Growth Engineering’s Academy LMS places #2 on Craig Weiss’ Top 50 LMSs Report
Growth Engineering, a multi-award winning learning technologies company, has had its Academy LMS named as one of the world’s best learning management systems by leading eLearning analyst Craig Weiss.
Craig Weiss, who was recently named as the world’s most influential person in the corporate eLearning sector, reviews more than 690 different learning management systems to put together his Top 50 LMSs Report. It is in this report that Growth Engineering’s Academy LMS is listed as the world’s #2 LMS overall.
Growth Engineering’s Academy LMS is built to engage learners with their training. It does everything expected of an LMS (hosting and delivering learning content, assessments, reviews, classroom bookings, surveys, etc.), but also adds full social and gamification functionality to improve the user experience.
The functionality of the Academy LMS includes:
- Earning badges and levelling up
- Competing against fellow learners on leaderboards
- Reward Centre – where badges are exchanged for real-world rewards
- Social feed and discussion groups to let learners share ideas, materials and links with each other
- Live chat for real-time instant message conversations
As well as being ranked as the #2 LMS overall, Growth Engineering’s Academy LMS is featured in many of the report’s category rankings.
It is named as:
- #1 Gamification LMS
- #1 Next Generation LMS
- #1 LMS for the Retail Sector
- #2 Social LMS
- #2 LMS for Mid-Sized Businesses
- #2 LMS for the Technology Sector
- #2 LMS for the Hospitality Sector
- #3 Video LMS
In his announcement of the Top 10, Craig said: “I’m going to get this out of the way quick – this is a full robust LMS with gamification wrapped around it. #1 in Retail. #1 in Gamification. Continuance of #1 in NextGen.”
Juliette Denny, Managing Director of Growth Engineering, said: “This is one of the most important rankings in our industry, so to be right at the top is simply staggering!
“We have huge plans to take our Academy LMS to the next level in 2016. Keep an eye out for all the major upgrades and developments which will kick learner engagement into overdrive!”
More about the Academy LMS is available from the office on +44 1753 840 331, via the website at www.growthengineering.co.uk or by email to [email protected]. A demonstration is also available by request.