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What I look for in a learning system

If I cannot find a course, I do not have a learning system yet.

Key takeaways

  • Catalog, assignment, completion. That is the minimum I will file.
  • 360Learning and Docebo describe that job on their own sites.
  • An AI headline does not replace the catalog.
  • A performance product can sit beside an LMS. It does not become one.

Learning system software is where a company keeps a course, assigns it, and sees who finished. I look for those three objects. Everything else, including the AI paragraph in the hero, is secondary.

The catalog has to exist

  • CatalogA course I can open
  • AssignmentA team, not a slide
  • CompletionA report I can export

360Learning describes an AI-driven learning platform built around courses people can create and take. Docebo describes an AI-first learning platform for employees, partners, and customers. Both are on the learning guide because the page is about learning, not about a review form that happens to allow an attachment.

Assignment and completion

I want to assign a course to a team and see a completion report an HR person can export. If the only “learning” is a link in a review, I stop and read why an LMS is not a review.

What I do with the AI claim

Both vendors lead with AI. I note that they say it. I do not score it. I ask what the model is allowed to publish to the catalog without an editor, because an unreviewed course is a compliance problem, not a feature.

Price stays blank until the page speaks

I do not have a public price from those homepages that I am willing to print as the contract. The guide leaves the price as a question for the seller. I would rather show a blank than a number from a roundup I cannot open on the vendor’s site.

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