Absorb LMS
Cloud-based corporate learning management system (LMS)
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What is Absorb LMS?
Evaluating learning management systems (LMS) can be a challenging, but critical task. Selecting the right LMS is key to driving business results through learning and creating a return on investment for years to come. Whether you’re implementing your first LMS or looking for a better solution, read these key considerations.
Legacy Lacks Agility
In one corner of the LMS market, you have your well-known legacy vendors. These might seem like a safe choice, but their products and services are anything but nimble. These vendors are expensive—serving you less, but charging you more. The products work, but outdated interfaces and functions don’t meet modern expectations.
Inexperience Limits Results
Then there’s hundreds of small LMS vendors. Some of these systems look enticing, but are not established. They often lack the experience to drive results for developed businesses. Plus, many small vendors don’t have the people power to deliver 100% in-house support when you need it most.
The Absorb Difference
Finally, there’s Absorb. We’ve been exclusively focusing on eLearning for 17+ years. Serving over 1,300 customers and 17.5 million learners, we have the experience and agility to supercharge your learning program. And we don’t have an outdated legacy product that hinders progress. In fact, we built the most agile LMS on the market and have the industry awards to back it up. Absorb LMS earned recognition from Gartner, PCMag and many others. But we didn’t
stop there. Our team of eLearning experts are constantly making updates to enhance the experience for learners and LMS administrators.
Absorb LMS Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
- A one-time setup fee includes: Portal Configuration and UI Branding, Absorb Shopping Cart Integration with Select Payment Gateways, Admin Training, Unlimited Storage, Premium Client Support
- A tiered user fee based on usage
- Upgrade learners’ experiences with Absorb Engage
- For deeper more customized analytics upgrade with Absorb Inform
Contact Absorb for a personalized quote.
Absorb LMS Features
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Absorb LMS Reviews
Absorb LMS Reviews
Absorb is the perfect LMS!
Absorb is so powerful and easy to use. The company itself is great to work with. Their customer service staff is so nice and friendly, and the project manager and account manager I worked with helped me every step of the way. The interface is gorgeous and importing your learners is a snap. I love that Absorb has built-in quizzes that I can create in seconds. I also love that I was able to work with Absorb's designers to customize the branding for our company. Creating certification programs and badges was easy. You can upload or link to practically any type of media. Customized reports can quickly be generated. Grouping learners into categories to deploy specific training is also painless. You can create contest, polls and gamify the learning experience. Ultimately, Absorb is fast, easy, gorgeous and even if you're a staff of one or two (like me) you can easily manage hundreds of learners and dozens of online courses. I love Absorb!
Absorb does a lot of awesome things. A few tweaks could make it even better.
Great Software, Suffers terribly from its customer service.
I rushed into this purchase a little and didnt investigate the level of support that would be offered. In hindsight this would have been a game changer for me as I would have went elsewhere.
The software is good, though it doesnt manage blended learning easily which is frustrating.
Customer Support is absolutely non existent.
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Absorb is the perfect LMS!
Pros
Fantastic customer support
Easy to use design
Quick import of new learners
Easily upload any type of multimedia
Customizable interface for branding
Out of the box solution at a reasonable price point
No extra IT or web developer support required
Cons
It would be great to:
- Quickly switch between Admin and Learner to see a course
- Create a "test" user who can take courses over and over again just to test functionality without having to enroll, un-enroll and then re-enroll
- Show and disable the contest feature (without having customer support perform this function)
Absorb does a lot of awesome things. A few tweaks could make it even better.
Pros
Ease of course creation
Branded dashboards
Recently improved search page
Options for badges and certificates
Course and resource replication easy
Cons
Organization of Course and Resource folders is only alphabetical order
No way to create groups through a CSV upload
Enrollment and Resource availability rules limited for some items (i.e. can't exclude departments in enrollments)
Great Software, Suffers terribly from its customer service.
I rushed into this purchase a little and didnt investigate the level of support that would be offered. In hindsight this would have been a game changer for me as I would have went elsewhere.
The software is good, though it doesnt manage blended learning easily which is frustrating.
Customer Support is absolutely non existent.
Pros
Good User Interface,
Good Course Management.
Good sync with BambooHR on most things.
Good Learner interface.
Good Customisation options.
Cons
Difficult to manage blended learning.
Some factors in course management could use improvements. (Managing assessments)
Cannot see how many absences from courses that users have.
Some issues with how it syncs with Bamboo(overwriting course information)
Customer Support is non existent. 10+ days to resolve any issues. Most issues I have to try and resolve myself by resetting and that causes me other issue.
Can sometimes be 'buggy' and will introduce random bugs which can be time consuming to fix and result in me resetting the system sync.
Great product that focuses on being good at one thing... Online learning.
Pros
Absorb was the first LMS that I worked with that fully supported HTML5. The interface was beautiful from a learner perspective and could be fully branded to your company. It was intuitive and supported all of the training types that we created and purchased. The company was easy to work with and provided support for our needs.
Cons
The backend/admin portal was separate from the user portal. Meaning, it was based on different technology (flash at the time), was actually hosted on a different part of the system and did not seem as unified as other systems I have worked with. It was still very functional, but left some to be desired.
Easy to use, affordable LMS
Pros
Blatant Media developed such a forward thinking interface that it hasn't needed a refresh the last few years. This is a positive, not a negative. I've been both an admin and a user of the system and it's really nice to know everything is going to be laid out the same even after not using it for a few months. Very future proof. The responsive capabilities of the user end are really top-notch as well. Great for blended learning as well as complete "eLearning."
Cons
Support is just okay. I think they outsource their support and it's not always super efficient.
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Absorb LMS Pricing
Absorb LMS Pricing
- A one-time setup fee includes: Portal Configuration and UI Branding, Absorb Shopping Cart Integration with Select Payment Gateways, Admin Training, Unlimited Storage, Premium Client Support
- A tiered user fee based on usage
- Upgrade learners’ experiences with Absorb Engage
- For deeper more customized analytics upgrade with Absorb Inform
Contact Absorb for a personalized quote.
- A one-time setup fee includes: Portal Configuration and UI Branding, Absorb Shopping Cart Integration with Select Payment Gateways, Admin Training, Unlimited Storage, Premium Client Support
- A tiered user fee based on usage
- Upgrade learners’ experiences with Absorb Engage
- For deeper more customized analytics upgrade with Absorb Inform
Contact Absorb for a personalized quote.
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Absorb LMS Features
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Additional information for Absorb LMS
Additional information for Absorb LMS
Key features of Absorb LMS
- AICC/SCORM Support
- Automated Certification Management
- Automated Custom Reporting
- Built-In Course Authoring
- Custom Branded Learner Interface
- Gamification
- Gradebook
- HRIS and CRM Integrations via RESTful API
- Instructor Led Training Management
- Responsively Designed Mobile Learning
- Social Learning Options
- Supports 20+ Learner Languages
- eCommerce Ready
- xAPI Support
Benefits
Easy-to-Use: Count on an intuitive experience. Get up and running in a matter of days—not weeks.
Feature-Rich: Tap automated enrollment, mobile learning, learner engagement and many more features to streamline learning.
Responsive Support: Rely on award-winning 24/7/365 support powered by our client services team—you’ll never talk to an outsourced rep.
Custom Branding: Get the best custom branding options in the industry. Wow your learners with beautifully designed portals.
Reporting and Analytics: Prove ROI for your learning program with an array of customizable reports and configurable dashboards.
Seamless Integrations: Leverage standard or custom integrations to connect with the HCM systems and content libraries you already use.
Outstanding Security: Entrust your company’s safety to our experts focused on the strictest data security standards, including SOC 2 and GDPR.
Absorb LMS FAQs
Absorb LMS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Absorb LMS.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Absorb LMS offer?
Absorb LMS offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Not Available
- A one-time setup fee includes: Portal Configuration and UI Branding, Absorb Shopping Cart Integration with Select Payment Gateways, Admin Training, Unlimited Storage, Premium Client Support - A tiered user fee based on usage - Upgrade learners’ experiences with Absorb Engage - For deeper more customized analytics upgrade with Absorb Inform Contact Absorb for a personalized quote.
Q. What are the main features of Absorb LMS?
Absorb LMS offers the following features:
- AICC/SCORM Support
- Automated Certification Management
- Automated Custom Reporting
- Built-In Course Authoring
- Custom Branded Learner Interface
- Gamification
- Gradebook
- HRIS and CRM Integrations via RESTful API
- Instructor Led Training Management
- Responsively Designed Mobile Learning
- Social Learning Options
- Supports 20+ Learner Languages
- eCommerce Ready
- xAPI Support
Q. Who are the typical users of Absorb LMS?
Absorb LMS has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Absorb LMS support?
Absorb LMS supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Q. What type of pricing plans does Absorb LMS offer?
Absorb LMS has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Absorb LMS support mobile devices?
Absorb LMS supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Absorb LMS integrate with?
Absorb LMS integrates with the following applications:
BambooHR, BambooHR, Microsoft Azure, NextBee, Okta, OneLogin, PingFederate, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Twitter, Zoom
Q. What level of support does Absorb LMS offer?
Absorb LMS offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Video Tutorials, Phone Support
Absorb is so powerful and easy to use. The company itself is great to work with. Their customer service staff is so nice and friendly, and the project manager and account manager I worked with helped me every step of the way. The interface is gorgeous and importing your learners is a snap. I love that Absorb has built-in quizzes that I can create in seconds. I also love that I was able to work with Absorb's designers to customize the branding for our company. Creating certification programs and badges was easy. You can upload or link to practically any type of media. Customized reports can quickly be generated. Grouping learners into categories to deploy specific training is also painless. You can create contest, polls and gamify the learning experience. Ultimately, Absorb is fast, easy, gorgeous and even if you're a staff of one or two (like me) you can easily manage hundreds of learners and dozens of online courses. I love Absorb!