As we wrap up 2024 and plan for the year ahead, we’re reflecting on how we’ve made learning smarter, easier, and more impactful for our clients.
This year, the learning landscape transformed, driven by trends like personalized learning and generative AI now used by 65% of businesses to streamline processes. With 44% of workers’ skills expected to be disrupted within five years, upskilling and reskilling are more critical than ever to build future-ready teams. At Absorb, we embraced these trends, launching nearly 100 new features to enhance learning and tackle real challenges for businesses and learners.
Absorb LMS empowers you to deliver personalized, streamlined, and impactful learning programs. From tailored training paths to AI-driven course creation, our tools boost efficiency, engage employees, and accelerate skill development across your organization.
Discover how our latest innovations enable personalized learning at scale.
Relevant training, tailored to every learner
No two learners are exactly alike, that’s why we’ve rolled out features that enable you to serve up courses relevant to each learner. Absorb LMS uses AI to personalize learning recommendations based on each learner’s needs, preferences, and progress. This way, every learner gets a tailored experience that keeps them engaged and on track with their goals.
On the Absorb LMS learner dashboard, you may have noticed the Custom course ribbon. It's there to create a more tailored learning experience by highlighting specific categories of courses. Leaders and administrators can personalize the experience for their teams by showing courses with a specific tag or category such as onboarding or leader development. With curated recommendations, learners can quickly find the resources they need to advance their skills, stay engaged, and achieve their learning goals.
Simplifying course creation and customization
We know that creating impactful eLearning courses can demand hours, days, or even weeks. We believe it should be easy to create training content that’s personalized to your business’ needs, while your learners are given the flexibility to engage in the way that works best for them.
Absorb LMS makes it simple for organizations to create courses that are not only engaging but also deeply relevant to learners’ needs. Absorb Create helps organizations build, edit, and publish courses in a flash. With the added power of generative AI, you can transform a simple AI prompt or existing content like PowerPoint presentations and PDFs into dynamic, interactive learning experiences within minutes.
A company launching a new product can use Absorb Create to quickly convert their existing user manuals and product guides into engaging, interactive courses. By using Create AI voice over, course creators can easily add high quality narration in multiple voices offered in 35 languages. With the ability to switch between voices within the same course, example scenarios and role playing can come to life.
Plus, with Custom themes, you can easily incorporate your brand’s colors, fonts, and styles into your courses. Whether your learners are internal employees, external partners, or paying customers, every course will feel professional, cohesive, and on-brand.
When it comes to assessments, the AI quiz generation feature helps automate it all, saving valuable time. AI generates questions based on course content, allowing you to focus on insights rather than manual work.
Absorb Create also gives learners the power to control their learning pace with Playback rate options for video-based lessons. Whether learners want to slow things down to absorb complex material or speed things up for a quick review, they can adjust their video speed for better comprehension and retention.
Personalized skill growth for every role
Absorb Skills is an AI-powered tool that helps learners build the skills they need to excel in their roles by creating personalized learning paths. Automated content recommendations by Job Role gives learners recommendations tailored to their responsibilities and career goals. How do we do this? With AI-driven course matching for over 1,600 job roles. Your learners won’t have to search for the content that’s right for them—it’s delivered directly to their dashboard.
Consider a sales associate aiming to move into a more senior role. Absorb Skills evaluates their abilities, goals, and job responsibilities delivering tailored recommendations such as sales leadership training, advanced negotiation techniques, and team performance management directly to their dashboard. All your employees can stay on track with their career development while being guided every step of the way.
If your organization needs further customization, Custom job roles and Custom categories let you tailor training to fit your unique internal roles, no matter how specialized.
A global manufacturing company can use custom job roles and categories to create training paths for a very niche role like robotics maintenance technician while a biotech startup can customize learning for their clinical trial compliance officer with the same tool. Both companies can design training paths that meet the precise needs of their highly specialized teams and align with their organization’s framework, ensuring effective, relevant skill development.
Closing the skills gap with data-driven insights
Analyze BI and Analyze Direct are two of our powerful reporting tools, which provide data-driven insights into the skills gaps within your workforce. By analyzing strengths and weaknesses, organizations can roll out targeted training programs that address the specific needs of their teams.
Your sales team may have excellent product knowledge but struggle with negotiation skills. With the data from Absorb Analyze, you can see which areas need the most attention and roll out targeted training to close those gaps. By focusing on areas where improvement is needed, you can elevate overall performance and boost sales figures more efficiently.
How this year has been a game-changer for learning and development
The advancements we’ve rolled out in 2024 represent more than just new features—they represent a shift in how learning happens. At Absorb LMS, we believe that training should be engaging, personalized, and data driven.
Here’s how organizations are already benefiting:
- Increased efficiency: Tools like Create AI and AI Quiz Generation save time and resources, allowing admins to focus on delivering impactful training.
- Higher engagement: Features like Custom Course Ribbons and Automated Content Recommendations drive learner participation by offering relevant, personalized learning experiences.
- Improved outcomes: By enabling tailored learning journeys and robust assessments, Absorb LMS helps organizations achieve measurable results both internal and external learners.
Building connection in 2025
We’re not slowing down! The innovations we’ve introduced this year are paving the way for even more exciting advancements in 2025. With exciting technology advancements on the horizon, we’re doubling down on delivering tools that make learning better for everyone--while staying closely attuned to the needs of our clients and the evolving Learning and Development landscape.
Next year, we’re turning our attention to something big: building connections. We believe that creating a sense of community through peer-to-peer interactions is essential for deeper engagement and more impactful learning experiences. That’s why we’re developing features that give learners opportunities to connect, collaborate, and learn not just from the material, but from each other. And here’s the exciting part—our recent acquisition of Together takes this vision to the next level by strengthening our community-focused approach!
As always, customer input will remain central to our development process. Your feedback and insights guide us in designing features that solve real challenges and deliver value for both learners and administrators. With that in mind, we encourage you to stay tuned for updates as we roll out new capabilities designed to strengthen learning communities and drive better outcomes.
The future of learning is about more than knowledge transfer—it’s about connection, collaboration, and shared growth. At Absorb LMS, we’re excited to lead the way.
