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7 Best LMS for Training Providers Ranked for 2025

Recently updated on January 24th, 2025

Most learning management systems are designed to meet the needs of internal training teams, with typical use cases including upskilling employees, supporting professional development, and mandatory workplace training such as onboarding and compliance training.

Obviously, this is very beneficial if you’re part of an internal team. There’s no shortage of platforms available that can help you create and manage the training materials you need for your employees. But for commercial training providers, e.g., those that sell training to clients, there aren’t many dedicated learning management platforms that cater to their exact needs.

What are these exact needs? In my experience of talking to customers here at Arlo, it’s about having features within the platform specifically designed to help with the setup, scheduling, registration, e-commerce, and delivery processes involved with instructor-led training.

Key features designed to meet these needs include:

Course and Resource Management

Tools to schedule courses, allocate presenters and venues, and manage recurring sessions, all while streamlining logistics like attendee tracking and resource allocation.

Flexible Registration and Payment Options

Customizable registration forms, group bookings, discounts, and secure payment options, including partial payments, invoices, and automated financial reconciliation.

Automation and Workflow Optimization

Automated processes for registration confirmations, reminders, surveys, follow-ups, attendance tracking, and certificate issuance to reduce manual workload and errors.

Insights Into How Their Training Business Is Performing

LMSs often have analytics and reporting capabilities into individual and group learning performance, but not specific features that help a training business see exactly how their business is performing e.g.

  • The ability to create reports showing exactly how many courses the organization has sold in a particular time frame and how much revenue has been generated.
  • The ability to quickly identify which courses are profitable and which are not.
  • The ability to see how many registrants have signed up for specific courses from particular organizations and how many registrants have signed up for each course in general.

Website and Marketing Integration

LMSs typically lack website integration features that allow training providers to schedule courses directly from the platform to their website, take online registrations, and sell their courses.

What Platforms Do Have These Features?

The platforms that include features specifically designed for training are known as training management systems. However, the Achilles’ heel of most TMSs is their lack of eLearning features; for example, they are not designed to create and host eLearning content.

What Problems Does This Cause Training Providers?

Wasted Time

Training providers cannot easily create, upload, or manage eLearning content within the TMS, which forces them to use separate platforms for eLearning courses. This fragmentation makes the process more complicated and time-consuming.

Increased Platform Costs

Using different systems for managing live training and eLearning content often leads to additional costs for the training provider, both in terms of subscription fees for multiple platforms and the time spent managing them.

Data Silos

Since training and eLearning data are stored in separate systems, it becomes harder to track and analyze learner progress across different types of training. This can lead to missed opportunities for improving training effectiveness.

Poor User Experience

Learners may experience confusion or frustration when they need to switch between different platforms for different training types. A disjointed learning experience can negatively impact learner engagement and retention.

Difficult Reporting

Without integrated eLearning features, generating comprehensive reports on overall training effectiveness becomes challenging. Training providers may struggle to get a unified view of learner performance, making it harder to make data-driven decisions.

Inability to Scale

As training providers grow and expand their offerings, the lack of integrated eLearning capabilities can limit their ability to scale effectively. They may be forced to invest in custom solutions or new platforms to meet the needs of a larger learner base.

What’s the Solution to These Issues?

The solution to these issues is having a platform that can do it all—one that allows you to create, manage, and deliver eLearning content while including all the features detailed above to help training providers manage every aspect of live, in-person, and online instructor-led training.

You’re probably now thinking, “Which platforms can do this, or which platform are you talking about?” The answer is that, historically, there haven’t been many that can.

As we’ve mentioned, from our experience, most training providers delivering in-person, virtual, and eLearning training have had to use two separate platforms: a TMS for instructor-led training and an LMS for creating and delivering eLearning.

But times are changing in 2025. At Arlo, we’ve been hard at work over the past few months expanding our eLearning features to complement all of our TMS features.

What does this mean? It means Arlo is evolving into a single platform that enables training providers to create, schedule, manage, and deliver in-person, virtual, blended, and eLearning training at scale.

With this in mind, we’ve put together this guide on the best LMS platforms for training providers.

While Arlo is currently the only purpose-built platform to combine the best features of an LMS (creating and hosting) with a dedicated TMS, there are some other well-known LMS platforms with instructor-led elements that are worth mentioning.

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7 Best LMS for Training Providers to Consider for 2025

1. Arlo – The Best LMS Choice for Instructor-led Commercial Training Providers

Carrying on from where I left off, at Arlo, we’ve been working hard to evolve our platform into the only solution training providers need to create, schedule, deliver, manage, and sell all of the training they offer, no matter the format.

We’ve achieved this by developing our own eLearning authoring capabilities, which will be released in the coming months.

Let’s a take look at these new features 👇

Creating eLearning Courses

Through Arlo, you’ll soon be able to easily design and create visually appealing eLearning courses without any coding knowledge. There are three ways to do this:

1. Document to Course – Upload and convert existing documents into interactive courses.

2. Generate a Course – Enter a description of your course into Arlo’s AI assistant, select your tone, style, fonts, colors, and branding, and watch as your course is created before your eyes.

3. Build Your Course from Scratch – Use Arlo’s course and quiz templates to create your course from the ground up.

Here’s how these course creation options work:

Document to Course

Step 1: Find Your Document

Arlo supports a wide range of file formats, including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs. If your content is stored on an external platform, simply export it as a PDF, and you’re ready to get started!

Step 2: Upload Your Document and Select Your Course Style

Upload your file to Arlo and choose the style that best suits your needs. Whether you want to focus on key information, keep it concise, or add creative flair, you have full control over the tone and design of your course.

Step 3: Watch as Your Course Comes to Life

Sit back as Arlo transforms your document into a fully interactive course. Once it’s ready, you can review it, tweak layouts, make adjustments, or dive right in and start adding more content.

Step 4: Create a Quiz

Test your learners’ understanding by generating a quiz based on your course content with just one click. Arlo makes it quick and easy to create assessments that reinforce key learning points.

Arlo's AI course creation tools speed up the elearning content creation process

Generate a Course with AI

Step 1: Provide Input to Arlo’s AI Assistant

Tell Arlo’s AI assistant exactly what you want your course to cover. The more details you provide, the better and more tailored your course will be.

Step 2: Choose Your Style, Tone, and Theme

Configure your course by selecting from a variety of styles, tones, and themes that match your needs. Finish it off with one of Arlo’s beautifully designed course themes.

Step 3: Watch Your Course Come to Life

See your course take shape as Arlo builds it section by section. Review the content as it is created, and make edits or adjustments directly on the go.

Image of a course creation screen within Arlo.

Step 4: Add a Quiz to Test Learner Knowledge

Test your learners’ understanding by generating a quiz based on the content of your course. Arlo makes it quick and effortless to add assessments and measure learner outcomes.

Image of an Arlo first aid quiz.

Build Your Course from Scratch

Step 1: Design and Structure Your Course

Use Arlo’s intuitive course interface to design interactive and visually appealing courses without requiring any technical skills. Easily structure your content, add multimedia elements, and create engaging assessments such as flashcard challenges, quizzes, training videos, or how-to guides.

Step 2: Customize Your Style and Theme

Tailor your course to reflect your brand and teaching preferences. Arlo offers a library of templates, themes, and multimedia assets. Choose the tone, style, and design that align with your objectives to craft a distinctive learning experience.

Step 3: Generate Quizzes with AI

Create quizzes that align with your course’s learning outcomes effortlessly. Arlo’s AI assistant pulls information directly from your course content, allowing you to generate effective quizzes in seconds.

Step 4: Design Interactive and Memorable Courses

Build courses learners will love by incorporating engaging multimedia elements. Use videos, infographics, and interactive activities to create an enjoyable and impactful learning experience. Arlo’s tools make it simple to craft content that leaves a lasting impression.

Step 5: Cater to All Learning Methods

Whether delivering microlearning, blended learning, or fully virtual sessions, Arlo has you covered. Use its features to create bite-sized modules, host virtual classroom sessions, or seamlessly integrate eLearning elements to meet any training objective.

Arlo's visually engaging e-learning platform showcasing a 'First Aid for Beginners' course.

Delivering and Selling Your eLearning Courses

Once you’ve created an eLearning course, you can then schedule it, publish it your website and start selling!

Within a single workflow, you can set up all the course details, such as the start date, finish date, venue and room, or virtual room if required. Alternatively, for stand-alone eLearning courses, you can simply input the dates, price, and other essential information.

Arlo's course management and set up workflow.

Taking Registrations

As part of the course setup workflow, you can configure your registration forms. You can use preset registration form templates for both public and private courses, suitable for both paid and free offerings.

For paid courses, registration forms include a complete payment and invoice process. Registrants receive a payment confirmation (or invoice) email immediately after completing the form, along with an email containing full class details.

For free classes, you can use a simple one-page form that sends a confirmation email with all course details to the participant upon registration.

Registrants can also sign up for multiple classes within the same form, add multiple participants, apply a voucher code, choose their payment method, and more, depending on the configuration.

Image of Arlo registration form., suitable for instructor-led, employee training and more.

Automated Course Communications and Certificates

Once a learner has registered for a course, they’ll receive an automated confirmation email with all of the course details and link to the eLearning course or module for the learner to access. Learners can also access a dedicated, fully branded portal where they can manage their registration details, manage their bookings and more.

In Arlo, you can also configure certificates to be issued to learners upon course completion.

Arlo's course detail email, containing links and important learning materials.

Learners Access the Course

Learners access your fully branded course materials and complete it.

One of Arlo's branded first aid first aid online training courses.

Monitor Learner Progress

When your learners are taking the course, you can monitor their progress in real time using features such as time spent on each module, quiz scores, completion statuses, and overall progress percentages.

This helps you track engagement, identify areas where learners might need extra support, and confirm they are on track to complete the course successfully.

Arlo's eLearning learner progress metrics.

Reporting on Training Success

Arlo has easy-to-use, yet in-depth reporting features that help you measure exactly how your training business is performing. Within Arlo you can create a variety of different reports:

Registration reports

Registration reports allow you to track and analyze registration data, such as course attendance rates and percentages, course attendance by organization, registration trends over time, and the number of participants from specific organizations or departments.

You can also measure course completion rates for participants, create reports based on granular details such as waiting lists e.g. how many people you have on a waiting list and more. The image below gives an overview of the registration reports you can create.

Image of registration reports within Arlo

Order reports

Order reports help you understand your training businesses financial performance. For example, you can create reports to find out how much revenue your training business has generated over a specific period, how much revenue an individual course has brought in.

You can read more about the different types of reports you can create within Arlo here

What Makes Arlo #1 Learning and Training Management Solution for Training Providers?

The main reason Arlo is the best platform for training providers is that it’s specifically designed to help providers run their entire training business, not just certain aspects of it.

For years, we’ve been supporting training providers in setting up, scheduling, and delivering instructor-led training, while equipping them with the necessary tools to scale the volume of training they offer.

The missing piece of the puzzle has been the ability to create and deliver eLearning content directly within the platform.

With this new addition, Arlo now offers every feature a commercial training provider requires to create, deliver, manage, and sell their training in any format—whether in-person, online, self-paced, or blended.

As you’ll see with the other additions, some LMSs have features that assist training providers with the delivery of ILT and VILT.

However, they lack the features training providers need to sell their training.

If you’re looking for a platform to save time, deliver, and sell more training, get started with a free trial of Arlo today. For early access to our new eLearning features, register your interest below 👇.

Want to be first in line to try Arlo’s new eLearning authoring features? Sign up for early access!

We’ll be in touch with details for early access as we get closer to launch. You’ll be contacted first! 

2. TalentLMS – Good Features for Blended Training

Talent LMS homepage

TalentLMS is a platform designed to manage both online and offline training. It supports blended learning, allowing for different types of training, such as self-paced online courses, live virtual sessions, and in-person classes. Users can access all training activities through one platform, whether the learning is synchronous (live) or asynchronous (self-paced).

The platform simplifies setting up and managing instructor-led training (ILT) alongside online courses. You can schedule recurring ILT sessions, link them to online courses, and enable learners to register themselves. It also integrates with video-conferencing tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and GoToMeeting, facilitating real-time virtual lessons.

The tool automates many administrative tasks, such as sending reminders for upcoming sessions, notifying learners when an ILT session is graded, and alerting instructors when a new learner joins a session.

Importantly though Talent LMS doesn’t contain features for selling training.

Key Features

  • Manage blended learning: Combine online, offline, self-paced, and instructor-led training on one platform.
  • Simplify ILT setup: Schedule and connect recurring sessions with self-registration options for learners.
  • Integrate virtual lessons: Seamlessly link video conferencing tools like Zoom, Teams, and GoToMeeting.
  • Automate notifications: Streamline admin tasks with automated reminders for sessions and actions.
  • Track and evaluate training: Access detailed reports on ILT sessions, attendance, and progress.

Pros

  • Unified platform for diverse training types.
  • Simplified administration and reduced manual workload.
  • Seamless virtual learning with popular integrations.
  • Comprehensive reporting for actionable insights.

G2 Rating

4.6

Pricing

Talent LMS has four plans available:

  • Core: $119/month
  • Grow: $299/month
  • Pro: $399/month
  • Enterprise: Contact company.
Talent LMS pricing

3. Gyrus Learning Platform – LMS with Specific ILT Features

Gyrus LMS homepage

GyrusAim is a Learning Management System (LMS) has features to support organizations that prioritize instructor-led training (ILT).

It includes essential capabilities such as scheduling, resource management, attendance tracking, and training records, making it well-suited for corporate training and compliance-focused industries.

However, GyrusAim lacks features such as seamless e-commerce integration, marketing tools, and live website integration, which are available on platforms like Arlo.

Key Features

  • Efficient ILT Scheduling: Simplifies assigning instructors, selecting locations, and managing training schedules.
  • Resource Management: Allocates necessary equipment and supplies to create effective training environments.
  • Attendance Tracking: Tracks participant attendance accurately for compliance and performance analysis.
  • Training Records: Maintains detailed logs of training activities for easy reference and progress tracking.
  • Custom Reporting: Offers tools to generate reports on training effectiveness and participant engagement.

Pros

  • Simplifies ILT scheduling and resource management.
  • Provides attendance tracking and record-keeping.
  • Suitable for organizations with simple ILT requirements

G2 Rating

4.7

Pricing

Plans start at $5,500 per year.

Gyrus LMS pricing

4. Absorb LMS

Absorb LMS homepage

Absorb LMS is a general-purpose Learning Management System (LMS) that supports instructor-led training (ILT) alongside its primary focus on self-paced e-learning.

While it includes tools such as session scheduling, attendance tracking, and resource management, these features are supplementary rather than specifically tailored for ILT providers.

The platform is designed for versatility across various training formats but lacks the specialized functionality needed by businesses that primarily run ILT programs, such as website integration, e-commerce, and dedicated course marketing tools.

Key Features:

  • Session Management: Features to schedule, organize, and manage recurring ILT sessions with options for both physical and virtual venues.
  • Attendance Tracking and Reporting: Features to monitor attendance monitoring and generate reports for compliance and performance analysis.

Pros:

  • Suitable for diverse training needs
  • Simplifies administrative tasks with automated notifications and resource management.
  • Enhances learner engagement with multi-session options and supporting materials.

G2 Rating

4.6

Pricing

Pricing is based on the number of learners you require, contact company for a custom quote.

Absorb LMS pricing

5. Docebo – Well Known LMS for Employee Training

Docebo homepage

Docebo is an LMS well-suited for corporate training. It includes features to support instructor-led training (ILT) and virtual instructor-led training (VILT), such as scheduling, attendance tracking, material distribution, and certification tracking.

However, unlike platforms specifically tailored for ILT businesses, Docebo’s features are generalized and more suited for companies that combine ILT with other types of training, like self-paced e-learning. Similar to the other LMSs we’ve reviewed so far, it does not offer tools for selling training or scaling training operations.

Key Features

  • Session Scheduling and Management: Organize courses with multiple sessions across locations, with the ability to blend physical and virtual delivery formats for flexibility.
  • Attendance Tracking and Waitlist Management: Track attendance in real time and manage waitlists to ensure all training sessions are fully utilized without overbooking issues.
  • Training Material Distribution: Upload and make training resources, such as recordings or slide decks, accessible before, during, or after sessions to support learner engagement.
  • Transcript and Certification Tracking: Automatically track performance and certification status, giving learners visibility into their progress and ensuring compliance with training requirements.

Pros

  • Streamlines Learner Preparation: Sharing materials before and after sessions allows learners to review content at their own pace.
  • Reduces Administrative Workload: Automated attendance and waitlist tools save time and prevent scheduling conflicts.
  • Supports Compliance Efforts: Built-in certification tracking ensures that records are accurate and meet regulatory requirements.

G2 Rating

4.3

Pricing

Pricing isn’t publicly stated, contact the company for a quote.

Docebo Pricing

6. Work Ramp – Good Option for Both Employee and ILT

Workramp homepage

WorkRamp is a training platform that supports both employee and customer learning. It offers tools for creating, managing, and tracking training programs across various formats, including self-paced e-learning, instructor-led training (ILT), and virtual instructor-led training (VILT).

The platform is designed for organizations seeking an adaptable solution that integrates with existing workflows and tools such as Salesforce, Slack, and Zoom.

Key Features

  • Custom Content Authoring: Build courses using an intuitive editor, integrating videos, quizzes, and documents to tailor learning experiences.
  • Instructor-Led Training: Manage live training sessions, track attendance, and generate session links directly within the platform.
  • Integration Capabilities: connects with tools such as Slack for communication, Salesforce for tracking customer training, and Zoom for virtual events.

Pros

  • Flexible Learning Formats: Offers a variety of training options, making it suitable for both structured programs and on-demand learning.
  • Scalable for Growth: Supports training needs for small teams as well as larger organizations.

G2 Rating

4.4

Pricing

WorkRamp has five plans available, but pricing for each of them is not public.

Workramp Pricing

7. Cypher Learning – Good Choice for Educational Institutions

Cypher Learning homepage

CYPHER Learning is an LMS designed to optimize classroom teaching by consolidating resources, automating administrative tasks, and supporting both in-person and virtual instruction.

It provides tools to help educators adapt quickly to changing classroom needs, manage interactive sessions, and effectively track student progress.

CYPHER also emphasizes collaboration, offering features that connect teachers, students, and parents. While it is a strong LMS choice for educational providers, it may not fully meet the needs of training providers.

Key Features

  • Centralized Resource Management: Store all lesson plans, assignments, multimedia materials, and assessments in one accessible hub.
  • Session Flexibility: Schedule and manage in-person, virtual, or hybrid classes with tools that allow quick adjustments when needed.
  • Automated Administrative Tasks: Attendance tracking, grading, notifications, and scheduling are all automated to save time.

Pros

  • Single Hub for Materials: Teachers can store all class resources, like assignments and multimedia, in one place, making them easy to access.
  • Time-Saving Automation: Tasks like attendance tracking and grading are automated, reducing manual work.
  • Useful Communication Tools: Teachers, students, and parents can easily communicate through real-time chat and forums.

G2 Rating

4.4

Pricing

Pricing isn’t public. Contact the provider for a quote.

Cyphr Learning pricing

The Final Word

For a training business to thrive, it needs a dedicated platform to create, manage, deliver, and sell training.

While traditional LMSs offer tools for creating and delivering eLearning content, as well as some secondary tools for ILT training, they lack the features commercial training providers require to develop memorable training programs that learners love, while also providing the tools necessary to grow their training business.

For that, there’s Arlo. Get started with a 14-day free trial below, or book a demo to see how we can help you send your training business into the stratosphere. 🚀

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