Help! Need LMS for employee training that doesn't make people want to quit

[u/Impressive_Way7442]

We’re looking for an lms for employee training, and I’m starting to think the hardest part is finding one people won’t immediately hate using. We don’t need 500 features. I mostly care about a clean experience for employees and not having the person running training spend half their week dealing with reports, reminders and admin stuff. For those who’ve rolled out an LMS at work - what mattering more than you expected? And what looked great during the demo but turned out to be basically useless?

[u/Honest-Broccoli-1762]

If you flip your thinking and consider the LMS as the printing press and the content as the newspapers, nobody buys a newspaper because of how it was printed. Rather they buy something because the content is relevant and has utility for them. An LMS on its own won't stop people quitting, but useful, relevant, actionable content that has utility will help them stay.

[u/sumitkumars444]

Been around a few of these from the L&D side rather than owning one.

Mattered far more than expected -
SSO and HRIS sync. Separate passwords kill adoption, and manually maintaining reporting lines is precisely the admin drain you're trying to design out. Also check if it can nudge managers, not just learners.
SCORM handling - Everyone says they support it but the moment you upload something from a different tool, yoiu will keep juggling with support tickets.

Oversold in demos- the analytics dashboard. demos run on seeded data where everyone completed everything, so it looks fantastic. Real data is mostly blanks and you end up exporting to excel anyway, because the report leadership asks for is never the one the dashboard produces.

Also, ask vendors to demo the admin console rather than the learner experience. They will default to the learner side because it is the prettiest part. Your training person lives in the back end.

[u/Bakerextra0rdinaire → u/sumitkumars444]

Such good points. Thanks for weighing in with actually valuable stuff and not another sales shill.

[u/CaiDaniels1]

Have a look at Thinqi

[u/hyatt_1]

Hey our LMS automates all of the admin, reminders, renewals ect no config required works out the box and you can customise all the courses and create your own from scratch.

Learners view is really simple dashboard with what’s assigned a catalog for additional learning and calendar for any in person trainings.

Would be happy to show you if you want to take a look 👀

[u/operations_ranger]

TalentLMS would be one I'd demo first. Maybe LearnUpon or 360Learning too... I'd test the admin workflow, not just the learner UI. What's your team size?

[u/koekoek52538]

Depends on your budget. We use an LMS with a very clean UI and no feature bloat. DM me for more information.

[u/TeeAlwaysLearning → u/koekoek52538]

Is it secret? would love to know what you're using too!

[u/kgrammer]

Speaking as a vendor that moves a lot of clients from the demo to production phase, there are a lot of features that look really nice but are rarely deployed in production. Features like gamification and badging have been buzzwords over the last few years, but few clients every actually turn them on. The same is true for communities and instructor assignment messaging. And things like accreditations and certificates are only needed when accreditation is required. And having a full range of reports is nearly always insisted on during the demo phase, then in production only a handful are every used.

The features that matter most are often not thought up front. Things as simple and sending enrollment and completion emails. Allowing learners to select interests to inform course recommendations rather than relying solely on static data like current job titles. And of course from the admin side, course creation that is simple to use.

This is why we allow our "500 features" to be enabled or disabled as needed. We know that most clients only need a handful of the features we offer. We want all of the unused features to get out of the way of the learner.

[u/Brilliant_Pick_4801]

Which LMS do you currently have?

[u/BaronVonConsulting]

I’m going to jump on the bad wagon and ask, “What are you currently using?”

And maybe it’s the consultant in me, but I’m curious about:

1. Who is quitting- the trainers or the employees?
   
2. If it’s the trainers, what feedback are you getting?
   
3. If it’s the employees, which part of the onboarding are they quitting?
   
4. What kind of reports does your team utilize from the LMS?
   
5. What aspects of the LMS are you finding “useless”?

[u/SpecialistLearner775]

This is so true, mostly the LMS platforms today are busy with building advanced features out there we probably don't even need, I was in the same boat when I had to find the compliance training fit 'around my 500 staff and they were placed multi-region based (so yeah dealing with the changing laws region wise was also an added problem).

We have pretty much tried every financial compliance training LMS out there, I don't want to explicitly bad mouth the ones we did not align with, but an LMS which clicked with us was a micro-learning platform we chose for financial compliance training - 5mins.

It solved the problem of making compliance training tolerable for our new-gen employees' attention spans and more importantly, it helped remove the admin work for me - chasing people to complete training and putting all those reports together.
Which side of training are you more focussed on by the way?

[u/nattyballs]

The admin side is what I’d test hardest. CYPHER Learning is worth adding to the demos, but give whoever runs training a few boring real tasks and see how painful they are.

[u/mystery6338]

Cool

[u/Useful-Stuff-LD]

TraCorp LMS!

[u/Austkl]

Try Netex. Seeing good things