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Skillsoft

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Skillsoft FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Skillsoft offer?

Skillsoft has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Skillsoft?

Skillsoft has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Skillsoft support?

Skillsoft supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does Skillsoft support mobile devices?

Skillsoft supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does Skillsoft offer an API?

Yes, Skillsoft has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does Skillsoft integrate with?

Skillsoft integrates with the following applications:
SAP Business One

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Q. What level of support does Skillsoft offer?

Skillsoft offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep), FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, Chat

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Skillsoft product overview

What is Skillsoft?

Skillsoft is a cloud-based learning management software that provides businesses with scenario-based courses, videos, online books, and other resources to train employees. The application includes learning courses and training programs on various subjects including leadership development, business skills, digital transformation, and compliance.

Key benefits of using Skillsoft

• Skillsoft enables employees to remotely work and collaborate with team members, enhance skills by completing developmental courses, maintain mental well-being, and adapt to unexpected changes at the workplace.

• Skillsoft Live Events offers an opportunity for learners to engage with industry leaders in business, leadership, strategy, and innovation through live and interactive presentations and gain insights from various thought leaders and subject matter experts.

• It offers organizations with interactive courses, videos, and practical simulations, allowing employees to learn and develop a skill set.

• Skillsoft provides learners with personalized content, interactive videos, books, courses, and certificates for continuous learning and career development.

• With Skillsoft’s Leadership Development Program (SLDP), employees can access scenario-based videos to improve learner engagement and outcomes and achieve leadership development experience.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

24/7 (Live rep)
FAQs/Forum
Phone Support
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Webinars
Documentation
Videos
Live Online

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Skillsoft features

Functionality

4.0

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62

Total features

49

9 categories

Most valued features by users

Activity Dashboard
Learning Management
Reporting/Analytics
Third Party Integrations
API
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Blended Learning
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Skillsoft users reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

/5

62

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.16/10
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Pros
Overall the experience with Skillsoft has been positive. The customer support has been excellent and most of the content is helping our staff.
This product has so many options to offer as it relates to training, compliance. A great LMS tool and the customer service is outstanding.
You can select from a vast option courses that are specifically relevant for your department. Audio-visual is extremely excellent and eligible easy fun to follow.
Cons
There are a few missing critical features in the basic Skillport LMS. The primary missing feature is the lack of manager tracking dashboards outside of the reporting tool.
The basic setup of any course was overly complex, taking more steps than was truly required. The reporting was extremely weak.
No recommendations for or against this product. It depends of what else is available and their costs.

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Michael L.

Senior Recruiter

Staffing and Recruiting, 1,001-5,000 employees

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I provide access to SkillPort training for my candidates in order to improve their technical skills.

Reviewed 10 months ago

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Carlos H.

Public Safety, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Great Product for Extra Trainings

Reviewed 4 years ago

It has solved the issue of having all employees having access to extra training so that they can improve their skills or build new skills. It is also cost efficient since it is not possible to send every employee to outside training's. It also has allowed my employees feel that I am here for them and wanting them to succeed which I do.

Pros

Skillsoft is a great product with a variety of topics one can learn on. It allows you to build up your skills and resume with the variety of courses one can take. It also has test one must pass to make sure that the material was learned from the course. Upon passing you are given a certificate of completion which is great to store and have on file in case ever asked. Its great that it shows all courses in your profile that you have completed and it allows you to save courses to do at a later date. this allows me to construct my own path of courses I want to take. It also has topics you would have never thought about which is great to learn off of and improve your skills whether you are already in s supervisors/managers position or striving to achieve a new position.

Cons

There is nothing that I dislike about skillsoft it is a pretty awesome tool for an organization.

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Billie O.

Staffing and Recruiting, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Skillsoft-Percipio

Reviewed 3 years ago

Compliance Training is so easy with this Percipio. All new hires that are set up automatically get the required compliance training that is crucial in this day and age.

Pros

This product has so many options to offer as it relates to training, compliance. A great LMS tool and the customer service is outstanding.

Cons

In the beginning it was a little intimidating learning how to navigate and set up employees. As time has passed, it has definitely gotten much easier to use.

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Used daily for 1-2 years

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Legacy LMS that was really a Content Portal turned LMS

Reviewed 5 years ago

If you have purchased the Skillsoft catalog, and you are getting SkillPort as an addon for no additional cost, then it is fine to use and perhaps less problematic than asking Skillsoft to make their catalog available to another LMS. Otherwise, avoid. There are many other LMS and learning portal options that are better. Many of them for free.

Pros

Surpringly, the one feature I can vouch for in the system was the ability to update eLearning content without de-registering users or causing them to lose progress in their courseware. I have seen several systems where this is not the case.

Cons

Skillsport seems to be an LMS that was built around the fact Skillsoft offered a large content catalog, and needed to offer tracking, and also had to allow companies to upload their content into that portal because customers wouldn't want an LMS for just Skillsoft and the expense of a second system for their own content. As an admin of the system converting over from an LMS (which they acquired), it was a very clunky system to user as an Admin as well as a user. The UI on the Admin side looked like a Windows 3.1 application (the user side was a bit better, but still dated). The basic setup of any course was overly complex, taking more steps than was truly required. The reporting was extremely weak. There was raw score and pass/fail, but no question-level analytics.

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Consumer Goods, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Good platform for technical eLearning, not the best admin functionality

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

Skillsoft has certainly come a long way since the days of Skillport. Percipio is no doubt a sleeker user experience, and their content has received a much needed refresh. As an admin for eLearning now in several different organizations, I've always leaned more towards Skillsoft as a vendor when it comes to technical content (programming, IT, cert prep, etc.), although their soft skills catalog is also pretty decent.

Cons

As a platform, my main gripes are with the admin side. I've used other eLearning platforms in previous roles, and Skillsoft's admin interface is always the clunkiest. Terminology used is not always intuitive, and user and content management requires too many clicks.

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Servando H.

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Skillsoft Review

Reviewed a year ago

The experience has been great, overall I would recommend it to other outside of our school. I use this training as well myself to keep myself up to date.

Pros

Having the ease of access that this software provides is very helpful to our student, especially the ones that are making a career change.

Cons

There has been outages, luckily it is not frequently. The issue is that when one thing goes out, after it is fixed the other goes out. For example, once the lab outage was fixed, the videos went into an outage as well. Again, this is not frequent. We have not had an outage in about 2 years.

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