
Who Uses Absorb LMS?
Organizations providing employee training, external training, or both, including e-commerce. We work for organizations with a few hundred learners right through to hundreds of thousands of learners.
What Is Absorb LMS?
Absorb LMS empowers businesses across the globe to surpass learning goals. Built to deliver flexible training, the intuitive design and robust features create an engaging learning environment that keeps your employees, customers and partners coming back for more. Serving customers in 120 industry verticals, Absorb LMS offers automation and deep reporting capabilities to save time and prove ROI. Tap the scalable LMS that supports integration and security, while offering 24/7 in-house support.
Absorb LMS Details
Absorb
http://www.absorblms.com/
Founded 2002











Absorb LMS pricing overview
See pricing plansAbsorb LMS does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Absorb LMS deployment and support
Support
- 24/7 (Live Rep)
- Business Hours
- Online
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
- Mobile - iOS Native
- Mobile - Android Native
Training
- In Person
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
Absorb LMS Features
Learning Experience Platform (LXP) Software
- Built-in Course Authoring
- Content Sharing
- Employee Portal
- Gamification
- Microlearning
- Mobile Learning
- Multi-User Collaboration
- Recommendations
- Reporting/Analytics
- Self-Service Content Curation
- Social Learning
- Third Party Course Library
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Learning Management Systems
- Academic/Education
- Asynchronous Learning
- Blended Learning
- Built-in Course Authoring
- Corporate/Business
- Gamification
- Learner Portal
- Mobile Learning
- SCORM Compliance
- Synchronous Learning
- Video Conferencing
- eCommerce
- eLearning Companies
Mobile Learning Tools
- Academic / Education
- Asynchronous Learning
- Blended Learning
- Built-In Course Authoring
- Certification Management
- Content Management
- Corporate / Business
- Employee Training
- Engagement Monitoring
- Gamification
- Media Management
- Skills Tracking
- Social Learning
- Student Portal
- Synchronous Learning
- Testing / Assessments
- Training Companies
- Video Conferencing
- Virtual Classroom
- eCommerce
Onboarding Software
- Document Management
- E-Verify/I-9 Forms
- Electronic Forms
- Electronic Signature
- Employee Handbook
- Job Description Management
- Orientation Workflow Management
- Self Service Portal
- Task Management
- Training Management
Training Software
- Academic/Education
- Asynchronous Learning
- Blended Learning
- Built-in Course Authoring
- Built-in LMS
- Certification Management
- Corporate/Business
- Learner Portal
- Mobile Learning
- Simulation
- Synchronous Learning
- Training Companies
- eCommerce
Absorb LMS Alternatives
More Absorb LMS alternativesAbsorb LMS Reviews
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Cecilia W.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & FunctionalityUnrated
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to RecommendUnrated
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 11/08/2015
"Absorb is the perfect LMS!"
Comments: Absorb is so powerful and easy to use. The company itself is great to work with. Their customer service staff is so nice and friendly, and the project manager and account manager I worked with helped me every step of the way. The interface is gorgeous and importing your learners is a snap. I love that Absorb has built-in quizzes that I can create in seconds. I also love that I was able to work with Absorb's designers to customize the branding for our company. Creating certification programs and badges was easy. You can upload or link to practically any type of media. Customized reports can quickly be generated. Grouping learners into categories to deploy specific training is also painless. You can create contest, polls and gamify the learning experience. Ultimately, Absorb is fast, easy, gorgeous and even if you're a staff of one or two (like me) you can easily manage hundreds of learners and dozens of online courses. I love Absorb!
Pros:
Fantastic customer support
Easy to use design
Quick import of new learners
Easily upload any type of multimedia
Customizable interface for branding
Out of the box solution at a reasonable price point
No extra IT or web developer support required
Cons:
It would be great to:
- Quickly switch between Admin and Learner to see a course
- Create a "test" user who can take courses over and over again just to test functionality without having to enroll, un-enroll and then re-enroll
- Show and disable the contest feature (without having customer support perform this function)
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 11/08/2015

Christina P.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 13/07/2018
"Absorb does a lot of awesome things. A few tweaks could make it even better."
Pros:
Ease of course creation
Branded dashboards
Recently improved search page
Options for badges and certificates
Course and resource replication easy
Cons:
Organization of Course and Resource folders is only alphabetical order
No way to create groups through a CSV upload
Enrollment and Resource availability rules limited for some items (i.e. can't exclude departments in enrollments)
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 13/07/2018
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support1 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 15/11/2020
"Great Software, Suffers terribly from its customer service."
Comments:
I rushed into this purchase a little and didnt investigate the level of support that would be offered. In hindsight this would have been a game changer for me as I would have went elsewhere.
The software is good, though it doesnt manage blended learning easily which is frustrating.
Customer Support is absolutely non existent.
Pros:
Good User Interface,
Good Course Management.
Good sync with BambooHR on most things.
Good Learner interface.
Good Customisation options.
Cons:
Difficult to manage blended learning.
Some factors in course management could use improvements. (Managing assessments)
Cannot see how many absences from courses that users have.
Some issues with how it syncs with Bamboo(overwriting course information)
Customer Support is non existent. 10+ days to resolve any issues. Most issues I have to try and resolve myself by resetting and that causes me other issue.
Can sometimes be 'buggy' and will introduce random bugs which can be time consuming to fix and result in me resetting the system sync.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 15/11/2020

Jamie D.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to RecommendUnrated
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 13/02/2018
"Great product that focuses on being good at one thing... Online learning."
Pros: Absorb was the first LMS that I worked with that fully supported HTML5. The interface was beautiful from a learner perspective and could be fully branded to your company. It was intuitive and supported all of the training types that we created and purchased. The company was easy to work with and provided support for our needs.
Cons: The backend/admin portal was separate from the user portal. Meaning, it was based on different technology (flash at the time), was actually hosted on a different part of the system and did not seem as unified as other systems I have worked with. It was still very functional, but left some to be desired.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 13/02/2018
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 15/05/2019
"Easy to use, affordable LMS"
Pros: Blatant Media developed such a forward thinking interface that it hasn't needed a refresh the last few years. This is a positive, not a negative. I've been both an admin and a user of the system and it's really nice to know everything is going to be laid out the same even after not using it for a few months. Very future proof. The responsive capabilities of the user end are really top-notch as well. Great for blended learning as well as complete "eLearning."
Cons: Support is just okay. I think they outsource their support and it's not always super efficient.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 15/05/2019