Litmos Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Content Authoring: Create professional and interactive eLearning content, suitable for users of all experience levels.
  • Create courses and modules using the intuitive Create Module tool.
  • Customize courses with a neutral theme that highlights your organization’s colors and logos. Tailor fonts, colors and themes to ensure a consistent brand experience.
  • With the following/back options, you can effortlessly navigate through pages or slides. The "lock progress" feature allows you to track learner progress throughout the course.
  • Adhere to 508 and WCAG AA standards to make content accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. Users can also select their preferred language.
  • Build courses in multiple languages and structure them with multiple pages or slides. Add, delete, and reorder pages to control course flow and coverage.
  • Use predefined templates and components, such as text and images, videos, quizzes and more. Customize it with headings, images, buttons, and audio.
  • Set various completion criteria such as Last Page, Quiz Pass or Declaration. Attach resources and save important documents for easy access.
  • Publish courses directly into Litmos Training as SCORM 1.2 or download as a SCORM 1.2 ZIP file.
• Third-Party Integrations: Easily integrate with a variety of third-party tools like Zoom, Zendesk, Okta, BambooHR, Paylocity, Shopify and Dropbox.
• Off-The-Shelf Content: Access 2,000+ award-winning courses, 80,000+ courses from Go1, and 4,000+ eLearning videos from Bigger Brains. Use ready-made skills tagging and learning paths, or create custom ones tailored to your organization's needs. Enhance learning with workbooks, handouts and more.
• Mobile App: Engage with training anytime, anywhere, on any device, with a consistent experience across desktop and mobile.
  • Download courses to learn without an internet connection.
  • Enable notifications to stay on track with reminders for deadlines, new courses and upcoming training sessions.
  • Use biometric single sign-on (SSO) and access training materials and interactive content from anywhere.
  • Support for 37 languages, microlearning modules and AI integration.
• Compliance: Create a consistent compliance culture with up-to-date, country-specific compliance courses created by experts. Upload pre-existing content, create SCORM modules or use Litmos’ off-the-shelf compliance courses. Easily track progress and measure impact using built-in or custom reports to monitor course completions, quiz results and more.
• Ecommerce: Generate revenue from courses and certifications to boost your bottom line.
  • Sell your courses and certifications on an eCommerce platform.
  • View and adjust revenue based on delivery methods, dates and locations.
  • Sell training credits upfront and bridge revenue gaps with automated tracking and management.
  • Automatically monitor and allocate expenses for events and vendors.
  • Link revenue to different business units or product lines and create unique eCommerce accounts for each.
  • Customize the appearance of your training offerings to match your brand so that customers and partners can easily recognize them.
  • Manage training in multiple languages and currencies with built-in support for global taxation.
  • Connect with CRM, ERP and financial systems using the Litmos API to handle data accurately.
• Surveys: Use the survey tool and pre-built reports to gather feedback from employees and discover what users think about the course. Create surveys in multiple formats, such as multiple-choice, text comments and a rating scale, and prevent learners from filling out a survey multiple times to ensure accurate results.
• Instructor-Led Training (ILT): Easily manage both in-person and virtual instructor-led training (ILT and vILT) sessions.
  • Coordinate schedules, track attendance, and handle all training details on a single platform.
  • Integrate with webinar tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Webex
  • Simplify registration with features such as single sign-on, mobile access and automated calendars.
  • Automate attendance tracking and conflict checking and send alerts for schedule changes.
  • Schedule recurring sessions and add multiple instructors to sessions.
• Assessments: Configure assessments with various question types, such as multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank. Set assessments as mandatory or optional, with customizable passing scores, and integrate them directly into courses.
• Customizations: Personalize the look and feel of your LMS with a variety of customization tools.
• Branding
  • Custom Branding: Tailor the LMS interface to align with your organization's brand. Modify colors, fonts, logos and backgrounds to create a cohesive brand experience.
  • Custom Login Page: Design a personalized login screen that welcomes users and reflects their brand identity.
  • Header and Footer Customization: Customize the global header and footer for both admin and learner views.
• Course and Content
  • Built-In Authoring Tool: Use the built-in authoring tool to create and customize courses and reuse existing content, such as PowerPoint presentations and videos.
  • Learning Paths: Create customized learning paths (curriculums) tailored to specific roles or competencies, guiding learners through a structured training experience.
• User Experience
  • Personalized Views: Create personalized learner views for users to see content that is most relevant to them based on their roles, preferences or past activities.
  • Widgets and Interface Options: You can choose from various widgets, such as news, metrics, and assigned training, to display on the dashboard.
  • Navigation Customization: Select different navigation styles, such as horizontal or vertical menus.
• Training: Besides the solution’s content library and knowledge management capabilities, it has valuable applications for several specific types of industries.
  • Customer Training: This solution allows for better adoption, upselling, and increased buyer loyalty by providing the opportunity to train customers on how to use products. Tracking lets users see which training programs work best for customers so they can adjust training as needed. Popular training enables organizations to increase sales through the eCommerce function.
  • Sales Training: Accessible by mobile, the sales training can use video assessments to help hone pitches and integrate with a CRM. It also comes with several courses on relevant topics.
  • Operations Training: The dual use of certification programs and learning paths, allows employers to ensure their operations managers are qualified and up to date with compliance issues.
  • Gig Worker Training: For jobs in the gig economy, such as Uber, Lyft and Airbnb contractors, the software can onboard people quickly and efficiently even when they’re not in the same country.
  • Contractor Training: The solution scales easily for a sudden upsurge in workers in an unpredictable market, while reporting and analytics allow managers to monitor workers closely. Bits of microlearning can help a variety of workers answer questions quickly without disrupting the process.
  • Supplier Training: Stay in touch and up to date with suppliers through presentations, video, audio, PowerPoints, reference materials and SCORM-standardized content. Scaling also helps accommodate a significant change in learners.
• Certificate Management: Create unique certificates to reflect the attributes of each learner and course.
  • Customize various elements of the certificates, such as logos, colors, fonts and text, to align with your brand guidelines and enhance their visual appeal.
  • Create unique certificates for each course, ensuring that the design and content reflect the specific training completed by the learner.
  • Manage the lifecycle of certifications, including expiration notifications and renewal processes, to stay compliant with industry regulations.
• Monitor Learner Activity: Receive alerts in real time for learner activities, like course completions or milestone achievements. Use the Boost feature to schedule and send push notifications to any device, including wearables.
• Customizable Subdomains: Create multiple subdomains per subscription, each customizable and brandable. Designate one subdomain as the primary for system-wide course assignments.
• Gamification: Incorporate gamification elements to enhance user engagement and motivation.
  • Allow learners to earn points and badges for completing courses and display them on their profiles to encourage participation and reward progress.
  • Rank learners on leaderboards based on their points to encourage healthy competition.
  • Tailor gamification mechanics to fit organizational training goals and create a personalized learning experience.
• Data Reporting: Track learner progress and assess the effectiveness of training programs using insightful data reports.
  • Schedule automated reports to generate and send via email, keeping stakeholders informed without manual effort.
  • Create custom reports tailored to specific metrics or KPIs, focusing on what matters most to your organization.
  • Interpret data quickly with visual dashboards and graphical representations to identify trends and areas of improvement.
  • Track comprehensive metrics, including course completions, learner engagement levels and assessment scores, to get a bird' s-eye view of training activities.
• Social Learning: Direct messaging and discussion forums enable learners to share insights and clarify doubts in real time. Social media integration allows them to collaborate on learning paths and share achievements and progress, boosting community engagement.

Approach to Common Challenges

• Conducting Accurate Assessments: Litmos' AI-powered video assessments minimize the influence of personal biases and opinions in evaluations. Machine learning algorithms analyze specific aspects of learners’ performance, including sentiment, speech pace and other key themes, and automatically assess video assessments. This saves you time and effort, and ensures that assessments are more consistent and fair, as they’re based on objective, predefined criteria rather than individual judgment.
• Creating Engaging Training Content: The course authoring tool creates mobile-responsive SCORM courses suitable for both novice and expert users. Choose from a rich library of components and templates to create engaging and consistent content, track learner progress with flexible settings, and maintain a detailed audit history. The tool also supports easy translation and ensures content is optimized for all devices.
• Adding New Revenue Streams: You can use Litmos’ public catalog and eCommerce tools to sell training courses and certifications to external users and earn extra money. You can easily connect with eCommerce and CRM platforms like Shopify, Salesforce and Zendesk to offer training to customers and partners. You can brand your website and get an overview of all sales and purchase activities through customizable revenue reports.

Cost of Ownership

• Ideal for small businesses or departments with fewer than 100 learners.
• Offers 140 starter courses and essential support for getting started.
• Key features include:
  • Automated Onboarding For New Users
  • Top-Notch Security
  • Various Accessibility Options
  • Reporting Tools
  • Basic Training Content
  • Core Implementation Support

• Tailored for mid-sized and fast-growing companies with a global audience.
• Allows you to create your own courses and access an extensive library of 2,000 soft skills and compliance courses.
• Key features include everything in the Foundation plan plus:
  • Custom branding options
  • Integration APIs
  • Content authoring tools
  • Premier implementation support
  • Platinum training content

• Ideal for rapidly growing mid-sized and large companies seeking advanced tools for learner engagement and analytics.
• Offers premium support for setting up and access to over 2,000 courses on soft skills and compliance.
• Key features include everything in the Premier plan plus:
  • AI video assessments
  • Gamification features
  • SMTP for email integration
  • Custom domain with SSL for added security
  • Custom roles and permissions

Limitations

• Lacks Collaboration Capabilities: While Litmos offers collaboration tools like discussion boards, content sharing and announcements, it supports key features such as group chat and two-way messaging only with partner integrations.
• Limited Compliance: Another aspect we found Litmos lacking is its compliance capabilities. According to our data, it doesn’t comply with the LTI, COPPA and FERPA regulations.

FAQs

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• Native iOS and Android mobile apps are also available for Litmos Training