The key difference between Trainual and GainKnowHow is that Trainual specializes in creating online courses. GainKnowHow also creates online courses, but structures your courses in a Knowledge Web that represents how your organization runs.
Picking the right learning platform for your organization is key to avoiding headaches down the road. Trainual is an e-learning alternative to GainKnowHow. The two overlap in many areas, but GainKnowHow is fundamentally different in how skills are organized, which enables many features that Trainual lacks.
“Trainual is a good online course editor, but does not organize your skills to represent how your organization runs, when compared to GainKnowHow ”
At the core of GainKnowHow is ordered learning. New employees need to understand the basics before learning advanced organization-specific skills. In GainKnowHow you organize skills by prerequisite in a Knowledge Web. Once your skills are in the Knowledge Web you get skill progression and change management features.
Trainual is an e-learning platform that specializes in online lessons. There are many ways to take a lesson in Trainual from live lessons to online lessons.
GainKnowHow is a reflection of how your organization runs. Learning material and internal documentation are one in the same. Changing a process at your organization is as simple as updating the skill in GainKnowHow that reflects the process. GainKnowHow knows what employees the change is relevant to and notifies them of the exact process changes.
New employees learn skills in the correct order to ensure they have full understanding of complex concepts at your organization.
Trainual has more flexibility on how lessons are organized. There are more options to configure how you want your lesson to look. There are more questions that the learner can take to ensure they understand the lesson.
Trainual has live online courses. There are also options for blended learning courses for more learning flexibility.
Your e-learning platform is at the core at organizational cohesion. Make sure your e-learning platform has the right tools for its job.
Online lessons are at the core of any learning system. In order to be successful, the platform must teach employees the topics.
Learning Progressions make sure each employee takes lessons in the correct order.
Having insights into how employees are progressing in the skills you assign them is critical to them becoming a successful employee.
Change Management is the ability to change a skill/lesson and have its changes spread to the relevant employees.
If you are only looking to create lessons and have your employees take the lessons, Trainual might meet your needs. However, if you are looking for a platform to run your organization's processes and keep every member on the same page, GainKnowHow is the platform for you. GainKnowHow is a living document that describes how you want your organization run. It is more than an e-learning platform, it takes e-learning to the next level and lets you program your organization through skills.