CORE ELMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

CORE ELMS

4.7

(36)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About CORE ELMS

CORE ELMS is a mobile and cloud-based software designed to help higher education and healthcare industries streamline administrative processes such as student records management, form customization, class scheduling, payment tracking, student evaluation and more on a centralized platform. The application allows supervisors to automatically collect, track and store information related to students’ background checks, CPR certifications and immunization records in the built-in database.

Key features of CORE ELMS include activity dashboard, alerts/notifications, reporting and statistics, forms management and more. Educators can automate grade calculation, review submitted self-evaluation reports and send automated reminders about assessments with access links and due dates. Additionally, institutions can track student employment history such as placement information, further education and more.

CORE ELMS enables educational organizations to integrate the platform with several third-party learning management applications, helping automate assessment tracking processes. Support is extended via phone, email, FAQs, knowledge base and other online measures.

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CORE ELMS Features

Popular features found in Assessment
Customizable Questions
Live Results Sharing
Reporting/Analytics
Scoring
Skills Assessment
Test/Quiz Creation
More features of CORE ELMS
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Alumni Management
API
Assessment Management
Attendance Management
Communication Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Document Management
Employee Engagement
Employee Portal
Faculty/Staff Management
For Higher Education
Forms Management
Learning Management
Mobile App
Records Management
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Self-Service Content Curation
Student Information/Records
Student Management
Student Portal
Third-Party Integrations

CORE ELMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

69%

28%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.4

Randi K.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Overall a great software solution for our needs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Overall it is easy to use and maintain. We find the SmartMatch scheduling to be very helpful and intuitive in getting us good schedules in a very short time frame.

Cons:

One of the things we struggle the most with is types of user accounts and when a preceptor changes employers being able to disconnect the preceptor from the previous employer and connect them to a new employer without needing to create a whole new user account for them. We also wish there was more connectivity across all platforms for student use. Each element (ELMS, CompMS, Readiness, etc.) seems to be disjointed from each other.

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

Cost and overall functionality to meet the needs of our program.

Angela H.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2022

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Excellent. Amazing client service and quick responses to questions. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] is fantastic. Always receptive to any feedback.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Scheduling, logging, field encounters, requirements.

Cons:

Obtaining data into templates that are program-specific for assessment reports.

Reasons for choosing CORE ELMS

Customize to our program needs and accreditation requirements.

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

Tracking students' encounters, preceptors, and rotation schedules.

April S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

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Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Integration and setup were excellent. We were converted over and trained on a schedule that worked well with our staff.

Cons:

The match process for scheduling has many levels of settings but there is not a set of instructions or checklists for the user to reference when they are setting up matches.

Reasons for choosing CORE ELMS

Pricing, use of use for end users.

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

PharmAcademic was sunsetting their product.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review April. We have on our roadmap for customer support to create more specific user guides and resources for things like a SmartMatch to make it easier to work through.

Replied September 2022

Loretta P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

CORE Elms supports all our needs and more

I learned how to use CORE Elms a little more than 2 years ago, totally remotely during COVID. Our CORE Elms representative met with me virtually to show me what I needed to know and this worked very well. It was an easy program to learn in a virtual environment, and our representative was patient to answer all my questions and very knowledgeable about the product and how to use it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Whenever we have a question or need help with something, the CORE Elms representatives are quick to answer and always so very helpful.

Cons:

The 'save' icon is called "Enter Information" in some areas and "Submit Information" in other areas, which can be confusing for new users, instead of just being called "Save". But once you get used to it you just look for the button and it doesn't really matter exactly what it says.

Susan C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Transitioning to a New Product is Not Easy But CORE Has Been There for Us!!

The support team has been great and are so knowledgeable and accessible! There have been some recent improvements that have been very helpful. Overall, I'm pleased with the product even though I still have a lot of features to learn and implement.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We can pull up a user's profile and find everything we need from their snapshot page: address, schedule, etc. ELMS gives us the "keys to the kingdom," allowing us to select features, options, and functality that works for us. With other software, we tell the support team what we want and they make it happen. With ELMS, we will have the ability (once we know more about what we're doing!) to customize the program in a manner that works for us. One feature that I anticipate setting up in the coming year are site requirements. This was one of the main reasons why we switched to ELMS and I am anxious to see if it works the way I anticipate.

Cons:

There are a lot of settings "behind the scenes" and it's not always easy to find them without help. Some of the terminology is confusing (surveys versus forms). There should be some step-by-step guides to help do ordinary, recurring tasks such as setting up an academic year. There are help videos that explain features but no checklists that guide us through these tasks that, surely, all schools in our field need to do. I have to create my own "how-to" guides. Of note, our previous software didn't provide this either! Some of the reports contain too much information. Sure, they can be customized (that is, I can remove unneeded columns) and saved. But it's easy to inadvertently save multiple versions of a report and then not be able to tell which ones are the "right" ones and which ones can be deleted. Sometimes when I ask for certain changes, I'm told that other programs use the features that I want changed so my requests cannot be honored. I think it would be great if we had a users group so we could talk to these other programs and find out how/why they are using those features. We would surely benefit from that.

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

Primarily due to cost; however, we had looked at ELMS a couple of years before switching and liked the features.

Amanda M.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

We love CORE

Very positive, I am grateful for this program as it has made my life as a nursing clinical coordinator much easier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

From a general school perspective, CORE provides a central location for all information related to clinical placements that is needed for our program. This includes information needed for larger requirements such as accreditation and audits with clinical compliance to smaller scale information such as student and instructor scheduling for each course in the curriculum.

Cons:

There are MANY different locations where settings for various features are turned on and off. This can be cumbersome when trying to troubleshoot an issue, especially when learning the program initially. For example, just to turn scheduling on and off for student/preceptor viewing, there are buttons under Settings, Rotation Date Groups, Rotation Dates, Rotation Types, AND Courses. The support team is great at navigating these settings in a timely manner.

Reasons for choosing CORE ELMS

CORE was already selected when I started my role

Mario B.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed September 2022

A product with many capabilities!

I could not be happier with my institutions' purchase of CORE ELMS. It has significantly helped my day-to-day activities on the student side as well as the administration side. I would recommend this system to any Pharmacy School looking for one!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how easy it is to set up student schedules, access necessary reports, and maintain student documents / requirements. The system is also very useful for messaging mass groups of people regarding availability, schedules, and account information. In addition, the customer support teams are fantastic! They have a dedicated team for your specific institution, and this makes it excessively easy to get in contact with them to have problems resolved quickly!

Cons:

It takes a little while getting used to all of the main functions within CORE ELMS (because there are so many useful ones). However, after learning the ins and outs (in addition to receiving help from the support team), you can quickly maneuver the system.

Reasons for choosing CORE ELMS

CORE ELMS is significantly easier to use and cheaper

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

CORE ELMS is significantly easier to use and cheaper

Diana C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Diana Calcagno CORE ELMS review 2022

I have been using CORE ELMS for over 4 years. I appreciate that system updates are always taking place and the guided instructions provided are very helpful. I like that CORE personnel listen to our needs and works with our requests for new changes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

That it is web bases so I can get it through any device.

Cons:

Not really sure I have any cons with the software.

Reasons for choosing CORE ELMS

I was not onboard when the decision to change was made.

Reasons for switching to CORE ELMS

The switch took place prior to me being a team member for the School of Pharmacy at UMES.

Pamella O.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

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Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is intuitive and very easy to use for the main aspects of the system. I also very much appreciate that feature updates that are requested by us are taken back to the design team for consideration. The customer support is excellent.

Cons:

Generating valuable reporting is terrible and the definitive weakness of this program and where competing learning management systems excel. The depth of reporting, ability to generate specific information from reports, how information is pulled, and gather educational outcomes should be improved. Please look into E-Value and their reporting capabilities, which is much better. For example, the data that is pulled depends on whether an evaluation has been inactivated (since a new eval needs to be generated anytime a tweak is made to the evaluation - to avoid losing valuable educational data for reporting on the original version), whether a rotation type is inactivated, and other factors. It is frequent that our team members pull reports for the exact same data but our numbers are completely different. This is because of the complexity of the settings and how reports are run. It can impact the outcome data significantly.

Jennifer P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

Good product

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software allows me to perform clinical scheduling, track field encounters, log student Absences and incidents, and track Various requirements from Hospital credentialing documents to preceptor licenses, board certification, and affiliation agreements. Reporting tool helps with auditing These requirements and checking for currency.

Cons:

The software can be cumbersome because it is so highly customizable and there are numerous locations where settings may overlap which can create confusion.

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