Courses and classes
Copy a course or class
Overview The platform allows you to copy an existing course to quickly create a new course or course template. CYPHER for business defaults to the term course. CYPHER for academia defaults to the term class. The terms course and class are ...
Configure courses and classes
Overview The Configure menu gives you the ability to customize and modify courses to meet the learning needs of your organization. This article will walk you through the course and class configuration features in the platform. CYPHER for business ...
Courses and classes for instructors
Overview A course or class is a structured set of learning content, activities, and assessments used to instruct learners and students. The platform provides a comprehensive set of course features including a news feed, modules, resources, learner ...
Course and class completion
Overview Course and class completions are an important part of the platform, as they help track learner progress, provide records for compliance or audits, and provide data for reports. CYPHER for business defaults to courses, and CYPHER for academia ...
Course templates
Overview A course template is a course without learners or enrollments that serves as a template from which you can easily create new courses. Course templates can be configured the same way as courses, with all settings copied to the new courses. ...
Creating with CYPHER Agent
Overview CYPHER Agent is an indispensable tool that uses the power of AI to save you and your organization time when performing everyday tasks. CYPHER Agent is focused on helping you create content, assessments, gamification, skills and skills ...
Editor
Overview The HTML editor allows you to create content directly inside of your courses and classes, with formatted text, pictures, attachments, and links. Please note CYPHER for business defaults to the term course. CYPHER for academia defaults to the ...
Course games
Overview This article will introduce you to course games, which allow learners to earn points and badges to advance through game levels. Learners and teams can compete against each other, with point totals and rankings tracked on leaderboards. The ...
Microlearning
Overview Microlearning is an educational approach that delivers content in small, focused chunks—usually designed to be completed in a few minutes. Microlearning is an ideal instructional approach for many situations such as on the job training. The ...
Modules and lessons for instructors
Overview Courses are broken into modules, which are the primary topics for the course. Users move through modules to access content and complete the course. CYPHER for business defaults to the terms courses and modules. CYPHER for academia defaults ...
Child courses
Overview A powerful feature on the platform is the ability to create child courses. Child courses allow you to easily create multiple sections, or sessions, of the same course. To do this, you can add 'child' courses to a 'parent' course. Each child ...
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New features - content sharing, new mobile app, calendar invites, and more
A number of new features have rolled out to the platform, including: LTI 1.3 Provider - Looking to share your content with customers on another learning platform? CYPHER is proud to be one of the few platforms to offer the ability to act as both an LTI
Product Updates - Week of September 1, 2025
New features added this week: Improved landing pages for courses, linking from the start button on the dashboard to a custom landing page for a course Added additional capabilities for customers with multiple organizations to use SAML single sign on with
Product Updates - Week of August 25, 2025
New features added this week: Enhanced support for Arabic language documents in the CYPHER Agent course creation tool Improved loading times for grade books with large numbers of assignments and learners Behind the scenes: Resolved an issue saving custom
Product Updates - Week of September 8, 2025
New features added this week New high contrast accessibility theme: When enabled by administrators, this feature gives users the ability to toggle on the high contrast accessibility theme at the individual user level. To learn more, visit the Accessibility
Product Updates - Week of September 15, 2025
New features added this week Two new fields were added to the API v3 Assessment schema: Category: The category of the assessment (None, Homework, Participation, Quiz, or Test). Creator_id: The LMS ID of the user that created the assessment. Behind the