What do you like best about LearnWorlds?
Learnworlds allows you to build a beautiful website, classes, and community under one roof. If you want a one stop place to do all of these things at a very reasonable price, this is the place to do it. I did a lot of research and have extensive experiences with other LMS systems, and I definitely recommend LW over all others.
The website builder is exceptional, you can make a really nice modern website that is very flexible, in a few hours. I've been extremely happy with that. The courses similarly allow you to design them almost any way that you want to, with tons of options. They host their own videos which is really nice, since you don't have to go to Vimeo or others to host. I love the fact you can duplicate classes or import parts of classes into other classes, this can save a lot of time.
The community section needs some work but I have faith that LW will eventually make this as polished as other digital communities - the benefit is that it comes included so you don't have another subscription and website to manage. I really like how the community is integrated into each class. (You get a separate forum that shows up right in the class.).
I have a lot of experience with Kajabi (currently manage a large school in it) and for the most part, I think LW has a lot more features. Kajabi tends to be somewhat easier to use, but it's less powerful. Kajabi is a LOT more expensive. Kajabi has better customer service (it's live), but you are paying a pretty penny for that. Kajabi doesn't host your videos. Kajabi's website builder and course builder is much much less sophisticated. Kajabi does let you do nicer group emails, it can take the place of an email program, where Learnworlds can only send out basic emails to students. Kajabi is much more bombproof, in that random things don't seem to happen there, unlike LW which can be buggy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about LearnWorlds?
It's quirky as heck. Photos disappear. The community section, while it's pretty good, needs a lot of basic functionality (like responding to comments and hashtags), and is very buggy. Students randomly are unable to post or comment due to their system software. You have to learn its quirks for sure. This can be very frustrating for students.
They market that you can do Zoom meetings right from their classes, but this isn't really true, as the Zoom client when run from the integrated class page is extremely basic and frustrating for people who are used to Zoom. Their calendar is not useful at all if you are running a large number of repeating classes. I got around that by embedding an actual calendar from Elfsight which links to my class pages.
I HATE the focus on AI. The last thing the world needs is more scammy low quality classes built by AI. I nearly didn't use LW because of it, but all of the LMS's are going this direction now, to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
One big disadvantage to be aware of is that you have to back up all your videos - we were going from Zoom directly to LW and that was a big no no because we didn't have a copy of our videos (stupid, I know). Now we know that we need to pay for storage and back them all up somewhere. LW customer service was great though and allowed us to re-download them. But you can't assume LW is your backup cloud server.
I think they need to re-vamp their pricing structure - there are a few advanced options I would happily pay for but there's a huge leap from about $80 a month to $250 a month and most of the $250 a month items I wouldn't use. It would probably be a nightmare for them, but an ala carte system would make them more money and allow their users to pick and choose. I'd happily pay for things like automations, but wouldn't give them a dime for the AI features (which I am paying for by default).
I'm pretty tech savvy and I do like LearnWorlds, but it does take a great deal of patience and thinking out of the box to get it to be where you want it to be (as does most software, if you have specifics in mind and are going beyond the basics). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.