SkyPrep Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Course Creation: Create course content using existing materials, a content builder or rich HTML editor, embedding links, or uploading videos from Vimeo or YouTube.
  • Add name and description, duration, credits, category, passing rules, points awarded and other details for each course.
  • Search courses by name, keyword, category or tag, and filter them based on status (active/inactive) and category.
  • View each learner and group’s course progress and completion rates.
  • Add course partitions to break your course up into separate sections visually.
• Dashboard: Get an overview of ungraded assignments, checklists for review, pending certificates, upcoming deadlines and more on a centralized dashboard. Track active users, platform activity, and login trends for managers and learners, as well as manage widgets to configure your dashboard.
• Mobile App: Allow learners to complete their training anytime and anywhere using the Android and iOS-compatible mobile app. Enable them to complete courses and assessments, browse the course catalog to enroll in courses, access the resource center and more.
• Checklists: Monitor tasks completed by learners using a 1 to 5 scale, custom point values or yes/no formats. Add optional subtasks, recommend additional materials from the Resource Center, and set skills and points awarded upon completion of the checklist. You can also allow learners to complete Checklist tasks independently.
• Compliance Tracking: Ensure employees receive required industry-specific training to understand compliance rules and prevent legal issues and penalties.
  • Easily create, manage and monitor compliance training courses in sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, food and beverage, and finance.
  • Prepare for inspections with automated workflows and schedule performance reports to monitor compliance efforts effectively.
  • Automate compliance courses so they’re auto-assigned to learners.
• Multi-Tenancy: Create sub-platforms for different segments of learners, and easily navigate and manage them all under one umbrella.
• Branding: Use custom logos, icons, templates, domain names, CSS and color schemes to brand your platform.
• Third-Party Integrations: Use the open API to integrate with BigBlueButton, PayPal, Stripe, OpenSesame, G Suite, Microsoft Office 365 and other third-party apps. Sign in easily through single sign-on accounts such as Facebook, G Suite, LinkedIn, Microsoft Active Directory, OneLogin and Windows Live.
• Gamification:
• Award points to learners when they start courses, finish checklists, attend ILTs or complete learning paths, among other achievements.
• Give out badges when learners reach specific point milestones, like earning the Activity Novice badge at 100 points.
• Rank learners on a company leaderboard, filter them by user type and time frame, and view total badges, points and completed courses on a dashboard.
• Security: Secures data with SSL-certified infrastructure, HTTPS protocol, login verification, encrypting data at rest, IP and domain restriction, PCI-DSS compliance and more.
• eCommerce: Sell self-driven or instructor-led content on a branded eCommerce website. Upload pre-existing content from Google Drive or Dropbox, automate course enrollment and reporting, process payments and track all course selling activities on a central dashboard. This includes creating emails, certifications and learning content.
• Data Backups: Store data from the cloud and store it multiple times per day. It’s saved for up to 90 days off-site, online and on Amazon servers.
• Reporting: Access real-time data reports on various business processes like user activity, course completion, learner performance, enrolments and more.
  • Dashboard: Get a quick, at-a-glance overview of crucial training metrics like ungraded assessments, upcoming deadlines and re-enrollments. Easily track learner and program performance to spot trends and make data-driven decisions to improve your training.
  • Reporting Wizard: Customize reports to your preferences using filters and data fields. Toggle between spreadsheet and visual views to analyze data. Favorite frequently used reports and schedule them to be emailed out on a recurring basis. Tailor the data by adding, removing or filtering columns.
  • Report Builder: Create detailed reports on learners, courses, groups and overall training. Get performance profiles, automatically grade assessments and generate certificates. Automate user enrollment in courses to streamline your training operations.
  • Advanced Reports: Access a range of reporting options at multiple levels, including user, course, group and summary reports. Accurately measure learning performance with advanced analytics.
• Industry-Specific Compliance: Comply with HIPPA, OSHA, ISO, SOX, GDPR and other standards.
• Course Discussion Boards: The course discussion forums are a great place to get help with course content or questions about assessments. Search for similar questions or post your own, and engage by reading and responding to posts from other learners. Mentors and active course participants can reply, and occasionally, course staff and instructors join discussions to provide assistance.
• Assessments: Easily create assessments by uploading questions via Excel or using existing ones.
  • Choose from various question types, such as fill-in-the-blanks, multiple-choice and true/false.
  • Assign points, provide hints for each question and include feedback for learners.
  • Set skills and award points for completing assessments successfully.
  • Define a passing grade percentage to ensure learners pass the assessment.
  • Set a time limit for how long learners have to answer questions, with an option for unlimited time if needed.
  • Decide on the maximum number of attempts allowed for learners to pass the assessment, or set it to 0 to allow unlimited attempts.
  • Prevent learners from leaving an assessment until it's submitted.
  • Provide post-assessment feedback to learners after they submit their assessment and view their results.
• Instructor-Led Training: Create ILT training sessions for various courses. Assign instructors, add start and end times, specify time zones and locations and track session progress on a dashboard.
• Course Catalog: Upload, track and view details of all types of courses in the course catalog.
• Learner Resource Center: Store all training materials in the learner resource center. Add the name, type and category for each resource, and include details like upload date, uploader, downloadability and any actions taken.
• Learning Paths: Add courses, names, introductions, images, tags, categories, learners and groups to each path. Track their status and allow learners to self-enroll. Award users a certificate when they complete every course in the path. Set the skills and points awarded for completing the entire learning Path.
• User Management: Create users and track them on a centralized dashboard. Store their personal information, such as name, email, phone, job roles and location. Add them to groups, courses and learning paths. Use the Permissions & Roles feature under Users & Groups to create custom roles in the platform and control what your users can see and access.
• Custom Certificates: Create customized course completion certificates for each learner. Fill out the certificates with details like their name, job role, department, and the start and end date of the course.

Cost of Ownership

Limitations

• Lacking Video Features: The product supports several video conferencing features like virtual classrooms and attendance, video assessments, on-demand recording and screen-sharing only with partner integrations.
• Inadequate Compliance: Another downside of SkyPrep is that it doesn't follow COPPA, FERPA and LTI regulations. Alternatives like Blackboard Learn and Moodle fully support these regulations right away.
• Limited AI Capabilities: If you’re looking for an LMS with excellent AI capabilities, SkyPrep may not be the right choice for you. It lacks key AI features like AI-based content translations, AI-based reporting, tagging and search, and NLP. However, it does support AI-based course recommendations.

Approach to Common Challenges

• Enhancing the User Experience: Current LMS tools are frequently cited as being clunky, difficult to use and not engaging or intuitive for end-users. SkyPrep offers a modern, secure and easy-to-use interface that addresses these issues and creates a great environment for learning and professional growth.
• Organizing eLearning Materials: BoostHQ, included in the Professional and Enterprise plans, is SkyPrep’s knowledge-sharing platform that stores learning materials like PDFs, images and videos. It organizes content with smart search and allows users to share insights and discuss. BoostHQ also provides detailed reports on content usage and user engagement, improving training effectiveness.
• Standardizing Learning Content: SkyPrep LMS guarantees SCORM compliance, helping you track content consistently across various systems. To maximize the use of SCORM content, ensure all learning materials meet SCORM standards for compatibility. Utilize SCORM capabilities to monitor learner progress and pinpoint areas for improvement effectively.
• Improving Product Knowledge Among Employees: SkyPrep tracks all training types, whether instructor-led or online, and generates reports showing course completion, test scores, extra training and compliance status. Well-trained employees resolve issues faster and keep customers happy.

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