The 360Learning alternative for external audiences and accredited programmes.
The real question is who owns the curriculum. 360Learning bets that your internal experts write it together. If instead a central team owns an accredited programme and delivers it to people who are not on your payroll — client companies, partner schools, parents — the calculation changes.
Which of the two you should buy
360Learning is a collaborative learning platform built around peer-authored content and internal subject-matter experts: the person who knows how the job is done writes the course. Lurno is built for the opposite ownership model — a central team owns an accredited curriculum and delivers it to audiences beyond its own staff. Choose Lurno if you train client companies, partner schools or franchisees from one account, if guardians need scoped access to a learner's record, or if a completion has to carry evidence an auditor will accept: rubric grading, competency frameworks with evidence behind each claim of mastery, and certificates with a public verification page. Choose 360Learning if your learning culture is genuinely peer-to-peer and you want experts authoring directly — it was designed for employees rather than external audiences, which is a strength where employees are who you train. 360Learning publishes per-registered-user tiers with a quote-based enterprise tier; Lurno publishes plans at $119, $299 and $599 a month against stated member caps.
- Competency framework
- A structured list of what a learner must be able to do, arranged by subject, level and domain, with programmes, assessments and rubric criteria mapped to the competencies they evidence. Mastery follows that evidence, not a completion tick on the course that taught it — which is what answers an auditor asking whether someone can do the thing rather than whether they finished.
Lurno and 360Learning on the points that decide this
Every 360Learning figure below is sourced. Where their public material did not answer a question, the cell says to ask them rather than guess.
| Capability | Lurno | 360Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | $119, $299 and $599 a month, listed on the [pricing page](/pricing), plus a quoted institution tier | Per-registered-user tiers, with a quote-based enterprise tier |
| How you are charged | A plan with a stated member cap — 1,000, 5,000, 20,000, or custom | Per registered user |
| Who is expected to write the course | A central team, with AI drafting from documents you uploaded and a person accepting each draft | Internal subject-matter experts, authoring collaboratively — the model the product is built around |
| Audiences beyond your own staff | Client companies, partner schools, franchisees and guardians, each in its own organisation | Designed for employees rather than external audiences |
| How separate audiences are kept apart | Sub-organisations nested as deep as your structure goes, plus a branch tree inside each one | Ask how a client academy is separated from your own workforce |
| Brand and domain per audience | Logo, palette, login background and a custom domain with automatic TLS, per organisation | Confirm the branding and domain scope with them |
| Guardian access to a learner's record | A guardian portal, scoped by data category | Guardian access is not the target shape for a corporate platform |
| Assessment and grading depth | 7 assessment types, 19 question types, rubric grading (analytic, holistic, single-point), peer review, portfolios, one grading queue | Lighter than platforms built for accreditation and compliance evidence |
| Competency frameworks with evidence | Frameworks by subject, grade and domain, with evidence collected against each competency | Ask what evidence a framework holds and how mastery is decided |
| Certificates a third party can check | A public verification page, openable without an account, on your own domain | Confirm whether a certificate can be verified by an outside party |
| SCORM 1.2 / 2004, xAPI, LTI 1.3 | In development — modelled in the product, runtime being built | An established corporate platform; confirm the versions you need |
| Tenant isolation | separation enforced underneath the platform — enforced underneath the platform, not just in the screens on top | Not published |
360Learning positioning and pricing structure come from their pricing page at 360learning.com/pricing, checked on 24 August 2026. Prices move — ask them for a current quote, and read Lurno's on the pricing page.
What actually changes
The people you train stop having to be your people
A client company, a partner school, a franchise, a household: each is an organisation inside your organisation, with its own members, roles, programmes, branding and reports. A parent reads across the tree; a child sees only itself. The mechanism is the same at three audiences and at three hundred.
- A corporate academy runs training for 15 client companies from one tenant.
- A K-12 publisher runs 114 schools on a single platform.
- Every organisation carries its own custom domain with automatic TLS, logo, palette and login background, inherited from its parent until it overrides them.
- Partner sign-on (silent SSO) hands a learner from a client's own portal into Lurno, already signed in.
The curriculum stays with the team that is accountable for it
Central authoring, with AI writing the first draft grounded in documents you uploaded — a syllabus, an accreditation standard, a policy PDF — and citing the document, version and page it used. Every generation arrives as a draft someone accepts or rejects. Contribution stays open: custom roles let a subject-matter expert draft inside a programme without being able to publish it.
- Two-phase generation plans the shape of a lesson first, then fills each block.
- Adjust with AI returns a before-and-after diff and you keep one side.
- Publishing or archiving a programme goes to a second approver — a different person from the one who asked.
A completion becomes something you can put in front of an auditor
Rubric grading — analytic, holistic and single-point — peer review, portfolios and one grading queue produce marks with reasons attached, not a percentage with nothing behind it. Competency frameworks hold that evidence and decide mastery from it, and certificates carry a public verification page an employer or a regulator opens without an account.
- 53 resource types, 19 question types and 7 assessment types, so the assessment fits the claim it supports.
- Psychometrics with adaptive IRT/CAT where the measurement itself has to hold up.
- A audit log that cannot be quietly edited, access reviews, GDPR consent, DSAR and erasure with a two-person rule.
Where 360Learning is the better choice.
360Learning is the better choice for companies whose learning culture is genuinely peer-to-peer and who want subject-matter experts authoring directly. If the person who knows how the job is done is the person who should write the course, and your problem is getting them to publish rather than keeping a central curriculum accredited, the collaborative model is doing real work that a central authoring tool would quietly undo.
It has a second advantage worth naming plainly: it scales with the size of your workforce, not the size of your learning team. A company where four hundred people each own one lesson gets a catalogue no central team could staff, and it stays current because the people doing the work are the people editing it. Lurno can grant an expert authoring rights on a programme, but it is not organised around the assumption that most content arrives that way.
There is a compatibility answer too. If you are migrating a packaged SCORM or xAPI catalogue, ask us before you shortlist us: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI and LTI 1.3 are modelled in the product and the runtimes are still being built. We would rather lose the deal now than have you discover it in week three.
The case for Lurno is narrower and sharper: audiences that are not on your payroll, a structure that nests instead of a list that grows, and a completion carrying evidence someone outside your company will accept. If none of that is what is hard about your rollout, buy the collaborative product.
What comes with Lurno
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Sub-organisations, nested
An organisation inside an organisation, as deep as your structure goes. Members, programmes, roles, branding and reports belong to the level they sit on; a parent reads across the whole tree.
A guardian portal
A guardian signs in to their own view of a learner's record, scoped by data category so they see progress without seeing everything. Consent decides what is shared.
Competency frameworks with evidence
Frameworks arranged by subject, grade and domain. Programmes, assessments and rubric criteria map to the competencies they evidence, and mastery follows the evidence rather than a completion tick.
Certificates anyone can verify
A certificate carries a public verification page an employer or a regulator can open without an account, served from your own custom domain rather than ours.
SCORM, xAPI and LTI 1.3
In developmentModelled in the product; the runtimes are being built. Talk to us early if standards conformance gates your rollout — we will tell you where it stands before you commit.
The rest of the shortlist
Most teams weighing 360Learning also look at one or two of these.
Before you shortlist
Bring the programme you have to keep accredited.
Show us the standard you map to, the audiences who are not on your payroll, and the evidence someone asks you for at audit. We will build it in front of you and say honestly where Lurno does not fit.