Keeping Employees Engaged: How Do You Know If Your Organization Needs Training?
According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report, 94 percent of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn. Corporate training programs can go a long way towards meeting those expectations and keeping employees engaged. Following a yearly trend, increased budgets and executive support are paving the […]
6 Steps to Destroy the Training Silos Slowing Down Learning & Development Processes
Many companies consider the learning and development function to be a separate, standalone entity. Learning managers and instructional designers are thought to have unique skill sets not shared or even sought out by others across the organization, and managers and employees generally believe that any learning and development processes must originate with the L&D department. This […]
Cognota Feature Update: Custom Best Practices
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Custom Best Practices When you create a template, you can now customize the text for each card with your own best practices. This makes it easy to provide collaborators with context sensitive help and examples for your different use cases. Other Improvements Home page […]
Cognota Feature Update: Tab Settings
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Preset Templates This feature provides three new out-of-the-box templates for new clients: eLearning (set to Default Template) Microlearning Blueprint If you would like these to be added to your existing account please contact Cognota support. Tab Settings This feature gives Administrators the ability […]
Does L&D Keep Up with the Joneses?
Job descriptions for senior L&D professionals often include a requirement that the applicant is eager to stay current and embrace the most cutting-edge learning technologies. This makes sense, as increasingly sophisticated software has transformed industries by using automation and personalization to increase efficiency and reduce costs. And if L&D professionals create learning for others, it follows that they […]
Cognota Feature Update: Template Enhancement
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Lock Project Cards This feature restricts changes to Requirements cards. Only Admins can add or remove cards. Set the Default Template Admins can now choose the template to set as the default template. The options appears in the context menu on the template home […]
Cognota Feature Update: PDF Export
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: PDF Export We have added a new option so you can export the blueprint as a PDF document. Other Improvements Resolved an error where the user list wasn’t shown correctly for many users. Resolved an error where videos did not display. […]
How L&D Can Deal with Market Realities
One of the biggest challenges of delivering courses is obsolescence: as soon as learners in your organization complete the courses you’ve worked so hard to build, the content is no longer relevant and you now find yourself having to start all over again. According to eLearningIndustry, the average shelf life of a business skill has dropped […]
Cognota Feature Update: Template Videos, Text Enhancements, Catalogs
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Additional Video Tutorials We have added video tutorials to help you get familiar with how to: Copy topics from one lesson to another Export XML and SCORM packages Record video assets Manage templates To access the new videos, simply choose the […]
Cognota Feature Update: Customize Fonts for Training Output
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Customized fonts We have added an ability to customize the output fonts. As an administrator, you can set an output font in the branding dialog: You will need to republish the training materials to enable the newly selected font. Download the […]
