Modern and personalized certification
Unlock efficient and effective certification programs with CYPHER
Certifications at scale
Certifications play a crucial role in many industries like finance, education, training, utilities, HR, healthcare, legal, IT - offering individuals a standardized and marketable way to demonstrate their skills, knowledge, and expertise. They also provide employers with a reliable measure of employees’ and potential hirers’ proficiencies. However, developing effective certification programs is no easy task.
Are you struggling to…
Easily demonstrate that your courses meet accreditation standards
Incorporate cultural, language, and inclusivity considerations in your certification courses
Implement a robust certification program without draining significant time and resources
Effectively market certification programs to attract and retain learners
Develop fair, effective, and comprehensive assessment methods to evaluate learner performance and outcomes
Keep courses up to date with rapidly evolving regulations and compliance standards
Award-winning platform for education
In the past year, we’ve received over two dozen awards for our innovative learning technology, including Forbes Advisor’s “Best Overall Employee Training Software” and “Best LMS.” We’ve also received recognition for our work in academia, earning the title of “Best K-12 Remote Learning Partner” in the SIIA CODiE 2022 Awards and numerous other awards.
A modern learning platform for certification programs
Develop and manage content
A learning management system (LMS) serves as a centralized hub for storing and managing certification program materials, including lectures, reading materials, videos, and quizzes. This consolidation enables instructors and trainers to efficiently organize and update certification program content, while simultaneously providing learners with seamless access to materials.
However, with traditional LMSs, there’s a disconnect between content development and content delivery. A truly modern learning platform integrates tech stacks and workflows to accelerate content and course creation. This integration optimizes efficiency and results in a more engaging and tailored learning experience.
Competency creation and mastery
CYPHER enhances certification programs and saves you time by automatically creating and mapping competencies to course content. This comprehensive approach ensures certification programs align with and cover all accreditation standards. Choose from CYPHER’s diverse array of over 5,000 pre-built competencies or upload your own. With the platform’s coverage analysis, you can see which areas of your course cover the required competencies and how well. Use this information to easily demonstrate that your courses meet accreditation standards or to understand where you need to strengthen your content.
AI-enabled custom course creation
Use AI 360 to create customized certification courses using your own content. Upload videos, PDFs, or other materials, and AI 360 with Copilot will turn them into a full course complete with quizzes, gamification, mapped competencies, and more. With AI 360, you can finally meet the demand for certification courses, save time creating question banks, and designate more resources toward revenue-generating activities.
Robust content authoring tools
CYPHER’s built-in content authoring tool enables trainers and course developers to easily create rich, engaging content for certification courses – with no technical knowledge required. Using the editor, you can embed any kind of content and media including images, audio, video, Google Docs, Office documents, PDFs, and more.
Course management
With CYPHER, you can manage all aspects of your certification program in one place. The unified platform allows you to manage and oversee multiple courses from a single dashboard, bulk content upload enables you to upload and organize materials for multiple certification programs at once, scalable assessment tools enable you to quickly create question banks, and more.
Various supported course types
CYPHER makes it easy to design your certification programs in a way that works best for you and your learners. The platform accommodates various course types – self-paced, instructor-led, blended, and micro learning. Plus, the platform also enables the integration of third-party content from leading platforms – Coursera, edX, Go1, LinkedIn Learning, and Udemy. This provides flexibility for every learning style, tailored certification experiences, adaptability to changing needs, and enhanced learner engagement.
Guide learners with certification paths
Learning paths enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of certification programs by providing a structured progression, a personalized learning experience, a clear roadmap to certification, and flexibility and adaptability.
Traditional LMSs are often limited when it comes to providing highly customizable learning paths. While some may offer basic features for sequencing courses or grouping them based on categories, the level of customization tends to be restricted. These systems may lack the flexibility to create intricate or personalized learning paths that cater to individual learners’ needs or specific skill progressions. Compared to modern platforms, traditional LMSs don’t offer the same degree of adaptability in designing tailored learning journeys that dynamically adjust to each learner's pace, preferences, or prior knowledge.
Customizable certification and learning paths
CYPHER Learning enables you to craft personalized certification journeys and learning paths. Learning paths can seamlessly integrate courses, content pages, videos, assessments, and more, guiding learners to achieve their certification goals. Track progress effortlessly and create rules to automatically reward learners with certifications upon completion, streamlining the certification experience and decreasing administrative drudgery.
Automation and adaptive learning
Personalize the certification experience with CYPHER’s adaptive learning feature. Create rules that automatically hide and reveal modules, assessments, and learning paths based on learners’ progress, ensuring content mastery before moving to the next module. As learners progress and meet the required prerequisites, the system will automatically unlock and display the relevant learning content. Elevate teaching and training with personalized learning to maximize efficiency and engagement.
Assess and collaborate
LMS platforms offer comprehensive assessment tools enabling teachers and trainers to design diverse quizzes, exams, and assignments for certification courses. These robust tools serve to evaluate learners’ comprehension, deliver feedback, and ensure learners attain essential competencies before receiving certification. Collaboration features empower instructors to provide faster feedback while fostering peer-to-peer communication among learners. This collaborative environment acts as a catalyst, motivating and inspiring learners throughout their certification journeys.
Automatic assessment creation
Create targeted assessments to track certification progression and identify skills gaps in minutes. Discover the power of CYPHER AI 360 – a revolutionary approach that transforms the way you create certification programs and assessments. From generating question banks to automating competency mapping, leverage AI 360 to easily create and automate questionnaires, competencies, quizzes, assignments, and projects, allowing you to focus on what truly matters – enhancing the certification experience.
Assessment and scoring
CYPHER offers 16 assessment types from quizzes and essays to debates, team evaluations, and more. Its diverse quiz formats, timed quizzes, question banks, and competency-based questions meet the rigorous demands of certification programs. Customizable rubrics and mastery grids enable instructors to track learner progress, simplify annotation, and manage attendance. These tailored tools ensure comprehensive understanding and streamline certification, setting learners up for success.
Collaboration and communication tools
Unlock a comprehensive set of collaboration and communication tools with CYPHER. Engage in groups, social networking, community groups, chat functionalities, forums, wikis, blogs, and leverage the built-in messaging system. These robust tools are purposefully designed to cultivate an interactive and collaborative learning environment, enhancing the certification journey into a dynamic and engaging experience for all learners involved.
Provide a safe exam environment
CYPHER's integration with Safe Exam Browser (SEB) allows you to create a web browser environment to carry out online assessments safely. SEB turns any computer temporarily into a secure workstation. It controls access to resources like system functions, other websites, and applications and prevents unauthorized resources from being used during an exam.
Track, report, and improve
LMSs revolutionize certification programs by tracking learner progress in real-time. They capture data on completion rates, assessment scores, and engagement, empowering instructors to identify struggling learners and areas needing attention. Detailed reports provide comprehensive insights into program effectiveness, aiding teachers and trainers in evaluating learner achievements, compliance with accreditation standards, and areas for improvement. Using this data-driven approach, instructors can continually refine course materials, update content, and adapt teaching methods to ensure the certification program remains relevant and aligned with industry standards.
Analytics and reporting
CYPHER offers 50 built-in and custom reporting options. These robust analysis and reporting tools encompass completion progress tracking, time monitoring, diverse report types including canned and ad-hoc reports, learner activity timelines, and specialized compliance management features. The platform's intuitive scorebook for businesses or gradebook tailored for academia allows effortless generation of insightful reports and in-depth analysis of learner scores. The reporting capabilities enable data-driven decisions, ensuring program efficacy, aligning with accreditation standards, and tailoring learning experiences to maximize success for certification seekers.
Dashboard widgets for fast, real-time insights
Bring your custom reports front and center with dashboard widgets. Generate a report and see it dynamically displayed on your admin or course dashboard. It's instant access to the data that matters most to you. Instantly see how learners are progressing through certification programs with graphics that provide insights into modules, assessments, mastery, and more. Identify where learners excel and where they need help – all in real-time.
Multi-language, scalable solutions
CYPHER makes it easier to scale certification programs as demand grows. With platform-wide support for 50+ languages and the ability to generate certification programs in 50+ languages using AI 360, you can expand your program to learners in different countries. CYPHER also enables accessibility for students who might not be able to attend in-person certification courses, including those with disabilities or those living in remote areas.
Accreditation and compliance
Gaining accreditation from governing bodies can be challenging. You must demonstrate that your content meets established standards, which involves meticulously mapping lessons and assessments to the content – a time-consuming task that often spans weeks or even months. Keeping it up to date is an entirely new challenge. With CYPHER, you can see a comprehensive overview of your competency coverage using its automatic competency mapping and mastery tools. This tool not only streamlines the verification of course specifications but also simplifies updating competencies, ensuring your course remains in compliance with evolving standards.
Customize and share certifications
Many LMS platforms can integrate with other systems like student information systems (SIS), HR platforms, and professional tools, allowing for streamlined operations and better data management. Modern LMS platforms can generate certificates automatically and allow for customization in line with the program's branding and specific requirements. This not only saves time but also ensures a consistent and professional representation of certifications, enhancing their value and credibility for learners and institutions.
Robust integrations
CYPHER supports various integration options, including enterprise-class, API, and Zapier connections to facilitate seamless tech stack and workflow integration and streamline processes. CYPHER is both an LTI consumer and provider, meaning that you can embed CYPHER certification programs in other LMS systems. Access popular systems like Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, Zoom, Go1, HR and CRM systems, and more.
Improve efficiency and accessibility
LMSs greatly improve accessibility and efficiency in learning. They break down geographical barriers and provide learners with around-the-clock access to certification materials. This accessibility accommodates diverse schedules and learning speeds, fostering inclusivity. Some LMSs also offer greater accessibility options for different types of learners. Modern LMSs differ from traditional LMSs in that some serve as a medium to market and sell your certification programs, increasing efficiency and decreasing the steps along the buyer’s cycle.
Accessibility
The platform is designed to be accessible, catering to students with different learning needs and preferences, which is essential for inclusive certification programs. Accessibility features include: screen reader support, MS immersive reader, voiceover, accessibility themes, and more.
Marketing and selling
CYPHER provides all the e-commerce tools that publishers require to market their courses, such as bundles, subscriptions, coupons, and more. It also integrates with the most popular payment gateways including PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.net. Streamline the purchase process to encourage customers to buy more courses, enable customers to find you with search engine optimization (SEO) capabilities, and more.
Cost-Effectiveness
Because CYPHER streamlines your tech stack and workflow, it decreases the money and resources needed to implement effective certification programs. With AI 360 with CYPHER Copilot, create entire competency-mapped, gamified courses in just minutes. Join the 77% of CYPHER customers who, in a recent survey, said creating a course now costs them less than $1000 with AI 360.
Supercharged certification programs. In minutes.
CYPHER AI 360 can supercharge your certification program and deliver robust new courses fast, ensuring your course material is always up to date. Imagine building skills-based, certified training in minutes!
This lets you:
- Create certification programs tailored to individual learning goals, job titles, and more – using your own uploaded content – and launch it just in time!
- Ensure required competencies are adequately covered throughout programs
- Effortlessly keep content up to date with the latest laws and regulations
- Control your content quality, accuracy and credibility