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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

When researching a new LMS for our company Acorn PLMS was a clear front runner when compared to other providers.

Their innovative approach to training and performance management sets them apart from other LMS providers.

The extensive reporting will be of great benefit to our company.

Customization and a clean user interface was important in our search, Acorn PLMS offers extensive customization and an easy to use learner experience.

The sales team was very helpful and quick to answer any questions or concerns.

So far the implementation has been smooth.

Cost is very reasonable compared to other vendors.

I look forward to digging deeper into the system! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

So far no complaints or issues! I look forward to digging deeper into the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reporting.

Our previous LMS offered limited reporting options that were difficult to read.

AcornPLMS offers clear reports, that are easy customizable, giving valuable insight to our supervisors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Acorn PLMS Overview

What is Acorn PLMS?

Acorn PLMS (Performance Learning Management System) is a dynamic AI-powered platform that connects performance and learning. It’s the only solution that shows learners how to be successful in their role, guides leaders through productive performance conversations and ties development plans to organizational goals. Acorn captures things that are already happening and makes them easy to find. It facilitates knowledge transfer between employees and fosters a learning-in-the-flow culture where everyone helps each other get better. By presenting contextual learning opportunities while linking learning and performance, Acorn equips people to excel in precisely the ways that positively impact outcomes. Acorn enables companies, governments and other institutions worldwide to consistently align individual growth with business objectives through a performance-oriented LMS. Designed to codify and operationalize capabilities to improve organizational efficiency, Acorn curates internal and third party sources and intelligently serves up the right learning recipe for each person’s betterment. It also captures key interactions hidden within organizations, transforming them into shareable learning assets that promote knowledge exchange at scale. Acorn’s AI collects tangible evidence of behavior change, creating a comprehensive record of individual learning experiences mapped to their impact on performance. It facilitates continual employee assessment in a feedback loop that measures improvement not completions. This enables companies to identify people with desired capabilities, promote from within and enhance retention, engagement and satisfaction. Uniquely, Acorn addresses the issue of multiple LMSs plaguing organizations, providing one PLMS for employee, partner, customer, member and citizen use cases.

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Product Description

Acorn PLMS (performance learning management system) is a dynamic AI-powered platform for learning experiences synchronized to business performance. It guides learners step by step to master the specific capabilities of their roles that will accelerate organizational performance. By presenting contextual and peer-based learning opportunities, Acorn equips people to excel in precisely the ways that positively impact outcomes. Designed to operationalize capabilities to improve organizational efficiency, Acorn curates internal and third party sources and serves up the right learning recipe for each individual. Acorn addresses the issue of multiple LMSs plaguing organizations, providing one PLMS for all use cases.


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Year Founded
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Acorn is not your normal LMS or LXP. We are rethinking corporate learning and performance technology because learning and performance initiatives have failed. Organizations are bogged down by smart people not operating at their full potential. Acorn is pioneering the Performance Learning Management System (PLMS) so that learners know how to be successful in their roles and leaders can have productive performance conversations with an accurate development plan. Acorn eliminates unmanageable competency spreadsheets and ensures content adoption with our proprietary AI-driven library of over 600 capabilities and 1600+ competencies. The platform enables ongoing performance evaluation and feedback loops through various capability assessments and gap analyses. We also recommend content for learners based on their defined capabilities, autonomously creating personalized development plans for all learners.Acorn PLMS envisions a world where leaders have objective and productive conversations about performance, learners see what they need to have an impact, and organizations support every learner with a development plan from day one.


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Recent Acorn PLMS Reviews

Jamie M.
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Jamie M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A Great Platform with a Few Improvement Opportunities"
I really enjoy using Acorn PLMS! It's incredibly user-friendly, looks great, and the support team is always so kind and helpful. They truly make a ...
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4.5 out of 5
"Acorn PLMS is a efficient and user-friendly LMS."
Acorn PLMS were good in terms of interface, which makes the learning manageable and the learning seamless and efficient.
Olivia F.
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5.0 out of 5
"Why I love Acorn and our Customer Success Officer"
It is very user friendly, and easy to understand. Also the ability to really customize our courses and dashboards has significantly improved our on...
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Jamie M.
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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

I really enjoy using Acorn PLMS! It's incredibly user-friendly, looks great, and the support team is always so kind and helpful. They truly make a difference when you need assistance. Looking ahead, I’m excited about the potential to explore more creative uses for the "P" in PLMS—it feels like there’s so much room for innovation! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

One thing that could be improved is the flexibility of the reporting features. While they provide all the essential data you need, having more customization options would make them even better. Also, the form feature is helpful, but it doesn’t allow you to download your responses. For one specific task where our customers need a copy, it does present a bit of a challenge.

Overall, it’s a wonderful platform with so much to offer, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it continues to evolve! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acorn PLMS has been a game-changer for us, helping solve several challenges by bringing everything into one easy-to-use platform. It’s automated our processes, making it so much simpler to manage and deliver consistent, high-quality learning experiences. The platform is intuitive and gives our content a polished, professional look that fits perfectly with our brand. Plus, being able to easily track our customers’ progress has made it easier to support them and ensure their success. It’s really made a difference in how we operate and has helped us improve both the efficiency and impact of our learning programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bre G.
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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

Our experience with ACORN has been phenomenal. Their team truly works to make our live and on-demand learning and external e-commerce integration work for our business and the students we serve. Our industry requires regular certifications and complex information gathering, and at every turn, we found ACORN willing and ready to make it work. From creative data solutions and implementation support to helping us train our staff on the new platform, reporting, and integration of live learning and online options, they were always ready to lend a hand and stretch their capabilities to meet our needs. We chose ACORN for their partnership values and the amazing team we have the privilege of working with and we couldn't be more satisfied with the results. The platform itself is easy to use for our administrative team and students who are on it daily and their support is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

We found there to be a few limitations with reporting, but their team is working to make solutions for us that are affordable and meet our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a large number of users who need to learn simultaneously, our previous solutions were not capable of handling our user load and ACORN made the switch affordable, easy to implement, and allows our users a customized learning experience that we feel proud to put forth,. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

The interface is customizable, so it was easy for us admins to set up the page. Our CS Officer helped us with weekly touchpoints. What sealed the deal for us, to move from our old LMS to Acorn was its price point, considering that it has one extra feature that our old LMS doesn't have--Capability Development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

There were some features we enjoyed with our old LMS that were not available on Acorn, like Go1 integration with free 25 courses, mobile app option, match list quiz type, and ease of assigning administrative roles across tenancies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our company, our old LMS has only been a library of courses. It wasn't tied to performance and skill development. Acorn's Capability Development module should help solve this gap. Hopefully, once we're able to link this via API to our new HRIS, we'll see an increase in overall utilization from all employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lisa  C.
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Account Manager Team Lead
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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

Acorn allows our company to put all the resources our Account Managers and operators in one spot. This makes their job much easier and allows them to be more efficient.

Everyone I have worked with at Acorn has been wonderful from sales to tech support. We love working with Geordie. He is amazing!

Purchasing Acorn was a great decision and everyone has been very impressed by the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

I have not had anything that I have found to not like at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making resources easily available to our Account Managers and Operators which will be a hige time saver for myself and other Account Managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

I like the ability to customize most aspects of the LMS to fit your organization's branding. For my case, we have multiple organizations using the system, and it is really helpful for each organization to have their own branding and autonomy over their own tenancies. I use the LMS most work days and it's usablity is consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

Some aspects are not customizable and make using the system for our specific reason a little more difficult. However, Acorn staff have been very gracious in helping us find ways to address problems creatively. It takes a while to get used to the system and implement/integrate it across different organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a way to train food pantries on practices on a statewide level. Acorn has allowed us to do just that and still give autonomy to our food banks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

The Acorn team has been professional, flexible, accommodating, and patient with us during the implementation process. We selected Acorn after meeting with 18 LMS vendors primarily because we felt that we would be true "partners" and not just "partrons" who purchased the product. The platform is easy to use and our employees are loving it. Having the added "performance" or Capabilities functions is truly unique and we can't wait to fully incorporate all that Acorn PLMS has to offer to both our team members as well as our team leaders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

We have yet to find a "dislike" or downfall. They have helped us with all of the relevant areas that we were lacking in our previous LMS and add so much more functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I could write a novel on the challenges that Acorn PLMS has solved for us regarding our LMS as well as embarking on career progressions and learning plans. Using the platform solely for internal company purposes to be the "Professional Development" source of truth has had its challenges, but Acorn PLMS has found solutions to each challenge we encounter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Acorn Performance LMS of Acorn PLMS

Your review has impacted us at Acorn. We regularly discuss that our path to success is paved with the success of our project sponsors. If we succeed together, we will be true partners. Oh yeah, and being the top choice out of 18 made our day. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

We recently transitioned from our previous LMS to Acorn, and the experience has been fantastic. Special shoutout to Jenny Tran, our implementation specialist, who went above and beyond to make the process smooth—from start to launch. Jenny was always available (even at midnight!) to answer questions and help with any hiccups along the way. Our switch was no small task—we have 26 franchise locations and a team of 500, so it wasn't easy—but Jenny helped make it incredibly smooth.

The platform itself is easy to use, packed with features and has powerful reporting tools that will definitely help us manage our learning more efficiently. We're beyond pleased with the exceptional support from Jenny—she made the entire process seamless and a pleasure! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

While Acorn offers a great experience overall, there are a few areas for improvement. One downside is that the app only functions in offline mode, and with over 70% of our users preferring mobile devices for learning, a fully functional app would be ideal. There are also some limitations in terms of customization, but despite this, the platform still delivers a solid experience, and the mobile web browser version works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acorn has really solved a lot of the issues we had with our old LMS, which was pretty outdated and lacked the customization, reporting, and learning tools we needed. Now, we can easily run different reports for user progress, completion, and compliance, which has been a game-changer for us. We’re also loving the Live Learning feature—it’s super convenient to host virtual and in-person sessions all in one spot.

So far, our franchisees and staff across Canada and the US are thrilled with the upgrade! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Acorn Performance LMS of Acorn PLMS

Thanks for your comment, it's great to see such a diverse offering (ie 26 franchises in one platform). Thanks for the feedback on the mobile app. We've noted this internally. Also you made our (and Jenny's) day with your comment on CS. We like to hire people who care about our customers' success and Jenny is a true advocate in this way.

Zachary J.
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Director Of Operations
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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

The people that work for Acorn make Acorn great. Geordie and Cody have worked with me through all of the bumps in the road. I think the platform is also fantastic, incredibly easy to navigate for both admins and users. Implementation was incredibly simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

I have zero complaints about Acorn PLMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acorns platform significantly reduced our workload with it's reporting features, and made it very easy for us to track user progress. Being in the education industry is difficult, but thanks to Acorn our efficiency metrics have increased significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Breanna D.
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Program Manager
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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

Geordie has been incredible for helping me set up the platform the way I needed it. The dashboard is beautiful now after his help and I feel more confident changing assignments and adding items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

The way to grade the assignments is not user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can conduct classes online which adds to the amount of people we are able to assist yearly as well as increase the amount of people who can assist outside of the Jacksonville and Tampa areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?

The platform is incredibly flexible and thorough. Our implementation specialist worked closely with us to provide all the support we needed and ensure that we got what we were looking for with Acorn and more. The interface is clean and intuitive, and makes for an attractive hub for our users to return to to access resources that were previously scattered across multiple webpages and platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn PLMS?

In an ideal world Acorn would have come with a small selection of pre-designed courses to help get us started off (without having to purchase a package from one of their partners), but this is not a serious drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn PLMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed an integrated performance and learning management system so that we could connect performance goals to learning opportunities and minimize the number of different platforms we're directing people to. Acorn is also allowing us to create our own content specifically tailored to our needs, so we can offer compliance trainings, professional development opportunities, and department or institution-specific trainings all in the same place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Acorn Performance LMS of Acorn PLMS

Thanks for your comments. It's great to see how you're connecting learning and performance. Regarding content, it's a tricky one. We're focussing on integrations so our customers can evolve with their changing content needs in one platform. We just added another major integrator (OpenSesame) and will add more in the future.