Acorn Reviews & Product Details

Acorn is the skills and development platform that closes the gap between what your people need to be able to do, what they can do today, and what is working to close it. Every role gets a standard, drawn from a framework of thousands of capabilities and proficiency levels. Your people capture the work they do against that standard, and the assessment is the checkpoint where a manager confirms what that work demonstrates. Development plans turn the gaps into action, and learning builds the skill. What a company holds is workforce evidence: proof of what its people can achieve, drawn from the work itself. Every AI suggestion is grounded in the organisation's own configured framework, and a named person signs off before it reaches an employee. Assessment results are evidence for a conversation, never an automated decision about anyone's career. Acorn serves customers across HR, Talent Management and L&D teams globally.

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Languages Supported

Bulgarian, Czech, German, English, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Albanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Solution Type

All-in-One

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Sara Dickson

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

3 months

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Emma B.

Corporate Training & Development Coordinator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/6/2024

"A Clear Winner"

5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

When researching a new LMS for our company Acorn PLMS was a clear front runner when compared to other providers.

Their innovative approach to training and performance management sets them apart from other LMS providers.

The extensive reporting will be of great benefit to our company.

Customization and a clean user interface was important in our search, Acorn PLMS offers extensive customization and an easy to use learner experience.

The sales team was very helpful and quick to answer any questions or concerns.

So far the implementation has been smooth.

Cost is very reasonable compared to other vendors.

I look forward to digging deeper into the system! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

So far no complaints or issues! I look forward to digging deeper into the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2024

"Ease of use and great customer service"

5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

All of the functions included for clients signing themselves up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Sometimes it is not intuitive for where to find certain things, but customer service has been very helpful for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

mark m.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2024

"Acorn leads to customization like no LMS Before"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

I like that you can brand custom pages for different groups of people, this works well if you provide customized training or focus on collaboration with multiple business uses. I also enjoy that Acorn is very user-friendly and our design team got up and running within 10 minutes of instruction! Finally, I love their responsiveness to our needs and ideas, they have made two changes based on our onboarding feedback and were incredibly quick with the turnaround time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

The quiz builder is not the smoothest option and is limiting; however, they are working on an update with this and it looks like it should address my concerns! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/6/2024

"Brilliant platform, gradually making a huge difference"

5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

Course creation, momentum, suitability for the business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

There has been instances where certain features have locked, but Geordie has been a big help and support to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/4/2024

"Acorn PLMS has been a great LMS."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

I like the usability and all of the features that Acorn PLMS has to offer. The Customer support has also been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

My biggest downside currently is some of the terminology being a little weird. Momentums/Capabilties/Cohorts I feel are just throw away words that may not exactly describe what they are to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Acorn Performance LMS of Acorn

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Thanks so much for the comment on usability. We agonize over trying to allow our customers to make suitable user interfaces (UI) because we firmly believe that good UI=stronger adoption. Adoption is the enemy for all of us to attack on technology projects. If we win this battle, we win the hearts and minds of our users.

Your comment on terminology is deeply appreciated and has already impacted some internal efforts to share our point of view more clearly on why our naming is the way it is. Keep this feedback coming. It makes us better.

Kathy H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2024

"Easy to use with a great team at Acorn ready, willing, and happy to support all our needs."

5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

The Team at Acorn is its greatest asset. They are always quick to respond and very helpful. The system is very user-friendly and intuitive. Once I started building courses I realized what an easy-to-use system it was! We will be integrating the capabilities features soon and I know that will be a game changer for the way we approach Succession Planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Really, there is nothing I dislike about the system thus far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chelsea R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/19/2024

"Best Client Experience - Wonderful People to Work With!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

The people who have been supporting us in the background, helping us get set up with a new learning platform. Geordie and Cody have been wonderful to meet and work with, and we have learned many opportunities to customize the platform to our unique needs and desires for our Early Learning community here in Dufferin County. Geordie has had so much patience and perseverance in working with us to ensure we understand the possible functionalities, and to navigate set-up in a way that works best for us and our users. It appears that our users will be able to easily transition to our new learning platform, which we will soon find out! Either way, we know that we will have the support to navigate any challenges that may arise in the process. We are also excited to utilize some of the data features across the site. Thank you Geordie and the Acorn team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

The only possible dislike I can think of, is the language used across the site that has made learning navigation and site creation a little bit more challenging. A small trade off for all the good that appears to come from Acorn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of registration to our local events and learning opportunities for our early childhood educators, and keeping all of our early learning resources and opportunities together in one place. Providing opportunities for online communication through forums, and the possibility of creating cohorts or communities of practice virtually that can further support our in person encounters with the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/22/2024

"The information was very helpful and well presented."

5/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

The variety of learning options is the most valuable for me and my staff. Being able to increase our skills at our own pace and the customer support provided, especially by Sally has made our experiences stressless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

I wouldn't say I have any dislikes to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Acorn Performance LMS of Acorn

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Thanks for comment, you made our (and Sally's day).

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/21/2024

"Steep learning curve after an easy initial course setup"

4/5

What do you like best about Acorn?

Easy enough interfaces and uncluttered LMS learner pages can be set up. Setting up courses is very easy and intuitive. Customer support to help with issues has been fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Not always intuitive to resolve certain functional requirements -- eg bulk enrolment of students needs to be completed via a TEnancy Mangement, Cohort completion link rather than within the course. Some other functions could work better. Eg the Wiki function could be very useful but it's not a great setup in its current form Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.