Product Review of The Academy LMS

This learning technology delivers irresistible learning experiences, creates learning communities, and sparks behavioral change. The Academy LMS can host e-learning and videos and do assessments, reporting, and more. It uses gamification and social media strategies to make learning fun.
Website: https://www.growthengineering.co.uk/academy-lms/
What Users Love About the App
“The platform enabled us to increate the angagement with learning in the organisation. People are now much more aware of what is possible and it helped several departments to push their material in a much more engaging and fun way. Next to this, the software helped raise the profile of our learning department.”
“We loved the ability to customize the site to coordinate with our other professional development programs. We could upload SCORM packages for compliance testing from other sources easily that were required training and we could easily build new courses in their site.”
“Great company to work with. Software is easy to use. Offers what we needed to get our company into the new age of gamification and LMS.”
“The Academy Platform supplied by Growth Engineering is the foundation of our Sales Development efforts. We have almost 200 Holcim Australia employees participating via the academy platform. Growth Engineering are a great partner in our sales success!”
“A great site which gets better every week. Growth Engineering deliver an LMS which is easy to use and can deliver powerful results. All the tools to manage your learners development and performance and the gamification elements to keep your staff engaged.”
What Users Dislike About the App
“I was expecting more development to take place over the last period. So although the platform is cutting edge as it is, I was hoping to be dazzled by even more great developments.”
“Inability to do some critical things, such as set a due date on a course. Overly complicated method for things such as removing an invite. User management isn’t great either, with users who block their account not receiving password reset emails, and being added to a ‘leaver’ list where they will be deleted after X days(customisable) if not reactivated.”
“In the financial industry compliance is a heavy burden and we had to do more manually tracking in the system than we preferred. However we were very pleased to see their roadmap which will enhance compliance reporting features in the future!”
“Needs due dates, need due dates, need due dates, need due dates 🙂 This system was purchased before I became director, but I would have eliminated GE because of this lack of functionality. Classroom management is clunky, a lot of effort in creating events and managing them.”
“The platform has some shortcomings as far as features such as not being able to assign due dates to content, assignment profiles/assigning content, and not a robust back end ability for the type of content loaded to the platform. Links cannot be added to plans and granted credit for, etc.”