Empath Learn
MSP team
Your own team's Empath Learn seats already include the Curated Collection, which holds Bigger Brains courses.
MSP: assign + trackBigger Brains is a premium catalog of more than 300 courses for your clients' staff, in Empath Grow only. It covers Microsoft 365 apps, AI at work, business skills and workplace conduct.
300+
Courses
150+
Microsoft Courses
20+
AI at Work Courses
19
Courses in Spanish
Standalone Bigger Brains is a premium catalog for clients in Empath Grow only. MSP teams already have Bigger Brains courses inside the Curated Collection in Empath Learn.
For a broader app curriculum, compare the software and productivity options before assigning more.
Bigger Brains is a course publisher, and its catalog in Empath Grow holds more than 300 of its courses. More than half are Microsoft courses. Eleven are on Copilot, including Copilot in Excel, Outlook and Teams. Beyond Microsoft, the catalog covers AI at work, business skills, communication, leadership and compliance, including HIPAA and harassment prevention in state editions.
With Bigger Brains, your clients' Microsoft 365 and AI training sits in Empath Grow with the rest of what you assign them. There is no separate training subscription to buy or manage.
Bigger Brains is for Empath Grow only. Your own team's Empath Learn seats already include the Curated Collection, which holds Bigger Brains courses.
It is one part of the Empath course catalog.
More than 300 courses sit in seven groups, shown biggest first.
| Subject | Courses |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | 150+ |
| Business Skills | 50+ |
| Safety & Compliance | 30+ |
| AI | 20+ |
| Other Apps and Tech | 15 |
| Communication | 8 |
| Leadership & Management | 6 |
Inside them are 17 Word courses, 16 Outlook, 13 Teams and 11 Copilot, plus four HIPAA courses and courses on ChatGPT and Windows 11. For Microsoft 365 courses from every Grow catalog, see Microsoft 365 training for your clients' staff. To see every title, get the full course list.
Bigger Brains courses only, from the full course list.
Bigger Brains has courses in Spanish, and most of its courses earn PMI credit for a client's project managers.
Seven are in Spanish only, such as courses on Teams meetings and email management, and 12 come in English and Spanish. Two of those also come in Portuguese or French.
200+ courses earn Project Management Institute (PMI) professional development units (PDUs), useful for a client's project managers. The full course list marks every one.
Ten of the 300+ courses, a few for each part of a client's team. Titles appear exactly as they do in Empath.
The full course list has much more, such as more than 50 Excel courses and 30+ short Brain Bites courses. Harassment prevention also comes in editions for California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, New York and New York City.
In Empath Grow, each client has the Curated Collection or Bigger Brains, not both.
A premium catalog for Empath Grow only. It includes 19 courses in Spanish and 19 courses from 2025 aligned to Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification.
A free Empath Learn trial includes all Learn content, including the Curated Collection. Standalone Bigger Brains, Clip Training and Inspired eLearning catalogs are premium and outside that trial. Your Empath account executive sets up Grow client trials case by case; book a demo.
More than 14,000 courses from 20+ publishers, with hands-on labs and AI roleplays. It already includes Bigger Brains courses, most of them video lessons.
You choose per client, so one client can have Bigger Brains and another the Curated Collection. Pick Bigger Brains for its 300+ courses and the Collection for breadth, labs and AI roleplays. See what the Curated Collection includes on its own page.
Premium catalogs work the same on Grow and Grow Lite. To see how they are set up, read about premium catalogs in Empath Grow.
Clip Training and Inspired eLearning are separate premium catalogs, for your team in Learn or your clients in Grow. For costs, see plans and pricing.
Choose by who learns and whether your MSP needs assignments and reporting.
MSP team
Your own team's Empath Learn seats already include the Curated Collection, which holds Bigger Brains courses.
MSP: assign + trackClient teams
For each Grow client, choose the Curated Collection or Bigger Brains as the premium catalog; Clip Training and Inspired eLearning are add-ons. Pick Bigger Brains for its 300+ courses and the Collection for breadth, labs and AI roleplays.
MSP: assign + reportClient viewers
Grow Lite has the same premium catalog choice but no assignments or reporting. Ask your Empath account executive about a Grow Lite trial.
No; watch only| Empath Learn | Empath Grow | Empath Grow Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | ||
| MSP team | Client teams | Client viewers |
| What's included | ||
| Empath, Microsoft Learn, Collection | Collection or Bigger Brains | Same base catalog |
| Who can assign and track | ||
| MSP: assign + track | MSP: assign + report | No; watch only |
| Free trial | ||
| All Learn content | AE sets up case by case | Ask your AE |
Empath Learn includes your own courses and pathways. Its Curated Collection has Bigger Brains courses. For each Grow client, choose the Curated Collection or Bigger Brains as the premium catalog; Clip Training and Inspired eLearning are add-ons. Grow supports client pathways, custom content, assignments and reports. Grow Lite has the same premium catalog choice but no assignments or reporting. Ask your Empath account executive about a Grow Lite trial; Grow trials are set up case by case.
Short answers on where Bigger Brains fits in Empath and what it covers for your clients.
No. Bigger Brains is a premium catalog for Empath Grow only, the LMS an MSP resells to its clients. Your own team in Empath Learn already has the Curated Collection, which holds Bigger Brains courses. You add standalone Bigger Brains per client in Grow.
Pick Bigger Brains for a client that wants more than 300 courses from one publisher, including 19 from 2025 aligned to Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification. Pick the Curated Collection for breadth, labs and AI roleplays. In Empath Grow, each client has the Curated Collection or Bigger Brains, not both. The Collection has more than 14,000 courses from 20+ publishers.
Yes. Bigger Brains works the same on Empath Grow and on Grow Lite, as every premium catalog does. Grow Lite is the watch-only plan, so a client's staff can watch the courses but you cannot assign them. On full Empath Grow, you can assign Bigger Brains courses to a client's staff.
Yes. Bigger Brains has 19 courses available in Spanish as of October 2026, on topics such as AI prompts, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams meetings and selling. Seven are in Spanish only, such as a short course on email management, and 12 come in English and Spanish.
Yes. Nineteen Bigger Brains courses are aligned to Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification. They are the 2025 Mastering Excel 365, Word 365 and PowerPoint 365 courses, five of each, and four Mastering Outlook 365 courses. They run from beginner to advanced, so a client's staff can start at their own level.
Yes. The AI group holds more than 20 Bigger Brains courses, and 11 titles name Copilot. Good first picks for client staff are Getting Started with Copilot, Copilot for Excel and AI Fluency - Data Privacy. Other courses cover ChatGPT, writing prompts and the legal and ethical side of AI.