What Is Bigger Brains?
Bigger Brains is a cloud-based eLearning content provider platform that helps businesses provide professional development for their employees through specific training. It combines global enterprise learning with support for over 30 languages with a video-based style approach to drive employee engagement. This allows remote teams to learn wherever and whenever they want, at their own pace. The software offers a wide range of courses, varying from Business and Communication Skills to Cybersecurity and Manager Training.
What Is Bigger Brains Best For?
The platform is well known for its Brain Station, a learning management system that enables enterprises to deliver, manage, and track workforce training, all on the same portal. The platform supports ready-made and custom courses, learning paths, compliance policies, and department-based training. It allows team leads to assign training, monitor progress, and generate reports and completion certificates. Its Microsoft 365 integration allows employees to access the platform’s course library within Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Copilot.
How Much Does Bigger Brains Cost?
Bigger Brains pricing starts at $27/month for Individual Plan and Team Plan. For the Individual Plan, there is a 7-day free trial, while the Team Plan comes with a 15-day free trial. The vendor also offers two other modules at custom pricing, which include:
- Content + Learning Portal
- LMS Ready Content
In addition to the base subscription cost, organizations should keep the following potential expenses in mind:
- Implementation And Onboarding: $500-$2500 – For initial Brain Station configuration, administrator training, learner setup, and deployment of learning paths
- Content Migration: $500-$3000 – Based on necessities like importing existing training materials, editing courses, and organizing content alongside the Bigger Brains library
- Integrations And SSO/API Setup: $500-$3000/month – Costs associated with connecting the LMS to identity providers, collaboration platforms, and HR system
- Advanced Licensing: $1000-$5000/year – For additional licensing requirements, customized reporting, administrative controls, or expanded enterprise functionality
Disclaimer: The pricing is subject to change.
Bigger Brains Integrations
The software offers integration with multiple number of platforms and third-party apps, including:
- CloudRadial
- DeskDirector
- HaloPSA
- Microsoft Azure
- Invarosoft
How Does Bigger Brains Work?
After onboarding is complete, here is how you can get started with Bigger Brains platform:
- Log in to Brain Station LMS using the administrator credentials that were provided to you to access the main management interface
- Navigate through the administrator dashboard to get an overview of the available courses, learner activity, assignments, and other learning management functions
- Structure and organize the courses and training materials into relevant assignments and training programs tailored to your organizational requirements
- Add learners and adjust their access so that they can use their individual accounts to receive the appropriate training
- Assign courses to learners and groups to establish the necessary training activities that they must complete
- Monitor learner progress through the LMS dashboard to ascertain course completion, participation, and other available training information
- Assign access and responsibilities to your teammates after adjusting products, offers, marketing, workflows, and customer experiences
Who Is Bigger Brains For?
Bigger Brains software serves a wide range of industries and sectors and is mainly used by:
- Training consultants
- MSPs
- IT administrators
- Educators
- Managers
Bigger Brains Use Cases
Based on our analysis of Bigger Brains features, capabilities, and marketing positioning, we have identified some of its real-world applications:
Developing Role-Specific Training Through An Existing LMS
Organizations that have distinct training requirements across several departments may need to assign different learning programs without having to create their content from scratch. With Bigger Brains’s SCORM-compliant course content, administrators can build specialized learning paths for multiple roles. This is done by adding the course content to an existing LMS. It also allows them to review employee progress and skill levels.
Managing A Paid Coaching Program
For a company rolling out Microsoft 365, they may find that training requirements vary from employee to employee when considering applications like Excel, Teams, Outlook, Word, and Power BI. Bigger Brains tackles this by providing on-demand courses that cover all these platforms. The content is typically made available either through its LMS-ready courses or directly inside Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365. It also allows administrators to place an individual course as a dedicated tab in a Teams Channel. This gives employees direct access to train for the specific application or task that they need to learn.
Training Reinforcement After Course Completion
A workforce may complete a course but learning and development teams may sometimes discover that they need to retain the material through continued reinforcement to truly apply it on the job. Through the Brian Bot, customizable “Brain Boosters” are periodically delivered after course completion. Meanwhile, drip-feed learning capabilities allow Bigger Brain courses to be delivered through Brain Station. This can be done through channels like email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Webex Messenger. As a result, training reminders and follow-up learning can continue after the initial course.
Managing Compliance And Skills Training For Distributed Teams
For global enterprises or companies with multiple branches, distributing standardized training while allowing managers to monitor the completed assigned courses can be difficult. With its Microsoft Teams integration, it gives access to its course library within Teams and incorporates reporting that lets managers review team progress and identify low-participation courses. It provides courses for workplace-related matters like communication, productivity, safety, and compliance. This gives organizations a central learning environment to deliver these trainings.
Distributed Licensing Training Across Third-Party LMS Platforms
It may be beneficial for some organizations to operate Bigger Brains courses on an existing third-party LMS, instead of moving them to a new environment. SCORM, AICC, and xAPI course content that can be hosted on an organization’s existing LMS is supplied through Bigger Brains. The Licensing Server registers users accessing licensed courses and tracks course-specific license usage. With this setup, businesses don’t have to switch their LMS system to use Bigger Brains content. In addition, the licensing system helps them manage access.
Is Bigger Brains Right For You?
If your organization needs a ready-made training library combined with tools that can help you manage employee learning, then Bigger Brains might be the right choice for you. Through the Brian Station LMS, administrators can assign courses, create learning paths, track progress, conduct tests, and generate reports. With a robust course library containing more than 260 courses, teams can be trained on critical skills like Microsoft 365 tools and cybersecurity.
For teams that are distributed across multiple countries and states, it is particularly useful since it allows managers to deliver standardized and consistent training across the globe – supporting on-site, hybrid, and remote teams. To help incorporate training into existing learning environments, it utilizes SCORM, AICC, and xAPI content.
It may not be suitable for organizations looking for organizations that want greater technicality and need to create courses from scratch – those that may already be available on the platform’s library. However, its GDPR and PCI-compliant procedures make it a secure platform.
Still unsure about Bigger Brains? Call us at (661) 384-7070 and our customer support team will further assist you in making the right choice.
