Administrators
MailChimp
Overview The Mailchimp integration gives administrators an end-to-end email integration for email marketing and customized Learner email messages. Administrators can import Mailchimp contacts into the portal, and they can export user lists from their ...
LTI: Adding tool providers
Overview LTI stands for Learning Tool Interoperability, an initiative managed by 1EdTech to seamlessly integrate learning applications and courses. It includes a standard protocol for establishing a trusted relationship between the tool provider and ...
LinkedIn Learning
Overview LinkedIn Learning helps users to grow their knowledge and learn in-demand skills with more than 16,000 online courses taught by real-world professionals. Our integration with LinkedIn Learning provides thousands of courses on a wide variety ...
Help desk
Overview Our help desk feature allows you and other administrators to answer help desk questions from your learners. If enabled, learners and students can click the help icon and then click the "Help desk" option to access the help desk forum. You ...
LDAP
Overview LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a popular way for organizations to store account information for authentication and other purposes. Our platform can integrate with your LDAP server for authentication and optionally for ...
Kaltura for administrators
Overview Our integration with Kaltura allows you to upload media to Kaltura directly from MATRIX and use your Kaltura resources in various places on your portal. For example, you can upload a video to Kaltura, and then you can embed it in multiple ...
Job titles
Overview If you enable the Job titles feature, you can use the job title filter to filter listings and you can use it in conjunction with rules so you can apply a rule to everyone who has a particular job title. To enable job titles for your site go ...
Import
Overview The platform allows you to import CSV files to quickly create accounts, courses, enrollments, completions, groups, and more! When importing data, keep in mind that several terms vary based on platform, and are interchangeable in this ...
Home dashboard configuration
Overview The Home page is the first thing users see when they log in. The home page dashboard makes it easy for users to quickly view banner information, locate their courses, check the calendar, and more! The Home dashboard contains three main ...
H5P
Overview Our support for the H5P content standard allows you to add H5P resources and H5P assessments to your learning portal. The feature uses LTI for the integration, which means that the content would be created and hosted on a site such as ...
Grading scales
Overview To see the current Grading scale click Admin/Grading scales. Here you can set the default grading scale (regular and pass/fail) that every course is initialized with. To set a grading scale to all the courses, click on "Make all courses use ...
Google fonts
Overview This feature allows you to utilize Google Fonts for your site. The fonts you select will be available in the HTML editor across multiple areas of the site. Installing the Google Fonts app To use Google Fonts, the app must be installed. To ...
Google Apps
Overview Our Google Workspace integration allows you to leverage your existing Google accounts for the purposes of single sign-on. In the next sections, we will show you how to configure Google Workspace SSO in order for users to be able to log into ...
Go1
Overview Go1 provides the opportunity for individuals to develop themselves and for organizations to reach their training strategy goals. Go1 is an established leader in online learning and works alongside some of the largest companies in the world ...
Games
Overview Gamification allows you to create games where learners can earn points and badges by doing certain tasks, advance through levels as they gain points, and optionally see a leaderboard to introduce a fun competitive spirit. Gamification is ...
Export
Overview The platform allows you to easily export CSV files for accounts, courses, groups, and more! When exporting data, keep in mind that several terms vary based on platform, and are interchangeable in this article. Business platform Academia ...
Equella
Overview Equella is a popular content repository from Pearson. The integration with Equella works just like our GDrive integration except that browsing can be done via a popup LTI window. Configuring Equella To set up Equella, first go to Admin/App ...
Email
Overview By default, all emails are sent and received via our own email server, and the default address used for sending passwords and invites is: messages@matrixlms.com. Our email integration allows you to leverage your own email system for ...
edX
Overview edX provides high-quality education both in-person and online. By providing thousands of courses in topics ranging from architecture, computer science, language, and medicine, edX believes in the transformative power of education. Our ...
E-commerce
Overview The e-commerce feature allows you to charge money for your courses. Visitors and members can browse your course catalog, add courses to their shopping cart, and then pay for the courses during the checkout process using PayPal, PayPal ...
Demo content
Demo content overview When you first sign up, we automatically install demo content to provide an example of a well configured site. This demo content includes a custom logo, custom color scheme, sample courses, etc. While you explore our product, we ...
Admin Dashboard
Overview The Home dashboard contains three main sections: the banner widget, the courses widget, and the section containing other widgets, including custom report widgets that can be configured by the site administrator. Configuring the Admin ...
Credly
Overview Credly is a credentialing platform that can be enabled within the CYPHER Learning platforms. Using Credly encourages course completion and participation by recognizing users with achievements for increasing their skill set and providing ...
Admin: Classes and courses
Overview As an administrator, you have unique access to courses and course settings. This article will cover the various course features that are specific to the Administrator role. The business platform uses the term 'course', and the academia ...
Coursera
Overview Coursera helps users to grow their knowledge and learn in-demand skills. They partnered with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations ...
Course and class catalog
Overview of the course and class catalog The course catalog lists all the courses that you wish to offer to learners. If you have e-commerce enabled, courses may be purchased directly from the catalog. If you are in academia, you will access the ...
CYPHER Agent for administrators
Overview CYPHER Agent is an indispensable tool that uses the power of AI to take your learning platform to the next level. CYPHER Agent currently support three key features. Click the links below to explore each feature: CYPHER Agent course creation: ...
Workato
Overview Workato is a premium app that simplifies and maximizes workflow integrations. Workato empowers you to seamlessly create workflows between the CYPHER Learning platform and thousands of enterprise applications, such as ADP, BambooHR, GuideCX, ...
CometChat
CometChat integration A chat room allows members to exchange text messages in real time. You can also initiate a chat directly with a user if they are online. To configure the CometChat integration first, go to the App Center and install CometChat. ...
Canned messages
Overview Many actions such as enrollment, unenrollment, and deactivation have associated messages that are sent to the parties involved. The content of these "canned messages" can be customized via Admin/Messages. To change the canned message ...
Best practices for administrators
Overview The following are recommended best practices for new administrators. Choose a short URL Keep your URL short—ideally fewer than 10 characters. For example, if your company is called 'The Academy of Digital Photography,' a URL like 'ADP' is ...
Branded apps
Overview We offer clients the possibility to have their own branded mobile apps for Android and iOS with their company’s name and logo. Learners and instructors can install the apps from the App and Google Play. Having branded mobile apps enables ...
App center
Overview The App center houses a large number of apps that administrators can install to enhance the platform. To access the App center: Click Admin from the primary navigation menu. Click App center from the fly-out menu. The App center is organized ...
API
Overview CYPHER Learning’s API allows you to integrate your learning platform with third party tools and systems that help elevate your user’s experience. The CYPHER API is the intermediary between the features of our LMS and your website or ...
Affiliates
Overview This feature allows Administrators to create Affiliate accounts. Affiliates can get a commission on referral. Each Affiliate user has its own affiliate link which they can use to bring visitors to the portal. For each converted visitor the ...
Accounts and roles
Overview Every user that accesses your platform must have an account. An account can be any combination of the 'learner', 'instructor', 'monitor', 'manager' and/or 'administrator' roles. Please note the business platform uses the term 'learners' and ...
Administrator role overview
Overview An administrator is responsible for the overall management and configuration of the platform. Most administrator functions are available via the Admin tab and are described briefly here. Each function is then described in detail in the help ...
SIS integration
Overview The SIS integration allows you to synchronize data such as accounts, classes, and sessions from your SIS to the platform without any manual intervention. You can easily create accounts for all your students with a couple of clicks, and ...