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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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What is Absorb LMS?
Absorb LMS helps organizations to provide employees, customers, partners, or members with the knowledge they need. The Absorb LMS interface was built to offer an easy-to-use and dynamic experience for both learners and administrators. Absorb LMS platform aims to combine the power of traditional LMS features and a core focus on user experience.
Some of its top features include:
- Generative AI: Create AI Beta enables course creators to streamline the course creation process, saving the time and effort needed for research and design.
- Engaging learner platform: To foster deeper learning comprehension and retention, Absorb LMS supports multimedia content formats, responsive design, social learning, and branded interfaces.
- Support: 24/7/365 days support from anywhere. Plus, a Client Success Manager is also available to offer further support.
- Actionable Reporting: To prove ROI for training programs with flexible reporting, including configurable admin dashboards and automated reports.
- Turn-key learning content: Simplifies employee training with a ready-to-use content library. Fuels learner engagement with secure knowledge retention with expert-designed, video-based microlearning courses with Absorb Amplify.
- Robust Security: Absorb successfully completed the (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination for Security and Availability. Absorb also maintains the LMS compliance standards for data security and privacy protection (GDPR).
- Modern mobile-app: Leaners can train offline, then course progress automatically syncs when internet connection is restored. Available to iOS and Android devices.
- In-the-flow learning: Absorb Infuse enables the user to integrate training into native systems and applications learners are already using - embedding training directing into existing workflows.
Absorb LMS Features
Learning Management Features
- Supported: Course authoring
- Supported: Course catalog or library
- Supported: Player/Portal
- Supported: Learning content
- Supported: Mobile friendly
- Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
- Supported: Assignments
- Supported: Compliance management
- Supported: Learning administration
- Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
- Supported: eLearning
- Supported: Assessments
- Supported: Live online learning
- Supported: In-person learning
- Supported: Micro-learning
- Supported: Video learning
- Supported: eCommerce
- Supported: AICC-compliant
- Supported: SCORM-compliant
- Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
- Supported: Social learning
- Supported: Gamification
- Supported: GDPR Compliant Learning
- Supported: Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning
Additional Features
- Supported: Generative AI
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Absorb LMS delivers for customers in healthcare, retail, restaurants, and manufacturing by providing flexible learning, extensive customization, and reporting and analytics.
Absorb LMS's smart administration aims to automate processes for maximum efficiency and is customizable to fit unique needs and schedule.
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Absorb LMS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela |
| Supported Languages | Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese. |
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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.
Litmos, Docebo Learning Platform, and Adobe Learning Manager are common alternatives for Absorb LMS.
Reviewers rate Learning administration highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Absorb LMS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Absorb LMS Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
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| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 5% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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July 01, 2024
Intuitive Learning Platform.
We use Absorb as a total learning management system. Absorb is our online hub for communications, learning about our culture, building relationships, increasing compliance, and personal development. Sugar University is part of our language and is an asset to us in ensuring a consistent guest experience in our stores. It is also a resource for reference when working in the store.
- Platform Customization.
- Customer Support.
- Intuitive Interface.
- Reporting
- Course Authoring can be bulky.
- Structure of teams.
June 27, 2024
Elevating Our Training Experience
Absorb LMS streamlines training for our company, a niche business in a unique market with specialized training needs. By offering a centralized platform, it ensures consistent, skill-specific training for both customers and internal staff, enhancing knowledge retention and productivity. This ultimately boosts our service quality and client satisfaction.
- Admin portal is easy to navigate
- Learners Portal is easy to use
- Course Portals are easy for our learners and look great
- Client Success Support is superior
- Batch updates to courses would be idea. Something you can use outside of the course window.
June 25, 2024
Absorb Success Managers are the best!
As an Instructional Designer, I am the administrator of our Absorb LMS and create the courses that train our clients to be successful with our software product. Recently, we have also started an internal certification program where we use the leaderboards provided via Absorb.
- Fairly recent upgrade to the course player.
- Ability to create roles for different levels of access.
- Use of a sandbox for testing and research.
- I wish that reports could include data from multiple tables. It seems like each report is missing just one or two things that would make it really useful. Instead, I have to use multiple reports to get all of the required information.
- The leaderboards had some funky things going on, like pulling two different certifications into one board. We found workarounds, but the leaderboards could definitely be improved.
- Expiration dates on billboards would be a huge plus!
- We would like to be able to create our own custom import files rather than needing their technical department to create and update them for us. We reviewed some other vendors who offered this feature.
- The available import functionality is very selective; it would be nice if that were made easier to use.
- We had a heck of a time trying to get our contract renewal quote. It took several months, which caused some issues with our budgeting process.
- The way seats are counted is ridiculous. We would not be able to track our seat usage accurately, as any user who logs in uses a seat for a full year from the time they log in, whether they log in again or not. A monthly tally would be so much more practical.
- There are inconsistencies in the UI. For example, a menu might look and work one way on one screen and differently on another.
June 25, 2024
Decent LMS with a poor business model.
Absorb is our primary learning management system and is used to track the majority of our training (e-learning and ILC). All employees utilize the LMS for onboarding and continuing education across our national footprint in the United States. We rely heavily on the LMS to accurately track employee training records and training data.
- User friendly interface.
- Generally easy navigation in admin experience.
- Course creation is fairly simple.
- The data reporting options and features in Absorb are terrible. Sometimes, multiple reports have to be pulled to get simple L&D metrics. If you want to see most of your data, you have to upgrade to Analyze, which is insanely cost-prohibitive for small to mid-sized companies. Reporting in an LMS should not be an add-on. Admins should be able to access all data at all times and customize reports as needed.
- Functionality for adding external links to ILC sessions is poor and limited.
- As a company, Absorb needs to improve its "a la carte" business model or offer better-tiered pricing. The LMS is good, but the competition is intense, and I'm tired of being upsold every time I have a question about functionality.
June 25, 2024
Non-Profit Review of Absorb + Product Features.
Larkin Street Youth Services is a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to eliminating youth homelessness. We serve over 3,000 transitional-aged youth (ages 18-24) to move beyond homelessness into their entire lives. Our learning platform (Larkin Street Learning) serves 250 client-facing and administrative support staff throughout the Bay Area. Absorb can meet our following customer needs: -Designing custom Self-Paced and ILC setup -Designing unique learning paths -Designing engaging landing page materials -Designing custom reports for monitoring compliance, custom course, and third-party course progress -Designing custom reports for tracking course evaluations and continuous quality improvement Helpful products and services: -Consultation with CM for ongoing problem solving and design suggestions -Help Desk, Knowledge Articles -Amplify for soft skills micro-learning -Manager Dashboard -Ideas Portal for Improvements -Amplify+, Create, and Analyze all sounds fantastic, we have not yet been able to integrate though are moving in that direction. -Analyzing also seems helpful, but it may exceed our budget.
- Customer Support.
- Offering affordable rates for Non-Profit Organizations.
- Providing micro-learning course library for soft skills development.
- Excellent reporting capabilities.
- Quick response times for problem solving issues.
- Lots of customization opportunities.
- External Course Completions are VERY challenging to monitor/ set up. For example, we offer CPR first aid in-house; folks can complete it externally. No single report can capture external and internal completions in the exact location.
- Audits are challenging. State representatives need to see the certificates of completion. Managers must access all of their direct reports' certificates in one place. We need to pull individual certificates one at a time from other external upload or course upload reports and print/ save each one by one. This takes up LOTS of time.
- ILC Auto-enrollment would be very helpful when we need to enroll folks in required courses without a self-enrollment option (or when they are new and need to be enrolled in onboarding courses).
- An instructor dashboard would be helpful similar to the Manager Dashboard.
June 25, 2024
Absorb LMS Review.
We use Absorb to host the internal and external training of our software.
- Uses the latest version of Articulate 360 SCORM packets.
- Ease of creating user accounts.
- Customization of Learner Portal.
- More out-of-the-box reporting functionality without having to pay for an upgraded version.
- The ability to control client Admin permissions better. Some permissions are lumped with others. I would like to see them all individually so that we have more control over what our clients have access to.
- Better instructions on how to manually import users.
June 25, 2024
Learning Coordinator review.
We use Absorb to distribute e-learning courses and use Absorb to our partner organizations for their learning needs.
- Mass integration between our Ultipro system.
- Making auto generated excel reports.
- Access to Absorb academy with help troubleshooting various issues.
- A better way to help users understand SCORM conversion.
- Explaining how to use the calendar widget.
- Maybe a video of creating some basic custom dashboards.
June 23, 2024
Appreciation for Absorb LMS and the Support Team
We utilize Absorb LMS to create custom education-based courses for our industry partners and professionals in our field. By utilizing Absorb LMS we have been able to expand these offerings from an initial 1 curriculum, to now, where we are nearing the launch of more than 10 curricula.
- Customer Service - Our CSM, Kirsten Spak, provides friendly, timely and high quality help and has helps us to understand and efficiently use the system.
- Course Creation - We have been able to create custom courses with a wide range of features, including branding, audio, video and assessments.
- Reporting - Absorb LMS offers a robust reporting function which allows us to understand our users and meet the needs of our partners when user information is required for their projects.
- Certificate downloads - We had hoped to be able to download all certificates related to a given course as a bulk download, however, this was not an available function. However, our CSM did help to identify a workaround for this situation.
June 19, 2024
Absorb LMS Review.
We use Absorb to deliver online and scheduled training to employees within our dealer network. The platform hosts various training modules, ranging from technical to soft skills.
- Uploading of course material.
- Has a great knowledge bank to refer to.
- Easy to navigate.
- I believe the reporting side of things could be done a lot better.
- Offer more how to videos to assist with the knowledge bank they have.
May 22, 2024
Absorb User
We use Absorb LMS for required employee training. These trainings are done annually, and are tracked through Absorb.
- Tracking of course progress
- Designing trainings
- Easy delivery of courses
- Automated reminder emails
- More functionality with our HRIS
As a Training center, we constantly need to create new content with interactions for students to learn. There are many options in the market but Absorb LMS gives us the tools, useful AI tools content and reports of the activities Students do on platform. User experience is friendly and easy to understand even for our non-English speakers.
- The creator tool is easy to use
- Courses on Amplified
- Role creation is simple to set and complete
- Need more options on quizzes or evaluation tools.
- Courses on Amplified could be more robust.
May 20, 2024
Absorb is amazing!
We use Absorb as our main LMS system. We are able to streamline training, and accurately manage training history. Absorb LMS has taken away the manual work that we've done in the past and has been able to make things automatic. Since the system is so intuitive we've been able to get staff to utilize the system and complete required training without pushback. This allows us to get a good ROI because the system is being used in the projected capacity. Absorb LMS has truly taken us to the next level, bringing a sense of professionalism to our LMS.
- Immaculate customer service
- Innovative: Constantly working to make the system better
- Simplistic design, which allows ease of use
- Helping to provide secondary solutions if a functionality does not currently exist
- Ability to "exclude" information (i.e departments, groups)
- Easily pull course activity report for all courses
- Ability to save templates that have multiple filters
- Ability to edit enrollment dates
We had no LMS. I identified Absorb as perfect for our basic/standard LMS needs. We required somewhere to host learning videos, track their usage, provide assessments, and provide reports on LMS usage. Absorb was a cheap solution that offered further capabilities as and when we needed them, such as SSo integration with Salesforce, the ability to sell training to customers, etc.
- Upload content, there are various types supported.
- User management.
- Customising user experience.
- Has many features that are standard.
- Can expand if need be on function and features.
- Templates for uploading courses: I generally use the same information, but for every course, I have to go through all the settings.
- hard to find topics in the help.
- There are menu options for setting up a system in different places, but that could be simplified.
Absorb LMS functions as our organization's platform for our healthcare professional continuing education system, PHA Online University. It is our primary platform for our members (healthcare professionals who work with patients who have pulmonary hypertension) to access CME/CE accredited enduring material courses to develop their clinical knowledge and skills. The product allows our members to access CE courses anytime, anywhere.
- Customer support: any time we've ever encountered issues on the front end (from learners) or back end (reports, building courses, etc) our CSM Olivia are immediate in their response and helpfulness. Any questions we have are always addressed promptly.
- Dashboards: very cool functionality to see (in real-time) course enrollments, completions, etc. and its easy to build them in Absorb.
- Customization: the abilities to customize our platform homepage (with custom billboards, images, news and announcements, etc.) is a huge plus for Absorb.
- Reporting: some custom reports we need have to be built on the backend and we can't do ourselves- e.g. have to put in a request to the client success team.
- Surveys/Course evaluations/assessments: can't edit these after the courses go live without losing some data from learners who've already completed them. Also have to click 'submit' after each evaluation item instead of just once at the bottom of the page.
- Character limits: some object lessons have character limits (e.g. the 'Description' box- only allows 4000 characters.
April 15, 2024
AbsorbLMS is a solid LMS system
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS to provide Instructor Led and Video/On-Demand training for our external customers. We needed a public site to display our training courses for customers to purchase and a way to deliver the training. We needed an easy-to-use portal for our learners to be able to take the training and track their progress. We needed gamification and collaboration.
- Allows customization for different customers
- Provides a way to sell training to customers
- Provides ways to distribute learning keys to users
- User interface needs more flexibility
- Resource library needs more ways to exclude or include departments or users
- Core reporting and dashboards need assistance
April 12, 2024
Absorb for the upskilling win!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My company needed an LMS for Content Creation for upskilling current employees and onboarding new employees. We also needed a way to house training and informational resources. When using our previous LMS, it was difficult to easily create beautiful and useful content and support from that LMS was slow and lacking actual help. 90% of learning content and resources is made in house. We needed a robust LMS to support this.
- ease of use
- robust and fast support team
- beautiful content creation
- robust admin tools and reporting
- nothing is lacking so far
- everything has been great so far
- training and onboarding has been wonderful
- no issues to report
April 12, 2024
Absorb more with Absorb!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS in multiple ways. Customer product training and certification both online and ILC courses. Internal Member upskill training, personal development, compliance, D E & I, etc. online, cohort & ILC courses. We also use the Reviewer Experience internally. We use the reporting capabilities for learner development and for compliance reasons.
- ILC registration & management
- Reporting customization & capabilities
- Certification/Competencies
- Online course creation and uploading
- Easier way for learners to find the courses they are looking for.
- Navigational tips/videos on the learner side. AI Assist is coming and that should help.
- When rolling out new products, it would be helpful to have use case videos setup when doing a trial run.
April 12, 2024
Absorb is the LMS we've been looking for!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS for training our employees as well as our clients that use our product. We also host webinars and are able to deep link resources. This product addresses our need for creating learning journeys and certification programs. We also use it for collaboration purposes through the user of forums and are looking at using it for ecommerce in the future. The number one problem this product addresses is our need for detailed analytics/reporting features. The amount of data Absorb provides our team and company is phenomenal!
- Very user friendly
- Detailed reporting and analytics
- Curriculum journeys
- More flexibility with Absorb Create
- Better survey options
April 10, 2024
Why you need Absorb
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It allows are customers to learn at an advanced pace. It also allows a new revenue stream for our business. It also allows our internal employees to have access to training materials so everyone can be well versed in the work that we do and will feel more confident with our software.
- Customization
- Absorb Create
- Implementation
- Features could be more detailed
- Freedom to customize like wordpress
- Course integration could be more seamless
April 08, 2024
Great tool for learning
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Absorb LMS for internal employees training (compliance, onboarding, updates). We also use it for our customers's training: we have several certification programs that are addressed to our customers. In Absorb LMS we also offer our customers product onboarding training and additional education trainings to further their understanding of our products
- Course Management
- Interface creations
- Webinar tools integration
- Assessment functionalities
- Questions answers options
- Webinar session set up options
April 08, 2024
Gets the job done
was nice to have everything in one place and can track when each person completes a training session. Overall has helped make sure no trainings are missed and we can even take it a step further to quiz people on what they have learned and develop additional materials to fill in the knowledge gaps.
- Creating course
- Easy log in
- branding
- reporting
- tagging
- analysis
March 26, 2024
Absorb LMS Review- Highly Recommend
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Absorb is our LMS platform- our one stop shop for all training & development resources & needs. We leverage the platform to onboard all new hires, provide role clarity training, enhance technical skills through interactive learnings, build engagement tools & resources, and track development and knowledge progress. This program is used across all of our departments and staff.
- Ease of Use
- Search functionality
- Provide resources & tools for use
- Ability to customize more of the screens
- in Create Design- ability to spell check
- Offer More trainings for system admins
February 29, 2024
Satisfied Customer
The City of Roswell uses Absorb LMS for Compliance Training. This is important because it helps employees understand all the relevant laws, regulations and internal policies that govern the function of the City. With over 1,000 employees divided into multiple departments, we needed a learning management system that enables us to disseminate, track and report on a regular basis to ensure that we maintained 100% Compliance. This is complicated with ongoing New Hires, and Absorb LMS is so easy to use that we can easily keep up with the ongoing demand.
- Creating Accounts (just a few steps)
- Monitoring (easy to categorize)
- Reporting (easy to set up)
- Landing Page: I struggled to make that relevant
- Absorb Academy: It is hard to track down specific information to a question
- Help Desk: It is hard to share that time with others
February 15, 2024
A well-rounded system that supports all L&D needs.
Absorb LMS in our organization is used to organize and manage the whole scope of Learning & Development. It allows us to manage our employee's progress, upload all their certificates, and be able to see a full overview of skills and competencies in one platform. Next to that, it allows us to create unique courses ourselves and immediately share them with our employees, tailored to their needs.
- Create tool.
- Allowing to organize and track all types of courses, not just e-learnings.
- Overview of people skills in their profiles.
- Uploading documents is perceived as hard for employees, especially with video uploads.
- Sometimes the program lacks and then an employee has to start all over.
- Spacing courses is possible but not with a certain amount of time, which would be useful if the next course could open after a week/month instead of when the employee finishes the previous course.
January 10, 2024
Absorb is a dream to work with!
We are training learners across the housing sector to become more inclusive of 2SLGBTQIA communities. We use Absorb to reach workers across the city, so we can be efficient in our training reach and ensure everyone has the same access to information. We will ultimately be training thousands of workers across the city to make shelter spaces more accessible for 2SLGBTQIA people.
- Easy to navigate the admin platform
- Reminders built in to ensure you activate your courses and avoid frustration
- Vast amount of options in Absorb Create, so you can make your courses exactly what you want them to be
- You don't have the option to make your buttons within an object skip to the next course (only the next page within the Create object), so people have to navigate using buttons on the bottom panel, which is not always intuitive
- If you un-enroll someone and re-enroll them, they start back where they left off, instead of wiping the slate clean
- I have not been able to figure out how to clean up the courses page (ie putting them into folders)