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The forgetting curve: without deliberate recall, most of what we learn is gone within days. A library the size of Skillsoft's still hands the lesson over to this curve once the course is marked complete.
If you are shopping for a Skillsoft alternative, the honest first test has nothing to do with catalog size. Take a skill your team completed last quarter and ask them to do it cold. If it is gone, a larger library would not have saved it. The lesson was delivered. It just did not last.
Skillsoft is genuinely good at the thing it was built for: delivering a large, well-organized body of content through Percipio and tracking who finished it. That is also the ceiling. A library marks a lesson complete and hands what happens next to the forgetting curve. Hermann Ebbinghaus mapped it more than a century ago: without deliberate reinforcement, most of what we learn decays within days. The research on the fix is blunt. You remember what you are made to recall, not what you are shown again. (The science, in plain terms. )
| What you are comparing | A large content library (Skillsoft) | HeyLoopy |
|---|---|---|
| What it optimizes | Breadth of content, courses finished | The skills your team actually keeps |
| Model of learning | Deliver and assign, track completion | Active recall and spaced practice |
| Where the content comes from | A general catalog | The documents and procedures you already use |
| The forgetting curve | Left to run after completion | Worked against on purpose |
| What you see after “done” | A completion record | Mastery per person, slipping skills flagged |
| The number you trust | Completion rate | Demonstrated, durable capability |
A bigger catalog is more to forget, not more to keep. Coverage feels like progress and mostly is not. The team does not need access to ten thousand courses. It needs the few skills its job depends on to survive the month.
Retrieval beats re-assignment. Sending the course out again feels like reinforcement and rarely is. Making someone retrieve the skill, struggle a little, and get corrected is what cements it. (How the practice loop works. )
Your own procedures outperform a generic course. A catalog is written for everyone, which means it is written for no one in particular. HeyLoopy turns the document your team already follows into the drill, so the practice is about your work, not a stock example.
If your team finishes Skillsoft’s courses and forgets them anyway, a larger library is not the answer. Retention is. It is the same pattern behind skill decay and the whole reason training fails to stick : completion is not capability. Start free on a skill your team keeps having to re-cover, and watch it survive the quarter.
HeyLoopy reports mastery, not catalog coverage, so a skill that is starting to decay shows up as a number you can act on before it becomes a re-train.
You are not switching away from the catalog, you are adding the part it was never built to do: making the skill last. Skillsoft is built to deliver and track a vast amount of content well. The gap is what happens after completion, when the forgetting curve runs and the report still says everyone is done. That gap is what you would switch to fix, and it is not a second bill stacked on the first. The aim is to put your retention effort on the handful of skills the job depends on, not to pay twice for breadth your team never keeps.
For most teams the problem was never library size. It is that the handful of skills the team actually needs do not stick. HeyLoopy builds drills from the documents and procedures you already train on, so the content is yours and specific, and the work goes into retention rather than into browsing a catalog.
Re-assigning the same course is review, and review fades almost as fast as the first pass. What lasts is retrieval, being made to recall and apply the skill on a spaced schedule. That is a different mechanism than a larger or more frequent course load, and it is the one HeyLoopy is built around.
You see mastery, percent correct per person and per skill over time, instead of a completion rate. It tells you where capability is holding and where it is slipping, which is the only signal that predicts whether you will be retraining next quarter.
Minutes. Start free, bring a document or procedure you already train on, and HeyLoopy builds the drill module from it. No implementation project and no catalog migration.
Start free on a skill your team keeps having to re-cover, or get a walkthrough. Either way you will see whether it sticks, not just whether it got finished.