Cognota Product Tips: Creative Ways to Use Your Design Outputs

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Our Customer Success Team shares some interesting ways we’re seeing our customers use the Cognota design outputs. Cognota’s Design features have been used by customers to streamline their instructional design process, create alignment with subject matter experts and rapidly design content that can be launched within a Learning Management System.  But over the last few […]

Aligning Your Team on Your New Planning Board Process

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Our Customer Success Team shares some best practices for ensuring your team is aligned on how to use your Planning Board.  Starting to build out your planning process in Cognota can be really exciting – you see the potential applications for how it’ll streamline your project development and give better visibility to your team.  But […]

A Simple Framework for Prioritizing Your Training Projects

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Our Customer Success Team shares an easy approach for how to prioritize your training projects. When training our customers on the Planning Board, we always get comments about how easy and intuitive it is to use. One feature that always gets customers excited is the ability to prioritize their projects, using our simple colour-coded labels: […]

Back to School: Training Your SMEs On Cognota

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Our Customer Success Team shares three simple steps to set your Subject Matter Experts up for success in Cognota. School is back in session! We’re excited to share some easy ways that you can train, support and teach your Subject Matter Experts to leverage Cognota.  In working with our clients, they’ve highlighted the importance of […]

Cognota Product Tips: 3 Tips For Setting Up Your Planning Stages

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Our Customer Success Team shares three tips to consider when setting up your Planning Board stages. In working with our customers, we’ve heard a lot of great ideas and things to consider when defining the stages of your Planning Board. While we make it easy with some default stages you can use to get started, […]

Cognota Product Tips: How to Launch Your Training Intake Process in < 10 Minutes

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Our Customer Success Team shows you how to launch your intake process in under 10 minutes. Whether you’ve already been using a training request or intake form or you’re starting fresh, launching your intake process with Cognota is easy. So easy, that we challenged our Customer Success Team to walk you through how to launch […]

Cognota Product Tips: Three Asset Types We Bet You Didn’t Think of Adding

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Our Client Success team shares some of the most creative uses of assets they’ve seen in Cognota courses. We love working with our clients on their training designs., Through that process, we get to see unique approaches to creating content that aligns with the company’s brand, is engaging for learners and helps provide feedback on […]

Cognota Product Tips: So You Need to Convert a Powerpoint?

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Our Client Success Team shares 4 ways to incorporate existing PowerPoints into your Designs! We’ve had a lot of great conversations with our clients on how to convert and update their existing training content into Cognota courses. From this, we’ve seen one common theme – the majority of this existing content is in PowerPoint format.  […]