General
CYPHER Agent knowledge base
Overview The Agent knowledge base allows you to upload documents, videos, PowerPoint decks and more to create your own library of knowledge that can be utilized by CYPHER Agent for learners. This powerful new feature makes CYPHER Agent smarter about ...
Badges
Overview A badge is a digital award to recognize learner or student progress, skills, and achievements. Badges help track learner accomplishments and showcase achievements. Badges are a helpful way to motivate learners and encourage learning ...
Locker
Overview A locker is a place where instructors, teachers, and administrators can upload and view private resources. Installing Lockers Before using the Locker feature, it must be installed by an administrator: Click Admin from the main navigation ...
Libraries
Overview Instructors, teachers, and administrators can store resources in libraries for reuse and sharing. To see the resources in your libraries: Click Resources from the main navigation menu. Click Catalog from the fly-out menu. The catalog ...
Instructor and teacher best practices
Overview The following are best practices and recommendations for instructors and teachers using the CYPHER platform. Set your profile description Update your profile! When learners and students click on your name and profile picture, they are taken ...
Certificates
Overview A certificate is a document that confirms a user has successfully completed a course or class, achieved a learning goal or reached a level of mastery. Certificates can be used in a wide variety of learning programs to motivate learners and ...
Co-instructors and Co-Teachers
Overview CYPHER for business defaults to the term instructor. CYPHER for academia defaults to the term teacher. The terms instructor and teacher are interchangeable in this article and customizable in the platform. CYPHER for business defaults to the ...
Compliance
Overview Compliance training can help educate employees about laws, regulations, policies and ethical standards that apply to their roles and organizations. The platform supports compliance training in a variety of ways: Designating courses as ...
Drip content
Overview Drip content allows you to schedule learner and student access to modules and lessons, rather than making them available all at once. CYPHER for business users utilize courses, while CYPHER for academia users utilize classes. The terms ...
Export
Overview The platform allows you to export course content using Common Cartridge (CC), which is the industry standard for the importing and exporting of course content. An exported course includes the course overview, resources, modules, and ...
Favorites
Overview Your favorites list keeps track of all your favorite resources. To see your favorite resources: Click Resources on the main navigation bar. Click Catalog. Ensure Favorites is selected in the Search options. To add a resource to your ...
Google Meet
Overview The Google Meet integration allows users to schedule web conference meetings directly from the calendar, content pages, assignments, and more. Installing Google Meet Before you start using the integration, an administrator must install ...
Scores grid and gradebook
Overview The Scores grid and Gradebook are a convenient way to see the scores of all the learners in your course. The Scores grid also provides access to statistics such as the number of excused and past due assessments, the minimum, maximum, and ...
Grade calculation
Overview The platform supports multiple ways to calculate grades. This article will cover: Grading calculation weighting schemes. Individual assessment grade calculation settings. Grade weighting using categories. Weighting schemes The platform ...
Grading scale
Overview The platform allows you to utilize and customize a variety of grading scales for your learners and students. The grading scale indicates the minimum percentage required to earn a particular grade, with the ability to display grades as ...
Managing groups
Overview A group is a place for members to meet and collaborate. Examples include study groups, interest groups, business groups, and course groups. Each group has its own dashboard, a news feed, a calendar, resources area, forums, wikis, blogs, chat ...
H5P
Overview The platform allows you to add H5P resources and H5P assessments to your learning portal. The platform uses LTI for the integration, which means the content would be created and hosted on a site such as http://www.h5p.com and then embedded ...
Import courses
Overview The platform allows you to import courses and classes from a variety of sources. This article will cover: Importing content from an existing course on the platform. Importing courses using Common Cartridge Format (CCF). Importing courses ...
Kaltura
Overview Kaltura is a cloud-based platform for managing, streaming, and sharing video content. When integrated with your learning platform, you can upload media directly to Kaltura and access your Kaltura resources anywhere in the platform. For ...
Mastery
Overview The Mastery feature allows you to create skills and competencies, and tie them to the courses and modules that teach them. You can then rate learners knowledge of the skills and competencies using assessments and exams. The platform helps ...
MS Immersive Reader
Overview The MS Immersive Reader offers a full-screen reading experience to increase the readability of content pages. It is designed to support learners with dyslexia and dysgraphia, but can support anyone who wants to make reading on their device ...
MS OneNote
Overview The platform allows you to integrate your OneNote Class Notebook and add it as a course resource to share with learners. Please note the business platform uses the term 'course' and the academia platform uses the term 'class'. The terms ...
MS Teams
Overview The platform supports a MS Teams integration which allows users to schedule web conference meetings directly from the calendar, content pages, assessments, and more. Click here to view a demonstration of the MS Teams integration. Adding ...
News and announcements
Overview The platform offers a course level News feed which provides a real-time feed of posts related to the course. The course news feed can inform learners about announcements, new modules, new assessments, new events, postings from instructors ...
Notes
Overview The platform allows you to create notes for learners at a course and class level. The notes appear in score reports, and you can determine if the note will be visible to the learner. Please note that CYPHER for business uses the term ...
Paths
Overview The Paths feature is a powerful and flexible way to build content. Paths offer you the same robust feature set as courses, along with the ability to add two additional types of sections: Course goals and Certificate goals. A Course goal ...
Portfolios
Overview The platform includes a Portfolios feature that can be enabled for learners to store and showcase their work. Portfolios can be utilized in two places: Course level: Portfolios can be enabled at the course level, allowing learners to upload ...
Ratings and reviews
Overview The platform supports ratings and reviews for courses. If ratings are enabled, learners can rate and review the courses they are enrolled in. Instructors can moderate the reviews, and choose to accept or dismiss each review. The Course ...
Resources
Overview You can upload and display many kinds of resources on the platform, including images, video, audio, HTML, PDF, word files, and links to web resources. There are many places you can upload and share resources. Course resources: An area for ...
Rubrics
Overview A rubric is a scoring guide with clear criteria and ratings used to assess learner work and provide consistent and fair feedback. Rubrics break down an assignment into criteria and detail what quality or skill level corresponds to each score ...
Rules
Overview The platform has a robust rules engine that allows you to customize the user experience and automate a variety of actions. Used wisely, rules can make a course more engaging and flexible. Examples of rules you can create include: Sending ...
SCORM
Overview The platform allows you to upload SCORM packages as resources, which you can use directly within courses as SCORM sections and SCORM assessments. The platform supports the following versions of SCORM: SCORM 1.2. SCORM 2004 3rd edition. SCORM ...
Seating chart
Overview The seatings charts feature allows teachers to organize how students are seated in a class. Please note that the business platform uses the term 'learner', and the academia platform uses the term 'student'. The term 'learner' and 'student' ...
Learner and student management
Overview Courses and classes give you a variety of ways to manage learners and students. Please note CYPHER for business defaults to the term learners. CYHPER for academia defaults to the term students. The terms learners and students are ...
Syllabus
Overview The Syllabus feature provides an overview of the course, as well as any associated skills or competencies, prerequisite certificates, completion certificates, and schedules. You can also include an optional, more detailed syllabus in the ...
Tags
Overview The platform allows you to tag courses, resources, groups, users, modules, content pages, assessments, and quiz questions. Tags help you locate items when using search terms and filters. Tags also allow you to customize completion ...
LTI: Adding tools to a course
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 ...
Trash
Overview The trash feature is available for instructors, teachers, and administrators and stores deleted courses, modules, assessments, and pages for 30 days. The trash feature allows you to restore items during the 30 day window. To view recently ...
Users
Overview The Users area provides an overview of the people in your business, their role, and their course and group information. Users catalog To see an overview of all the users in your business: Click Users from the primary navigation menu. Click ...
Video
Overview The platform provides many ways to upload, embed, and configure videos. This article will cover: Uploading videos. Closed captions. Video playback. Video recording. Video resources There are multiple ways to upload videos to the platform. ...
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