Comparison
Simón vs LMS and Moodle: training for frontline staff
Simón is the channel to the people on the floor, on the route or at the branch: it takes courses and announcements to their phones with no app or email, shows you who saw and understood them, and sends course completions to your LMS so they are on record. Your LMS stays the official record: you don't have to choose.
SimónNow
New course: Closing the register
60-to-90-second lessons, on your phone.
For your frontline staff
- Reaches people without a user account
- Simón: Phone number or employee ID and PIN
- LMS / Moodle: Only with a user account and portal
- Tells you who understood it
- Simón: By question and branch
- LMS / Moodle: Progress and scores
- Format for the phone
- Simón: 60-to-90-second lessons
- LMS / Moodle: Whatever course was uploaded
The short answer
Do you need another LMS for frontline staff, or something that works alongside yours?
Simón reaches where your LMS doesn't: promoters and store, route or branch staff with no LMS user, no corporate email and no computer. It takes every course or announcement to their phones, with a notification and at the time you schedule; it opens in the browser with a phone number or employee ID and a PIN, and shows you who saw it and, for courses, who finished it and who understood it, by area and branch.
An LMS such as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Cornerstone, Docebo or Moodle is the system of record: it enrolls, assesses and keeps the history of everyone with an account. Formal, certifiable training can stay there.
If you were looking for a Moodle alternative for companies with frontline staff, you don't need to replace it: Simón delivers, follows up and measures, your LMS keeps the record, and every course finished in Simón reaches the employee's history in SAP SuccessFactors Learning.
Side by side
What each one does when your people work on their feet
| Criterion | Simón | LMS / Moodle |
|---|---|---|
| What it is built for | Training frontline staff and checking they understood, from the material you already have to execution on the floor. | The system of record: catalog, enrollments, assessments and the history of every employee with an account. |
| Who it reaches | Anyone with a phone: from the browser, with nothing to install, using a phone number or employee ID and a PIN, or your company's SSO. Every post arrives with a notification and you can schedule it by area or branch. | People with a user who sign in through its app or portal. Promoters, contractors and franchisees are usually left out. |
| What it measures | Who opened it and, for courses, who finished and understood it: first-attempt mastery, most-missed questions and compliance by area, branch and person, plus likes, saves and comments per lesson. | Enrollment, progress, completion and scores for people with an account. |
| Format for the worker | 60-to-90-second lessons for the phone, with short video compressed for slow networks. | Whatever course was uploaded, inside the LMS app or portal. |
| Course creation | Upload what you already have or let Simón generate it with AI from your PDFs or slide decks: syllabus, scripts, avatar video and assessments, with human approval. It's the shortcut to new content in hours. | It depends on the LMS: SuccessFactors uses third-party authoring tools, Moodle needs plugins to build courses from documents, and Workday Learning, powered by Sana, now turns PDFs into courses. |
| Cost | Published price in USD, from $250 USD a month by people and courses. Integrations (SSO, APIs) and SLA are part of Enterprise, quoted by sales. | Moodle has no license fee, but hosting, the implementation partner and authoring hours do cost. SuccessFactors and Workday don't publish prices. |
What it is built for
- Simón
- Training frontline staff and checking they understood, from the material you already have to execution on the floor.
- LMS / Moodle
- The system of record: catalog, enrollments, assessments and the history of every employee with an account.
Who it reaches
- Simón
- Anyone with a phone: from the browser, with nothing to install, using a phone number or employee ID and a PIN, or your company's SSO. Every post arrives with a notification and you can schedule it by area or branch.
- LMS / Moodle
- People with a user who sign in through its app or portal. Promoters, contractors and franchisees are usually left out.
What it measures
- Simón
- Who opened it and, for courses, who finished and understood it: first-attempt mastery, most-missed questions and compliance by area, branch and person, plus likes, saves and comments per lesson.
- LMS / Moodle
- Enrollment, progress, completion and scores for people with an account.
Format for the worker
- Simón
- 60-to-90-second lessons for the phone, with short video compressed for slow networks.
- LMS / Moodle
- Whatever course was uploaded, inside the LMS app or portal.
Course creation
- Simón
- Upload what you already have or let Simón generate it with AI from your PDFs or slide decks: syllabus, scripts, avatar video and assessments, with human approval. It's the shortcut to new content in hours.
- LMS / Moodle
- It depends on the LMS: SuccessFactors uses third-party authoring tools, Moodle needs plugins to build courses from documents, and Workday Learning, powered by Sana, now turns PDFs into courses.
Cost
- Simón
- Published price in USD, from $250 USD a month by people and courses. Integrations (SSO, APIs) and SLA are part of Enterprise, quoted by sales.
- LMS / Moodle
- Moodle has no license fee, but hosting, the implementation partner and authoring hours do cost. SuccessFactors and Workday don't publish prices.
LMS information from SAP Help (SuccessFactors mobile learning), SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release guides (clarity-solutions.de, nageshpolu.com), MoodleDocs, Accipio, Raccoon Gang (Moodle pricing) and American Bazaar (Workday Learning powered by Sana, July 24, 2026), checked in September 2026. Every LMS is configured differently; if something changed, write to us and we will correct it.
Access without email
Reach the people who never had an LMS user
Promoters, temporary staff and branch teams sign in from the phone's browser with their phone number or employee ID and a PIN, from a link or a QR code. No corporate email, no app to download and no need to set them up in the LMS.
Welcome to Simón
Employee ID
48213
PIN
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How they coexist
Your LMS stores; Simón delivers and measures
SAP SuccessFactors Learning connector
When someone finishes a course in Simón, the completion reaches their SuccessFactors history within minutes, through the API or a file. Your people learn in Simón and the official record stays in your LMS.
Single sign-on (SSO)
Your people sign in with their corporate account through SAML 2.0 or OIDC and are set up on their first sign-in.
Access without corporate email
People without a corporate account sign in with a phone number or employee ID and a PIN, from a link or a QR code.
Reports you can export
Compliance by area, branch and person in Excel or CSV, with scheduled delivery and a daily summary for each supervisor.
API to sync users
Your systems add and remove staff, one by one or in bulk, and read courses, progress and completions.
SCORM, if your LMS is the only way in
Any course can be exported as a SCORM 1.2 or 2004 package, with video, assessments and scoring. It's the last resort: inside the LMS the course loses Simón's notifications, scheduling and follow-up.
SCORM or connector
Why not just load the courses into the LMS as SCORM?
You can, and it's the way out when your company isn't going to change how it delivers training. But inside the LMS the course once again depends on each person having a user and going in to look for it.
With the connector, your team uses Simón and the LMS receives the result: the completion is recorded in SuccessFactors and you keep everything that makes content get seen and measured on the floor.
- Phone notifications when you publish, and scheduled sends by area or branch
- Standalone announcements, like the monthly promotion, with the list of who saw them
- Likes, saves and comments that show you which content interests your people
- Comprehension by question and by branch, not just the final score
Published results
What we measured in the programs Simón took part in
Completion rate
Observed in programs where Simón took part, against a 15% benchmark average for traditional formats.
Worker CSAT
Satisfaction reported by people who took the lessons on the floor.
Program NPS
Measured with floor users at the close of each program.
Applied what they learned
Put at least one skill into practice in the week after the course.
Data from the first half of 2026 (January to June) in the programs Simón took part in. On-the-job application comes from the impact report (closing survey, self-reported).
Frequently asked questions about Simón and your LMS
Does Simón replace our LMS?
It doesn't have to: Simón takes courses and announcements to the floor, follows up on them by area and branch and sends course completions back to your LMS, which keeps holding formal, certifiable training.
Is Simón a Moodle alternative for companies?
For frontline staff, yes: Simón writes the course from your material and takes it to the phone with nothing to install, and formal training can stay in Moodle. Moodle has no license fee, but hosting, implementation and authoring hours do, and workers have to come to it with an app and a user.
What should an LMS for frontline staff or retail have?
It should reach the phone without asking for an email or a computer, and measure by branch. In Simón you organize the operation in areas and sub-areas (region, district, store), see compliance in each one, and every supervisor gets a daily summary of how many people completed each course.
Does Simón integrate with SAP SuccessFactors?
Yes. When someone finishes a course in Simón, the completion reaches their SuccessFactors Learning history within minutes through the API, or with the Learning History Connector file. That way your people learn in Simón, with notifications and follow-up, and the official record stays in your LMS. If you'd rather load the courses into the LMS, they also export as SCORM.
What about Workday, Cornerstone, Docebo or Moodle?
They connect through SSO with SAML 2.0 or OIDC and through Simón's API to sync users and read progress; if your LMS imports them, also with SCORM 1.2 or 2004 packages. Sending completions directly to the employee's history is available with SAP SuccessFactors.
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