Overview
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.
Absorb LMS helped us accomplish our training goal!
Absorb is amazing!
Great LMS, nice to use and manage your learning content.
Absorb LMS: Hands Down the Best LMS Customer Support I have Ever Experienced
AbsorbLMS is a solid LMS system
Absorb for the upskilling win!
Absorb more with Absorb!
Absorb is the LMS we've been looking for!
Why you need Absorb
Great tool for learning
Gets the job done
Absorb LMS Review- Highly Recommend
Satisfied Customer
A well-rounded system that supports all L&D needs.
How Absorb LMS Differs From Its Competitors
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Absorb LMS Product Features
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Popular Features
- Learning administration (63)9.696%
- Progress tracking & certifications (60)9.292%
- Course catalog or library (59)9.292%
- Learning reporting & analytics (60)9.191%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
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.
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee required
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?
15 people also want pricing
Alternatives Pricing
What is Rise?
Rise, from Articulate Global, is a web-based system for course creation and learning, featuring a library of imagery and a collection of modular, customizable lessons on business topics relevant to every employee that can be mixed with the user's own content to develop custom courses faster.
What is ADP Workforce Now?
ADP Workforce Now is a cloud-based HR platform for mid-sized businesses. It features customizable modules of various HR services that businesses can tailor to their specific needs, as well as regulatory monitoring and alerts to help businesses remain compliant.
Features
Learning Management
Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.
- 9.1Course authoring(52) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 9.2Course catalog or library(59) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 9.2Player/Portal(58) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 8Learning content(46) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 7.9Mobile friendly(45) Ratings
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
- 9.2Progress tracking & certifications(60) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 8.4Assignments(52) Ratings
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
- 9.2Compliance management(49) Ratings
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
- 9.6Learning administration(63) Ratings
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
- 9.1Learning reporting & analytics(60) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
- 7.1Social learning(28) Ratings
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
- 6.3Gamification(27) Ratings
Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.
- 8.4Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning(43) Ratings
Utilizes SSO technology to ease the login process for users.
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- Downloadables
- FAQs
What is Absorb LMS?
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
Absorb LMS Screenshots
Absorb LMS Videos
Absorb LMS Integrations
Absorb LMS Competitors
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. |
Absorb LMS Downloadables
Frequently Asked Questions
Absorb LMS Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
---|---|
Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 5% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(111)Attribute Ratings
- 8.9Likelihood to Renew5 ratings
- 9.1Availability1 rating
- 9.1Performance1 rating
- 9.1Usability1 rating
- 8.6Support Rating53 ratings
- 8.2Online Training1 rating
- 8.2Implementation Rating1 rating
- 8.2Product Scalability1 rating
- 8.2Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 8.2Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 8.2Contract Terms and Pricing Model1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 29)Absorb for the upskilling win!
- 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
In our case, Absorb is not needed for any ecommerce or client learning or outreach. However, it is good to know that those capabilities are there if we ever need them in the future.
Absorb more with Absorb!
- 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.
Absorb LMS Review- Highly Recommend
- 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
AbsorbLMS Shines as a Well-Rounded Success!
Absorb is a fully functional LMS for our employees, but truly shines when it comes to our needed support for our client training.
Here, Absorb allows us to customize the messaging and training distributed to various segments of our client base. Our client-facing training takes the form of videos, PDF's, quizzes, and SCORM or TinCan files, all of which Absorb handles with ease and provides accurate tracking for. We offer a variety of free and paid training, with custom pricing for some of our larger clients. Absorb's eCommerce features are robust and allow us to meet all of these needs with minimal manual manipulation.
- Up-time. (We have never experienced an outage that impacted us or our clients.)
- Tracking and reporting.
- Customization of the platform by Department
- eCommerce
- Zoom integration can sometimes be a bit wonky (and auto-course attendance does not seem to work consistently, but our application with clients is unique)
- The admin interface could use a UX redesign - It's not quite as pretty or as self-explanatory as the learner interface
Absorb LMS is a Win!
- Customization
- User-Friendly
- Modern Look
- Ability to upload mp3 files
- Multiple facilitators for one course
- Ability to take notes on the platform
Engagement at the highest level! Fun and user-friendly!!
- Building engagement from the team on training
- Onboarding has become so much simpler for new hires
- Tracking on educational and additional training
- Viewing the scheduled reports would be nice. This would help redundant reports and be able to add or delete users receiving reports would be nice.
- Inactivity report for users so that we can isolate users that are not meeting the training requirements.
The initial training and launch of Absorb LMS was well planned and [...] was super amazing!
Even building automatic imports from our payroll provider to Absorb LMS for user imports was handled amazing by [...]! He was always spot on with helping us through the process!
Absorb LMS is a clean, intuitive, yet POWERFUL LMS.
- Usability - Both the User and Admin Experience is so simple and intuitive. The admin tools are clearly defined and laid out, yet the functionality makes it still powerful.
- Integration - We used the Scheduled Data Imports and Exports to connect with our HRIS tool. After the initial configuration, it has worked reliably and gives me all the custom data I need to make assignments and reporting a breeze.
- Design - I know it's covered a little bit in the Usability above, but the site just looks fantastic. There are a lot of options to customize and fit your branding requirements and all of the thumbnails/posters/billboards/etc give a very visual and appealing look to the LMS. Much better than I've seen in other products.
- Reporting - The out of the box reporting is a little cumbersome when trying to view more than one course at a time.
- Completed courses disappear from catalog - I know there is a setting, but it's also connected to the My Courses display so its either all or nothing. Would love to see that option split up
- Training History does not show inactive courses - To keep an accurate training history, courses cannot be deactivated or else the records disappear to the user.
Positive Experience with Absorb
- Response time
- User Interface
- The Create platform could have some additional features
- The process of training customers who have purchased Absorb could be more tailored and customized
Successful first LMS for our Company
- Easy to use interface for users
- Implementation team very supportive
- Absorb continues to improve on their tool with new releases
- Ability to collaboratively suggest modifications to the platform in a forum and vote on other suggestions
- The manager experience needs further development, including how access the manager experience from the user experience
- There needs to be an easier search feature to find a course without having to use the filter option.
- There seems to be a slight delay when completing a course before it shows as completed in the transcript.
All in one training solution
- The reporting feature in Absorb is very strong. Reports are customizable to your company needs and the Absorb Analyze feature is very helpful. Having the ability to create dashboards right from your learning platform builds efficiency especially in our company where we don't have a data visualization platform i.e. PowerBI or Tableau.
- Absorbs ability to connect to course libraries such as GO1 is an amazing feature that opens up the learning possibilities and creates a unique benefit for our employees.
- The Absorb engage features are a useful addition for communicating with our employees and gamifying learning. The billboards let us share information throughout the company. Leaderboards create incentive to complete training. Polls let us quickly gain insights on employee opinions.
- We've encountered errors with certain trainings not marking complete and we have to go in and do this manually.
- Within Absorb analyze, it would be useful to be able to create visualizations & reports using 2 different data sources.
My review from a Content Creator perspective
- Course creation
- Reports
- enrollment rules
- You can add additional content creation tools
- You could work on a simpler UX and UI
- A functionallity that allows testing course content before publishing
Pre Absorb we had no LMS, which meant all L&D functionality was manual - reporting, marking attendance, scheduling sessions, targeted employee training etc. We also had nowhere to house all of the internal e-learnings that we had available. Absorb has helped us to fix this by centralizing all learning, providing in-depth reporting through Analyze, and offering e-learnings via uploaded SCORM files.
- Our CSM has been fantastic. Very approachable and takes on all questions/concerns we have.
- Analyze has allowed us to take our reporting to another level.
- Robust support site where client feedback/ideas can be posted. This is reviewed by the product team to determine whether this can be implemented. The feedback is always taken on board and I have seen a number of suggested ideas move forward to the implementation phase.
- Great knowledge base for admins with articles/resources to provide step by step work throughs of the different features available.
- At the moment you are unable to schedule recurring sessions that are different durations and/or cadence to each other. For e.g. if you have 3 ILC sessions and the time between session 1 and 2 is 1 week but 2 and 3 is 2 weeks, then this can't be recurring. Meaning individual ILC sessions need to be set up and users having to enroll in 3 sessions instead of 1.
- Auto enrolment for ILC sessions would be great. Would allow us to automatically new employees in to the required onboarding training without us having to do a manual file upload via FTP
- Custom messaging options. In addition to the messages that can already be sent out, it would be great if custom messaging could be sent out to address a certain subject that is not covered in the existing messaging.
- The option to send out resources at certain intervals after a training has taken place. We send out learning boosters for our programmes at 2 day, 2 week, 2 month intervals. This is a manual task as there is no way to automate this via Absorb.
Analyze Makes It All Worth It
- Analyze is a complete gamechanger. Has transformed our analytics and saved tons of time.
- Auto-assignment of curriculums.
- Custom curriculum/course pages
- ILT set up; ability to have recurring sessions that are different lengths
- Auto-enrollment at various post-intervals; ie 60-days post completion receive an elearning follow up
- Only being able to enroll in one ILT session. Sometimes we have things people need to repeat and need to make new courses every time.
Client success manager drives the absorb success
Issues we had in the past was assigning manditory education to those in the same division and job title correctly. Before some were being missed. Tracking expirey dates of cpr cards and renewing them. We are also cutting down on in person new hire orientation by delivering it through Absorb electronically as a video.
- Ease of impersonating others for troubleshotting issues
- Uploading content and allowing for resources and multifunctional courses
- Approval process for External Training and Course uploads
- Learner dashboard navigation is easy for users
- Spell check not only for Absorb but for Create too
- making all reports have the same display columns funtions - locations - supervisor- filter to show inactive employees on all reports
- pull all reports assigned to one department to see gaps.
- Seperate divisions/departments via by loaction when drilling down on department progress
- Show percentage of completion out of total assigned at the bottom of the report.
- Provides a user friendly way to deliver training content.
- Provides an administrator interface that is easy to navigate.
- Provides an easy method for enrolling users to trainings in bulk.
- The default reporting and data export options from the administrator interface do not always allow you to report across all the desired data points. We have recently added Analyze and we think this might open up our options considerably.
- There is not an audit trail available for custom fields. This would be a nice feature to have so we can see who made changes to data within those.
- The ability to export an audit trail would be nice.
Learning at its finest!
We are able to successfully keep our engineers in compliance with their educational needs to maintain their professional license.
- Compliance Training
- Customer Service
- Course Options
- Additional Reporting
- How to Videos
- Integration Features. This may be a new user error than the company itself!
Absorb LMS is Amazing!
- Help desk support! The best I have ever encountered.
- Client Success Manager. Sherrie L. has been a wonderful trainer and partner!
- Setting up a new course is very easy to do and does not take very much time.
- The online learning courses for Admins needs to be updated.
- Customizability
- Branding
- User experience
- Automation
- Multiple Domains
- Collaborations
- Language Options
- More robust integrations with larger HCM systems
- More robust reporting out of the box
- More mobile app capabilities
Gets the job done
- Customer support
- Ability to duplicate templates to allow for quickly building out content
- Updated front-end, looks a bit outdated and at times too simplistic
- The backend is a bit clunky at times
- Adding admin roles and rules for departments is not that intuitive
Our users like the site - that matters!
- Message learners individually or collectively
- UI is easy to use when building or editing courses
- Dashboard helps to see how training programs are performing at a glance
- Better responsive design for mobile users is needed. Many tiles don't show the images when using mobile devices.
- Could provide more ability to control the templates for customized webpages
- Ability to see the errors that cause a course to fail vs exploring everything
- Ability to hover over source files to see the nameing convention without needing to upload a new one for certainty.
- I have a wonderful Client Success Manager (Zoe MacKay) who always makes herself available to my organization when needed. She is a delight to work with.
- The Absorb LMS platform is easy to navigate from an end-user perspective.
- This is my first time administering an LMS platform, and Absorb LMS is pretty user-friendly once you get the hang of it!
- I find the Absorb LMS Knowledge Base to be a bit laborious to have to search through to find answers...and sometimes they are not easily understandable
- As simple as it may seem, I would like the ability to hit enter after entering search information rather than having to select the "Add Filter" button
- I would like the ability to run reports on multiple things at once (i.e., courses, etc.)
Absorb Duchess (lol)
One of the entity starts fresh with an opening and new staff to train. Absorb implementation worked like a charm.
The 2 others are more of a challenge, as we are in operation, and the buy-in of the managers ( who are accountable of the success of their employees and training) have more challenges.
The Head office is a no brainer.
- The Paid Support is awesome!
- The platform itself - easy to use
- Communication (newsletter / emails)
- I'm happy Absorb offers licences to add training courses (Amplify). Looking forward to more available options and French options
- I feel like Absorb Academy is not that easy to use ot to get to when you have a specific question when programming.
(+) Any courses for staff who are behind desks, working at computers (Ex: Excel, AODA, Cybersecurity)
(-) With an instructor
(sorry if I misunderstood your question)
- Responsive to customer needs and desires via account rep and Absorb Ideas space
- Provides a collaborative meaning-making space for customers to collaborate on using Absorb effectively.
- Absorb is reflexive to your needs as a company and is comfortable meeting you where you are at and allowing you room to grow.
- Absorb, while having a great space for putting forth ideas, could be better about sharing their roadmap and plans for development with their corporate clients. We need to know so that we can design with these new or updated features in mind and amplify the message ahead of time instead of being more reactive.
- Absorb has room for more growth in the hosting of external content, as well as some functionality pieces when integrating learning objects into a course or curriculum. These objects do not link to one another and inherit completion, even when they are shared across different courses. My understanding is that they do in AbsorbCreate, but not the built-in LMS management suite of software.
Absorb is an easy to use LMS with great functionality
- Standardized training for all employees.
- Easy delivery of new hire orientation courses.
- Automated creation of manager groups.
- Easier way of seeing who employees report to so we can create manager groups.
Absorb Review
- Customer support
- Ease of use
- Integration with other platforms
- Reporting - Analyze appears to still be in Beta mode
- Customization (learner and admin side)
- Re-enrollment capabilities
- Messaging/mass messaging
- Enrollment rules for every function, not just courses (i.e. Manager dashboard)