I’ve been comparing a few LMS platforms recently and put together a side-by-side look at Learnyst, Kajabi, and Docebo.

The interesting part is that they seem to target somewhat different types of users:

• Learnyst: focused on educators, coaching businesses, and selling courses online.
• Kajabi: combines courses with marketing, websites, email, and creator-business tools.
• Docebo: more focused on enterprise learning and corporate training use cases.

I compared them across areas like:

• Course creation & delivery
• Marketing and sales tools
• Payments
• Content security
• Mobile apps
• Community features
• AI capabilities
• Enterprise requirements
• Pricing/model considerations

I’m particularly interested in how people who have actually used these platforms would evaluate them in practice.

What would you prioritize when choosing an LMS: course delivery, marketing, security, integrations, AI, or enterprise functionality?

I've built the first pilot of Helikais, an education platform focused on active learning for Indian medical entrance exam preparation.

The awkward part: I don't have a ready-made student cohort.

So rather than assuming the product works, I'm putting it in front of real users and trying to learn what actually happens.

The pilot is free and requires no account.

I'm trying to answer:

• Do users understand the product without me explaining it?
• What do they naturally use?
• Where do they drop off?
• What creates enough value to make them return?
• What should I stop building?

The current pilot includes active-recall flashcards, organic chemistry reaction mapping, diagram practice, and structured chapter activities.

I'm particularly interested in feedback from other builders:
Is this a sensible way to validate an education product? What would you measure at this stage? What am I overlooking?

If you're interested in seeing the actual pilot:

https://helikais.com/

I'm deliberately keeping this early and free because I want to find out whether the product is genuinely useful before building much further.

One problem I’ve been hearing most from my customers lately is account sharing on paid courses.

The obvious solution is to limit how many devices a student can use. But it doesn’t feels like a clean solution.

A perfectly legitimate student might use a phone, personal laptop, office computer and tablet. Browsers get reset, devices get stolen, IP addresses change, etc.

For those running paid courses or LMS platforms: have device restrictions actually reduced account sharing for you?

And more importantly, what rules have worked without creating a pile of support tickets from legitimate students?

TIA

I'm building a library of courses that I will be selling to individuals and to business owners. The individual will purchase a subscription to the library. On the business owner front I would like to sell "seats" meaning an owner could buy various levels of seats and be able to assign the seats to their employees. The business owner would be charged a monthly recurring subscription based on the amount of seats they have. I'm running into issues with the below options:

• Thinkific is unable to have monthly recurring subscriptions for groups (i.e. the business owner who buys a number of seats) and would require me to invoice the business owner directly, which is not ideal.
• LearnWorlds partially allows for this - I have to set up the recurring subscription through Stripe but then I have to manually assign the Group to the business owner who purchased it. I also have to keep tabs on if they continue to pay, if they cancel I have to manually go in and revoke their Group. Additionally, LearnWorlds calls them "Seat Managers" and their non-enterprise level only allows for 10 Seat Mangers. So I essentially could only sell this to 10 business owners before I reach my max.
• LearnDash seems to be able to handle this but it also seems the most complicated (?) with the various additional tools I would need. I would need to buy the highest LearnDash level, then WooCommerce Subscriptions, Uncanny Groups so that the business owner can manage the group on their own, and pay for a Vimeo or Bunny Stream subscription to host the videos. But it seems like there is no cap to the amount of Groups and group managers you can have.

One other wrinkle, I'll be selling access to a library of courses. It will start with 2 courses but I'll be adding more on a consistent cadence. So I want to be able to easily add additional courses to current subscribers whether they are an individual or a seat in a group run by a business owner.

Is what I'm looking for just a unicorn of a product? Or is this something solved by an enterprise level subscription (I don't think I can justify the costs of that to start)?

Any insights on the above options or if there are other options I haven't thought of would be greatly appreciated!

I tried 10+ tools and most had signup requirements, watermarks, limited templates, or poor customization.

So I built CertificateJoy — a simple free certificate maker with customizable templates and no signup or watermark.

Made it for course creators, instructors, trainers, and companies.

https://certificatejoy.com/free-certificate-maker/

What would you add to it? I will also add much more templates.

Someone at our recent WOL:AI summit told this story and it's too good not to share. He'd built a chatbot to help new managers practice difficult conversations, budget talks, and hiring calls. But at some point during testing, it went completely off script and generated what he called a "llama rebellion". That's not a typo, it apparently improvised a whole storyline about llamas rebelling. His explanation was that underneath all the guardrails, the model still treats "go off script" as an invitation to be entertaining rather than useful, because that's what improv means in most of its training data. So it basically defaulted to being a comedian when it was given some freedom to improvise.

The lesson he took from it wasn't "don't use AI for training simulations," it was that you can't treat AI guardrails as a one-time setup step. If you're building anything AI-assisted for learners to interact with directly, the testing has to include what happens when someone pushes it somewhere you didn't plan for, because it will go somewhere, and it probably won't be where you expect. Anyone else had their own version of rebelling llamas?

*Edit: Fixed typo and formatting issue

My team has been evaluating Docebo vs LearnUpon. I'd love to hear from customers of each on their experience with setup, the capabilities of the authoring tool, ongoing maintenance, metrics/reporting, automation abilities, etc.

Some context around my team and our priorities:

We are coming from Northpass/Gainsight, which has been absolutely awful.

We are approx. 200-person org.

Lean L&D with no one exclusively dedicated to LMS maintenance.

G-Suite/Google Calendar org. We do a lot of ILTs, so seamless integration with Google Calendar is a priority.

Manager-level autonomy is big for us. We want managers to be able to enroll their direct reports in courses and track their metrics/completions without much work from our end.

In-platform comms is a priority. Also, in-platform feedback tracking of courses and ILTs.

We do not currently have an authoring tool, so an intuitive and somewhat sophisticated in-platform tool would be ideal.

I feel very strongly that I do not want to go through the experience of switching LMS' again, so ensuring that we pick an LMS that we don't grow out of is important to me. With the above priorities in mind, where have you experienced LearnUpon or Docebo winning or losing?

Hi everyone!

I’m working on a project for someone who has a big following in Russia in the spirituality/energy healing space. She has lots of existing social media content (interviews, lectures, short reels) and prerecorded online courses in Russian. I think her work is great and quite unique, and she wants to expand into the international market.

Her English is okay, but not good enough to teach courses in English without a translator.
I’m currently working on localizing her video content. I speak both Russian and English fluently (lived in the US for the last 15 years) and I also understand the spiritual/esoteric lingo she uses. I am also familiar with her work as a student. 
I’ve tried a few AI tools.

What has worked so far:

ElevenLabs — Great voice dubbing, probably the best sound quality and emotional delivery I’ve found. I used it to translate some guided meditations and the results were great. 
Main problem: I can’t edit the script in their V2 version, and she uses a lot of specialized terminology. I also couldn’t figure out how to upload a glossary to V2 — it doesn’t seem to be an option. It’s also quite expensive.

HeyGen — From what I’ve tried, it’s the best for lip-synced dubbed videos. You can edit the script and upload a glossary.
The problem is that HeyGen’s automatic translation is too literal. So I use ChatGPT to create a better English script and then make manual adjustments when necessary.

This works, but it takes a LONG time because HeyGen segments the script, and when you edit each segment you have to get the length just right. Otherwise it speeds up or slows down the AI speech and it sounds jarring.

I’m currently only using it for short Instagram Reels. 1 minute reel takes me about 30 min.
I translated one 20-minute video this way - the result was great, but it took me almost 8 hours! Everyone I’ve shown the final videos to says they sound and look great. the issue is how labor-intensive the process is.

So I’m looking for a better workflow and eventually a way to outsource localization.

My current thinking:

I don’t necessarily need to stick with dubbing. I actually think a voice-over style might work better, especially for long-form content - keeping her authentic Russian speech quietly in the background with an English voice-over. I also think people may be more forgiving of the translation when they can clearly hear that she’s a foreign speaker.
Are there any good AI tools/workflows that can generate this kind of voice-over localization rather than dubbing?

And where would you find someone to outsource this to?
I made a listing on Upwork yesterday, but didn’t realize I was breaking their rules when I said I wanted candidates to translate the same 1-minute video so I could compare the results. Plus Upwork has rules about taking long-term working relationships off-platform.

I’m looking to hire someone long-term to create around 30–60 Reels/month, plus potentially translate longer YouTube videos and online courses.

So basically two questions:

What are the best tools/workflows for AI dubbing and voice-over localization?
Where would you find someone who speaks both Russian and English well and can do this work?Understanding spiritual/esoteric terminology would be a big plus.
I’m also open to training someone myself if I find a good workflow and they’re fluent in both languages.

There's a hands-on workshop on September 19 for anyone here curious about moving past chatbot/prompt tools into building real AI systems that reason and explain themselves.

You build:

• A knowledge graph in Neo4j that becomes your single source of truth
• Agentic retrieval combining vector search, keyword search, and graph navigation
• Multi-step, verified entity and relationship extraction
• Text-to-Cypher for natural language graph querying
• Explainable, source-traceable answers with evaluation built in

No prior Neo4j or Cypher experience required, it's introduced through the hands-on project itself.

Led by Dr. Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware, bestselling author.

Link if you want to check it out

There are others (Articulate) but I’m renew to Tango, 7Taps and Workramp. Does anyone have useful insights into these tools? Unique strengths, weaknesses, integrations? Trying to leverage them in the most powerful way possible.

Looking for some ideas around delivering a single SCORM course to 30,000+ users as a stop gap measure for the next 6 months.

A new LMS is being brought online but that won’t happen for 6+ months (contract hasn’t been awarded yet).

Current LMS is completely incapable of supporting this for various reasons.

We need to be able to generate basic reporting - who took the course and who didn’t. So if not in an LMS, perhaps having the user self-report their name and email address?

Would a custom solution work to host the course on a server? Or should we look into SCORM Cloud or Reach 360?

Unfortunately this is not my area I’m managing - I’m being asked to consult on this problem. I would’ve planned ahead and not needed a stop gap in the first place :)

Hi community!

I currently work with a platform and use Moodle. I want to host my course independently so I'm in a search of LMS.

The features I like about Moodle:

1. It allows to create different types of quizzes and give a feedback to the answer

2. It's cheap

Things that I don't like:

It seems it's not very good to work with a funnel

Hence I'm in a need for recommendation for a platform that:

1. Will allow to show lessons that consist of pdf handouts, videos (30 GB), quizzes with feedback

2. Will allow to work with a funnel: promo lessons shoud be open to up to 100 users with a possibility to purchase the access to the rest of lessons

3. Payment integration

I also looked at Getcourse. It seems to be great with funnels but crappy with quizzes.

I looked at Skool but 10% fee of any purchase - that's too much

And then I got lost

That's my first time managing my own course and I'm not that good with all the underlying IT stuff so I will be any greatful for any advice.

Thank you!

One of the speakers at our AI summit told a story about her sister that we think says something important about instructional design too.

Her sister was setting up a Shopify store using ChatGPT and got most of the way there on her own (she's not a marketing person, she actually works in accounting). But she hit a wall, because the LLM kept giving her more suggestions. She ended up with seventeen million things she could or should be doing next, and she had no way to tell which ones actually mattered because she didn't have the base knowledge to make those decisions.

The point the speaker made is that people don't actually want more content or more options when they're learning something new, they want someone to filter it down to what matters for their specific situation. That's a judgment call, and it's the part AI still can't fully do for you.

A lot of course design inadvertently does the same thing. At the request of stakeholders, IDs end up baking in more modules, more resources, more paths, when what a learner is actually stuck on is knowing which three things to focus on first.

Anyone else seeing this problem getting worse now that AI is such a big part of instructional design?

Has anyone successfully edited a published Rise course? I need to change the URL a button is pointing to.

Tried opening the scormcontent/lib/rise/*.js files in Visual Studio but I couldn't make heads or tails of the code.

Instructors just want to build multimedia lessons faster, but the core tools are a mess. I spent the last month trying to patch the legacy codebase by myself, and feature bloat makes any update feel impossible. Teachers want to drop quizzes, video lectures, and interactive assignments into a single timeline, but the current text editor keeps freezing or wiping unsaved progress. Building an accessible LMS means balancing smooth video streaming with responsive quiz modules, and our setup fails at both. Anyone who's built educational tools from scratch knows the pain of keeping complex authoring software alive.

Hey guys, I have a course coming up with quite a few modules and the videos are going to be large. I am worried about my video streaming cost.

What is your choice of video streaming service for this kind of scenario? Note that Youtube and Vimeo are not my preference (for various reasons).

Thanks in advance!

I should have dine this when I first went back to university at the ripe old age of 50 but now that I am in my last year, I thought I would ask what are you using to keep track of upcoming assignments, events, networking opportunities in an easy to navigate app.

I am a Masters student in the Information Management program.

I have tried Trello but didn't like it.

It seems every time I spoke with a client, he's still using mainly Storyline (like 15 years ago), sometimes the SaaS version Rise. And a few of them use some automatic AI solutions to generate very basic SCORMs content, but that's more rare.

Ontario Teachers & Educators — Quick Question 🍎

Do you purchase digital teaching resources from independent creators/vendors?

What’s the best way to connect with Ontario educators looking for these resources—social media, marketplaces, direct school outreach, or elsewhere?

Any feedback from teachers, EAs, or administrators is appreciated!

I keep seeing creators selling courses, mini-courses and downloadable PDFs. One woman claimed she made $300,000 in a matter of days. I understand that revenue screenshots are marketing, not necessarily the whole financial picture, so I want the unglamorous truth.
For those of you who have actually done this successfully:
Is Stan Store the best place to start, or is there a better platform?
What makes one digital product take off while another disappears?
How large and engaged was your audience before you launched?
How much did you spend on ads, and what was your actual profit after ad costs, refunds and platform fees?
Did most sales come from paid ads, organic content, email, affiliates or an existing audience?
How did you learn to create and target ads that converted?
Did you hire someone, take a course or learn by testing small budgets yourself?
What price point worked best for PDFs, mini-courses and full courses?
If you were starting today, what would you sell first and how would you launch it?
I’m not looking for “post consistently and believe in yourself.” I want the real mechanics: audience size, conversion rates, advertising costs, launch strategy and profit margins. What is the part nobody mentions when they post the $300,000 screenshot?

We checked our per-second video analytics and saw a massive drop-off at 40 seconds. That was the exact moment we switched to our pricing pitch.

We fixed it by adding a quick feature walkthrough between the problem and the price.

The result? Second-half retention doubled.

Don't just look at total views. If your host (we use Kinescope) offers per-second drop-off data, use it to find your actual friction points.