Degreed

A Great vehicle for Those Empowering Growth and Unlocking Potential Across Your Workforce!

Commenti: Overall I think the Degreed platform is a value-add for any organization that values continuous learning and has a workforce that spans the full spectrum from entry-level through executive leadership.

Aspetti positivi:

The best attribute that Degreed offers, in my opinion is the Daily Learning Digest feature. Similar to a daily alert when searching for a job or apartment rental, each morning you have an email in your inbox suggesting various videos, courses, and articles that are relevant to your skill set.

Aspetti negativi:

While I enjoyed the many features the Degreed platform offered, at times it can become cumbersome or confusing when trying to access what you want. For example, it's difficult to differentiate between a pathway and a role family.

An LXP to Host Your Content

Commenti: Degreed offers excellent customer service, their app is user-friendly, the are constantly developing new features to make it better, and their integration process with third party content providers is seamless for the most part.

Aspetti positivi:

Degreed is really effective at organizing content and delivering it to employees in an engaging way. It also is easy to administer/support, especially by those with limited technical skills.

Aspetti negativi:

Degreed is like a smart TV, it's only as valuable as the content services you pay for to watch on the platform. So if your company has very little content, Degreed won't be a great choice compared to other similar products in the market. Being an LXP, its best suited at playing the role of middle-man between your employees and the content providers you use.

Disappointed

Aspetti positivi:

First a disclaimer: I am a user of the individual, free version. On to the pros: I really love the whole concept of using this service for a central location to keep a record of my informal learning. The bookmarklet, in particular, is very handy. I've installed it on both my browsers. It automatically harvests the URL and other metadata it needs and assigns the point values accordingly. For instance, on a YouTube video, it knows how long the video is. Customer support response time is quite reasonable for what I'm paying.

Aspetti negativi:

Now to the disappointment: Degreed touts itself as "The learning portal to find, track & recognize ALL learning." It is not. It will not give accurate credit for learning unless it is publically available. For example, eLearning videos from my professional sites are given only 0.03 points credit for everything, even if the video I watched was over an hour long. I tried a few things to get around that to no avail. The response from customer service was there was nothing they could do.

Build and Track Custom Learning Pathways

Commenti: Overall, my experience with Degreed was positive. It has many useful features and is almost infinitely customizable.

Aspetti positivi:

I really appreciated how quickly and easily I could build new learning pathways in Degreed.

Aspetti negativi:

The learning library search functions were not as robust as I would have liked.

Transforming Organizational Learning

Commenti: We launched Degreed throughout the entire organization and the base platform for employee development. We had an amazing pre-launch design, faultless launch and almost zero tech support with only 2 tickets for the population of 1,200 employees. It allows the every employee to be in control of their own learning and development. We used it as an integral part of our talent development process tied to quarterly development check-ins. We have used it to create learning groups around key topics and have curated learning paths to reinforce our cultural and leadership principles. A really nice wow experience for new hires to see how they can start learning from day 1. It totally and seamlessly integrates with all content on our LMS and Intranet sites. We are a cloud-based technology company that needed a simple but elegant learning ecosystem. It has totally met our expectations.

Aspetti positivi:

Content aggregation very strong. Ability to create learning paths from both external and internal content and assign to users/groups. Ease of creating and following learning groups. Easy to tag and create daily learning feeds. So easy to share and add content from any web source to existing internally create learning paths. Very easy to administer and support. Great UI. Very affordable.

Aspetti negativi:

Would love to see more action oriented triggers to users as reminders to nudge learners to stay active. Would love to see a more robust way to measure if what the organization is learning is making a difference to the business or to customer's experience.