Cornerstone Learning

What do you like best?

I like that the end user experience. It is decently simple. It is also a very simple experience uploading SCORM compliant eLearning. The tracking is fairly simple, and it wouldn't take a LOT of skill to begin using Cornerstone. The transcript with the most recent upgrades is a lot more intuitive. It's nice that it is interconnected. I appreciate that there is a lot that the product can do, even if my particular company does not have the budget to purchase the items that really enhance and integrate it into company culture. If you include add ins/integrations, there is not much that Cornerstone can't due personnel wise. I will also note that they are currently making many many upgrades and that some of my primary issues are slowly but surely being taken care of.

What do you dislike?

As an admin there are a lot of little items that come to mind with this question.

1. There isn't a way to run a conference with multiple concurrent sessions that the user can only choose one of for a time slot.

2. There are a few different admin functions that are a bit cumbersome and could easily be enhanced.

3. I would like more interaction from user to user within Learning. There is some that can be added with a different module.

4. I was told by a rep that the certifications are a mess and that I shouldn't use them. We use a curriculum instead.

5. The breadcrumbs don't work perfectly.

6. It indicates you can have two windows open but it does rather strange things if you do. Ex: I had someone working in two different courses at once and when the saved it wrote the name over one of them so both courses were called the same name. This took so long to figure out who had actually attended what, especially because it went at least one session before they noticed that now two courses were named the same thing.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

It's been a process and we are still in the midst of maximizing its potential, but Cornerstone Learning is helping us as an organization determine what competencies we value, providing elective learning and clear learning paths. It has also done well at managing compliance.