BrainCert Vs Thinkific

Experience Unrivaled Versatility & Innovation with BrainCert - Surpassing Thinkific in Empowering Your Online Education

Elevate your educational offerings with BrainCert's comprehensive suite of tools, including dynamic assessments, engaging virtual classrooms, and gamified learning, all designed to captivate and inspire learners like never before.

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Why BrainCert Over Thinkific

Robust Features

BrainCert offers an extensive arsenal of features, including the ability to craft courses, monetize course sales, conduct live classes, and administer exams. Thinkific offers fewer features for live courses and assessments but focuses more on creating and selling courses.

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Virtual Classroom

BrainCert provides a seamlessly integrated virtual classroom, equipped with a diverse range of tools for hosting interactive webinars and live sessions. In contrast, Thinkific lacks these essential features, limiting your ability to connect and engage with your audience in real-time.

Exam & Assessment Tools

BrainCert boasts an extensive array of assessment tools, including advanced scoring algorithms, question analysis, flexible delivery settings, diverse question types, and customizable rules. Employ these flexible features for online proctored exams, quizzes, and surveys.

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Compare BrainCert and Thinkific

BrainCert vs Thinkific
BrainCert
Thinkific
Starting price for paid plans
$39/month (billed annually)
$36/month (billed annually)
Transaction fees
0%
$1 + 10% per transaction on the free plan, 5% per transaction on the Basic plan
Unlimited Products
Unlimited Customers
1 admin + Unlimited Students
Online Community
Online Courses
Integrated Assessments
Integrated Virtual Classroom
Shippable Products
Gamification
Audit Trail
Email Marketing
Site Builder & Landing Pages
Unified shopping cart
Centralized content library
Yes, Manage all your content from a single universal content library and organize them into different folders.
No (Content is specific to each course. No support for centralized content library to reuse same content in multiple courses)
Record live sessions
Learning path
Email Notifications & Triggers
Yes, BrainCert offers several triggers for learners, courses, tests, live classes, payments etc to automate sending emails based on events.
Limited notifications
Discounts & Coupons
Global discounts
SCORM & HTML5 support
Bulk User Import
Custom Registration Fields

Courses

BrainCert delivers a state-of-the-art course platform, empowering you to create immersive and interactive learning experiences. Our platform boasts advanced features such as live classes, gamification and assessments, enabling you to craft engaging courses that cater to diverse learning styles. On the other hand, Thinkific is notably more limited in terms of features and functionality, constraining your potential to deliver truly dynamic and enriching educational content.

Blended courses
Advanced Zoom Integration
Course Bundle
Embeddable Tests
Completion Rules
Reset course progress
Assignments

Assessments

BrainCert excels in offering a robust selection of advanced assessment features, setting it apart from Thinkific's more limited capabilities. Alongside standard question formats such as multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions, BrainCert raises the bar by incorporating more complex question types, including essays, scenarios, and drag-and-drop exercises, as well as an advanced adaptive scoring algorithm. This unparalleled versatility empowers you to design varied and engaging assessments that appeal to different learning styles, showcasing BrainCert's superior commitment to a comprehensive educational experience.

Sell Tests & Assessment
3 Scoring Algorithms (Adaptive, Standard & Partial-Credit)
Advanced Question Types
Test completion certificates
Manual & Automatic Scoring
Open & Close Ended Questions
Bulk import question
Shareable tests
Proctored Exams

Reports & Analytics

While both BrainCert and Thinkific provide reporting and analysis tools to help course creators monitor their students' progress and performance, BrainCert offers a more comprehensive and advanced suite of features. With BrainCert, you can track individual student progress, access in-depth reports on overall course performance, and identify trends and patterns in student performance with ease. This enhanced level of insight and analysis sets BrainCert apart from Thinkific, empowering educators to make data-driven decisions and deliver a more effective and personalized learning experience.

User progress
Course Insights
Test Insights
Class Attendance
Custom Reports
Coupon Analytics
Email Analytics
Data Export

E-Commerce

BrainCert elevates e-commerce capabilities, providing diverse monetization options for course creators. Unlike Thinkific, BrainCert enables selling courses, tests, assessments, shippable products, and live classes via its integrated virtual classroom. The Unified Shopping Cart simplifies checkout, letting learners purchase digital and physical products seamlessly, while redeeming gamification points and applying discount coupons. These advanced features position BrainCert as the top choice for content monetization and delivering an outstanding learner experience.

Sell Courses
Sell Bundles
Sell Tests & Assessments
Sell Live Classes
Bypass payment gateway

Security & Compliance

BrainCert sets itself apart by holding both SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, which Thinkific lacks. These certifications demonstrate BrainCert's unwavering commitment to data security, privacy, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and overall security posture. You can trust BrainCert to protect your valuable information with the highest standards in the industry.

SOC2 Type 2 Certified
ISO 27001 compliant
HIPAA Compliant
GDPR Compliant

BrainCert Virtual Classroom

Thinkific lacks an integrated virtual classroom, a feature that comes standard with the BrainCert platform. BrainCert's virtual classroom boasts a wide array of capabilities, including multiple whiteboards, audio/video conferencing, simultaneous screen sharing, document viewer, chat, and a 16:9 aspect ratio that adapts to the dimensions of the user's device. This ensures an optimal learning experience across various screen sizes.

Worldwide datacenter locations
WARP technology
Custom branding & theme
Interactive whiteboards
LaTeX equation editor
Download chat logs
Connectivity test tool
Multiple classroom layouts
Polls & surveys
Teacher tools
WolframAlpha

BrainCert: The Superior Choice for Your Online Learning Needs

Choose BrainCert for a more comprehensive, secure, and customizable online learning solution that exceeds the capabilities of Thinkific.

   BrainCert outshines Thinkific by offering a more extensive range of features tailored to the needs of various users, from individual instructors, entrepreneurs, and coaches to SMBs and mid-size enterprises. BrainCert caters to a diverse array of industries and use cases, ensuring that our platform is versatile and adaptable.

   In addition to its comprehensive feature set, BrainCert holds SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, which Thinkific lacks. This means you can trust BrainCert to safeguard your data security, privacy, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and overall security posture. Our adherence to stringent security standards is verified annually by AICPA-approved independent auditors.

   While Thinkific only offers a partial white-label solution, BrainCert provides a fully customizable experience, including your own branded domain from the outset. This allows you to create a cohesive and professional online presence.


   Thinkific also falls short in terms of SCORM, xAPI/LRS integration, and robust assessments, relying on Brillium integration for assessments. In contrast, BrainCert natively supports SCORM 1.2 and 2004 4th Edition content packages, along with a wide array of tracking and reporting tools that make monitoring learners' progress and identifying areas for improvement a breeze.

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How Creator-Friendly is BrainCert?

BrainCert is exceptionally creator-friendly, providing an array of features and tools designed for seamless course management and delivery. Key creator-friendly features include:

Interactive Learning Experiences

BrainCert provides an extensive array of customization options for course creators, empowering them to develop captivating and interactive content. Alongside this, the platform enables meaningful progress measurement through insightful assessments and fosters real-time collaboration with its integrated virtual classroom, creating an immersive and dynamic learning experience.

Learner Awards- BrainCert Gamified LMS

Role-based Content

BrainCert features a role-based and intuitive user interface, streamlining the course management and delivery process for creators. This tailored approach offers customized dashboards and content, catering to the specific needs of each user role, and ensuring a seamless and efficient experience.

Increase User Engagement & Retention - BrainCert Unified Training Platform

Advanced Assessment Tools

BrainCert's assessment platform stands out by integrating sophisticated question types such as essays, scenarios, and drag-and-drop exercises, delivering a more comprehensive and engaging testing experience. Moreover, the platform utilizes an advanced adaptive scoring algorithm, ensuring precise and fair evaluation of learners' performance and understanding.

Leader Board Learner Progress - BrainCert Gamified LMS

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What They Say About Us

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One tool for all Online Teaching needs

BrainCert solved our problems we faced to continue our classes, conduct exams, and monitor our student activities. Student attendance report in a virtual classroom; assignments in LMS helped us to track student strength and weakness, gamification a significant feature we used to build the competition between students to improve learning pace.

Abinaya
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Very solid LMS platform

BrainCert is my favorite LMS platform I've used so far. It's incredibly intuitive and offers a wide variety of features that are perfect for any training program. The analytics and quality score features are my favorite; I can easily see how well participants are doing, along with what areas need to be improved. This is great for regularly assessing the progress of all trainees. If you're looking for an LMS system, I would highly recommend it!

Dinesh Naik
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Excellent platform for online education

One of the most engaging platform for students in terms of online education. As a course creator, I can say that the workflow is smooth and easy. Highly recommend this platform for everyone looking serious about online education.

Amal S.
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