OpenSesame Reviews

I really like the wide range of courses and the ability to select courses of all different lengths. We reviewed a lot of different sexual harassment courses, and Open Sesame had by far the best one!

There were a few courses that were not engaging at all.

If you don't have an LMS, they have a great option to roll out training on Course Cloud.

We are using the Unlawful Harassment employee and manager courses to meet our annual sexual harassment requirement training need. We have also used some of the diversity courses to better educate our employees. It's great that employees have access to take these courses at any time, from anywhere.

The breadth of topics, engaging and variety of content.

There isn't much I dislike, perhaps more of a heads up on new or discontinued courses.

Leadership packages, junior management, sales training, personal development and a wide range of technical and soft skills.

I love how vast the collection of content is. Our organization has many different types of jobs from professional roles to labor positions. Open Sesame has relevant content that suits our needs on so many levels.

There really isn't anything we don't like other than having to choose among so many great courses.

Consider Open Sesame as they not only contain large amounts of content, but the content they have is of high quality and they are continuously adding new content and vendors.

We are solving a few problems including reaching a large audience who work various schedules performing different roles. Open Sesame's web-based content enables us to deliver training on-demand when required and during the employee's regularly scheduled hours. We also use Open Sesame content to supplement our in-house leadership development program. These carefully selected courses help to round out our program and provide a more comprehensive experience for the participants.

They have a "Plus" subscription that allows you to use content from a wide variety of the vendors. The content ranges from soft skills, technology, regulatory, DEI, and certifications. They have an evaluation that your team completes to showcase examples from their different vendors and allows you to rate their courses. From that evaluation, they determine the vendors you would most likely want to pull content from. Also, they assign an account rep to for your account and they assist with curating content and helping integrate with your LMS if that is needed. Our account rep Ashley is the best!

Sometimes the content from certain vendors isn't at the level of our expectations. Some content vendors are better than others. OpenSesame does a good of vetting their content vendors and the ratings on the content gives a good idea of what others think.

Conduct a demo and review their content. Compared to other content providers, from a cost perspective, they are much more affordable. But that doesn't mean the content quality is any less than their competition.

We needed additional content to add to our LMS on soft skills, technology and DEI. We wanted to be able to tie more training to specific competencies that we were rating our associates on. Mapping the courses back to the skills, helps us provide more learning opportunities for our associates.

The account management is tailored to our organization and use-case. We are able to bring a business problem to them, and they curate content for us in less than a week (usually much faster!). They handle the relationship with our LMS as well, so no "technical jargon" is needed for us to get the best support possible.

There is very little to dislike! We do sometimes get let-down when a course isn't available for Plus users/subscribers, but recognize that's part of the model. The account manager and those in the curation community are always ready to listen to our requests for new vendors available on plus!

Do not hesitate! Bring them a topic you need training content around, and they will help you find the best vendors and modules for the topic. We have found you can be as general or specific as you want, and they will do their best to deliver.

We have replaced a ton of piecemealed vendors with one solution in one place that integrates with our LMS. Instead of us seeking out and vetting vendors, we can spend time with our internal customers solving their business problems!

Variety of quality courses is great but the curation team and customer support team are the best.

We have had nothing but a positive experience with Open Sesame

Customer support and curation team are top of the line!

Change management, Leadership, Safety, Office skills and compliance needs are all able to be augmented with course selections availalbe.

I personally like the wealth of good quality publishers that I have access to, which provides employees with a plethora of choices & styles to suit their needs. I love the fact that there are different looks & feel to appeal to a multitude of preferences. I also like the fact that we have a choice of duration's too - some employees like quick bite size learning & others love going deeper into acquiring knowledge that they can apply in real time.

There is nothing I dislike. I would like to see more compliance courses for the European regulations & audience & I know that Open Sesame are always looking to partner with great publishers. I think then they will have the full holistic view which will appeal to even more organisations. In particular courses that focus on the Quality ISO standards for internal & external audits/some certification routes too as these are always a plus point. & further Health & Safety content covering a broader range of topics.

The Open Sesame content/courses are supporting the business in a variety of ways. During these unprecedented times they are providing access to learning to help remote workers. They are a great resource that employees can access right away from the comfort of their own home or office. Ensuring any mandatory learning required from a compliance perspective can still be completed within reason. Plus there is a multitude of content that employees can access if they choose to, to complete self directed learning.

The OpenSesame Team is always quick to respond to customer needs it solutions that help close the gap on learning needs. They listen to what is important to the customer, give actionable alternatives, in a friendly helpful manner.

I wish there were an option between 100 courses and all courses.

Map out requirements your organization has, give to the curation team, and preview the content to ensure it meets your needs.

We have rolled out a new competency module this year and they are helping map courses to our competencies.

I like how you can go in and preview courses and curate lists that are customized to your work environment. I have really appreciated, Jade, Jake and Tyler's support, they have been great to work with. With our breadth of employees who are high-school graduates to PhD's, I can find something for every employee at OpenSesame. I just put together and downloaded our Plus 25 list to deploy to our agency. The LMS interface is seamless.

I haven't found any downside, but you do have to set aside time to do the previews on the classes.

We are solving the ability to quickly deploy all types of training for a diverse audience at our agency, solving our diversity training content and solving for our agency only having to eLearning developers. OpenSesame is solving for a variety of our issues.

There's a lot of content to choose from on multiple topics. The leadership and communication trainings that are offered have a wide variety of types to choose from: humor, basic, in-depth, etc.

There are some industry-specific items that aren't available in the technology field. Things like CPNI or Juniper content would be worthwhile for our employees and team.

Rollout is a key part of this content and I'd highly advise you to use your customer success manager during it. Our CSM was able to help us considerably on marketing and assisting with the content curation.

We have been able to provide training for enhanced skills for our staff and remain in compliance. Our leaders have become better communicators and our employees have been able to access content to help their careers.