This platform is available to individuals for free; there is a fee to organizations (as a fine-tuned version called Degreed for Enterprise) who wish to host it online. Degreed allows users to learn, grow, and grade their skills by getting free access to an array of learning materials. These materials are important for self-motivated learning on a professional level.

Website: https://degreed.com/

What Users Love About the App

“Degreed has allowed us to develop a customized playlist where we can add all the material that corresponds to our team. It has been a product that has given us its support for a very long time. It has become a necessity in our organization. It is used by many employees of our company because it has provided us with a good amount of material for developing new skills and techniques for our employees. As a business, we believe in continuous improvements so this product has made sure that we make improvements on a regular basis. Altogether, this product is a very important tool for my company.”

“I like how you are easily able to see what items are overdue or due soon. It is nice how you get reminders as well to remind you to complete the required classes. I also like how you are not only able to take your required classes but are also able to search through courses or even view the complete list and just browse through the ones for your department. So cool! You can even search for more courses as well. There’s just so much to choose from!”

“Degreed has taken ‘track my learning’ to a whole new level. It positively pushed me to learn more each day (Degreed extension or bookmarklet is awesome) but most importantly, Degreed allowed me to engage with my colleagues and peers. The platform is a solution that every L&D team should explore and consider, trust me. It will enable you to serve and help your employees stay ready and relevant. Last and not least, I always look forward to Degreed’s Release Notes and new enhancements/improvements each month. This makes clients feel that Degreed is committed to creating the best client and user experience.”

“I like the ability to easily plug in our proprietary and blend it with materials from all over. Curating content is so easy for me as the Learning Manager. I also like the ability to quickly show a stakeholder how to build a pathway and let them build one themselves. And because the material comes from a URL, we’ve had less busy-work around maintaining a single source of truth between our learning content and content living in other places.”

“I like the ability for employees like myself to search through multiple sources of content through a single search. The pathways are now easy to navigate with the new design. Degreed continues to innovate with new features and make the platform simple and easy to use.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“Insights and analytics are decent but have some room for improvement. Very limited still on pathway insights, but it’s improving every day.”

“Degreed at this time doesn’t have any content hosting capabilities and requires learning content to be hosted elsewhere first. As an admin of the platform, you don’t have complete oversight of all the pathways or other functions that others may have set up until you’re added as a collaborator.”

“Sometimes, the huge pool of content available can be daunting for users if they don’t find exactly what they’re looking for in one or two searches. Soft skills have really excellent search results, but some more refined skills are difficult to find, and to have our SMEs build material is difficult because of the time commitment.”

“What I dislike is how I have to go back to the course’s main page to mark each item as complete. I wish it would hide my finished section and then prompt me to move on to the next section. Since I have to be redirected back to the list, I can miss items. It also doesn’t have a pop–up for when I’m 100% complete. So, I never know when I am. I also don’t believe I get an email confirmation when I complete something. That means I have to go back and check. Also, sometimes there are multiple courses for a topic and I’m not sure which one to start with first. It would be helpful to have it in order or have something to label it with Beginner, Intermediate, and so forth. I would know which one to go within that case. There should also be something where I can group my classes by Completed, In progress, etc. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to do so.”

“The product should also have a smart mobile application that would be there when a computer or laptop is inaccessible to me. With this product, I need to constantly review all of the learning behaviors of all my employees since there is no notification system.”