Introducing Our New VP, People Ops & Culture: Ara Cruz

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We’ve worked hard as a team at Cognota to create a strong culture and lay the foundation for successfully striving towards our shared goals together. Now that the team is growing (and growing quickly!), the time was right to welcome a new team member who could take our People Ops and the company culture to […]

Introducing Our New CISO & Director, PrivacyOps: Sabino Marquez

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As a SaaS company, the security and protection of our customers’ data is paramount. So, as we continue to grow our team, this is an area of critical importance: ensuring we have the right people on board to secure and maintain the protection and integrity of the data our customers entrust to our software. Enter […]

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 […]

Cognota 2021: A Year in Review

What a year it’s been! Full of challenges, surprises, celebrations, and opportunities, 2021 was a true rollercoaster. Through it all, the Cognota team has been busy working hard and enjoying the journey together. So, while we’re preparing for the year ahead, we wanted to take a look back at all the exciting developments and causes […]

Going Global: How Cognota Celebrated the Holidays

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Here at Cognota, we were pretty accustomed to collaborating remotely before working from home became an absolute necessity. Our team has been split between Toronto and Merida, Mexico for a long time, so we’ve always had a focus on digital collaboration.  But throughout 2020 and 2021, our team became even more dispersed. Not only did […]

Introducing Cognota’s New VP, Engineering: Jason Primeau

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We’ve had some exciting times at Cognota recently, from establishing new partnerships to welcoming amazing new customers and earning industry recognition. There are two other areas of start-up life that really get us excited at Cognota: building an exceptional product and user experience for our customers and adding the best in the biz to our […]

Cognota Receives Certification from the Great Place to Work Program

We’re so excited to announce that Cognota has officially been certified as a Great Place to Work! Over the past few years, we’ve been busy building a team that we are super proud to work with every day. And providing a great place for our team to work together is an important part of our […]

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 […]

New Cognota Feature: L&D Team Capacity Planning

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Manage the Resources and Capacity of Your Training Team in Just a Few Clicks When you have multiple training projects on the go and more requests for training coming to your L&D team every week, it becomes extremely challenging to maintain visibility. You may be left wondering: What is your team currently working on? Do […]