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- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Online course management made easy
Reviewed on 2021/12/09
Pros
The flexibility, I can change what I like, when I like. I can overwrite groups that have started with an adapted master if I need to.
It looks professional and all in my branding.
Cons
Getting started was a little bit difficult. Understanding the architecture was a challenge, once this was clear it all became easy.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you Lesley, that's very kind!
We're working hard on new support to get you started quickly.
If colleagues have to start, don't forget to have a look at the new tutorials. They are short by help alot.
regards, Michiel
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Ease of use? YES. It really is.
Reviewed on 2016/12/16
I succeeded to get my online training up and running in one afternoon. Granted, I had most of the...
I succeeded to get my online training up and running in one afternoon. Granted, I had most of the content sitting in a folder on my hard drive ready-for-upload. Granted, I already had a clear picture how to structure my online course. Granted, I'm not shy when working with a computer. But none the less, working with LearningStone as an administrator feels easy and familiar. LearningStone follows all conventions other web-based services you're familiar with so there's not much of a learning curve. There are no confounding menu's or settings for that matter. It's all pretty straightforward. And while I was setting up my course it was reassuring to be able to switch to the 'user view' with the click of a button and to similarly switch back to editing mode. Typo? Easily fixed. Switch this piece of info for another? Done in 3 seconds. Adding participants took no time at all since you're able to copy/paste an excel file with names and info.
When the course started, the participants got acces to the online material without any bumbs and started doing their assignments leading up to the first face 2 face training (getting to know each other, reading up, a preparation excercise). I expected them to get more involved with the 'social timeline' where group members can exchange ideas and opinions - but that took some prodding from our side.
My learning curve on LearningStone is mostly about how to encourage participants to engage with one another, facilitated in various ways by the platform: discussion, collaboration, uploading, sharing, etc. etc. The limitations are not of the platform but consist more of time restrictions and what my wife considers to be a 'reasonable time spent experimenting.
Pros
Easy to get into
Easy to set up
Easy to use
Easy to administer
Easy to reuse courses (copy paste!)
LearningStone is very clear about what it can and can't do - no clutter!
Cons
No support for custom CSS of styling
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Anna Hill Review
Reviewed on 2016/12/14
I use your software to teach an accounting course, and generally I like the software. The thing I...
I use your software to teach an accounting course, and generally I like the software. The thing I find frustrating is the manual process involved with moving someone into the class.
If it HAS to be that way, I really, really wish I could do it from my iphone. I've had to literally leave stores and run home to move someone into the class because they paid for the course and expect access to the information. If I could do it from my iphone, I would really appreciate that!
Pros
I love the wall feature, and the software is easy to use.
Cons
It's expensive for what you get, but I feel there is no other choice. I am thinking about moving to teachable.com because students can pay and get access without my involvement.
Response from LearningStone
Hi Anna,
thanks for your review!
-There is no need to move people by hand into the right course group, but if you chose to do so you can do it on your iPhone.
- Concerning the price that goes as low as $ 0.65 per trainee. On average it is between $ 1.00 and $ 1.50 per month.
Please get in touch if you want to know more!
kind regards,
Sjoerd Boersma
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
the 4x4 for blended learning
Reviewed on 2021/11/10
the combination of good software , very helpful people and high quality service makes it a great...
the combination of good software , very helpful people and high quality service makes it a great tool.
Pros
this software convinces our clients to work with us. E-learning is coming up rapidly in Africa and working with LearningStone makes it a very easy entry point for many clients to jump on that train.
Cons
it so good that people can't believe it.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you for this great review. We hope to help more users in Africa and will be offering discounts to those that need it.
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Perfect Choice
Reviewed on 2019/01/08
Going into the fourth year of using Learning Stone to store, manage and centralize Project...
Going into the fourth year of using Learning Stone to store, manage and centralize Project Management academic services that I provide to a Multinational company in Latin America. The ease of use and the way I can centralize all my interactions with individuals and student groups has become an indispensable tool for me and my client’s training services.
Pros
It really has it all when one is looking for a cloudbased plataform for academic services included document storage, messaging, collaboration, video uploading, etc. in an unexpensive application with great service! Very flexible, ver secure, with multiple festures and aleays intuitive. I highly recommend Learning Stone for online, in-house, or hybrid educational purposes. Always ready, always stable.
Cons
Used to be the Mobile interphase which was fixed two months ago. The upgrade was very welcome and the last piece of the puzzle!
Response from LearningStone
Thank you for these amazing words! We're happy to see the use of LearningStone in Latin America and are currently exploring the localisation to Spanish and Portugese. We'll keep you posted!
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Free E-module from LearningStone is perfect to try-out this professional E-learning software
Reviewed on 2014/10/20
We, at Restorative Justice Nederland (www.restorativejustice.nl), wanted to organise for the first...
We, at Restorative Justice Nederland (www.restorativejustice.nl), wanted to organise for the first time an E-training, in our case for mediators and judicial professionals. We hardly had budget so it was wonderful to find out that LearningStone offers a free module for a group of maximum 20 participants. I didn't have any experience with this kind of software so I was very happy to find out that LearningStone is very easy to use. And if something wasn't clear, I could email the helpdesk and received always very quickly the needed answers to my questions in not too technical language that I could understand. In this way I was guided through the software, by both the video-instruction and other information on the LearningStone website and the personal guidance from the Helpdesk. In that way I could easily design the E-training alone, without any background and technical knowledge in this field and with not much time investment or frustration.
Another thing I liked is that you can tailor both the content / structure of your training to your own target group and personalize the design by throwing in your own logo etc. The end result looked very professional, and so it turned out to be a good 'business card' for our organization.
But most of all I liked the fact that the software facilitates a lot of interactive communication, since that really can make or break the success of your E-training. Not only communication between the E-coaches and the participants was easy, but also between the participants. And because all participants could upload a picture and create a profile, the communication became personalized.
Really cool and time-saving is the inbuilt survey-tool. Different types of questions are ready made, which you can tailor to your own needs and the evaluation results are automatically send to you and aggregated into nice charts. If you have to do this yourself it takes a lot of time to develop and analyse it. Now it's delivered to you automatically. I think with this tool LearningStone really stands out!
All and all I highly recommend LearningStone to anybody who has no technical knowledge and not much budget and time. The costs are very low and the quality is high. Just try out their free E-module and get inspired.
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great product!
Reviewed on 2020/11/30
Nice helpful employees, good platform and user-friendly.
It is a pity that the mails from Learningst...
Nice helpful employees, good platform and user-friendly.
It is a pity that the mails from Learningstone ends up in the junk mail.
So you alway have to send an extra email to the learners, no to forget to check their spam.
Pros
It is a nice product. The learners love to work with platform, once they registered themselves.
Costumer Service is excellent. You only have to mail them once and they are always happy to help you.
Cons
Mails from Learningstone ends up in the junk mail/spam of the learners.
We have a client with thousand learners and even if they mark this email as 'this is no spam' it still ends up in there (as we are now almost 6 months further).
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simply put - use Learning Stone
Reviewed on 2021/11/10
Pros
The initial build our was seemless, great attention to detail, good standard of extras
Cons
I haven't found any yet and I suspect I'm not going to.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you so much for this amazing review. We don't agree with a 10/10 as we're working to make it even better! :-)
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Outstanding!
Reviewed on 2020/11/30
Professional, caring, attentive, so helpful and even pro active in ensuring we are managing.
Professional, caring, attentive, so helpful and even pro active in ensuring we are managing.
Pros
There is SO much! The simplicity, the clean interface, the ease of use and the way we can create courses by simply pulling in documents, slides, images from previously added resources.
We love that it is cloud-based, secure and protected. The form tools are simple and look great.
In all honesty, we didn't expect so many features and we were blown away that it had far more than we'd hoped plus things we'd not even thought of.
The amount of time I have saved is so welcome and best of al, I can do everything myself.
Thank you Team LearningStone - Superb.
Cons
The only thing I can even think of raising is that it took me a bit of time to master, but once I watched the videos showing me how to work everything, it was simple. I am not a web designed and have limited technical know-how, so considering that the time was nothing at all.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Learning Stone:
Reviewed on 2020/11/03
Pros
It is easy to use. It is not the Titanic like Blackboard or Brightspace, it is flexible and easy to use in educational settings and with blended learning. Partipants in my trainings have the same experience that I have as a n educational developer: you find your way quickly and intuitively.
Plain and simple: what you see is what you get.
In two years there were one or two minor problems. They were solved the same day after a quick call with the service centre.
Cons
It is a pity that I still have to use Zoom or Teams to reach out to participants in my training.
In Corona times I would appreciate it if this kind of tools were integrated.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An 'accessible', easy to use and versatile learning platform with excellent customer support.
Reviewed on 2017/06/29
Accessibility, functionality and the variety of uses.
Accessibility, functionality and the variety of uses.
Pros
Having searched for many months for a learning platform which was suitable for delivering a dyslexia-related program I finally found what I was looking for in LearningStone. Some of our administrators and our users have 'processing differences' such as dyslexia and dyspraxia so having administration aspects as well as a user-interface which is 'accessible' and user-friendly is imperative for us. LearningStone definitely meets our needs...and with the newly added tests & quizzes feature this has now helped us fill in the gap we had - in seeking a way to be able to deliver ongoing CPD for our Accredited Dyslexia Champions.
At Right Resources Limited we specialise in working with people with dyslexia & associated processing differences. We utilise 'accessible' services and tools to help employers support 'a thriving and productive neuro-diverse workforce'. LearningStone is helping us achieve our mission in raising awareness of the benefits of embracing and supporting neuro-divergence in the workplace.
Cons
Some of our delegates had a few challenges with setting up their profiles via LinkedIn. This may have been due to their own 'processing differences'. However, from now on we will recommend they use their email addresses to sign up rather than via LinkedIn.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Platform for growth!
Reviewed on 2021/09/20
So far, very good and impressed!
So far, very good and impressed!
Pros
Overview, Accessibility, Flexibility, looks good!
Cons
Just learning the platform, but would like to have a graphical overview of the clients and teams.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you Duncan. Please drop us a line about your needs concerning the graphical overview. This might already be in the pipeline!
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Simple, strong, appeeling and easy to use
Reviewed on 2020/07/10
Interaction and customer friendlyness for our uses is superb as well as the support from LearningSto...
Interaction and customer friendlyness for our uses is superb as well as the support from LearningStone. Easy to use and to learn!
Pros
The interaction and flexible contantmanagement
Cons
the step from 5 groups to the next level
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
User friendly, great support, and able to customize to my unique business needs!
Reviewed on 2016/12/08
I have been using LearningStone for over 18 months now and I am a happy customer. My training...
I have been using LearningStone for over 18 months now and I am a happy customer. My training company has unique needs and we had a hard time finding a platform that accommodated all of them. LearningStone was easy to customize and customer support was extremely helpful anytime the solution wasn't obvious. I am fairly comfortable with technology, but by no means an expert, and I'm not an IT professional. I found LearningStone easy to learn and to set up our courses. Best of all, it has saved me a lot of time that I used to spend managing our previous platform. Customer support is excellent. Anytime I have a question or problem I receive a prompt response. And I honestly feel that they really care about whether I am satisfied with their product. I've tried other platforms and they were overly complicated, the design was messy, and customer service disappeared the minute I signed the contract. Save yourself the frustration and go with LearningStone.
Pros
Easy to use, great storage, able to customize to our unique needs, excellent customer support, good value
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Awesome for training
Reviewed on 2020/05/18
In addition to reliable software, reliable help when needed. Easy to use and everything in one...
In addition to reliable software, reliable help when needed. Easy to use and everything in one place. In short, I am pleased with it.
Pros
Awesome software. For my training company, it is a vital piece of software—an excellent interface. Very stable, I never had any issues. The flexible design is beautiful to work with. Very affordable with great support.
Plenty of functions to interact with the students. The timeline is clear. You can put your videos on it, your documents and so on. Nice to have interactions as a group.
Furthermore, creating forms is done in a blink. A certificate generator saves a lot of time—beautiful everything in your house style.
Cons
There is nothing to say what like the least.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you so much for this great review!
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Blended learning using Learningstone
Reviewed on 2020/02/24
We are still exploring maximizing the usage of this learning platform for our training participants....
We are still exploring maximizing the usage of this learning platform for our training participants. Learningstone employees are very engaged to help us with this exploration.
Pros
Learningstone is very user-friendly to set-up (and personalize to our companies branding) and use by participants, it also has a variety of useful features such as a calendar, document sharing and interactive communication between participants and trainers. It is and enabler to start and extend the learning proces getting participants exited and engaged in the training.
Cons
Difficult to really create an online community where training participants can easily and actively support each other after the training.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you for the kind words!
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best choice for lms
Reviewed on 2020/02/18
support and posibilities beyond all expectations
support and posibilities beyond all expectations
Pros
- easy to use for both learner, instructional designer and administrator
- great support
- customizable and integrations possible with single-sign-on, webshop & invoicing..
- multilingual
- european/dutch
- choice of functionalities for optimized learning
- statistics
- dashboard overview
Cons
- good pricing for paid products, but expensive when used for free products/front-end
Response from LearningStone
Thank you so much Sandra! We hope LearningStone will help you in your business!
regards, Michiel
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Interactive sharing - great tool!
Reviewed on 2014/08/28
At Flying Penguin International we chose LearningStone as we needed a system to support our...
At Flying Penguin International we chose LearningStone as we needed a system to support our training programme for an international logistics company. After the easy setup - which we could literally do within hours, we let our trainees join from all over the world: Stockholm, London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong and many other cities across the world.
Pro's: With LearningStone we were able to support our client with a system that saved time and offered great collaboration features that actually worked. I loved that it was so easy to set LearningStone up in my own house style.
As we work internationally it's important that the calendar functions support different time zones and that LearningStone has a survey module built in making it easy to evaluate.
I can warmly recommend LearningStone to any trainer not only because it's well made but because it really offered a competitive advantage
Con's: I wanted to create an exercise with audio input that could be stored but this was not possible. LearningStone is more about group training and collaboration than individuals following elearning courses on their own.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
LearningStone Review
Reviewed on 2019/07/29
Pros
This software is extremely easy to use! There is nothing complicated about it.
Cons
The thing I liked least about Learningstone is the install time.
Response from LearningStone
Hi Anastasia, please note that LearningStone doesn't not get installed: we are in the cloud and ready to run at all times!
- Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Fantastic support
Reviewed on 2021/05/04
Overall the experience has been very positive. I really feel supported in my endeavor, and I feel...
Overall the experience has been very positive. I really feel supported in my endeavor, and I feel valued as a client. This is because of the personal contacts with various people. They are accessible and responsive, which makes all the difference.
Pros
I love the fact that I can offer a professional-looking, fully fledged learning program online, all by myself, without ever having to worry about the technical aspects. I can do what I do best, while the software takes care of the rest.
Cons
Like with any software, there are some quirks, some settings that you need to be aware of, and it took me a little while to get to understand the internal logic of the system. I would not recommend using this software if you're only going to use it once, because then it might not be worth the learning curve.
Response from LearningStone
Thank you for the kind words!
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Create a real training experience – Online !
Reviewed on 2020/11/03
Super. We would like to intergrade this in all our courses, offline, online and blended.
Super. We would like to intergrade this in all our courses, offline, online and blended.
Pros
Real easy to use for the trainers was well as the participants. Nice flow in the product design.
Cons
We had some mail issues at start, but this was very swift solved by the service team.
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Super easy ... & my class loved it
Reviewed on 2014/08/27
I used LearningStone to support a class I taught for the eLearning Guild. I loved being able to set...
I used LearningStone to support a class I taught for the eLearning Guild. I loved being able to set up the whole curriculum at once, then hide future sessions' material until the week I needed it. Classy! Best yet: the interface is intuitive enough for learners that I didn't have to waste time teaching them how to use it. We just used it.
Would be great if documents and photos could be loaded right into the Discussions - then assignments could be handled there. (Then again, I never asked for this. Support & service were great - asked for features were delivered!)
I'm looking forward to using LearningStone for the next class ... and couple new clients, too!
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
LearningStone experience
Reviewed on 2016/12/09
LearningStone was introduced to us via a wonderful conversation with one of it founders. The...
LearningStone was introduced to us via a wonderful conversation with one of it founders. The willingness to communicate and work through myriads of questions was obviously personal and passionate. After the decision was made many features were customized to our specific needs. This in and of itself helped us to feel the value of the platform. Each module was readily available to our novice user. The learning process was assisted through online documentation and personal phone support using video conferencing software. I recommend this platform over others for small and medium enterprises that have in house writers and managers of the learning platform!!
Pros
Easy to use and customizable.
Cons
The format is occasionally confusing and has a bit of a box feel as opposed to a free flow web feel. If that makes sense
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
great software
Reviewed on 2020/01/19
Learningstone is great for interactivity, sustainability and user ability for training participants
Learningstone is great for interactivity, sustainability and user ability for training participants
Pros
I like the simplicity in use and the excellent addition to classroom training
Cons
Not available in all languages yet and that can be improved
Response from LearningStone
Thank you Peter! We have recently added French and Spanish to our set of Languages. Please let us know which languages are missing.
- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
LearningStone Review
Reviewed on 2020/03/05
Pros
Doc Exchange within groups and individuals
Courses for certain groups
Cons
Hidden functions and creating courses is a very time consuming job
Lay-out and overview of workspaces
Response from LearningStone
Thank you for the review! If we can help you speed up course creation, let us know. Feel free to plan a personal support call (use the plan a demo calendar on our home page) so we can show you how it can actually be done very quickly. regards, Michiel