SmarterU Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Course Creation: Create and customize courses easily with SmarterU's user-friendly course builder, which uses rich media, knowledge check activities, quizzes and exams.
  • Create courses using an intuitive, customizable visual editor that mirrors the final learner experience.
  • Design content quickly using custom templates that include your logo, messaging and brand colors.
  • Incorporate a variety of knowledge check activities to enhance learner engagement and retention.
    Embed videos or add video slides, all optimized for smooth, high-quality streaming without buffering.
  • Upload PDF training documents directly into your courses or knowledge base for easy access.
  • Add audio narration effortlessly by uploading an audio file or using SmarterU's text-to-speech generator, ensuring your content meets accessibility standards.
• Knowledge Checks: Boost learner interaction and retention with a range of engaging knowledge check activities. Customize and integrate these activities throughout your training content to create an enjoyable and practical learning experience. Each activity provides instant feedback and allows multiple attempts, ensuring comprehensive understanding. Types of knowledge check activities include:
  • Multiple-Choice: Test learners' knowledge by allowing them to select one or more correct answers. Ideal for assessing product knowledge, safety standards, and company policies.
  • Matching: Challenge learners to drag and drop items into their correct spots. Perfect for matching terminology, product descriptions, and procedural sequences.
  • Fill-in-the-Blank: Assess learners' ability to complete statements with missing words or phrases. Useful for customer greetings, practical applications, and memorization exercises.
  • Labeling: Provide images with hotspots and a word bank for learners to match labels to the correct spots. Suitable for anatomical diagrams, maps, and equipment parts.
  • Flashcards: Facilitate quick recall and memorization with customizable flashcards. Arrange cards in sequence or random order to aid in learning terminology and definitions.
  • Game Show: Create an immersive, interactive experience with a “Jeopardy!-style” game. Combine various question styles and track learner progress using avatars and points.
• Notifications: Schedule regular reminders for learners and team members, covering deadlines, upcoming exams and certification expiries. Customize email notifications using pre-designed templates and set reminders for specific times or intervals. Automatically notify learners about course completions, missed sessions, and instructor-led sessions.
• User Management: Quickly add users with the Quick User Add or import large lists with ease. Organize users into groups, teams and organizations, tailor permissions, and oversee activity effectively. Track user engagement and progress with detailed activity reports and assign unique permissions to administrators, managers and instructors.
• Branding and Customization: Personalize every aspect of your learner experience with the drag-and-drop custom page builder. Customize your LMS portal, account, and URL to align with your organization's branding. Choose from a wide range of colors and themes that support up to 10 languages and adhere to accessibility standards.
• ILT Sessions: Offer multiple session options and create multi-part sessions to accommodate various learning needs. Control enrollment efficiently and maintain detailed records of both external and in-person sessions. 
• Webinars: Host your webinars effortlessly with popular webinar platforms like Zoom, Webex, GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting or GoToTraining.
• Quiz Builder: Design quizzes and exams to appear at any point in your training modules, matching any subject or expertise level.
  • Question Variety: Use multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, long answer and short-answer questions. Enhance questions with multimedia elements like images, audio and video.
  • Randomizer: Deliver questions in a random order to ensure fairness and prevent predictability during assessments.
  • Lock Answers: Control answer order in multiple-choice questions and include options like “all of the above”.
  • Multimedia Integration: Enrich your questions with multimedia content for a diverse and engaging testing experience.
  • Narration: Add text narration options to improve accessibility for all learners.
• Ecommerce: Sell your courses or course packages directly from your account with integrated eCommerce tools. Manage subscription durations to control how long your subscribers have access to your content. Customize pricing options to fit your needs and integrate with popular platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, or your preferred eCommerce platform.
• Reusable Learning Plans: Create and assign comprehensive learning plans that outline training requirements clearly and consolidate all necessary courses and action items into a single plan tailored to each learner's role and needs.
  • Provide learners with a clear roadmap of what training to complete and when, streamlining their preparation and progress.
  • Organize and consolidate all training materials, job aids and resources into a single knowledge base.
  • Allow learners to quickly locate relevant information by scanning beyond just titles using the search interface.
• Gamification: Gamify your training using points, leaderboards and rewards to make learning more engaging, motivate learners and promote continuous participation.
  • Reward learners with points for completing training modules, encouraging progress and participation.
  • Display scores and allow learners to compare their performance with others.
  • Enable learners to exchange points for rewards from your store, adding an extra incentive to complete training.
• Compliance & License Management: Define, monitor and automate compliance programs to track and manage complex requirements. Customize licensing programs by agency and regio, and monitor CEU credits to keep certifications current. Automatically deliver branded compliance and license certificates upon course completion, providing instant proof of achievements.
• Discussion Forums: Integrate discussion forums into your LMS environment to leverage social learning. These forums enable learners to share ideas, ask questions and collaborate on training-related topics. You can:
  • Facilitate discussions focused on individual courses, enhancing course-related interactions.
  • Foster competitive or collaborative interactions among team members through gamified elements in discussions.
  • Allow course instructors to join forums and provide timely responses to learner questions.
  • Keep learners informed about new comments and updates with subscription notifications.
• Course Catalog: Provide learners with an organized overview of available courses using a grid or list format. Enhance navigation with filtering and search options, allowing learners to find courses based on various criteria such as course types, dates, names, topics, tags and locations.
• Personalized Completion Certificates: Design unique certificates for each course and module, highlighting your branding and key information. Send certificates automatically upon course completion and enable learners to download their certificates immediately and at any time in the future.
• Learner Feedback: Gain insights into your training programs by collecting feedback from learners. Design course evaluation surveys using the integrated form builder and include surveys from tools like Typeform or SurveyMonkey. Use this feedback to refine your content and show learners that their opinions matter.

Approach to Common Challenges

• Creating a Unified Learning Environment: By connecting SmarterU with third-party content libraries, microlearning tools, webinar platforms and virtual classrooms, you can create a unified environment where learners can effortlessly access diverse training options. 
• Managing All Team Members at Every Level: SmarterU LMS allows you to define roles and set detailed permissions for every employee, ensuring that each person’s access is tailored to their responsibilities within your organization.
• Creating Rapid Training Content: The integrated course builder allows you to develop engaging training modules quickly. This streamlined process helps keep learners motivated and ensures your content is ready when you need it.

Cost of Ownership

Training Resources

• SmarterU LMS Blog: Stay informed with the latest updates, employee training tips and best practices for leveraging an LMS within your digital learning ecosystem.
• SmarterU Academy: Access a comprehensive series of eLearning modules designed by the SmarterU Client Success team, covering every aspect of the LMS. This resource is available for free to all SmarterU clients.
• Success Center: Explore thousands of detailed articles on SmarterU's features, including best practices to maximize the platform's potential for your organization.

Limitations

• Limited Admin Workflows On the Mobile App: You should use a desktop device for SmarterU's admin functions, as the app isn't optimized for these tasks. The online courses you've created with the SmarterU course builder aren't designed for mobile use, and SCORM courses published using Flash may not work properly. Additionally, SSO isn't supported on the mobile app.

FAQs

• Access to necessary training materials through custom pages.
• Gamification elements like leaderboards, points, rewards and online discussions to keep learners engaged.
• A combination of courses, actions and requirements in a single package for earning certifications.