New Cognota Feature: Advanced Assessments!

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Assessments are often the expected conclusion to a course, class or training program. However, that same expectation has often led to generic question types, summative testing and delayed feedback. Assessments should be used as a way to ask learners to demonstrate what they’ve learned, and technology is continuing to enable this in powerful ways.  Today, […]

Cognota Features: Project Tagging to Make You an Organization Superhero

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As a learning and development professional, you juggle a lot of demands and a lot of stakeholders. Keeping your training projects running on time can be overwhelming. Deadlines loom, new projects get approved, and it’s easy to feel lost in a sea of projects and tasks. That’s why our latest release here at Cognota includes a […]

Cognota Feature Update: Custom Best Practices

Synapse 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

Synapse 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 […]

Cognota Feature Update: Template Enhancement

Synapse 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

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. […]

Cognota Feature Update: Template Videos, Text Enhancements, Catalogs

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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

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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 […]

Cognota Feature Update: List of supported Embed types

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We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements!  Here’s what’s new: List of supported Embed types We have added a link in the application to help you discover and choose approved content providers for embedded assets. You can find the list by clicking on the ‘View supported types’ link, right under the […]

Cognota Feature Update: Multiple Project Templates

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We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements!  Here’s what’s new: Multiple Project Templates As an administrator, you can now create multiple project templates. For example, you could have one template for sales courses and another for HR training. To add a new template, choose the Templates section from the menu, click […]