Elevate the higher education learning experience

Unveil personal growth, expand viewpoints and ready the future workforce

Schedule a demo

Better prepare students for the real world

In college, many students’ grades depend on three or four big tests. Not only does that induce tons of stress around exam time, but it also could cause students to put off learning until the last minute. Cramming isn’t the same as learning. With competency mapping and automatic quiz creation, cramming prevention is easier than ever.

Continually create and adapt courses so they remain relevant without draining your time and resources

Quickly measure and track your students’ educational progress, strengths, and weaknesses using more than just grades

Seamlessly integrate courses from development to delivery

Juggle dozens of course resources and materials across numerous platforms

Create original, engaging, and individualized courses students will actually want to do

Preparing tomorrow’s leaders with innovation and engagement

The role of online learning in higher ed is undeniable. More and more colleges and universities offer online courses and degree programs – or incorporate hybrid learning with in-person instruction augmented by online coursework. And then there’s an entire marketplace of online-only institutions attracting undergraduate and graduate students seeking a fully remote program digitally optimized from the ground up. The list of available options for students is endless. This rise in popularity is placing increasing pressure on schools to provide a learning experience that rivals or exceeds that of in-classroom programs – which means the ability to create and deliver inspiring, innovative content and the chance for students to interact directly with their professors and classmates.

As a result, colleges and universities are revisiting their online learning offerings and the underlying technology. They want a modern learning platform that delivers a superior learning experience and meets student’s needs and expectations. An LMS for higher education designed for personalized, competency-based learning experiences at scale that leverages innovations like AI and gamification and empowers professors to design engaging coursework that makes students want to learn. Most importantly, they want a platform that lets them effectively prepare students to compete and excel in a post-graduate world. That platform is CYPHER Learning.

A recent survey of university chief online officers (COOs) revealed almost 99% expect an increase in online learning over the next three years.

Encoura

Award-winning platform for education

In the past year, we’ve received over two dozen awards for our innovative learning technology, including Forbes Advisor’s “Best Overall Employee Training Software” and “Best LMS.” We’ve also received recognition for our work in academia, earning the title of “Best K-12 Remote Learning Partner” in the SIIA CODiE 2022 Awards and numerous other awards.

2023-CYPHER-Brandon-Hall-Preferred-Solution-Provider-Gold

2023-CYPHER-us-news-and-world-report-best-lms-skills-development

2024-CYPHER-Talented-Learning-top-10-enterprise-lms

2025-CYPHER-GLOBEE-Excellence-Awards-Silver

2025-Forbes-Advisor-Best-Employee-Training-Software

2025-CYPHER-G2-Top-50-Education-Products

2024-fast-companys-world-changing-ideas-honorable-mention

All awards

Supercharged higher education course creation. In minutes.

CYPHER Agent on the CYPHER platform can supercharge the development of higher education courses and content – empowering you to deliver robust new, engaging, and inspiring courses for your students fast. Imagine building competency-based, gamified, personalized content in just minutes!

This lets you:

Create highly personalized courses - using your own uploaded content from sources of your choosing - and launch it just in time!
Control your content quality, accuracy and credibility
Ensure subject-matter proficiency for every student, at scale

CYPHER Agent

Traditional way vs. CYPHER’s approach

Did you know only 43% of faculty give a top grade to higher ed online learning (The New York Times)? That’s because faculty and students are plagued with antiquated learning platforms that assume every student learns the same way. They don’t give educators the tools and flexibility to create and deliver courses and content that map to what each individual student needs or engage them in ways that motivate and inspire. CYPHER is revolutionizing the way higher education institutions build and administer higher education curriculums and courses. Thousands of colleges and universities worldwide use the CYPHER platform to empower their staff to deliver effective and inspiring competency-based courses with personalized learning paths, engaging content and advanced analytics – all geared toward helping students achieve mastery-level proficiency of their degree programs and ready themselves for the future.

Traditional way

What you get with CYPHER

Only allows for content delivery. You must manually bridge the gap between content creation and delivery by using multiple, expensive platforms

Integrated content development and delivery allows you to spend less time on course creation and more time inspiring students

One-size-fits-all approach doesn’t adapt to the student’s progress

Personalized learning profiles, competency mapping to content, assessments, and reporting in minutes – helping to ensure students understand and can prove mastery of each subject before they move on

Rigid, static content formats that leave students bored and unengaged

Incorporation of new media and technologies like gamification to drive student engagement and retention of the subject at even the deepest level of detail

Conventional reporting that provide basic and rudimentary data

Insightful analytics, empowering you to track student progress, identify gaps in their knowledge and flag opportunities for improvement

Time-consuming and manual course creation

Automation and AI-powered tools cut course creation to minutes - allowing you to update and disseminate information fast

Manual and outdated assessments

Adaptive assessments tagged to specific subjects help you understand what the student knows or doesn’t know

Minimal collaboration and connection

Human-centered connections and communities to facilitate peer discussions and group exercises to help drive student success and mastery of a given subject

A modern LMS for higher ed preparing tomorrow’s leaders

See how CYPHER can help you deliver personalized courses and content, at scale:

Create personalized courses fast

INTERACTIVE CLASSES

With CYPHER, course creation is quick and simple. All it takes is a few clicks to set up instructor-led, self-paced, blended, or micro-learning courses that can be easily customized to the needs of your students.

Combine the power of CYPHER Agent with your unique content

UPLOADED CONTENT

With options to have CYPHER Agent pull exclusively from your uploaded content, you can quickly create courses tailored to the classes you teach. Upload slide decks, PDFs, materials from past years, and more. CYPHER Agent will take care of the rest. Create a full course from the materials, complete with quizzes, gamification, competencies, and more.

Develop assignments with ease

ASSIGNMENT TYPES

Choose from a broad portfolio of assignment types to target individual learning needs with interactive assignments. These include quizzes, essays, debates and surveys, as well as third-party assignments using our LTI support.

Measure and track progress

COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING

Tailor courses to individual students to help them achieve mastery-level proficiency and align assessments with competencies using advanced analytics tools to determine whether students are on track or falling behind in their coursework. This way, you can intervene and ensure students keep pace by receiving the additional support they need.

Create personalized learning paths

AUTOMATION & ADAPTIVE LEARNING

With automation rules, you can make classes and learning paths more engaging for your students. These rules trigger actions throughout the platform and ensure each student sees personalized content based on their progress. No more aimless clicking through classes!

Make learning fun

GAMIFICATION

Get students excited to learn by including gamified elements in your classes. Students are awarded points and badges each time they complete certain tasks. You can either upload existing badges or create them from scratch with custom shapes, images, text, and colors.

Build and manage university districts

EFFICIENCY

CYPHER makes it easy to group university students and campuses and connect all members in a single network, including faculty, students, and alumni. This is an excellent way to share resources and promote collaboration across campuses.

Instill school pride in online and hybrid students

BRANDING

No cookie-cutter or bland interface here! Showcase university branding by adding your logo, a custom color scheme, and related images to your CYPHER environment.

Sell online courses

E-COMMERCE TOOLS

The CYPHER platform offers all the e-commerce tools you need to easily market online courses to a larger audience. Sell learning paths, digital media content, bundles, and even subscriptions through our integrated course catalog.

Provide a safe exam environment

SAFE EXAM BROWSER

CYPHER's 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 functions, other websites, and applications and prevents unauthorized resources from being used during an exam.

Take a tour of CYPHER

What CYPHER higher education customers say

"Students keep up with their lessons and submit assignments on time, even if they are not physically present… With the help of the analytics in CYPHER, I can easily track student progress."

Rodolfo Bautista, Academic Head, STI College

"CYPHER is the best learning platform for me because of its fast and efficient roll-out, customizable features, and friendly user interface."

Donna Chel F. Maranan, Teacher, National College of Science and Technology

"CYPHER has helped me plan ahead and be organized with my lessons and activities for the class."

Christine B. Vidal, Faculty member, Philippine Christian University