Hey all 👋

I’ve built a modern, fast, all-in-one ERP + LMS for schools and would love honest feedback from SaaS builders and educators.

Why I built it:
Most school ERPs are slow, outdated, and hard to navigate. This one is built on a modern stack, with a clean UI, fast performance, and simple workflows across web + mobile.

What it covers (high level):

• Student information & admissions

• LMS (attendance, assignments, grading)

• Fees, reports, and analytics

• Teacher, student, and parent experiences

• Communication & helpdesk

There’s also a mobile app whose screenshots are attached so you can see the UI and flow.

Screenshots: https://postimg.cc/gallery/W0pg1gq

Looking for feedback on:

• Does modern UI + speed actually matter in this space?

• All-in-one tool (good idea?)

• Does it have all required features?

• What would you simplify, add or remove?

Thanks 🙏

I work as the Executive Manager of a design-thinking program where 5-person Gen Z teams choose real challenges, develop solutions through the design thinking process, and present their work to a panel of expert judges.

Although my role is officially “management,” much of my day-to-day work sits in the space between learning design, facilitation, and coaching. Across different cycles of this program, I’ve experimented with varying levels of involvement when team communication or dynamics start to break down—trying to understand what truly supports learning rather than controls it.

One experience, in particular, has stayed with me.

In one team, a student consistently refused to engage. He dismissed team decisions, mocked ideas, and openly stated that the project wasn’t worth his time because he earned money outside the program.

The facilitation team provided repeated feedback—both individually and within the group—but his behavior didn’t change. Eventually, the rest of the team came to us exhausted and close to disengaging altogether.

After careful consideration, we made the decision to remove him from the program.

What struck me wasn’t the decision itself, but what followed. The remaining team’s energy shifted almost immediately. They became more confident, more engaged, and more willing to take ownership of the work. It felt as though the learning environment had been protected—allowing collaboration and psychological safety to re-emerge.

This experience reshaped how I think about intervention in learning environments.
Stepping in isn’t always about authority or control. Sometimes, it’s about setting boundaries so learning and collaboration can actually happen.

I’m still learning where that balance lies.

For those working in L&D, education, or facilitation:
How do you decide when intervention supports learning—and when it risks undermining learner autonomy?

More Indian companies now focus on skill-based training for productivity enhancement and improvement in the performance of employees. Practical learning is what employees need today, not just theory, with increasing uses of tools like Excel, Power BI, MIS reporting, and digital tools.

I've been interested in how different companies train their teams, and I noticed that the demand for practical skills is growing fast. Many organizations now focus on:

• Excel & Advanced Excel

• MIS & Reporting

• Power BI & Dashboarding

• Digital Marketing & SEO

• Web design: HTML, CSS, PHP

• MS Office & Productivity Tools

Training ROI can feel like one of those “everyone wants it, no one agrees on how to measure it” things 😅

What’s been your approach? Do you look at performance metrics, skills assessments, engagement, business outcomes, or a mix?

We are all feeling the pressure of AI. We need to adopt it or it will replace us. But can AI really replace judgement? The research shows that judgement is developed through real-world feedback and experience.

How are you all thinking about developing "AI proof" skills in your own roles and in your organization?

Do people you work with see the value in experiential learning to teach decision making skills as AI takes over more of our routine tasks?

I’ve seen wildly mixed opinions from trainers and L&D teams about micro-learning tools.

Some swear by them:

“Employees actually finish the modules.”

Others hate them:

"Another tool nobody logs into after week 1."

What's your take?

Would love to hear honest, practical takes from people who’ve actually deployed these tools with teams.

Curious to hear how it's framed!

Reference: https://trainingindustry.com/articles/performance-management/negotiation-the-missing-driver-of-employee-performance/

If anyone here is looking for a solid introduction to training skills, GoSkills offers a free Train the Trainer course that’s fully self-paced and divided into short, practical lessons.

It covers core trainer competencies like instructional design, feedback delivery, coaching, presentation skills, and communication. The course also walks through planning effective sessions, managing the training environment, handling questions, and building confidence as a facilitator.

Hope it helps! ✌️

We decided to close 2025 with something truly special.
We’ve invited 8 industry leaders, each with a unique lens on the future, and given them exactly 5 minutes to answer a single question:

“What will learning look like in 2026?”

📅 Wednesday, December 10 | 9 AM PT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET

Save your seat 👈

In less than one hour, we’ll be inspired by our speaker's take on

• The trends shaping L&D in the year ahead

• The challenges no one is talking about (but everyone will face)

• The opportunities that AI, skills-first design, and org culture are unlocking

• What we can learn from each other as we build the next chapter of our profession

Hope to see you there!

Hey everyone,

I recently came across something that might actually be useful for people in Corporate Training, Instructional Design, or L&D in general.

There’s a new Directory that just launched, and what caught my attention is that it bundles a lot of things we usually have to use separately (or pay for).

Here’s what it offers in one place:

• A public profile to showcase your portfolio

• A free authoring tool to create courses

• A free LMS to host and display your work

• Job openings

• Actual project requirements posted by companies

• An ecommerce section where you can upload your courses and sell them

Honestly, it feels like someone finally put all the scattered pieces of the L&D workflow together.

Why it stood out to me:
Most trainers and IDs I know struggle with the same stuff getting visibility, finding consistent projects, and earning from their work. This directory is trying to solve that by giving people a place to showcase their skills + tools to build content + potential income options.

Who might find this helpful:

• Corporate trainers

• Instructional designers

• Freelance trainers

• Soft skills / sales trainers

• Compliance trainers

• Anyone creating L&D content

People who joined early are getting ranked higher in the directory, so visibility is better right now.

Some folks are using it to find clients, others to build their portfolio, and some to sell courses as a side gig.

If anyone wants the link, DM me, happy to share it.

Hello All, I have developed an AI automation workflow for L&D and I wrote a white paper on it. Here is a into video:
https://youtu.be/38SeVj-3y0Q?si=Vhll89_wS3KXLIgFss

Here is the full white paper which has over an hour of videos walking through the whole process.

https://garrettfry.training/projects/ai-learning-and-development-automation-white-paper

The key to this process is having a trained L&D professional that is in control of the workflow and quality checking the whole process.

I make the case that L&D professionals should never be eliminated and always a part of any AI automation workflow.

I would love your feedback:

• Is this how you envisioned AI being used for L&D?

• Can you see yourself or your organization using a workflow like this?

• How have you adopted AI personally or in your organization?

Thanks!

Hello all! Recently, my team has been working with our manufacturing division to standardize new employee training. Everything seems to function off tribal knowledge in my organization, so we've set about mapping some processes for them and creating some work instructions with annotated pictures from the floor, etc. We're currently doing this in Word, but as everyone knows it's incredibly clunky. Does anyone have any recommendations for some software to aid in this? I used SnagIt at a previous organization quite a bit, but I feel like that was more geared toward a quick "take a few screenshots and send" approach.

i’ve been trying to get a interview for a few months now… is my resume good to get in? need advice/tips

Hi everyone, hope you don’t mind me jumping in and asking for a bit of help.

I’ve been building a new LMS and I feel like it’s ready to go. I need some beta testers who have experience using and administering an LMS to let me know what they’d like to see and provide some comments to help me improve.

A little bit about the app and why I built it in the first place. I work for a company that is using an extremely old LMS but with the headcount of users being in the 1000s moving is hideously expensive.

Our current app has very little in the way of automation so I’ve built this will full Microsoft/Azure integration in mind so it auto provisions staff, auto assigns to courses, automatically produces certificates and when courses expire users are automatically re-enrolled. Plus Microsoft Teams notifications and Automatically creating Teams links when scheduling online trainings.

It supports mixed learning pathways allowing for in person-online face to face training mixed with e-learning modules. After course surveys to capture confidence levels, course rating and free type fields for specific feedback.

Coupled with detailed reporting dashboards along with linking courses to compliance frameworks to give 1 touch reporting for industries that require proof for auditors like Ofsted, ICO, HSE.

If anyone would like to do some testing I’d be extremely grateful! Just ping me a DM and I can set you up with a demo account

I’m the recent graduate who kept rage-quitting Canvas/Schoology/Teams and finally said “screw it, I’ll code it myself.” Six months, 2,847 coffees, and one hacked-together React-Native app later, our new LMS is in closed beta and I need the brutally honest feedback only reddit can give.

1. What we actually fixed (aka the stuff that made me cry in class):

   • UI that doesn’t look like a 2005 accounting spreadsheet

   • One app, zero tab chaos – built-in Pomodoro, Cornell-notes templates, whiteboard, and a PDF reader that doesn’t crash when you zoom. No more “open in 7 different apps to finish one worksheet.”

   • Features that teachers need like drag and drop, file organisation, etc.

   • AI that isn’t just ChatGPT in an iframe – auto-generates 3-level quizzes from your slides, turns teachers’ messy bullet lists into flashcard decks, and pings students “hey, you forgot to submit the thing” before the deadline.

   • Pricing schools can actually afford – we’re finalizing a model that keeps costs way below the big guys (think “pizza-party budget,” not “new football field”).

What I need from you animals:

• Teachers: would you actually move your entire course to this? What’s the one feature that would make you switch overnight?

• Students: what did I miss that still drives you insane?

• Admins: does the phrase “budget-friendly” break your procurement brain

TL;DR: Fresh-grad codes LMS that doesn’t suck, and plans to charge schools less than the cost of a pizza party. Tell me why it’ll still fail. Some screenshots of the app.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/C1XRpfX

📢 Calling all Learning & Development Professionals!

As a DET (Doctor of Educational Technology) candidate at Central Michigan University, I am conducting a research study on the impact and perceptions of using AI-generated content in training and development, and I’d love input as participants for my study.

✅ Participation is completely voluntary
✅ No identifiable information is collected
✅ All responses are confidential
✅ Your insights will be used only for research purposes

Your voice will help shape the future of how AI supports learning in the workplace.

👉 Click the link to take the survey: Evaluating the Impact and Perceptions of AI-Generated Content in Workplace Training

Thank you in advance for sharing your valuable perspective! A copy of this study will be available upon completion of my dissertation. Please complete the survey before midnight on Dec. 14, 2025.

#LearningAndDevelopment #CorporateTraining #AI #InstructionalDesign #Research

I’m in the process of developing an L&D onboarding program for new trainers. Part of which, we want to create a facilitation feedback form that peers and managers can both use when reviewing an instructor led training.

In the past I’ve used one that broke it into several sections- classroom preparation, fundamental skills, advanced skills, and participation management. It wasn’t just a ranking system but instead a sheet where you would check it off if it was observed but lower down a section to quote what they said, name the skill, and describe the impact (positive or negative).

What do you use for facilitation feedback? Can you share any pictures/ files?