General
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 outcomes. ...
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 ...
Gradebook
Overview Scores are a convenient way to see all the scores of all the learners in your course. It also provides access to statistics such as the number of excused and past due assessments, the min/max/average scores, and a graph of the results. To ...
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 Our integration with Kaltura allows you to upload media to Kaltura directly from your learning platform 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 ...
Mastery
Overview With the Skills feature, you can make sure the course content is compliant with standards by adding skills to it. You can upload or create your own skill set. Skills are comprised of capabilities that learners need to acquire by taking the ...
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 Our LTI integration allows you to use OneNote Class Notebook to create a shared notebook and link it to your course. Learners enrolled in your course can access the notebook automatically without you having to add their names. After ...
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 ...
Question banks
Overview A question bank is a set of questions that can be reused by quizzes. More than one quiz can use the same question bank. To see the question banks in your libraries, click Resources from the left bar then select Question bank. If you click on ...
Ratings and reviews
Overview You can allow learners to rate and review courses they are enrolled in. After a rating is submitted, you can moderate them. You can choose to accept or dismiss reviews. The average rating displayed in the Course catalog only takes into ...
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 Rubrics allow you to grade assessments quickly and consistently. Before you start using rubrics for grading assessments, administrators have to make sure that the Rubrics feature is installed in the App Center. To see the rubrics in your ...
Rules
Overview The rules engine feature allows a user to define actions that occur under certain conditions, such as: 1. When a learner enrolls in a course, automatically send them a custom message. 2. Award the learner a badge when they complete module X. ...
Safe Exam Browser
Overview Our 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 ...
SCORM
Overview The platform allows you to upload SCORM packages to the platform to use directly within courses, as resources, and as SCORM assessments. The platform supports: SCORM 1.2. SCORM 2004 3rd edition. SCORM 2004 4th edition*. * SCORM 2004 4th ...
Seating chart
Overview Seatings charts is a feature that allows instructors to organize how learners are seated during the course. Before you start using seating charts, administrators have to make sure that the feature is installed via the App Center. Adding ...
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 ...
Survey
Overview A survey assessment presents the learner with a set of questions that they can answer online. There are currently two types of questions that can be part of a survey - multiple choice and freeform. When a learner takes a survey assessment, ...
Syllabus
Overview The syllabus area provides an overview of the course, as well as its prerequisite certificates, completion certificates, schedule and an optional detailed syllabus. The syllabus is a feature that must be enabled from the Tabs section in ...
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 and it's an initiative managed by the http://www.imsglobal.org/ to seamlessly integrate learning applications used by instructors into their courses. It includes a standard protocol for ...
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 ...
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