WizIQ LMS Reviews

Pros

My use of Online Academy facility is solely for the purpose of launching my own programs in the market and it should appear as my course on my platform. The process is quick and simple structure is helpful. Even though one would like to have more features, what WizIQ has now is good enough. I think the overall concept and model is very good and useful for online teaching and virtual classes.

The assessment and feedback tool is very good. Chat and Virtual Class service is also quite good but people keep comparing with Skype.

Cons

However, I want my identity and not to be seen as a piggy back on WizIQ, that somehow undermines my efforts in front of my clients.

The course launch facility must be supported from remote/guided, if required by the client or users like us.

Our faculty is widespread and hence they have to access my online academy for use and teach in collaboration with me on my online academy. I think, the online academy licencee/user is a notch above the online teacher who is solo on the site/service.

I would like to have better pricing than the present $83/month for online academy with 25 learners. That is a big price to pay /charge learners in India which works out to about INR 2500.00 per month per learner approximately. This means independent course providers must charge 2 or 3 times more plus taxes to make reasonable income. Now if we are Online Academy service providers, we share courses with other partners and need margins to operate and share, this is a challenge for now, unless we have large numbers of learners to sign on instantly. I am sure WizIQ will price the service at a more friendly level and earn on volumes acquired by us.

There are some design restrictions that prevent flexible curriculum design and easy usage by Math and Science function users.

The flash based interface is also a little challenge which should be working n HTML or anything better. Corruption of flash players now and then is a recurring problem and Indian users / learners in rural settings are not very comfortable with all this. It should be as easy as browsing the net.

Reports should be flexible and the tool should allow a bit of choice to create and add fields especially on a Windows and MySQL, this should be easy as seen with several educational ERP service providers. Database services on the LMS seems quite limited.

Pros

1- The quality of the recorded videos is excellent.
2- Easy integration with WordPress, and update plugins are frequently available.
3- 99%+ up-time, which guaranteed a reliable service.
4- Live sessions are automatically recorded, with an unlimited space.

Cons

1- Not a complete LMS (Lacks essential features such as exams, certificates, learning paths, evaluations, etc.)
2- VERY poor customer service (Would reply after weeks and won't provide a resolution)
3- The price is really high compared to complete LMS solutions such as Moodle.
4- The web-conference service provided lacks essential features such as multiple whiteboards, collaboration, etc.
5- The size of recorded videos published for the live videos are HUGE, 300 MBs to 1 GBs! Which made it difficult to migrate/download the records later.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to WizIQ LMS

Pros

I liked how they made it seem like I was going to be able to connect with my students easily.

Cons

This was a lie. Over the course of 3 months we had many problems and we lost a lot of money from failing our students. I’ll list them below:

1) it happened twice that the audio on the system was no working. My students could not hear me and I tried it out on 3 different computers.

2) another time the audio didn’t work.

3) another time the entire software was down and I couldn’t even log in

4) another time I took a screenrecording of the session, which was a functionality I paid for, and none of my students could access it. I didn’t believe this so I asked for their logins and attempted to find the recordings and I couldn’t.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to WizIQ LMS

Pros

We at studentnest.com have used this product since inception. Below are some "pros":

1. The software feels familiar and easy in the first go.
2. Students are able to attend live sessions from phones, WizIQ mobile app is highly customizable which we didn't find with other LMSes. We have conducted over 2 million hours over the years with great results.
3. Tons of customization to the themes, colors, logo, notifications.
4. The overall LMS is well integrated and has almost everything anyone would need for online education.
5. Customer support is very proactive. The limited use we have needed has been very helpful.

Cons

Not much to say. However, Switching LMS applications is difficult for any business, therefore as a satisfied user I hope they keep up with the product roadmap and deliver more features and improve the existing ones.

Pros

WizIQ's best tool is that it provides multiple class rooms at a single session, which is very helpful to conduct tests and exams.

Cons

The platform does not support many languages.

Pros

A useful tool with some in the videos. I use it integrating with moodle. At the beginning, the integration was not possible but now this has changed

Cons

Wiziq is very fast to sell but later they disappear. In two different opportunities, they charge my credit card without my authorization. In the second time, it was during the process of renewing the subscription. We arrange one special fee with the Wiziq representative and inform not to charge the total amount. Unbelievable, but they charge me both, the total amount and one of the installments at the same time. None of wiziq accept responsibility for this; all that they want was to have the money and their "offer" was to extend my subscription. At the end, I must go to my bank to cancel one of the payments.
Our classes are from March to December, then I proposed them to move my subscription from March to December (instead of from November to May) and they didn´t accept it.
All they want is money, money, money.
Now is the time of renewal of my subscription and of course I have received three calls from Wiziq representative. When they learn the problem they disappear again.

Pros

Interface is good and, if working properly, is easy to learn.

Cons

We have had numerous problems with scheduling, student logins, connectivity, etc. Tech help gives conflicting answers and some are very rude. They act like every problem is user error when most of our users are pretty tech savvy. The way scheduling works isn't practical and TA have not been able to help us.

Pros

What I prefer about the software is that it is very intuitive, I remember that in its beginning it was just an application to hold lectures and online classes. Then I evolve to become an LMS integrating different tools that help us as teachers to teach our students beyond the classroom

Cons

One of the disadvantages is that you have few options to create learning objects within LMS, it would be great to develop your own authoring tool to design more interactive materials.

Pros

-Very convenient layout condusive to seeing meeting members, chatting with them and using microphone or camera to communicate with them
-It's nice that you can toggle between various modes of communicating with others and adjusting their settings individually within the website

Cons

-Mobile app appears to be quite limited, making it an unacceptible alternative to using a computer
-There are lots of bugs associated with moving windows around and trying to arrange things the way you want, where windows move off the the screen and are difficult to maneuver.
-Video feeds of all meeting members is automatically made to be the same size and there is no clear way to unselect the video feed of less important meeting members so that you can see the person of interest bigger than everyone else.

Pros

It is user friendly and reliable in terms of online classroom. It is very helpful in face to face classroom. It has many useful features and functions. You can share documents and also take multiple sessions at a time.

Cons

It does not support many languages and it is not compatible as it does not has any mobile app.

Pros

Scheduling class is absolutely easy . More important even the first time students find easy to adapt. In my classes I have to upload the specifications of different courses to share with students. These are heavy files yet they are easily uploaded.The tools are extremely user friendly, both for teachers and students. Interactivity with students is great. Best part is that files can be uploaded any time after the class is scheduled. For me this helps specially if I have back to back classes.

Cons

At times the audio does not co-operate. Echo is what bothers me. Though the support staff guided me to trouble shoot but this is one issue which I have difficulty with.

Pros

Relatively easy to use. The price is also rather good.

Cons

Too often to my taste there are problems. I can NOT trust the WizIQ system. Classes had to be rescheduled since too often to my liking the system is down. In record classes, I think that too often recordings are damaged, late or lost. I had many problems with my clients due to WizIQ "issues". They promise that certain issues are solved for good and yet the same problems resurface again and again.

Pros

Absolutely nothing. I have nothing good o say about the software, because I have not used a problem free version of it. They don't maintain their Wordpress plugin, stay away from it.

Cons

Ongoing Problematic bugs affecting the software, resulting in poor teacher and student experience. Unresolved technical issues with Wordpress plugin. No technical support for 5 months. The user has to report issues which go unresolved. You cannot use this software without teachers, students and customers being unhappy.

Pros

text chat interface is clean; option to teach live as well as record a course; is very affordable

Cons

constant glitches; so many customers were not able to access their mics or had problems logging in; the solution from the tech support was always - use Chrome, refresh the browser, clear history. Imagine if Skype or Zoom told users to do that each time they log on!! Whiteboard didn't work. You try to type and students can't see it. Screenshare temperamental.

Pros

features
easy to use
smart platform
easy to understand
services are good from backend
your team is very supportive

Cons

dependency on internet speed
pricing is little bit high
areas having low internet bandwidth have connecting issues

Pros

Live class features in this software is the most important one and i like that

Cons

ease of access

Pros

The virtual classroom and the recording function. It is quite useful to distribute the recorded sessions to those students unable to attend the scheduled day/time.

Cons

Limitations on number of instructor per course. Sometimes courses may require the intervention of more than three instructors. The current version of the tool forces to break-down courses in mini-courses to deal with that limitation.
Also, it requires some additional function to deal with a real academy providing full grade per area: e.g. Computer Science Bachelor, Magister ...

Pros

Great virtual classroom
Awesome support

Cons

Goes offline once in a while which is a bummer.

Cons

Was an amusing disappointment to use my hard owned money in this platform. I could never used because the email sending when you program a class does NOT work. They send a virtual technician that comes into my computer with the SOHO program. He didn't fix the BUGS, neither the share screen possibility. The platform only works with Mozilla Firefox in my case. Save your money and time.

Pros

I was looking for a Virtual Classroom with basic functionalities but what I found was more than that. Great platform.

Cons

Need to get more competitive in pricing, offers and monthly subscription. if they can get that done then we can see a bigger role.

Pros

its easy and simple interface gives a good user experience. I have used both teacher and administrator access to the application both are quite easy.
its reporting section for teacher and student is excellent.
it supports various types contains like pdf, ppt, doc, embedding youtube etc.
an instructor/teacher can track each and every activity of learner in the course.

Cons

Unable to find search course option in the whole platform. sometimes it will irritate user to find a course.

Pros

I can easily upload books, pictures, videos and files that I need for the class.
The customer representatives are well - versed about their product and are very much willing to help.