Forma LMS

4.5 (152)
Learning management and course authoring platform

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4.5 /5
(152)
Value for Money
4.6/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
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Arianna
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Certification and very easy Learning Solution.

Reviewed on 15/09/2022

Best and comprehensive learning platform and the most effect content creation tool with powerful...

Best and comprehensive learning platform and the most effect content creation tool with powerful reporting features.

Pros

Forma LMS creates an excellent and effective learning environment and perfect collaboration and easy data analytics creation.
The content management through Forma LMS and generating reports is also simple and the ability to categorise document is fantastic and the management of courses using Forma LMS is the best experience.

Cons

None for the moment, Forma LMS is easy to maintain and the training is very effective with short learning curve.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent solution for remote learning

Reviewed on 14/12/2022

I enjoy using Forma LMS. With its modern design and responsive features, employees are eager to...

I enjoy using Forma LMS. With its modern design and responsive features, employees are eager to learn. It is efficient and saves time with its automation capabilities. It is capable of supporting the complete learning management system and maintains reliable records for auditing purposes.

Pros

Forma LMS is responsive, well designed, intuitive and modern. It supports core features of a learning management system and is easy to navigate. Persons new to this solution will require minimal time to learn how it works.The employee's roles and skills can be mapped to identify any learning and development gaps. This information is converted to fit for purpose reports that is instrumental in highlighting areas of focus. I also love that Forma LMS is compatible with Portable devices so users can learn when they are on the go.

Cons

I have been using this solution for quite some time now. It is well received by employees and garners positive feedback. The interface is engaging and encourages employees to learn. I have not encountered any downsides to this product while I have been using it

Nihar
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Forma Review by NGO into Voc-ed

Reviewed on 25/02/2021

Pros

The integration of e-commerce which allows us to promote products created by our students.

Cons

We are based out of Asia and wanted to integrate different languages but found it difficult. Probably we did not look hard enough. However, the flexibility of course design is what we require.

Response from FormaLms

Hello Nihar,
thanks for your review. Forma comes with 27 built-in language packs. If you want to add more, you can do it.

Rahul
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A tool that can help to schedule events and manage inventories with a lot of learning

Reviewed on 06/05/2023

After using the software for a while we have noticed a significant increase in the sales of our...

After using the software for a while we have noticed a significant increase in the sales of our services and even the rate of customer retention has also been better than before. The managers of our company are now able to take better-calculated decisions all became possible because of formula LMS.

Pros

The software is one of best in its domain which has provided us smooth and automated workflow for our organization. Formula LMS also helped us in saving a lot of time and reduce minute errors like billing errors, meetings schedulings, inventory management etc. It also helps our customers in booking appointments with the proper reminder.

Cons

The software is great for our organization and there is not much that I felt can be improved about the software, but I would like to mention that the pricing of maintaining the software can be a little costly for small companies like us and server crashes can hamper the working of the firm badly.

Emmylou
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

FInest web-based e-learning platform

Reviewed on 21/04/2023

Pros

I can confidently say that this is the finest web-based e-learning platform and software  since it currently has one of the best collaborative tools for professionals and organizations and all training and orientation of the staff may be completed with ease, thanks to Forma.  Taking an online course has never been simpler, it is simple and secure to create online content for the intended audience.

Cons

It's hard to pinpoint anything that I would dislike about Forma LMS. I can definitely say it was great and it will continue to be great!

Priyanshu
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Ultimate Training management via Forma LMS..

Reviewed on 04/07/2022

Overall Forma LMS is highly aesthetic & scalable for corporates & key requirement for current...

Overall Forma LMS is highly aesthetic & scalable for corporates & key requirement for current corporate world..
IMO if Company focused on slight modifications then mass adoption definitely on the way in near future....

Pros

Well Forma LMS played a vital role in building my Working profile & Durability via its aesthetic tools & builtups for corporate training sessions..
Multi layer training sessions, well designed & structured setup , high skilled Teams & collaborations & big community behind are one of the key note of Forma LMS...

Cons

Well overall workflow & content focus for P2P & corporates is totally stable in Forma LMS but slight hindrance in mass adoption & scalability is only due to slight mid to high subscription services which need to be focused on..

Kelly
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Unprecedented,tremendously brilliant and iconic Learning Management System.

Reviewed on 03/08/2022

Forma LMS is very beneficial as it helps go manage and deliver online training courses in real-time.

Forma LMS is very beneficial as it helps go manage and deliver online training courses in real-time.

Pros

I like the how this tool provides corporate online trainings to employees.It's simple to create advanced custom reports with Forma LMS.It's a reliable tool for video conferencing.It's simple to organize online courses with Forma LMS.It's also a reliable tool for carrying out quizzes and assesments.

Cons

Forma LMS is fully-featured and functional thus helping to achieve all our objectives and I have nothing to complain so far.

Antony
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  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent e-learning platform. All you need is here!

Reviewed on 18/07/2018

Pros

I love the flexibility of this product. Ideal for every division and company, easy to maintain, intuitive and quick to set up. The interface is modern and attractive, very user friendly system from admin to learner

Cons

User manual.
No built-in Authoring. Is not really a problem for me because i prefer creating high quality courses using external authoring tool.

Response from FormaLms

Thank you Antony,
we're proud of your feedback!

We'll do our best to improve our customer support to reach the 5 stars and to include more tutorials and the user manual, as you suggest.

Built-in authoring tools: you already have the creation of tests, glossaries, polls, linkographies, html pages and other types of LO's.

We also have a plugin to upload videos and treat them like scorm objects, with the same type of tracking.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

One of the most suitable LMS for Hybrid teams' trainings

Reviewed on 06/11/2022

It was a pretty satisfactory experience while using FORMA LMS for online trainings and tracking...

It was a pretty satisfactory experience while using FORMA LMS for online trainings and tracking mandatory certifications.

Pros

Forma LMS platform is perfect solution to all those learners and enthusiastic individuals who need 24*7 online learning experience remotely, from the comfort of their own home or from a office desk. Forma is one of the best learning platforms which provides a cost effective solution for SMEs and Large enterprises alike. With Forma LMS creating, managing learning goals and keeping track of individual progress is very smooth.It is very easy to manage certifications and keep track of course and learning progress.

Cons

From what I heard from the company Learning and Training team, it is a difficult process to create a course for the first time. Exam/Test modules can be a bit difficult to navigate. There are a few UI/UX navigation issues,which needs to be addressed.More options/API integrations needs to be provided alongside a notification/alert system.

Regina
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerful and Flexible Learning Management System

Reviewed on 24/04/2023

Pros

Branding, workflows, and connectors with other business tools can all be changed on the platform to suit the particular requirements of various enterprises. Business Development Experts can design training courses that complement the goals, values, and culture of their company because of its versatility.

Cons

might need assistance with technical experts as it's a bit complex specially for firs time users.

Nihat
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Why Forma LMS we use and trust

Reviewed on 17/10/2019

The Helty and Safety Environment (HSE) trainning sector in Turkey, people who want to be expert on...

The Helty and Safety Environment (HSE) trainning sector in Turkey, people who want to be expert on HSE must attend the courses and 90 hours of these courses had been taken on a LMS. But the LMS must meet the requirements of Ministry of Labor. So we customise the software for these requirements in 2012 and till today over 4000 experts attended these courses and use forma lms.

Pros

We have used the forma LMS since 2012 for training the tech. people to prepare the exam of HSE experts in Turkey. It is very easy for using as attendies/students. And to manage and customising is not difficult.
You can get support on the forum "elearningcommunity.net" very quickly. And there are so many published/shared fixed problems on the forum.
so it did not let us down till today.

Cons

On the previous version the template was not supported via mobile . but now on the new version this problem is solved.

Response from FormaLms

Hi Nihat,
Thank you for your very nice review!

Marilena
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

We use Forma Lms for several years, the experience is very satisfactory.

Reviewed on 17/07/2018

I was able to develop the online training business in my company, with great satisfaction!

I was able to develop the online training business in my company, with great satisfaction!

Pros

Forma Lms is simple, intuitive and designed for the corporate world so much more practical and intuitive to use than other open source LMS designed for the academic world. The new responsive version responds to a need that we have been waiting for a long time. Now we hope that developers continue to optimize the project more and more by following the suggestions of users who use the LMS daily

Cons

More things I like about those I do not like about Forma Lms. The exchange of ideas with the team of developers in the forum is very active and above all reactive so even things that do not work now are always resolved within a reasonable time.

Response from FormaLms

Thank you Marilena, your review makes us very proud of our product!
The best part of the review is that thanks to Forma you could develop your business, that's one of the core reasons behind our project: the idea that if many people benefit from it, we'll benefit too.

We will always do our best to improve Forma every day: stay tuned, important news are coming fast!

Graeme
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simply the best opensource platform out there.

Reviewed on 17/08/2017

I manage all of my multiple clients training requirements through this platform

I manage all of my multiple clients training requirements through this platform

Pros

Simple set up
Easy to manage as super admin
Quick
Scorm compliant
Multi site
Great support community
Simple reporting
Automated certificates
Learning plans
API's
Sell courses through paypal
Groups
The list is endless!

Cons

Currently the UI on mobile is non responsive, this is being addressed in the soon to be released update. Integrating with other platforms is not as easy as other LMS I have used though that's not to say it can be achieved it just may be beyond my skill set.

Response from FormaLms

Thank you Mr Clarke for this excellent review.
We'll keep pushing to release the responsive Forma 2.0 as soon as possible, it will also include many new features.

(update): in the meanwhile
- we have version 2.0 available
- we published API, so integration has become easier

Gianna
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Highly Effective Learning Solution and Easy to start.

Reviewed on 04/11/2022

This learning tool has effective publishing functions of different learning content and the reports...

This learning tool has effective publishing functions of different learning content and the reports generation is faster and very easy on documentation and the access control functions are excellent.

Pros

Forma LMS provides the most effective and productive learning experience through various channels and the implementation of the platform was quite easy and smooth operation.Forma LMS coordination capabilities and easy creation of different learning content and easy to share content across various project members is helpful.

Cons

Forma LMS interface is very friendly and simple on features adjustment for quality and easy learning experience but the first training curve was not friendly.

Jeniffer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Incredible Assignment Management Tool.

Reviewed on 05/09/2022

Excellent learning system and the best assessment platform and the collaboration is very effective...

Excellent learning system and the best assessment platform and the collaboration is very effective and professional reports creation product.

Pros

Easy learning product which allows me to manage multiple project activities and the automation of task is excellent.

Through the solution certification management is a easy process and reporting capability and authoring functions are productive.

Cons

No problem on this software just the feature setting when new to the product can be not easy.

Response from FormaLms

Thanks for your review!

Alessandro
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A good way to learn

Reviewed on 25/02/2022

A lot of fixes

A lot of fixes

Pros

I think the gradebook system and courses management interface

Cons

It is not a performing system (in 2022) as the code is poorly written and has many years with numerous developers

Response from FormaLms

Thank you Alessandro for your review.

syed
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  • Industry: Food Production
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Forma review

Reviewed on 07/10/2022

Pros

The forma lms which help trainings the new people and and where it keeps track off the course which are kept for learning has the best costumer support it gives instants resolution and feedback and trainings page has the best UI which i have used till now thanks to Forma LMS

Cons

There is nothing to say about this software it is the best platform

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

LMS of the Future

Reviewed on 23/07/2022

Forma has been our preferred LMS to carry out all internal trainings within the company. While...

Forma has been our preferred LMS to carry out all internal trainings within the company. While joining Actionet, I trained using the LMS and now as a senior engineer in the company, I am creating courses and trainings for new recruits.
The basic features of the LMS are easy to use and it gets better with every new version release.

Pros

Forma has a modern design that fosters learners engagement.
Creates custom reports of the trainings and courses for accountability
Offers advanced customization of features to suit the user's needs.

Cons

The software works really well although the company should improve on new users training. There's limited information sources on how to fully explore All Forma's features.

Nikhil
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Forma LMS is very productive

Reviewed on 30/06/2022

Very good experience, Forma LMS is going very well. A totally recommendable product.

Very good experience, Forma LMS is going very well. A totally recommendable product.

Pros

. Worthy product
. Easy to use
. Very nice customer care support service
. Provides computer-based training
. Social learning platform
. Safe, secure, and reliable
. Attractive interface

Cons

I have not found any major issue to dislike this tool. I m loving this.

Judy
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

" Preferred Online Learning Management Software Platform "

Reviewed on 22/08/2022

Format LMS is a real open-source online platform designed to facilitate online learning services to...

Format LMS is a real open-source online platform designed to facilitate online learning services to ensure that all employees acquire all necessary skills and knowledge.

Pros

Being self-explanatory software for all to use and affordable.
Flexible to any internet enabled device.
Its availability is guaranteed.
Ease on learning any course or training scheduled.
Support video conferencing while organizing online courses, among more it does.

Cons

My organization and I are satisfied with all of its provision and services.

Response from FormaLms

Thanks for your review!

Naziwa
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Forma lms is my best eLearning platform

Reviewed on 08/07/2022

My overall experience with forma lms has been so good, it has a lot of amazing features as...

My overall experience with forma lms has been so good, it has a lot of amazing features as mentioned in the pros and many more, even the pricing is fair for small businesses.

Pros

I can integrate forma lms with other video conferencing systems to create webinars and virtual classroom to conduct lessons.
It allows me to manage classes and blended courses by creating endless editions of the same course with separate inscriptions and locations.

Cons

Sometimes the online payment systems within forma lms are not so effective and they delay payment from learners who sometimes complain.

Mindy
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

One of the most Comprehensive LMS

Reviewed on 20/04/2023

Pros

As one of the most recently used platform LMS, this has to be the most reliable tool we've ever had for quite sometime. Easy to keep track of the courses which is very advantageous to our internal teams/departments.

Cons

Integration with different languages would be the best addition for this.

Raven
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Open Source LMS that Functions Like Every Other Paid Softwares

Reviewed on 18/03/2022

Local language support (multiple language support)

Local language support (multiple language support)

Pros

Forma LMS offers a wide array of flexibility to its users and administrators. As an open-source software, I used this with my previous organization and was able to teach new and upcoming Network Security Engineer trainees.

Easy to create classroom courses and you can use video conferencing especially at this time where remote communication is very important.

Cons

Need to add options to integrate for software. One thing that I don't like is the certification module, there was an obstacle with it and had to ask help from the community.

Response from FormaLms

Hi Raven,
thank you for your review, fantastic! Its title is also very flattering!

Concerning your comments:

- our vibrant community is one of the added values of our Lms
- you can integrate Forma with any software: API and connectors are already built-in and documented.

Feel free to ask for support.

Samuel
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

MY Overall Experience with Forma LMS

Reviewed on 08/06/2022

Managing learning materials and enhancing corporate training as well as certification tracking in...

Managing learning materials and enhancing corporate training as well as certification tracking in one place.

Pros

Forma LMS offers built-in learning management system tools that accelerated implementation.

Cons

All the LMS tools are handy and easy to use without outsourcing support.

George
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

" Intuititive And Incredible Online Business Training Channel "

Reviewed on 04/05/2022

Forma LMS is a self - equipment Web-based channel which facilitate online training sessions with...

Forma LMS is a self - equipment Web-based channel which facilitate online training sessions with maximum encryption.

Pros

I like the way it is a Self-explanatory online training software.
It enables target individuals to train while at away.
It accepts internet enabled phones instalation.

Cons

It has been providing us with all that we expected during deployment.

Response from FormaLms

Thanks George for your review!