reasons.

We love TheLearning Lab, only real creative solution we found

Opmerkingen: Very helpful team, great software. We love working with it as it is so easy to set up!

Pluspunten:

We were looking for a LMS and Authoring tool in one which was designed to set up courses with interactive video, mobile, infographics, gamification and which was particularly easy to style in our clients corporate identity.

Minpunten:

The tool is quite new which means some of the features need to become a bit mature. But the great thing is that the dev team quickly adds new features and works close with us to achieve the best result. So in fact this turned out to be a strength

Overwogen alternatieven: Moodle en TalentLMS

Redenen om voor TheLearning Lab te kiezen: we needed a better branded portal and we wanted an advanced authoring tool within the app next to the SCORM solution

Overgestapt van: TalentLMS

Redenen om over te stappen op TheLearning Lab: More advanced and easy to work with. PLUS the great service and help