How Learning Manager is licensed: the Prime and Ultimate packages (sold as AEM Sites add-ons), registered-user or monthly-active-user metering, and separately purchased add-ons.
Last checked 2026-09-30
CX Enterprise atlas / Content Supply Chain | Content management
Adobe Learning Manager
ProductGenerally available
Content Supply ChainContent management
Also known as Learning Manager, ALM, Adobe Captivate Prime, Captivate Prime
A cloud learning management system for customer education, partner enablement and employee training. Authors build courses, learning paths and certifications; administrators manage enrollment, catalogs, skills and reporting; learners take training on the web, in the mobile app or embedded in other sites. Includes AI assistants and agents, an AI course authoring tool (Content Composer) and a native virtual classroom (Live Hub), and connects to AEM Sites, Marketo Engage and Adobe Commerce.
Integrates with 4
Contains 13 parts, 126 entries
- Packages and licensing# Collection
- Adobe Learning Manager Prime# Edition
Also known as ALM Prime
Base package with the native learner apps, Experience Builder and non-logged-in catalog access at limited scale, up to six integrations, AI Assistants, a few Content Composer authoring seats and a limited number of Live Hub training hours. The earlier single Learning Manager package was renamed Prime on 2026-08-28.
Integrates with: Experience Manager Sites
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Learning Manager Ultimate# Edition
Also known as ALM Ultimate
Everything in Prime plus a custom domain, a white-labelled mobile app, headless learner APIs, extended-enterprise features (peer accounts and seat sharing), unlimited integrations, the Insights and Learning Path agents and other agentic features, and more Content Composer seats and Live Hub hours.
Integrates with: Experience Manager Sites
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Registered User and MAU licensing# Capability
Also known as ALM Monthly Active Users
Accounts are licensed either per registered user or per monthly unique active user (MAU), where each month a person accesses training counts once; admins view seat and MAU consumption on the Billing page and can buy by purchase order or, in the US, credit card.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Roles and role apps# Collection
Learning Manager presents a separate app, with its own navigation, for each role a user holds; one person can switch between the roles assigned to them.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Administrator# Application
Also known as ALM Administrator app
Manages users and groups, catalogs, course instances, learning paths, certifications, skills, badges, gamification, announcements, billing, reports and account settings, including which AI features are enabled.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Instructor# Application
Also known as ALM Instructor app
Runs classroom, virtual classroom and activity modules: views sessions, marks attendance and scores, and evaluates checklists and submissions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Manager# Application
Also known as ALM Manager app
Lets people managers nominate their reports for training, approve enrollments and external learning submissions, and follow team progress in the manager dashboard and reports.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learner# Application
Also known as ALM Learner app
The learner-facing web experience: home page, catalog, My Learning, skills, badges and gamification, social learning, the AI Assistant and the Fluidic player.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Integration Administrator# Application
Also known as ALM Integration Admin
Configures connectors, single sign-on, API applications (OAuth clients), webhooks, LTI tools and featured apps such as the Microsoft Teams and Salesforce apps.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Custom roles# Capability
Admin-defined roles with a chosen subset of administrator or author permissions scoped to user groups or catalogs, created in the UI or imported by CSV; since August 2026 they can include advanced user management permissions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning objects# Collection
The units of training that authors create and administrators assign: courses, learning paths, certifications, job aids and the rules and catalogs that deliver them.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Courses# Capability
A course combines one or more modules with instances (enrollment windows, deadlines, instructors), prework, completion criteria, feedback and badges.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Module types# Capability
Four module types: self-paced content, classroom sessions, virtual classroom sessions (Live Hub, Adobe Connect, Microsoft Teams or Zoom) and activities such as checklists or offline tasks.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Course instances# Capability
Separate runs of a course with their own dates, seat limits, instructors, locations and waitlists, so one course can serve different cohorts or regions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Gradebook# Capability
Weighted course scoring (August 2026): each scorable module gets a percentage weight, with an optional minimum aggregate score for completion, visible to learners and in transcripts.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Alternates and equivalents# Capability
Marks courses as interchangeable, so completing one counts for the other or offers the learner a choice, with webhook and migration support since April 2026.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Multi-language learning objects# Capability
Authors add locale versions of a course's metadata, modules, job aids and video subtitles (VTT), and learner progress is tracked per language.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning paths# Capability
Also known as ALM learning programs
Ordered or free sets of courses (and nested learning paths) with their own completion rules and instances. They replaced learning programs; the API still uses the learning program name.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Certifications# Capability
Internal certifications earned by completing specified courses, or external ones verified by uploading proof, awarded once or on a recurring schedule with custom certificate templates.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning plans# Capability
Rules that automatically enroll learners in courses, learning paths or certifications when an event occurs, such as joining a user group, a change of role or location, or completing another training.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Job aids# Capability
Reference material learners can open at any time without enrollment or completion tracking, standalone or attached to courses, in multiple languages.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Catalogs# Capability
Collections of learning objects that control which learners can see which training, with labels for filtering and sharing to other Learning Manager accounts.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Skills and levels# Capability
Skills with credit-based levels that courses award on completion; admins can import skills from external frameworks and map them to skill domains, and learners see their progress in a skills map.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- External learning submissions# Capability
Learners submit training completed elsewhere (conferences, workshops, outside courses) for manager approval, and approved items appear in the learner transcript (August 2026).
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Channels# Capability, beta
Curated topics of informal learning, such as recorded tech talks, pulled from web and Confluence pages that learners can subscribe to and discuss.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Live and instructor-led training# Collection
Classroom and virtual classroom delivery: the native Live Hub virtual classroom, sessions on third-party meeting tools, classroom locations, attendance and instructor management.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Live Hub# Service, beta
Also known as ALM Live Hub
Learning Manager's own browser-based virtual classroom (August 2026) with persistent, reusable rooms, AI facilitation aids and enrollment, attendance, recordings and analytics kept in Learning Manager.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Engagement tools# Capability
Chat, raised hands and reactions, screen sharing, whiteboard, polls, quizzes, breakout rooms, closed captions and a live engagement meter.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AI Q&A and polls assistants# Capability
Draft answers to learner questions and generate icebreakers and knowledge checks, grounded only in the session transcript and uploaded course content.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Breakout monitoring agent# AI agent
Watches breakout rooms and surfaces live summaries, participation levels and off-track signals to the instructor.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Recordings and transcripts# Capability
Session recording with a built-in editor, indexed transcripts, topic segmentation and AI-generated session and breakout summaries.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Session dashboard# Capability
Per-session analytics for attendance, engagement, Q&A and breakouts.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Instructor finder# Capability
AI matching of instructors to sessions by skills, availability, time zone and current workload.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Classroom training# Capability
In-person sessions with structured classroom locations, holidays, seat limits, waitlists, instructor QR codes for enrollment and attendance, and calendar (ICS) invites.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Checklist evaluations# Capability
Activity modules in which instructors or reviewers assess learners against a weighted, multi-language checklist with comments.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learner experience# Collection
Where and how learners find and take training: the home page, search and recommendations, the content player, engagement features and the mobile, desktop and in-app channels.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learner home page# Capability
Also known as ALM Immersive Layout
Configurable home feed with assigned learning, recommendations, calendar, saved items and announcements, available in a card-based immersive layout and in admin-chosen color themes.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Fluidic Player# Capability
The built-in player that plays every supported content format in one interface with a table of contents, notes and bookmarks; it can be embedded in other websites and apps.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AI-powered search# Capability
Combined keyword and semantic search across course metadata and third-party content, including LinkedIn Learning and YouTube, with filters.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AI recommendations# Capability
Course, learning path and certification suggestions based on the learner's chosen products, roles and levels (renameable parameters), skills and peer activity, ranked by a model trained on about 50 million course data points; admins can also curate recommendations.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Gamification# Capability
Points for behaviors such as prompt completion or social contributions, with levels and leaderboards scoped by user group.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Badges# Capability
Digital badges awarded for completing courses, learning paths, certifications or skill levels, and shareable through Credly.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Learning Manager mobile app# Application
Also known as ALM mobile app
Learner app for iOS and Android phones and tablets with offline content download; Ultimate customers can publish a white-labelled build under their own brand.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Learning Manager desktop application# Application
Also known as ALM desktop app
Desktop app for learners to record video, audio and screenshots for Social Learning boards and to receive Social Learning notifications.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Multi-item cart# Capability
Learners buy several paid courses, learning paths or certifications in one checkout through the Adobe Commerce integration.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Branded portals and extended enterprise# Collection
Features for running learning as a branded, external-facing academy: page building, anonymous browsing, custom domains and multi-account setups for customers, partners and franchises.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Experience Builder# Capability
No-code builder for custom learner pages, menus and widgets with custom headers, layouts and HTML, CSS and JavaScript, targeted to specific user groups.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Non-logged-in experience# Capability
Public catalog browsing, course preview and self-registration for visitors who are not signed in, with pages built in Experience Builder since April 2026.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Peer accounts# Capability
Also known as ALM Extended Enterprise
Links separate Learning Manager accounts (for example one per partner, region or customer academy) to share purchased seats and catalogs and to report across them.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Custom domain# Capability
Serves the learning account from the customer's own domain so no Adobe branding appears in the URL; not available on Azure instances.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Audiences and use cases# Collection
The training audiences Adobe positions Learning Manager for.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Customer education# Capability
Onboarding and product adoption academies for customers, with learning data feeding retention and upsell marketing.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Partner and sales training# Capability
Also known as ALM partner enablement
Certification and enablement programs for channel partners and sales teams.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Franchise and store training# Capability
Central programs that franchise and store operators can extend with local training, tracked per location.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Employee training and compliance# Capability
Onboarding, reskilling and mandatory compliance training for the workforce.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AI assistants and agents# Collection
Generative AI features for learners, administrators and authors, each switched on by the administrator. Most are in beta; Content Composer and the Live Hub AI tools are listed with their products.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AI Assistant for learners# Capability, beta
Also known as Learner AI Assistant
Chat assistant that answers questions from the learning content in admin-selected catalogs, with citations, and summarizes or compares courses; since August 2026 it also answers from Experience League help and Go1 and LinkedIn Learning catalog metadata. It can be embedded in other sites by iframe.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning Path Agent# AI agent, beta
Builds a personalized, sequenced learning path through a conversation about the learner's goals, role and available time, drawing on internal catalogs first, and enrolls the learner.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Insights Agent# AI agent, beta
Also known as Learning Insights Agent
Answers administrators' natural-language questions about enrollments, completions, compliance and progress with tables, summaries or CSV downloads.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Admin AI Assistant# Capability, beta
In-product help for administrators that answers how-to questions and walks through tasks, using only Adobe's public documentation.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Virtual Coach# Add-on
AI role-play practice: authors create rubric-based scenarios from a prompt or documents, learners hold one-to-one conversations with an AI avatar and get feedback on knowledge and delivery. Licensed separately and metered in monthly active users.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Administration# Collection
Account-level management of users, enrollment, communication and settings.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Users and user groups# Capability
Internal and external users added manually, by CSV, SSO or HR connectors, organized with active fields into auto-generated or custom user groups; deleted users can be purged automatically.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Enrollment# Capability
Admin, manager and self enrollment with approvals, one-click enrollment, multiple enrollment in the same course, waitlists and module access time windows.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Notifications and email builder# Capability
Event-driven emails and in-app notifications, announcements, and a component-based email template builder (August 2026) with shared brand layouts, variables and multiple languages.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Impersonation# Capability
Lets administrators view Learning Manager as a specific learner or manager to troubleshoot their experience.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Reporting and analytics# Collection
Dashboards, reports and data exports on enrollment, completion, skills, time spent and training effectiveness.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Reports and dashboards# Capability
Dashboards of configurable completion, time-spent, skill and effectiveness reports, with a separate manager view limited to the manager's team and a Group Success dashboard.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Report Builder# Capability
Self-service custom reports (August 2026) that join datasets such as users, groups, courses, modules, transcripts and catalogs, with grouping, filters, saved templates, sharing and scheduled subscriptions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learner transcripts# Capability
Downloadable record of every learner's enrollments, scores and completions, also exportable to FTP, Box and BI tools.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Course feedback# Capability
Learner (L1) reaction surveys after training and manager (L3) effectiveness feedback, with a feedback report.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning Record Store (xAPI)# Capability
Built-in xAPI learning record store that accepts statements from hosted and third-party content and exports them.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Integrations and connectors# Collection
Adobe and third-party integrations configured by the integration administrator: connectors for data exchange, HR, CRM, meetings, content, analytics and commerce, plus apps and standards-based links.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe integrations# Collection
First-party integrations with other Adobe products.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- AEM Sites integration# Integration
Also known as ALM reference site package
A reference site package of AEM page templates and components (catalog, calendar, courses and paths, compliance widgets) for building branded learning portals on AEM Sites, backed by the Learning Manager learner APIs.
Integrates with: Learning Manager integration
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Marketo Engage connector# Integration
Creates or updates Marketo leads for Learning Manager users and exports enrollments, completions and skills as custom objects for use in smart lists and campaigns.
Integrates with: Marketo Engage
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Connect connector# Integration
Runs virtual classroom sessions in Adobe Connect with attendance and recordings synced back to Learning Manager.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Data transfer connectors# Collection
File-based bulk import and export of users, skills and learning records.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- HR, CRM and identity connectors# Collection
Connectors to HR, CRM and directory systems for user provisioning and record sync.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Workday connector# Integration
Imports users and attributes from Workday on a schedule and exports learner skills back to Workday.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Salesforce connector# Integration
Imports users from Salesforce with field mapping and writes learning records back to Salesforce.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- ADFS connector# Integration
Imports and filters users from Active Directory Federation Services on a schedule.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Single sign-on# Capability
SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect sign-in, including several identity providers per account and interface language passed through SAML.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Virtual classroom connectors# Collection
Schedule and track virtual classroom sessions in third-party meeting tools.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Content provider connectors# Collection
Bring third-party course libraries into Learning Manager with completion tracking.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- LinkedIn Learning connector# Integration
Imports the LinkedIn Learning catalog and tracks learner progress, with webhook-based completion updates.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Harvard ManageMentor connector# Integration
Imports Harvard ManageMentor leadership and management content.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- getAbstract connector# Integration
Imports getAbstract book summaries and records completions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Analytics connectors# Collection
Export learning data to BI tools or custom front ends.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Power BI connector# Integration
Exports learner transcripts, user skills and xAPI activity to a Microsoft Power BI workspace.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Training Data Access connector# Integration
Exposes course, learning path and certification metadata through public APIs, refreshed daily, for headless or AEM Sites catalogs; only when Learning Manager is sold as an AEM add-on.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Learning Manager app for Microsoft Teams# Integration
Learner app inside Microsoft Teams with silent sign-in, notifications and access to assigned training.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning Manager app for Salesforce# Integration, limited availability
Learner app inside Salesforce for assigned courses, learning paths, job aids, notifications and recommendations; enabled per account through Adobe while AppExchange listing is pending.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Credly integration# Integration
Issues Learning Manager badges as verifiable Credly credentials.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI 1.3)# Integration
Also known as ALM LTI
Acts as an LTI 1.3 tool provider (other LMSs launch Learning Manager courses, with deep linking since August 2026) and tool consumer (external tools launched from Learning Manager).
Last checked 2026-09-30
- APIs and extensibility# Collection
Programmatic access for headless learning experiences, automation and in-product extensions.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Learning Manager API# API / SDK
Also known as ALM API, Learning Manager API v2
REST API (v2, JSON:API style) with admin and learner scopes and xAPI endpoints, authenticated with OAuth 2.0 clients registered by the integration administrator.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learner API# API / SDK
Learner-scoped endpoints for catalogs, enrollment, progress, recommendations, certifications and social posts, used to build headless learner experiences (Ultimate).
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Admin API# API / SDK
Administrator-scoped endpoints and job APIs for user sync, enrollment, completion marking and report generation.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Non-logged-in APIs# API / SDK
Public search, filter, course summary and CDN JSON endpoints for anonymous catalog experiences.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Learning Manager webhooks# API / SDK
Real-time and batched event notifications (enrollments, completions and other learning events) sent to a listener URL.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Native extensions# Capability
Custom apps opened from 15 invocation points in the admin, author, learner, manager and instructor apps, in a modal or new tab, without building a headless front end.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Embedded player interaction API# API / SDK
Messages for controlling and listening to the Fluidic player when it is embedded in another site or app.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- LMS migration tools# Capability
Adobe-enabled migration specification and APIs for moving users, content, folder structures and learning history from another LMS.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Security and compliance# Capability
Multi-tenant cloud service with SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications, a FedRAMP-authorized environment with a reduced feature set, GDPR support, regional data centers and an administrative security framework; customer data is not used to train shared AI models.
Last checked 2026-09-30
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- helpx.adobe.com/legal/product-descriptions/aem-cloud-service.html
- helpx.adobe.com/legal/product-descriptions/captivate-prime.html